Kentucky lawmaker Pam Stevenson delivers incredible speech as trans rights protesters storm hearing
Apr 01
Written by Maria Morava

Amid a chaotic debate in the Kentucky House of Representatives over Senate Bill 150 – one of the harshest anti-trans bills in the US – lawmaker Pam Stevenson delivered an impassioned speech on trans and human rights.

Representative Pamela Stevenson strongly reproached her colleagues on Wednesday (29 March) as trans rights protesters who had stormed the building were being arrested and escorted out.

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“We have created an environment of hate and then we look at them like there’s something wrong with them,” Stevenson said. “First you hated Black people, then you hated Jews, now you’re hating everybody. So the question is, when it’s the only people left … will you hate yourself?”

Senate Bill 150 has been described by activists as the most oppressive anti-trans law in the country, banning all gender-affirming medical care for trans people under 18 and requiring doctors to detransition minors in current care.

This year has already seen over 470 anti-LGBTQ+ bills – the highest ever – introduced across the nation. The discriminatory bills include bathroom bans, sports bans, drag bans and ‘Don’t Say Gay or Trans’ bills.
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