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State Senator Doug Mastriano, the right-wing extremist who lost the governor's race in 2022, has introduced Senate Bill 213, Two Gender Protection Act.
Transgender people make up about 0.5% of the U.S. population. They live, work, pay taxes and raise families, like everyone else. Why are Republicans attacking their own constituents? Why, when our country has real issues needing attention, are they wasting our tax dollars to strip civil rights from already marginalized people?
If passed, SB 213 would make life even more difficult for people who do not fit neatly into male/female categories. It restricts access to single-sex spaces like bathrooms and locker rooms. This is stupid. How would it be enforced? Would people call the police and force someone to prove they were not trans?
SB 213 mandates that government-issued identification documents reflect only the individual's sex assigned at birth, disregarding the individual's right to their own gender identity. Would every Pennsylvania citizen need to produce proof of their sex on applications for a driver's license, passport and other personal IDs, just to verify that they weren't a trans person? This is cruel, stupid and illegal, and a huge waste of our tax dollars to implement.
If we as citizens do not protest this type of reprehensible legislation immediately, we are inviting more of the same. What group of citizens will lose their civil rights next?
If you find this proposed legislation reprehensible, please call or email your PA senator to express your disapproval.
MAGGIE WAGGONER
Lewisburg
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