Attacks on Queer and Trans Communities

JOINT STATEMENT FROM THE STONEWALL DEMOCRATS OF COLORADO & THE

COLORADO DEMOCRATIC PARTY

To end Pride Month, we saw two horrific attacks on the rights and dignity of queer and

trans Americans. Here in Colorado, the latest fundraising email from the Colorado

Republican Party was blatantly bigoted propaganda. Nationwide, we watched in horror

as an out-of-control and extremist Supreme Court declared that queer and trans people

do not deserve the same public protections as other Americans. Both of these assaults

on American values stem from the same kinds of lies and defamation that result in

attempts to eradicate not only our community, but all others outside the narrow

constituency of Trump’s MAGA-Extremists as represented by the Colorado Republican

Party. Both the Colorado Republican Party and the MAGA-right Supreme Court have

declared for all to hear that they would rather push hate, fear, and violence than protect

the rights of queer and trans Americans.

All of this comes at a time when Americans continue to struggle with rising costs of

living, a stagnating post-COVID economy, and an ever-worsening climate crisis. In the

face of these challenges, Republicans would rather promote hatred and discrimination

than propose real policy solutions to our greatest challenges. The world that MAGA

extremists wish to build protects only their own at the expense of every other American.

In the world they are trying to impose on us, queer kids live in fear of being publicly

outed, ostracized and bullied, and subjected to direct violence from peers and those

meant to protect them. If the MAGA extremists have their way, trans kids will die, by

their own hands, by violent mobs, or at the hands of a perverted ‘justice’ system.

Colorado Democrats will not give one inch to this hateful and genocidal rhetoric. We will

continue to develop and implement real solutions to the problems Coloradans face, as

our Party always has. We call upon Coloradans of all political persuasions, including

those affiliated with no party at all, to reject the cowardly scapegoating and craven lies

peddled by the Colorado Republican Party. We will never waver in our support for our

queer and trans community, and with the support of the people of Colorado, we will

continue to thwart every attempt to enact violence or to reduce the freedoms that every

Coloradan deserves.

The Colorado Democratic Party

The Stonewall Democrats of Colorado