There are a couple of smaller articles that I wan to talk about this morning.
First up, just when you thought that it couldn’t get worst in Florida.
"Don't Say Gay" amendment riles bill's opponents
Axios
By Selene San Felice
February 21, 2022<
Critics of the "Don't Say Gay" bill were further outraged Monday with a new amendment to the proposed law.State of play: An amendment filed by Rep. Joe Harding (R-Williston) to his House Bill 1557 (cross-filed in the Senate by Sen. Dennis Baxley) would require schools to inform parents of their child's sexual orientation even in cases where a school employee suspects a student could face abuse or neglect at home if the parents found out.
There would be a six-week deadline to tell the family.
Between the lines: The amendment removes an exemption from disclosure for cases of potential abuse, neglect or abandonment.
Harding didn't respond to requests for comment by the Tampa Bay Times.
Okay what happens when a child isn’t LGBTQ+ and they “Out” him to his parents and the parents beat the crap out of the child?
The Republicans don’t care, they only want to score political points.
As bills around the country try to muzzle want to silence any talk in schools about LGBT and ban trans athletes Colorado’s governor speaks out on CNN’s State of the Union .
Openly Gay Governor Criticizes Wave of Anti-LGBTQ Legislation as 'Un-American': 'Words Matter'
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis denounced Republican-backed bills addressing trans athletes’ participation in sports and the discussion of sexuality and gender issues in the classroom
People
By Aaron Parsley
February 21, 2022
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, the first openly gay man to be elected to lead a state, spoke out against a spate of legislation addressing issues that affect LGBTQ young people, calling recent Republican bills "un-American" and examples of "overreach.""Look, words matter. Laws matter," Polis, 46, told CNN's Dana Bash in an interview on State of the Union on Sunday.
"When a group of people, LGBT youth, feel targeted by the words and laws that some politicians espouse, of course, it can increase anxiety, depression," said the governor, who was elected in Colorado in 2018. "Many of them are already dealing with challenging issues in their own family."
Bash had asked Polis about Florida legislation critics are calling the "Don't Say Gay" bill — which would ban discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in classrooms and could, its opponents say, force educators and administrators to "out" students to their caregivers at home — as well as South Dakota's new law that segregates school athletics based on sex assigned at birth, effectively banning transgender kids from participating in sports matching their gender identity.
When bans are put in place to prevent students and teacher from talking about LGBTQ bullying goes up in the schools.
Framed!
A trans woman is framed by the police and locked up in jail for 15 months on trumped up charges.
Court: $1.5M to transgender woman for 'bogus' cocaine arrest
A federal judge says a Black transgender woman is due $1.5 million for the “seemingly bogus” cocaine trafficking charge which kept her jailed for nearly six months in 2015
ABC News
By Janet McConnaughey Associated Press
February 21, 2022
A Black transgender woman is due $1.5 million for the “seemingly bogus” cocaine trafficking charge which kept her jailed for months in 2015 after Atlanta police officers arrested her for allegedly jaywalking, a federal judge has ruled.
Judge William Ray II awarded the money to Ju’Zema Goldring on Thursday, two days after a jury found that officer Vladimir Henry should pay that amount, online federal district court records show.
“She spent nearly 6 months in the Fulton County jail based on this seemingly bogus charge,” Ray wrote.
He also chastised the Atlanta Police Department for arresting anyone at all for jaywalking, and for using a point system to track officers' actions. That system “may create perverse incentives for officers” to arrest people, because arrests count for more points than citations, Ray wrote.
This is a case of walking while Black, the whole incident started for jaywalking!
Lastly, down in Arizona the Republicans again threw out the Constitution. Many times trans people video offices as they harass or arrest trans people and now that might be in jeopardy.
Arizona state House panel passes bill proposing to make recordings of police illegal
The Hill
By Sarah Polus
February 21, 2022
An Arizona state House committee on Monday passed a proposed law that would make video recordings within eight feet of police activity illegal, The Associated Press reports.The House panel voted 7-5, with no Democratic support, to pass the measure introduced by state Rep. John Kavanagh, which has been criticized by some as a potential violation of constitutional rights.
"We are extremely concerned that this language violates not only the free speech and press clauses of the First Amendment, but also runs counter to the ‘clearly established right’ to photograph and record police officers performing their official duties in a public place," the National Press Photographers Association, with support of several medial organizations, wrote in a letter in opposition to the bill.
Kavanagh defended the measure, saying the proposed eight-foot distance, which was offered as an amendment, was modeled after a Supreme Court ruling involving abortion protestors.
The Supreme Court has ruled according to the ACLU of Texas,
Taking photographs of things that are plainly visible from public spaces is a constitutional right – and that includes federal buildings, transportation facilities, and police and other government officials carrying out their duties.
Once again the Republicans have shown their contempt for the Constitution and the Supreme Court when they don’t agree with the Republican world view.
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