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We at Yellow Scene Magazine (YS) recently posted a press release from anti-trans hate group Gays Against Groomers stating their opposition to the Kelly Loving Act, which gives more protections to trans people. Sometimes, in the flurry of reporting on news daily, things slip through the cracks that we do not intend. We want to make it absolutely clear that we do not support this group or what they stand for. As a company that employs multiple trans people, myself included, we reject Gays Against Groomers’ anti-trans stance. YS has always supported the entire LGBTQ+ community throughout our entire 25-year history.
Gays Against Groomers are part of the very vocal minority in the LGBTQ+ community that wishes to see LGB people form their own coalition separate from the trans community and other important members of the overall LGBTQ+ community. But ever since the days of the Stonewall Riots, transgender people have been a driving force in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights. Trans women like Marsha P. Johnson and Silvia Rivera were essential to the early movement for queer rights, and trans people today are still on the front lines to protect all the members of this community.
The entire LGBTQ+ community is united by the fact that we experience gender and sexuality in a different way than what is traditional in society. This includes gays, lesbians, bisexuals, asexual people, transgender people, agender people, two-spirit individuals, and intersex people. There can be no movement for gay rights without trans and gay people standing arm in arm together.
The Kelly Loving Act passed yesterday in the Colorado Senate, despite Gays Against Groomers giving inflammatory testimony full of misleading and outright false information. We applaud the passage of this bill, although we are disappointed to see how many sections were struck from the bill to appease a radical, anti-trans lobby. We hope that the State of Colorado continues to be a safe and welcoming place for transgender individuals.
