TikTok video already had nearly 68,000 views.“I did want a reaction,” Stargel told The Advocate. “I didn’t expect it to blow up overnight.”In the viral clip, the 28-year-old calls her mother out as a hypocrite for running for years on a family values platform, meanwhile leaving her children in the care of neighbors during legislative sessions and imposing beliefs through strict discipline when she was at homeAs a bisexual woman, Stargel takes issue with a number of her mother’s political “accomplishments.” Sen.
Stargel sponsored Florida’s new ban on abortions 15 weeks into pregnancies, a restriction with no exceptions for instances of rape or incest.
The state senator also was the force behind a prohibition on transgender girls playing in girls’ sports in Florida schools.The latter bill stings especially for Stargel.
In addition to being a member of the LGBTQ+ community herself, her boyfriend has a transgender daughter directly impacted by the bill.