Governor Evers: Thank You For Four Years Of Progress For The LGBTQ

     Governor Evers has made LGBTQ rights a priority of his administration in a state in which more than 70 percent of people support same-sex marriage, discrimination protections, and LGBTQ rights in general. Upon entering office, he immediately signed an executive order banning discrimination in hiring at the state level.

     Every year since 2019, he has raised the pride flag above the state legislature controlled by gay-bashing hillbillies to celebrate Pride Month, which makes work a little uncomfortable for the GOP and shows the rest of the nation that they are simply a minority working only to keep their own power and don't represent the majority of Wisconsinites.

     Even without the legislature, Governor Evers has made a big difference for the LGBTQ. He banned the use of state and federal funds for conversion therapy, a pseudoscientific practice that tries to "cure" gay kids by teaching them to hate themselves and has been shown to lead to suicides, drug abuse, and other mental health issues. At the same time, he directed state agencies to use gender neutral language in all official communications and began offering gender neutral options for parents on birth certificates.

     Equally as powerful as his executive orders are his vetoes. Robin Vos thinks Wisconsin is Florida or Texas? Please. Governor Evers vetoed bills intended to ban transgender children from playing sports and to protect the practice of conversion therapy, even though the majority of Wisconsinites oppose these bills bent on cruelty.

     We need Governor Evers in the Governor's Mansion for four more years to maintain the progress that has been made, make more progress on these issues, and repeal every attempt made by the GOP to attack LGBTQ rights.