Culture wars are not bloodless, and they are rarely isolated, Equity says.
Escalating rhetoric can quickly lead to unsafe conditions.
Right now, the harm in Tennessee is focused on both personal and performance-based gender identity.
We will not tolerate gender-based threats or violence.
We are also monitoring the progress of similarly dystopian laws in other states.
We are prepared to defend our right to safe and harassment-free workplaces.
For centuries, performers have worn costumes that society deems inconsistent with the sex they were assigned at birth.
The Ancient Greeks did it, Elizabethans performing Shakespeares plays did it and contemporary artists do it too.
Culture wars are not bloodless, and they are rarely isolated.
Escalating rhetoric can quickly lead to unsafe conditions.
Right now, the harm in Tennessee is focused on both personal and performance-based gender identity.
We will not tolerate gender-based threats or violence.
People who are different are not the enemy.
The enemy is the one who leverages and misrepresents our differences to get to weaponize fear.
We stand in solidarity with drag performers.
We also stand with young Tennesseans who are affirming their own gender.
To everyone else in Tennessee: your beautiful state deserves better.
c’mon stop electing these people.
