Posted on 06/06/2023 7:15:06 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Human Rights Campaign declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. on Tuesday and a released “a guidebook for action” summarizing what it calls discriminatory laws in each state, along with “know your rights” information and health and safety resources.
Sounding the alarm about the current political environment, the nation’s largest organization devoted to the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Americans said advisories warning against travel to dangerous places aren’t enough to help people already living in so-called hostile states.
The guidebook aims to help millions of vulnerable people, “whether they’re planning summer travel through regions that are becoming increasingly hostile to LGBTQ+ people, or whether they already live in a state where legislative assaults and political extremism are continuing to put a target on our backs,” Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement.
The emergency declaration is the first in the 40-year history of the HRC, and comes as Republican-dominated legislatures around the country have passed bills targeting people based on their identities, including laws restricting various aspects of transgender existence, from pronoun usage and bathroom access to medical care and more.
Among the latest, one of a series of bills nearing final passage in Louisiana would broadly ban K-12 public school employees in Louisiana from discussing sexual orientation or gender identity in the classroom. The legislation is similar to the Florida law critics dubbed “Don’t Say Gay.”
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
AP is a disgusting madhouse
Methinks they have the shoe on the wrong foot.
It’s leftist radicals and activists climbing all over the LGB community to gain visibility, relevance, money and power. The insane impulse to keep added letters and symbols to a very easily understood natural group of same sex attracted people is finding overdue backlash in the LGB community.
The transgender issue isn’t even about transgenders but there’s too much on that topic to unpack right now. Maybe I will discuss it later.
And stay in there!
If anything is under attack, it’s religious freedom!
America is under attack by the alphabet perverts.
Yes!
I’m sorry, but I’m going to need to see EXAMPLES of this violence.
I’m betting it’s things like misgendering, or the use of dead-names.
It is our children and their God-given attributes and futures under spiritual attack by the demonic LGBTQ+ perverts and their demon enablers.
Know your rights.
I have a right to scoff at their insane ideology.
Queers have turned Histrionic Personality Disorder into a political strategy.
I am not sure if the headline is declaring our progress or lamenting the plight of the queer.
“know your rights”
Ban K-12 public school employees from discussing sexual orientation.
AP is really pushing this crap hard today.
The HRC and AP are liars.
THE LGBTQ GROUP SHOULD JUST GO DO WHATEVER THEY DO AND GET OUT OF OUR FACES
Christians and their morals are under attack: state of emergency!
See, anyone can claim anyone can claim anything.
Funny how they shove their vile agenda in our faces, ignoring our moral values systems altogether because they reject it, and then whine about a “state of emergency” when parents get fed .up and protest!
Yeah sure, they’re under attack because they can’t use my tax money to mutilate themselves, ok...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.