Oscar-winner for West Side Story and queer Afro-Latina DeBose reminded the Tonight Show audience to hold on to joy while also fighting back against the rotting Supreme Court's acts.
The state's attorney general's office has cited the Dobbs ruling in its effort to ban gender-affirming health care for trans youth and trans adults.
"Though I am a woman who will never experience the threat of forced birth, I do know what it’s like to feel like you aren’t in control of your body."
The move would allow the Senate to write marriage equality, abortion rights, and other rights into federal law, Ocasio-Cortez points out.
The ruling, “reflects a concentrated effort to uphold racist and patriarchal practices of limiting the autonomy of women and LGBTQ+ individuals.”
Recent rulings on prayer at public school football games and taxpayer funding for religious schools stand to further undermine LGBTQ+ rights.
Pridegoers protested for reproductive freedom after the Supreme Court stripped Americans of a right for the first time in history.
