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MarkS's avatar

Spare me the speech, elected Democrat, and show me the legislation that you are for or against.

When you endorse the Women's Bill of Rights, I will consider voting for you again.

When you come out against the Equality Act (which makes instantaneous unquestionable gender self-ID into federal law), I will consider voting for you again.

When you endorse parental rights to be informed about what names and pronouns their kids are using in school, I will consider voting for you again.

When you endorse a ban on the crime against humanity of sterilizing and mutilating children, I will consider voting for you again.

Not before.

https://womensbillofrights.com

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Susan Scheid's avatar

Lisa, I do love this focus of yours on getting after our electeds. Keep it going! I do have concern re the conflation of “LGB” with “T”, particularly for those of us who are L, who are really under siege right now. We can be allies—and grateful for it—but the concerns and needs of those of us who have same-sex orientation, particularly, are quite separate and distinct from anything to do with gender identity. To lump us all together is convenient for our electeds (for a lot of them, all we who are not hetero look just alike, and are weird, if not creepy) but this ersatz grouping obscures mightily, and with many negative consequences, the issues distinct to each. The best sources for understanding these issues are the LGBAlliance and The Lesbian Project. I commend them both to anyone who wants to learn more.

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