Here's How Missouri Senators Celebrate LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

Sorry . . . 

They don't really.

But their answers are telling . . . Not because they're awkward but because they seem to know we live in the world where gay people exist but seem to specifically focus on certain aspects of the moment. 

It's actually kind of a nuanced look . . . Or more than we would expect . . .

Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri had no plans of his own to celebrate Pride, he said, but he was familiar with festivities in St. Louis. “I think down on Cherokee Street they got something going on,” he said. In 2023, Missouri Attorney General Andew Bailey promulgated an emergency resolution limiting gender-affirming care in the state. The resolution was eventually blocked in court. As Missouri’s attorney general in 2019, Schmitt argued that the 1964 Civil Rights Act does not include protections for transgender people.

Josh Hawley, Missouri’s senior senator, introduced a bill that would allow parents to sue clinics that provide trans health care, which he said would be his priority next year if Republicans control all branches of government. “I’m not a big Pride Month supporter or fan,” said Hawley. “I just think this idea that we’re supposed to—especially with the trans piece—I mean, now we’re being told that men can get pregnant. Our kids are being told in schools, often behind their parents’ backs, that if they’re a boy, they should be a girl.”

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