2SLGBTQ+ Equality & Liberation

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They are legislating our existence from bathrooms to bookshelves. That is not an accident. It is a coordinated strategy that uses fear to win elections and strip rights. 

In Oklahoma, we see it up close in attacks on public spaces, health care, and speech. The same bills appear in other states, often word for word.

We are not asking for acceptance. We are demanding power. Power means civil rights that cannot be voted away, services that serve everyone, and a federal government that enforces the law when states refuse.

This is not only a state story. It is national. Congress can set clear civil rights standards, fund inclusion, and hold agencies and states accountable when discrimination hides behind politics.

Policy priorities

• Pass the Equality Act to add explicit LGBTQ+ protections to federal civil rights law.

• Enforce non-discrimination in employment, housing, health care, education, and public services through DOJ, HHS, HUD, and EEOC.

• Tie relevant federal funds to compliance with civil rights obligations in federally supported programs.

Liberation is not special treatment. It is equal protection, equal dignity, and the freedom to live openly without fear. I will fight for that power in Congress.

Every attack on trans people is state-sanctioned cruelty. In Oklahoma, politicians target health care, bathrooms, sports, and speech to make daily life impossible. The same agenda is advancing nationwide through coordinated model bills and lawsuits.

Gender-affirming care saves lives. That is the medical consensus. Families and doctors should make health decisions, not politicians. When a state targets trans health care, it puts lives at risk and invites federal intervention under civil rights law.

Congress can act. We can protect access to care, stop federal dollars from underwriting discrimination, and ensure schools and workplaces follow the law.

Policy priorities

• Protect access to gender-affirming care in federally regulated and federally funded programs.

• Expand and enforce Title IX protections for gender identity and sexual orientation.

• Bar federal funds from being used to criminalize or deny medically necessary care.

• Support a federal framework like a Transgender Bill of Rights that affirms safety, privacy, and equal access.

There is no liberation without trans liberation. I will oppose any effort to police identity or punish families for loving their children.

Banning queer stories does not protect children. It protects fascism. Oklahoma’s book bans and classroom gag orders are part of a national movement to control what students can read, say, and know.

Public education should teach truth, diversity, and freedom of thought. This is also a federal issue because civil rights follow students wherever federal dollars go. When state actors censor and discriminate, the federal government has a duty to step in.

Congress can defend students and teachers by protecting access to materials in federally supported programs and by enforcing anti-discrimination law through the Office for Civil Rights.

Policy priorities

• Protect access to age-appropriate, inclusive materials in schools and libraries that receive federal support.

• Strengthen Title IX and other civil rights enforcement to cover LGBTQ+ students and staff.

• Fund evidence-based literacy and safe-school programs that build belonging rather than fear.

• Direct federal agencies to investigate patterns of discriminatory censorship and retaliation.

Education is resistance because truth builds courage. I will defend the right of every student to learn and belong.

Congress is full of people who legislate about us, not for us. When queer voices are missing, policy becomes a weapon. Tulsa deserves leaders who understand what is at stake and will not bargain away our humanity.

Representation is not symbolic. It shapes budgets, oversight, and the enforcement of civil rights. It decides whether federal agencies collect data that reveals discrimination and whether families can access benefits without fear.

Federal law can protect what states try to take. Congress can pass the Equality Act, safeguard marriage and family rights, and ensure LGBTQ+ service members and veterans are treated with dignity.

Policy priorities

• Pass the Equality Act and protect marriage and family recognition nationwide.

• Require sexual orientation and gender identity data collection where appropriate to uncover discrimination and improve services.

• Protect the right to serve openly in the military and strengthen VA equity and mental health access for LGBTQ+ veterans.

• Expand funding for LGBTQ+ community health and anti-violence programs.

Representation saves lives. I will bring community voices into every room where decisions are made and make policy that protects people, not talking points.

Queer rights, reproductive freedom, racial justice, and worker rights are the same fight. The same forces that ban books also attack voting rights, unions, and bodily autonomy. They want us isolated so they can win.

Solidarity beats that strategy. When labor, faith, civil rights, and LGBTQ+ communities stand together, we change what is possible in Congress and on the ground. Federal law can protect organizing, expand voting access, and defend civil rights across the board.

Oklahoma’s struggles are part of a national pattern. Congress can be the backstop when states target communities to score points.

Policy priorities

• Strengthen civil rights laws and hate-crime prevention for all targeted groups.

• Protect organizing rights and ban discrimination against LGBTQ+ workers in union and non-union workplaces.

• Restore voting rights protections and stop voter suppression that silences marginalized communities.

• Fund local programs that build safety, housing, health care, and economic dignity.

Solidarity is not a slogan. It is how we win lasting change. I will build coalitions that turn shared values into federal action.

Pride is not just a party. Pride is proof that resistance built this movement and still fuels it. From Stonewall to Oklahoma today, progress comes from people who refuse to be silent.

Extremists are trying to drag us backward with laws that criminalize expression, punish families, and chill protest. The same push is happening across the country. Federal leadership must defend the right to assemble, to speak, and to live free from targeted violence.

Congress can fund the community infrastructure that keeps people safe and can ensure that federal law protects peaceful protest and civil society.

Policy priorities

• Protect peaceful assembly and speech, and oppose laws that criminalize protest.

• Expand federal hate-crime prevention, reporting, and response.

• Fund LGBTQ+ youth programs, community centers, housing, and mental health services.

• Ensure nationwide recognition of families and protect cross-state mobility of rights.

We do not beg for change. We build it. I will defend the right to organize and the freedom to live boldly, because that is how we move from survival to joy.