Human Rights Campaign accused of ‘PR stunt’ with LGBTQ ‘emergency’ declaration

The Human Rights Campaign was accused of fear-mongering and donation-hustling after declaring a “national state of emergency” for LGBTQ Americans – and that by a few of its fellow LGBTQ Americans.

The HRC, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group, drew headlines Tuesday with its first-ever emergency declaration, citing an “unprecedented and dangerous spike in anti-LGBTQ+ legislative assaults sweeping state houses this year.”

Swinging again have been homosexual and lesbian organizations and commentators not on board with the HRC’s gender-ideology agenda, together with the Log Cabin Republicans and Gays Against Groomers.

“The HRC’s latest PR stunt is so ignorantly detached from the incredible LGBT progress over the past decade that we’d be shocked if their donors even buy it,” Log Cabin Republicans President Charles Moran instructed The Washington Times.

He pointed to congressional laws signed into regulation final yr that codifies single-sex marriage into regulation and polls displaying rising help for equal rights for LGBTQ Americans.

Against that backdrop, the HRC “must perpetually fear-monger that the LGBT community is in grave danger in order to gin up donations and justify its existence,” Mr. Moran mentioned.

Gays Against Groomers, which opposes the “sexualization, indoctrination and medicalization of children under the guise of ‘LGBTQIA+,’” accused the HRC of making an attempt to “remain a permanent victim class, because oppression pays in this country.”

“Seriously? The @HRC is a joke,” the group tweeted. “The only ones in a state of emergency are children being preyed upon by groomers and child butchers. The gaslighting is really next level. WE ARE FINE! It’s the kids who are not.”

The HRC sounded the alarm with the discharge of a report, “LGBTQ+ Americans Under Attack,” that described the 2023 state legislative session the “worst year on record for anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.”

Seventy-six state payments recognized as “anti-LGBTQ+” had been signed as of Monday, greater than double the quantity in 2022, the report mentioned.

The payments associated to gender ideology embody “transgender sports bans,” which bar male-born college students from competing in opposition to females; “gender-affirming care bans,” which prohibit gender-transition medication and surgical procedures for these below 18; and “bathroom bans,” which bar organic males from utilizing feminine public amenities.

The group additionally launched a “guidebook for action” and a “resource page” breaking down the related legal guidelines in every state.

“There is an imminent threat to the health and safety of millions of LGBTQ+ people and families, who are living every day in uncertainty and fear,” mentioned HRC President Kelley Robinson.

A “national state of emergency” can solely be declared by approved authorities companies, not lobbies. This is a meaningless, showboating contrivance of the fundraisers at @HRC throughout Pride month. Crass, to say the least, and transparently opportunistic. https://t.co/indU28pdW9

— Fred Sargeant (@FredSargeant) June 6, 2023

Mr. Moran mentioned the issue is that HRC has redefined help for LGBTQ rights to incorporate “trans surgeries for minors, biological men competing in women’s sports, and sex and gender identity lessons in kindergarten.”

“While these issues can be emotional and complex, they in no way pose an unprecedented ‘state of emergency’ to the LGBT community, which has persevered through far worse,” he mentioned. “We encourage the HRC team to read a history book.”

The emergency declaration was the primary issued within the historical past of the HRC, which was based in 1980, a yr earlier than the AIDS disaster erupted and a long time earlier than same-sex marriage turned the regulation of the land.

Conservative pundit Guy Benson, who’s homosexual, accused the group of hyperbole.

“Non-straight Americans have never enjoyed more rights or broad acceptance in our nation’s laws/culture than we do today,” Mr. Benson tweeted. “To effectively suggest — with a dramatic, first-ever ‘emergency’ declaration — that it’s never been worse (dating back to the early 80s!) is really something.”

Brandon Straka, founder of the #WalkAway Foundation, ripped the “blatant lies and false narratives about our safety and security.”

“If it’s not crystal clear at this point that the Human Rights Campaign is a sham organization driven by toxic executives who enrich themselves by raising millions of dollars by lying to gay people about make believe eminent threats and now a ludicrous and embarrassing ‘national state of emergency’ over pronoun and child drag show laws, I don’t know what it will take to wake you up,” Mr. Straka tweeted.

Mr. Straka, a former hair stylist who based #WalkAway in 2018 to encourage Democrats to depart the occasion, was sentenced final yr to 3 years’ probation after pleading responsible to disorderly conduct on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

He has apologized to police and lawmakers.

Shay Woulahan, a lesbian activist and coordinator for the LGB Alliance, was unconcerned by the “emergency” warning.