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Related: About this forumGOP lawmakers push historic wave of bills targeting rights of LGBTQ teens, children and their famili
The GOP is launching these attacks to stir up the culture wars because the GOP thinks that these attacks will help them win the midterms. I hope that these stunts backfire. These attacks are hurting real people who are very vulnerable.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/25/lgbtq-rights-gop-bills-dont-say-gay/
Nationwide, GOP lawmakers have filed nearly two hundred state bills this year that seek to erode protections for transgender and gay youth or to restrict discussion of LGBTQ topics in public schools.
The explosion of legislation is in part the culmination of efforts by a trio of conservative organizations, which are helping state legislators write and promote the bills. One of the most active the Alliance Defending Freedom has a decades-long history of fighting LGBTQ rights, including in battles to preserve state laws criminalizing consensual sex between gay adults, court records show.
Today, at least 166 measures to restrict LGBTQ rights are still pending in state legislatures across the nation nearly quadruple the number of similar bills introduced just three years ago, according to data from Freedom for All Americans, an LGBTQ advocacy group....
About 75 of the new bills call for bans or severe restrictions on classroom discussions, curriculum and library books that mention LGBTQ issues, mostly but not exclusively in primary grades, according to Freedom for All Americans, which has among the most conservative legislative estimates among advocacy groups. Some of these bills are vaguely worded, making it unclear whether educators or students could even mention their own sexual or gender identity or that of their parents on school grounds. This issue has led critics to dub Floridas bill, which passed the state legislature on March 8, the dont say gay act.
Nearly 50 other bills seek to ban transgender youth from playing competitive school sports on teams that dont align with the gender they were assigned at birth.
The explosion of legislation is in part the culmination of efforts by a trio of conservative organizations, which are helping state legislators write and promote the bills. One of the most active the Alliance Defending Freedom has a decades-long history of fighting LGBTQ rights, including in battles to preserve state laws criminalizing consensual sex between gay adults, court records show.
Today, at least 166 measures to restrict LGBTQ rights are still pending in state legislatures across the nation nearly quadruple the number of similar bills introduced just three years ago, according to data from Freedom for All Americans, an LGBTQ advocacy group....
About 75 of the new bills call for bans or severe restrictions on classroom discussions, curriculum and library books that mention LGBTQ issues, mostly but not exclusively in primary grades, according to Freedom for All Americans, which has among the most conservative legislative estimates among advocacy groups. Some of these bills are vaguely worded, making it unclear whether educators or students could even mention their own sexual or gender identity or that of their parents on school grounds. This issue has led critics to dub Floridas bill, which passed the state legislature on March 8, the dont say gay act.
Nearly 50 other bills seek to ban transgender youth from playing competitive school sports on teams that dont align with the gender they were assigned at birth.
I am watching Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton go after trans kids for political purposes. It is sickening .
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GOP lawmakers push historic wave of bills targeting rights of LGBTQ teens, children and their famili (Original Post)
LetMyPeopleVote
Mar 2022
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Jilly_in_VA
(10,649 posts)1. Meanwhile,
they would rather see the kids who are already born go dirty and hungry and without healthcare. Pro- liofe, my sainted Aunt Matilda! Fuck 'em all!
Irish_Dem
(55,592 posts)2. They cruelly inflict pain on Americans in order to win elections.
In hopes of further dividing America and pitting one against another.
Divide and conquer to form white christian minority rule