Hundreds march through The Grove protesting ‘anti-LGBTQ’ legislation

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) – LGBTQ advocates protested in St. Louis over proposed laws they are saying targets that particular demographic.

On Saturday, a whole bunch rallied via The Grove over a number of payments limiting LGBTQ publicity in Missouri.

The ACLU reported Missouri lawmakers have filed greater than 30 anti-LGBTQ payments, among the many most within the nation for any state.

Missouri’s payments within the legislature cowl points corresponding to banning trans girls from enjoying feminine sports activities to limiting the place a drag present can happen.

“A few of these payments are banning toilet accessibility, pronoun utilization, parental notifications of scholars’ gender id and gender-affirming care no matter age,” mentioned Jordan Braxton with Satisfaction St. Louis.

“When you don’t like drag exhibits, don’t go to at least one,” St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones mentioned. “And I stand right here in tears excited about how our state legislature needs to legislate their physique, your physique and all people’s physique.”

Jones talked about how the town lately established an LGBTQIA+ Advisory Board.

“They’re onerous at work each coverage via an LGBTQIA+ lense,” she mentioned,

“If we wait till some poor Missouri child comes out and says that ‘my life has been altered as a result of I used to be subjected to surgical procedure and or medicine that I ought to have by no means been subjected to. My life has been modified ceaselessly and that ought to have by no means occurred to me.’ If we wait till that occurs we’ve got waited too late,” Missouri Republican Consultant Brad Hudson informed Information 4 lately on a invoice he’s sponsoring.

Some payments are seeing motion in Jefferson Metropolis, however none have made it throughout the end line to date.

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