Liz Charles

She/her 🌈

[Lauren Lyness @lauren_lyness]

I’m seeing a lot of takes about what’s happening in OK regarding the attacks on public ed, 2SLGBTQ+ folks, and others.

Listen to me when I tell you we are living on the frontlines of extremism and it should absolutely matter to y’all who don’t live here. We are the canary🧵

[Liz Charles @bhlwaggoner]

@PhilBacharach I still have trauma from the image of my tweens putting their fingers in their ears when I tried to indoctrinate them with Rage Against the Machine.

[Freedom Oklahoma @FreedomOkla]

Today, the first bill of the 2023 Oklahoma Legislative session explicitly targeting 2SLGBTQ+ was filed. HB 1011 would ban best practice medical care for transgender young people up to the age of 21.

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

Get ready for a red state to declare the evidence around birth control is “low quality,” that it is harmful, and for bills restricting birth control for under 18s, dropping insurance, and enacting registries and bans.

Trans rights, bodily autonomy, it’s all the same fight.

[Liz Charles @bhlwaggoner]

@benfelder_okc thanks I hate it.

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

- NYT hit piece on trans kids
- Texas attempts to round up trans kids and imprison parents
- Ohio tries to take away trans Title IX rights, force detransition
- TN bill banning drag/trans kids filed

Trans "visibility week" isn't enough.
It's time for trans resistance.

[Liz Charles @bhlwaggoner]

@fancyroyce if you're gay.

[Rep. Zooey Zephyr @ZoAndBehold]

How it started how it's going

[Lauren Groff @legroff]

Save me your hot takes about how Florida sucks, and remember that we’ve been gerrymandered so excessively out of actual democratic representation that what the GOP has done here to solidify their power should be considered unconstitutional.

[Liz Charles @bhlwaggoner]

@fancyroyce I absolutely have a taker for you aka holy shit Hads would be stoked.

[Dylan Goforth @DGoforth918]

2022

Stitt - 51,245
Hofmeister - 57,793

[Cindy @CindyNguyenOK]

Trans students are being suspended and teachers are doing restroom checks.

SB 615 was never about safety. It’s about making sure that trans youth can no longer exist in public.

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

So much of the CRT and anti-trans panic in schools is simply just adults who are afraid of change, and have decided to take out their insecurities on children.

[Liz Charles @bhlwaggoner]

Jesus Christ.

[Laura Bassett @LEBassett]

A Missouri woman whose water broke at 17 weeks, whose fetus was dying inside of her and threatening her life, was denied an abortion. She called a GOP state senator to beg for help getting around the law, and he sent her to an anti-abortion center. https://t.co/gKPJmflhYK

[The Problem With Jon Stewart @TheProblem]

Jon interviewed Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas Attorney General, about why her state banned gender-affirming care for minors - ignoring the guidelines of major medical organizations and taking the decision out of parents’ hands. Watch the full interview on @AppleTVPlus

[Liz Charles @bhlwaggoner]

Gratitude doesn’t come close to encompassing what I feel for Nicole, their team, and everyone who cares enough to sit in the grief and fear and rage with us without looking away. Thank you.

[Nicole (they/she) @mcafee2012]

I'm normally good at updating y'all throughout the legislative day, and I am sorry I feel short on that. When I arrived at the Capitol this morning, my megaphone was confiscated, even though I have seen them let folks in with full mics + speaker set ups.

[Liz Charles @bhlwaggoner]

@CocoLow17 As a recent recipient: while I may not have asked for it, I sure wanted it when I got it! 🧡

[Nicole (they/she) @mcafee2012]

If you've expressed concerns about what Ryan Walters would do if elected, it's critical you tune into the State Board of Education, a body made up of the elected State Superintendent and gubernatorial appointees. Tomorrow, they're ready to enforce another unconstitutional law 👇

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

NO DONATIONS UNTIL LEGISLATION.

[Mauree Turner | They / Them @MaureeTurnerOK]

*kind note: this is not just a sad day for women*

1: everyone should be outraged by this decision
2: women are not the only people who need access to abortion

3: your friends who 'get it' & are 'working on it', that are only talking about women right now - call them in.