Protect fee speech and the LGBTQ+ community: STOP KOSA

To: Rep. Randall, Sen. Cantwell, Sen. Murray

From: A constituent in Tacoma, WA

May 15

It is honestly unfathomable that in the current political climate lawmakers are putting forward legislation that would give the Trump administration more tools to silence perspectives they don’t like. Over the past five months they have disappeared, deported, and defunded people and organizations who have exercised their first amendment rights. The fact that lawmakers are watching all this happen, and are still willing to support KOSA, is unconscionable. If KOSA passes, Trump’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) would be able to say that ANY topic they want to stop people from talking about causes “harm” to kids, and force platforms to censor it. And we don’t have to guess what they would target, since FTC Chair Andrew Fergusson said if confirmed he’d fight the “trans agenda.” We MUST protect the most marginalized communities, and ensure that factual information about LGBTQIA+ identities is not censored. We must ensure online communities of LGBTQIA+ individuals are not destroyed. We must stop this unconscionable and unconstitutional censorship. We MUST fight KOSA. It will not protect kids, and it will be used to harm the most marginalized among us.

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