HRC President Calls Political Climate an “Emergency” for LGBTQ Rights
metroweekly.comknow what it means to be transgender now…People know that gender affirming care saves lives,” Maines said. “We know that transgender kids are not being groomed by their parents.
And we know that allowing a trans girl to play soccer doesn’t give her team a game-breaking advantage because we know she’s a fourth grader and not the goddamn winter soldier.”In her remarks, Gov.
Kathy Hochul spoke out against anti-LGBTQ legislation in schools and her wish to leave a legacy for her new grandchild, who had been born just two hours prior to the event.“…[W]hatever I do from this moment forward has an effect on my grandchild’s life,” Hochul said. “I wanted this baby to enter a world in 2022 that was filled with love, and compassion and tolerance, and embraces individuality and diversity and people’s individual human rights.
And I want to make sure that even though I couldn’t welcome this baby into the world in that that environment, I want to be sure when that baby grows up to be a teenager, and in her 20s and 30s, becomes an adult, I want her to know that the world changed.”.
