“Women, lesbians, and families become the collateral damage.”
An LGBT rights bill needs to die — to help women.
That was the message Republicans brought to a rowdy congressional hearing on Tuesday, when conservative lawmakers and think tanks denounced the nondiscrimination bill with increasingly uniform charges of sexism.
The bill’s protections for transgender people, they contend, advance a “radical gender ideology” that will erase and victimize women.
“Women, lesbians, and families become the collateral damage of identity politics,” said Republican Doug Collins of Georgia, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee.
View the complete April 2 article by Dominic Holden on the BuzzFeed News website here.