Katelyn Burns: Republican rhetoric on LGBTQ issues has escalated so rapidly that for the most part it has left Democrats struggling to respond. McMorrow and Mackey are exhibiting the type of response that queer and especially trans people need right now.
McMorrow’s nearly five-minute floor speech drew on her own Christian faith in striking back against hateful Republican attacks on queer and trans kids. It quickly went viral on social media.
McMorrow’s is a useful template for Democrats who maybe believe that weighing in on this issue is beneath them, or too risky. They could also look to another state-level floor speech we heard this week for inspiration, when state Rep. Ian Mackey of Missouri gave a fiery address about growing up gay in a conservative part of the state.It is a scary time to be queer in America right now.
But this ambition appears to be a bridge too far for today’s Republican movement, which has launched an all-out assault on anyone who appears even marginally supportive of gay or especially trans people. Conservatives are increasingly smearing pro-LGBTQ people as “groomers,” implying that liberals who want trans kids not to be forcibly detransitioned by the state are akin to pedophiles.
It’s easy to assume that conservative activists are playing this issue up as its next big election diversion, similar to the mysterious refugee convoys that always seem to pop up exactly two months before a major election. But that would be a mistake. Republican leaders are acting in extreme ways against LGBTQ lives. Earlier this week,
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