longer.blue

The House passed a proposed national Don’t Says Trans law and forced outing bill, which if made law would mean schools that acknowledged students or teachers were LGBTQ+ could be stripped of federal funding. While it’s likely dead in the Senate,eight Democrats (Reps. Vicente Gonzalez, Cuellar, Don Davis, Fields, Gillen, Kaptur, Gluesenkamp Perez, Vindman) joined the GOP in voting yes, the largest number of defectors on a standalone anti-trans bill in some time. There are some folks in the Democratic caucus who are not hearing the message that we are not interested in throwing our trans siblings under the bus, so we’re going to need to make it louder.Let’s start by letting our senators know, especially if they’re Democrats, that we want them to kill this bill. We can find call scripts here, https://5calls.org/issue/lgbtq-students-education-funding/ and email languagehere, https://action.transequality.org/a/voteno2616protectstudents>>>Source-Joe Katz