Lizzo slams Nebraska bill restricting abortion and gender-affirming care

lizzo remembered Nebraska fans on Friday who are “valid” and deserve protection when he slammed a Bill supported by the Republican Party that includes a 12-week abortion ban and bars trans youth from receiving gender-affirming care.

The “About Damn Time” singer made her comments the same day state lawmakers approved the bill, which Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) is expected to sign into law. A six-week abortion ban failed in the legislature late last month.

Lizzo, who was performing in Omaha, declared that anyone who attends one of her shows “should know” that she supports health care rights, reproductive care and gender-affirming care before launching into criticism. the invoice.

“There are times when I get very political and as adults we feel it, but there are children here tonight. And it really breaks my heart that there are young people growing up in a world that doesn’t protect them,” Lizzo said emotionally.

“So let me be your safe space tonight,” she continued. “Don’t let anyone tell you who you are. Don’t let no law tell you who you ain’t, bitch. … You are who you are, okay?

The Grammy-winning artist told her fans that she sees them and that they are “valid.”

“They deserve to be here in all their forms. You contain multitudes,” she said. “These laws are not real. You are the real thing and you deserve to be protected. You deserve to be protected. And for anyone whose inner child needed to hear that, you deserve to be protected too.”

republicans too restrictive abortion bans passed in North Carolina and South Carolina last week.

Republican officials in Florida, Texas, Missouri and Mountain They have also continued efforts to ban gender-affirming care in their states recently.

Lizzo has made powerful statements about anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in the past, inviting drag performers to the stage during a show in Knoxville last month to protest Tennessee’s ban on drag queens. 490 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced in the US this year, according to the American Civil Liberties Union Legislation Tracker.

Some Nebraska lawmakers indicated they attended the show, including state senators Megan Hunt (L) and John Fredrickson (D).

Thank you @lizzo for giving Nebraska what it needed tonight. tweeted Fredericksonthat he is openly gay.

Hunt, who vowed to obstruct every bill during the remainder of Nebraska’s legislative session on his anti-trans bill in March, wrote on Twitter that state Sen. Beau Ballard (R), who voted for the bill, he planned to be on Lizzo’s show.

“They want LGBTQ money. They want LGBTQ entertainment. They want LGBTQ culture. But they will not vote to protect LGBTQ life and safety.” Hunt wrotewho is openly bisexual and has a trans child.