Politics Report

From housing to healthcare, jobs to education, the LGBTQ+ community faces discrimination across the board in the United States. While we have protection against this kind of discrimination in law for many citizens, if you're LGBTQ+ your rights are not guaranteed. This is 2021 and beyond unacceptable.

The Equality Act would change this. It would render all of those terrible anti-trans bills passed this spring that target trans kids, our most vulnerable citizens, null and void and prevent further trauma from being inflicted upon them next legislative season. It would create fairer job, education and housing policies for people across the board. It would ensure that citizens are closer to the equity that we should all have as our goal.

Click here to write your senator and tell them you want the Equality Act passed, but please don't stop there. Spread the word. Call your senators daily. Tell everyone how important this legislation is. It's truly life-saving and long overdue. What are you doing to help pass the Equality Act where you live? Share your actions and ideas in the chat!

Most of us are pretty tired of politicians who promise change and don't deliver on their promises. Joe Biden seemed like a necessary vote last year for many of us but we also knew that we'd have to fight even harder for change to happen beneath his moderate stances. Now, after arguing for cutting student debt and ensuring free community college for all, Biden excluded student loan forgiveness from his budget, which sure makes it seem like it's no longer on the table.

Is it possible that we'll still see it sometime? Perhaps. My guess is that he's going to shove it in during his fourth year as president as a bargaining chip. Remember when Obama started talking about free college during his final two years in office? Yep. It's hard to trust what any politician says and even the ones we do trust end up disappointing us somehow.

Do you think student loan forgiveness will be in the cards anytime soon for the United States? What about universal healthcare? Share your thoughts in the chat.

After battling an anti-trans kid bill that would penalize doctors who provide them with hormone blockers for months now, I'm happy to report that it failed in committee with a vote of 6-2 in my state. As I celebrate this I can't help but feel the dread of not only what is to come, since the Right has made it clear these vulnerable kids are their new targets, but also what's going to happen in states where these bills are passing.

How can these people sleep at night knowing they are destroying lives? Some might honestly believe they are helping due to the conflicting science, much of it spread by the same doctors who are anti-vaxxers and shouldn't even be called doctors in the first place, but most seem to be looking for the new fear-based platform and scapegoat in order to make a comeback given that they're losing their elections.

How are these bills doing in your state? Share your challenges and victories in the chat.

No, this isn't some QAnon conspiracy. There are boarding schools parents send their "troubled teens" to that kidnap them, force them to take medicine and shower under supervision, and even beat them. Paris Hilton recently testified that she attended one such school in Utah. It's incredibly disturbing. Please sign this petition and share it to help people look for this kind of abuse.

Speaking of kidnapping, you can also take action against human trafficking (again, the real kind, not the QAnon kind; we have more slaves today than ever in history and it needs to be stopped and not hindered by conspiracy theorists) by learning more here and taking action here. Share any actions you find in the chat.