Drag stars set to meet with House lawmakers on LGBTQ rights legislation

Three drag superstars will lobby House lawmakers on both sides of the aisle next week to advocate for greater protections for LGBTQ people and fight against a rising tide of hate and threats made against the community.

Drag performers Jiggly Caliente, Brigitte Bandit and Joey Jay will meet with lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, part of a “Drag Lobby Day” organized by MoveOn Political Action, a progressive advocacy group.

“MAGA Republicans have been viciously assaulting the rights and freedoms of the LGBTQ+ community for far too long,” Nakia Stephens, the group’s campaigns director, told The Hill in an emailed statement. “Our bodies and lives are on the line, and we will not be silenced.”

Lobbying efforts will focus largely on the Equality Act, which would extend federal nondiscrimination protections to LGBTQ people by making sexual orientation and gender identity protected classes, and the Transgender Bill of Rights, a landmark resolution that would strengthen civil rights protections for trans and nonbinary Americans. House Democrats reintroduced both measures last year, though progress on both bills has stalled since then.

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, told The Hill in February that this Congress is “purely a building public support session” for the Equality Act. Plans to push that and other pro-LGBTQ legislation forward in the House will hinge on whether Democrats are able to regain control of the lower chamber in November.

All three drag performers will meet Tuesday with House lawmakers, including “lawmakers of vulnerable, battleground Republican districts — especially those with a high population of LGBTQ+ residents,” said Britt Jacovich, MoveOn’s press secretary. A rally is scheduled to follow the meetings.

Thank you for referencing that article Libloather.

"Drag stars set to meet with House lawmakers on LGBTQ rights legislation"

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Post-17th Amendment ratification, constitutionally low-information LGBT voters evidently still do not understand that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to make politically correct LGBT agenda "rights" and are consequently getting scammed by elite desperate Democrats and RINOs in another election year.

In fact, the ONLY sex-related right that the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect limits federal sex protection laws to voting rights issues, evidenced by the 19th Amendment.

"19th Amendment: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.

Since Congress has repeatedly proven that it is an enemy of the people imo, it is now up to Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to effectively "impeach and remove" Congress in November, supporting hopeful Trump 47 with a new, Constitution-respecting Congress, not only so that he will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term, but will support him to quickly finish draining the swamp.

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