Taylor Swift Writes Open Letter Condemning Donald Trump, Urging Support for LGBT+ Rights

Taylor Swift has posted an open letter to a Tennessee senator that rejects Donald Trump and calls for her state to support the Equality Act, which would issue in national protections for LGBT+ people against discrimination.

“As you know, the House just passed the Equality Act, which would protect LGBTQ people from discrimination in the workplace, in their homes and in schools,” Swift said, writing to Senator Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican. “For American citizens to be denied jobs or housing based on who they love or how they identify, in my opinion is un-American and cruel.”

“I personally reject the President’s stance that his administration ‘supports equal treatment of all,’ but that the Equality Act, ‘in its current form is filled with poison pills that threaten to determine parental and conscience rights’.

“That statement implies that there is something morally wrong with you being anything other than heterosexual or cisgender, which is an incredibly harmful letter to send to a nation full of healthy and loving families with same-sex, non-binary or transgender parents, sons or daughters.

“Our country’s lack of protection for its own citizens ensures that LGBTQ people must live in fear that their lives could be turned upside down by an employer or landlord who is homophobic or transphobic. The fact that, legally, some people are completely at the mercy of the hatred and bigotry of others is disgusting and unacceptable.”

Swift also started a change.org petitions asking the senate to support the act.

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