Garrison Davis

Gex Williams!

And Gex could not even accomplish the first step in the legislative process, getting the Senate committee assignment for this prospective bill.

Gex then tried to turn his failed bill into a floor amendment, slapped onto a separate bill that was expected to pass.

But such an amendment still requires a vote on approval separate from the vote to pass the bill itself.

Olivia Croth reported that this amendment does not have such support from other legislators.

Yeah.

And that Gex was expected to withdraw his amendment for breaking Senate rules on piggybacking failed bills onto different bills as an amendment.

And even if this amendment somehow got through, the bill would then need to be sent back to the state house for approval and would spark a huge fight that the legislature does not have time for because the legislative season is now wrapping up.

So after this article from Pink News was fact-checked by this really good journalist doing important reporting in Kentucky, Pink News then deleted this article and the viral posts plugging it.

But any corrections to this false story

do not spread nearly as far as the initial panic-inducing claim.

And that's crucial here, because the night that this article went out on Pink News, literally my entire feed was full of dozens and dozens and dozens of people all quote-tweeting this Pink News story.

And the fact check and the fact that Pink News deleted this is not going to get spread in that same way.

Now, misleading stories like this distract from the very real attacks Republicans are waging in red states.

One of which, one of a few, was on Monday.

The governor of Idaho signed a new bill into law that criminalizes trans people using the bathroom that matches their gender, including bathrooms in private businesses.

A first offense would be a misdemeanor with punishable by up to a year in prison.

Second offense within five years would be a felony, punishable by up to five years in prison.

And this would be prison housed based on quote-unquote biological sex at birth, which leads to abuse of trans inmates.

This is the most extreme bathroom bill that this nation has seen so far, most restrictive, affecting private businesses, and this sort of very, very intense criminal punishment.