James Tallarico

I'm a politician, a lot worse than a scientist.

Before my constituents elected me to this body, I taught middle school.

And my students are the reason I'm here to make

public policy that improves their lives.

But instead, we're doing this, endangering the lives of some of our most vulnerable children to solve a problem that doesn't exist.

When she laid out this bill in front of the Public Education Committee, Representative Swanson summed up the justification for this legislation in one sentence.

She said, if one girl loses a game, this bill is worth it.

I guess we just have a different moral yardstick.

Because I say if one trans child dies to protect someone's damn trophy, this bill is grotesque.

It's both masculine and feminine and everything in between.

God is non-binary.

Trans children are God's children, made in God's own image.

There's nothing wrong with them, nothing at all.

They are perfect, they are beautiful, and they are sacred.

Bullying children is immoral.

It's a sin, a special kind of sin.

Being Christians.

and being pro-choice are absolutely consistent because Christianity is a feminist religion.

Our oldest scriptures, 3,000 years old, reject embryonic personhood while affirming female personhood.

In fact, modern mass Christian opposition to abortion is a relatively new phenomenon