This is so dumb. Do you know what “anti-trans” bills states are passing? Bills to prevent surgeons from cutting up minors who think they’re transgender. As far as “anti-gay” bills? We have no idea unless they’re talking about bills to ban children from drag shows.
It’s obvious the mainstream media is all-in on the LGBTQ agenda, just as they gave themselves away but continually referring to the “Don’t Say Gay” bill (while refusing to name the “Protection of Girls and Women in Sports Act,” instead calling it “anti-trans” legislation).
If ABC News thinks that LGBTQ lawmakers are fighting just “to exist,” they’re obviously on board with the idea of trans “genocide.”
With nearly 470 anti-gay and anti-trans bills in 16 states, LGBTQ+ lawmakers find themselves fighting just "to exist." https://t.co/l6KVSiwx9a
— ABC News (@ABC) May 1, 2023
Brendan Farrington reports:
State Sen. Shevrin Jones can often be seen at the Florida Capitol greeting staff and colleagues with a smile or laugh, but when he’s alone it’s a different story.
“The outward expression is to show God’s love. That’s what I was taught,” said Jones, a Democrat. But, he said, “I have enough tears in my car to fill a lake.”
For Jones, who is gay, the past two years have been emotionally draining as Florida passed a flurry of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.
More than 200 LGBTQ+ lawmakers across the country feel just like Jones, at a time when anti-gay and anti-transgender legislation is flourishing — as if they are under personal attack, and that they need to continually defend their community’s right to exist. The issue exploded into the national spotlight last week when Montana Republicans voted to bar Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr, who is transgender, from the House floor after a standoff over gender-affirming medical care for minors.
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Good thing they got a photo of Jones before he stopped existing. “A flurry of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation” … “anti-gay and anti-transgender legislation” … “gender-affirming medical care” — they’ve just happily adopted the language of the activists.
“I actually have a policy of no longer crying in Tallahassee,” said Florida Rep. Michele Rayner-Goolsby. “I will cry when I go home.”
Rayner-Goolsby is a lawyer currently in a Master of Divinity program who was raised with a strong religious background. She’s also the first Black lesbian lawmaker in the statehouse to be out.
“I’m literally trying to exist,” she said. “The harsh things we’re saying are in defense of our life. The harsh things that they’re saying are to prop up a governor’s political ambition, and their desire and quest for power.”
These gay lawmakers are soft. They cry when they go home, and they have enough tears in their cars to fill a lake.
Literally, like, omg, you're literally already existing like, literally. You're right there. Literally existing. With all your literal rights. Literally.
— Random Swervy (@RandomSwervy) May 1, 2023
Those 470 bills reduce down to four simple issues, which should be non-controversial:
1. No biological men in women's sports.
2. No "gender-affirming care" for children.
3. No children at stripper-style drag shows.
4. No pseudoscience gender ideology in K-12 education.
— Fishy Catfish (@CatfishFishy) May 1, 2023
Glad the pro children bills are making it hard on them.
— Independentthinker (@Ushjeri) May 1, 2023
Dramatic much? 🙄
— Kate (@ProductionKate) May 1, 2023
Just exist. You're standing there.
— Mos Eisley (@Cartwright_Four) May 1, 2023
What exactly are they being prevented from doing or achieving?
— Conde Kim (@Kim1Conde) May 1, 2023
Nonsense. The media are full on marketing at this point. Parents have had enough.
— Puddintane (@imwren) May 1, 2023
Is this a joke? "Just to exist"? Really!? They're literally lawmakers. How "oppressed" are they?
— Chris Toney (@_knuffelaar) May 1, 2023
Which of these bills impact an LGBTQ lawmaker’s ability to exist?
— Sunrise Chaser (@livinginclouds7) May 1, 2023
Why are they labeled anti-trans not child safety laws? Who gets to decide in the journalism world what things are called? Like how did the Florida law get labeled Don't say gay when you can obviously say gay? @Seth_Kaplan
— The Kid (@BroncoBob360) May 1, 2023
"anti-gay and anti-trans"
"journalism"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) May 1, 2023
“Just to exist?” You mean “stop messing with kids?”
— PCGamerCaptain (@PCGamerCapt) May 1, 2023
Corrected headline:
"With nearly 470 bills in 16 states promoting safeguards and protections for children and biological women, Radical Activist TQ+ lawmakers find themselves running out of ways to "feel personally attacked".
Follow me for more corrected headlines.
— FirefighterDad (@FireDad182) May 1, 2023
Once you started coming after the kids your existence no longer matters. This is a fight you will not win. You did this to yourselves.
— GenXknowsthetruth (@GenXisthetruth) May 1, 2023
The post above is correct; all of these “anti-gay” bills boil down to four issues. We want biological males to shower with teen girls, we want teens to get double mastectomies on demand, we want pornographic images in school libraries … just say it.
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 1, 2023
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