I am genuinely extremely terrified of the KOSA bill. I can’t stop thinking about it.
I know exactly why it’s happening. It’s because the U.S. Government seems to think that any content relating to LGBTQ+ issues are innappropriate and therefore require censorship. They want to censor US. They want the LGBTQ+ community to fizzle out because god forbid they have any “unnatural” people in their faux paradise.
Along with us, they want to drag down the internet, because they know that’s the place where we’re the most accepted.
This is not about safety.
This is not about protection.
This IS about erasure.
About exploitation.
About PURITY.
I am terrified.
I am terrified for my friends. For my family. For my identity. For my well-being.
But I am even more terrified for those living in bad homes. For those who can’t be themselves in the real world. For our transgender and nonbinary friends, brothers, and sisters. For the children in upcoming generations who will live and silence and who will be blindfolded. Those children who will be unsafe no matter what they do.
Let me say this again, this is not about protection.
I know there are a million others who can explain it better than me. But I need to express how terrified I am of what this world is turning into.
This is not a problem to be ignored.
This is not a problem to scroll past.
This is a threat.