{"id":505953,"date":"2017-01-03T16:34:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T16:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/marsha-blackburn\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:49","slug":"marsha-blackburn","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/marsha-blackburn\/","title":{"rendered":"Marsha Blackburn"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014Without any basis, attempted to link<\/a> Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown-Jackson to transgender athletes and women\u2019s sports. During Judge Jackson\u2019s confirmation hearing, Blackburn\u2019s opening statement included a transphobic<\/a> attack on athlete Lia Thomas for her win at an N.C.A.A. swimming championship, then declared without basis that, \u201ceducators are allowing biological males to steal opportunities from female athletes in the name of progressivism.\u201d Neither issue has anything to do with Judge Jackson\u2019s statements or rulings. Blackburn also echoed Sen. Josh Hawley<\/a>\u2019s QAnon-influenced<\/a> attack on Judge Jackson, falsely accusing Jackson of \u201csaying publicly it is a mistake to assume child pornography offenders are pedophiles.\u201d The \u201cliberals are child predators\u201d is a frequent trope of QAnon, the racist, pro-Trump and wildly false<\/a> conspiracy theory that has been deployed against many minorities including LGBTQ people in the United States<\/a> and in Russia<\/a>, among other places.<\/p>\n

\u2014Along with U.S. Senators Hawley, Braun, Daines, and Lankford, filed an amicus before the Unites States Supreme Court<\/a> defending a taxpayer-funded agency\u2019s right to discriminate against same-sex couples seeking to foster a child.<\/p>\n

\u2014With Congresspersons Hice and Hartzler, filed an amicus brief before the United States Supreme Court<\/a> in support of Barronelle Stutzman, the owner of Arlene\u2019s Flowers who refused to create a floral arrangement for a client to celebrate his same-sex wedding.<\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed<\/a> \u201cgender specificity\u201d would be \u201celiminated\u201d if Democrats win Georgia senate runoff elections.<\/p>\n

\u2014Said<\/a> of Supreme Court ruling granting marriage equality to same-sex couples in all fifty states: \u201cToday\u2019s Supreme Court decision is a disappointment. I have always supported traditional marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Voted<\/a> against LGBTQ-inclusive Employment Nondiscrimination Act, twice voted in favor of federal constitutional amendment banning marriage equality, voted against repeal of the military\u2019s discriminatory \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u201d policy, and voted against LGBT-inclusive hate crimes legislation.<\/p>\n

\u2014Opposed<\/a> the Violence Against Women Act specifically because it included LGBTQ provisions.<\/p>\n

\u2014Actively worked to remove<\/a> an openly gay safe-schools chief for what she and her conservative colleagues denounced as \u201can integral role in promoting homosexuality and pushing a pro-homosexual agenda in America\u2019s schools.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":343,"featured_media":505954,"template":"","categories":[138754],"tags":[],"region":[138565],"hashtag":[138636,138632],"class_list":{"0":"post-505953","1":"gap","2":"type-gap","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"category-gaps","7":"region-national","8":"hashtag-anti-transgender","9":"hashtag-politics"},"aioseo_notices":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t