George Santos cosponsors bill calling for rollback of LGBTQ+ rights

Gay Rep. George Santos (R-NY) is once again the only out LGBTQ+ member of Congress to back an anti-LGBTQ+ bill, this time a resolution referred to as a “Women’s bill of rights” that doesn’t include any actual rights for women. Instead, the intent of the bill is to attack LGBTQ+ people’s rights.

Santos is one of about two dozen Republican cosponsors of H.R. 115, which says its purpose is “Establishing a Women’s Bill of Rights to reaffirm legal protections afforded to women under Federal law.”

The resolution, though, doesn’t include much in terms of women’s rights. The resolution reaffirms six points, the first three of which are about words: “sex” would be defined as “biological sex at birth,” words like “woman” and “man” would be defined based on sex assigned at birth, and “mother” and “father” are defined based on sex.

The next point on the Women’s Bill of Rights says that federal…

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