We have been under legislative onslaught for years now and it is getting worst,
Laverne Cox: Anti-trans bills are about ‘criminalizing our existence’
KFOR Oklahoma 4 News
By Judy Kurtz
January 19, 2023
Laverne Cox says state lawmakers’ efforts to restrict access to gender-affirming health care for transgender people are really attempts at “making us not exist.”Referencing legislation introduced in Oklahoma earlier this month that would bar adults up to age 25 from receiving gender-affirming care, the “Orange is the New Black” star said, “For a year, we’ve been hearing from anti-trans pundits and politicians, ‘This is about children. This is about protecting children.’”
“But I think what this Oklahoma law reveals is that it’s never been about the children,” the transgender actor said during a Thursday interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“It’s always been about scapegoating trans people, stigmatizing us and criminalizing our existence — making us not exist,” Cox said.
BINGO!
She got that right, it is all about politics, votes, and donations.
“What adults do with their bodies is none of their business. This is America — it should be about freedom, bodily autonomy,” she added.
“Even for children, that’s their parents’ business. It’s their doctor’s business. It is not a legislator’s business, who doesn’t know anything about it.”
Stop and think for a minute how two faced the Republicans and the right-wing pundit are…
In Connecticut two bill have been introduced about parental rights.
Then they step between the parents and their doctors telling they can’t get treatment for their child.
They speak with a forked tongue.
“There’s no trans question. I’m not a question,” Cox exclaimed. “I exist here. I have a material reality, lived experiences. And trans people have always existed, and we’re not going to stop existing if people don’t teach about us.”
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