At the same time, Ms. Caprara said the Pritzker administration regularly boasts about the state’s welcoming political environment, where abortion rights are codified and companies will never find themselves in the position that the Walt Disney Company now occupies in Florida — sandwiched between the restrictions of conservative government gay and transgender rights and liberal consumers demanding a corporate pushback. “Companies don’t want to have to deal with people boycotting their business or struggling to get people to move to them, especially younger workers,” he said. Joanna Turner Bisgrove, 46, a family physician at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, had worked her entire professional life in Oregon, a small town south of Madison, when her hospital was bought by a Catholic health care chain, which began restricts abortion and transgender care. After the Wisconsin Legislature opened up about transgender girls in sports, she said, her gender-fluid child and his circle of friends became magnets for bullying so bad it made the local news. Nearly a year ago, the Bisgroves finally moved across the red-blue border to Evanston, Ill., where, said Dr. Bisgrove, her children would be accepted and her medical practice could thrive. “In the end,” he said, “my morality wouldn’t measure up to what I could do.”
