Democrats from Ohio have introduced a number of recent bills to go to LGBTQ+ equality in Buckeye.
New bills include the provisions regarding:
- Codify the equality of marriage in the Ohio Constitution
- Guarantee the rights of parents LGBTQ+ youth
- Declare that “love is a family”
These proposals previously attach to the introduced bills in the field of prohibition conversion therapy and the Act on honesty, which would guarantee the protection of non -discrimination LGBTQ+ Ohioans.
“We introduce provisions that LGBTQ+protects people, confirms their dignity, defends their rights and weapons, who they are,” said Rep. Tristan Rader (D-shelawood) at a press conference organized by Ohio House Democratic Caucus.
The bills are also rejected to the rash of anti-LGBTQ+ both provisions both previously adopted and proposed by their republican colleagues.
“Today in Ohio, as in the whole country, extremist legislators are introducing an invoice after Bill tries to erase LGBTQ+ from public life to tell children that they do not belong and withdraw their laws and dignity [that were] It’s hard to fight and win – said Rader. “So we’re not here to remember history, we’re here to do it.”
Voting for equality of marriage
Rep. Eric Synenberg (D-Beachwood) and Anita Somani (D-Dublin) have today introduced a law on the equality of marriages in order to codify the marriages of the same sex and interracial marriages to the Ohio constitution.
In accordance with the constitutional amendment in 2004, The Ohio Constitution currently defines marriage as “only a relationship between one man and one woman.”
Though Obergefell against Hodges The decision of the Supreme Court of 2015 ensured equality of marriage throughout the country, a recent case based on the current conservative court may send this case back to the states that would prohibit marriages of people of the same sex in Ohio on the basis of the current constitutional language.
“We saw it with reproductive rights,” said Somani. “The earlier story showed us again that these decisions are not resistant to overthrowing in the future.
Unlike previous bills, which they tried to change legislatively Heterosexual definition of marriage in the Amended Code in OhioThis recent bill would place a constitutional amendment in voting for general elections in November 2026 in order to prevent both equality of marriages and interracial marriages in the Ohio constitution.
“Our constitution should reflect who we are today, and not only who we were in the past. It is about recognizing the living realities of thousands of Ehiosians who deserve to recognize their rights, which are not only essentially, but in practice,” said Synenberg. “Almost 20 years have passed since voters from Ohio had the opportunity to consider this issue and the time has come for us to let them talk again.”
The Act on marital equality does not yet have an account number.
Codifying pride
In response to anti-LGBTQ+accounts, which were adopted and proposed under the guise of “parents ‘rights”, representatives of Karen Brownlee (D-Symmes Twp.) And Darnell Brewer (D-Cleveland) introduced parents’ rights to include, diversity, equality (PRife) Act.
HB 327 would guarantee the parent’s right to:
- Fair access to the full scope of medical care based on evidence for a child’s child
- Fair access to the full range of behavioral health care for the child’s child
- Righteous access to hygiene of the child’s childcare, including public bathrooms, school bathrooms and menstrual care products
- Fair access to educational opportunities that reflect and cover all students
- Be incorporated, respected and accepting the parent’s child’s rights to freedom of speech and statements
- Accept and respect the child’s right to maintain health to support the child’s health and safety.
Brownlee – who during a press conference shared that they were a parent of two children of LGBTQ+ – she emphasized that about 30% of American youth identifies as LGBTQ+, “which means that further intimidation of our youth is a lost fight.”
“Let’s stop fighting our children,” said Brownlee. “Let’s stop creating produced cultural wars that hurt them. Instead, let’s listen to them. Let’s listen to their dreams. Let’s listen to what they want from life and listen, which makes them feel whole and healthy.”
The language of the Act on Damia is a direct recognition of the recent adoption of the Act prohibiting sex care for Ohio youth and limiting references on LGBTQ+ identity in school programs, as well as the proposed bills for prohibiting menstrual products in men’s rooms in public libraries, forced teachers to be celebrated students and remove the ability of newborn people to access the mental crisis.
HB 327 has not yet been assigned to the committee.
Love legislation
On the symbolic side, the leader of the Senate minority Nicke Antonio (D-Maewood) presented a bill on the announcement that “love is a family.”
SB 211 would designate the first full week of June, because “love creates a family week.”
“If Ohio is actually” the heart of all this “, when we still hear, especially our colleagues in the transition, it is important that Ohio had a heart for her people,” Antonio said. “[SB 211] He confirms the simple truth that what makes the family is not the way it was created, but the love and support that strengthen it. “
Antonio explained that SB 211 will recognize and celebrate all types of families, including:
- Families created by love, commitment and care
- Families built as part of adoption, adoption, surrogation or in vitro
- Families of parents alone, mixed families and multi -generational households
- Families of each breed, sexual orientation, faith, structure and origin.
The act is contrary to HB 262, which would designate a month only to honor only Ohio families led by a heterosexual couple of cisgenders throughout their lives, a monogamous relationship.
SB 211 was assigned to the Government Committee for Supervision and Reforms, but has not yet been planned for the trial.
Speech
The Tuesday press conference also applied to Ohioans says about some of the current provisions of anti-LGBTQ+ considered by the legislator Ohio.
Dwayne Steward, executive director Equality of ohioHe spoke against the provisions of Anti-LGBTQ+ in the proposed state budget, which include the defending of homeless shelters that support Trans Youth, prohibiting access to LGBTQ+ library books for minors and establishing a state of Ohio in order to “recognize two sexes, men and women” and that “these sexes are not variable and justified and justified in fundamental and justified in fundamental and justified in fundamental inept reality. “
“These changes will cause damage to the most sensitive members of our society,” said Steward. “On behalf of LGBTQ+ Ohioans, I call the legislators to be considered and take into account that the life of thousands of LGBTQ+ Ohioans will be devastated by these budget changes.”
Veranda l’niThe highest Drag Queen Cleveland spoke against HB 249, an act that would effectively ban public resistance and collect performers with a crime to the fourth degree if they are present.
L’ni explained that Drag is an artistic performance that includes theater, dance, telling stories, history and cultural comments, and that it is a form of art that allows individuals to “express what cannot be limited by rigid definitions of sex or performance.”
“Drag performance is not a threat,” said L’i. “This is a protected speech.” Ding
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