Allison Russell, Jason Isbell, Maren Morris, and Paramore’s Hayley Williams will all sing for LGBTQ rights in Tennessee at an all-star concert next week in Nashville.
The trans community is not a threat to the cisgender community. Drag queens are not a threat to children. There are zero cases of drag queens grooming or sexually assaulting children. Do you know how many cases there are of youth pastors or religious leaders grooming and assaulting children? Hundreds in Tennessee. Some of these people are still leading their flocks. It offends me deeply as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, whose primary abuser was a white supremacist.
The fascist playbook is divide and conquer. You convince people that they’re isolated and powerless and no one cares and no one will join with you in a cause. It’s always a lie. The truth is, most people care. Most people don’t feel good about that kind of overreach of government. Healthcare for trans youth is between that youth, their family, and their healthcare providers. It’s not the government’s job to step in and have deeply inexpert opinions. That’s absurd.
So I sent a text out and it was resounding — “Let’s do a big benefit concert. Let’s support the effort.” We needed to do as big of a benefit as we can to put money back in the coffers of all of the organizations that are in the trenches of this resistance fight, so that Inclusion Tennessee and OutMemphis and the Tennessee Equality Project and the Tennessee Pride Chamber are being shown love and support. There’s going to be lawsuits, there’s going to be bailing people out.
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