You may have heard about the drag show ban in Tennessee.
Unfortunately this is part of a worldwide surge in attacks on the rights of LGBTIQ+ people and specifically trans people. 🧵
https://time.com/6260421/tennessee-limiting-drag-shows-status-of-anti-drag-bills-u-s/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/kimvsparrentak/status/1633133414197985280
Conservative forces are pushing for anti-drag laws that aim to erase LGBTIQ+ people from public spaces under the cover of ‘protecting children’.
This dangerous rhetoric is spreading to Europe as well:
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/kimvsparrentak/status/1633133512533442560
Rightwing demonstrators tried to disturb a similar storytime event at a museum in London: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/11/tate-britain-protest-drag-queen-childrens-storytelling-event-arrest
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/kimvsparrentak/status/1633133664182714374
The Swedish far-right tried to stop a drag storytime hour in a local library, because it would ‘confuse children’: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/smaland/sd-politiker-vill-stoppa-sagostund-for-smabarn-med-dragqueens
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/kimvsparrentak/status/1633133825239707652
This is a dangerous trend. And it doesn’t stop at drag shows. In several US states gender affirming care was banned for minors.
I stand in solidarity with the drag and trans community and am working to protect our queer-siblings from undergoing similar treatments in the EU.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/kimvsparrentak/status/1633134249040551936
Equality will win.
But we need to speak out against these rhetorics, continue celebrating diversity and actively create space for LGBTIQ+ education.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/kimvsparrentak/status/1633134585897795586
In France a mayor already called of a drag storytime event for children after backlash:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/drag-queens-barred-from-reading-to-children-in-french-library-bxp2h0pzh
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/kimvsparrentak/status/1633133595840634881