A Senate hearing on the Equality Act, which would expand the prohibition on discrimination under federal law, put on full display March 17 the use of fear-mongering about women's safety and the integrity of women's sports as a tool to thwart attempted progress on LGBTQ rights, although more traditional objections based on religious liberty also played a role.
Senator John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) pulled no punches during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing — the first-ever hearing for the Equality Act in the U.S.
Senate — in heightening fears about threats to women in sex-segregated spaces. When Abigail Shirer, a journalist who has built a career campaigning against gender transitioning for youth, was presenting testimony as an expert