This morning, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier held an unexpected press conference in Orlando regarding transgender athletes and women’s sports. Equality Florida issued the following statement in response: 🧵
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Bigots should not be Attorneys General.
jul 16, 2025, 9:31 am • 2 0 • view
“Attorney General Uthmeier is pulling straight from the DeSantis playbook: When you’re in trouble, blame trans people. Uthmeier is scapegoatinging trans people as a strategy to deflect and distract from the intense public scrutiny... 🧵(1/4)
jul 15, 2025, 10:26 pm • 11 1 • view
over the $450 million in corrupt no-bid contracts handed to GOP donors for the creation of the Everglades detention camp, his unprecedented contempt of court charges, and... 🧵(2/4)
jul 15, 2025, 10:26 pm • 10 1 • view
his alleged role in laundering $10 million in public Medicaid settlement money through Hope Florida to illegally fund political campaigns. 🧵(3/4)
jul 15, 2025, 10:26 pm • 11 1 • view
Uthmeier’s sudden pivot to women’s sports and attacking trans people is predictable, it’s tired, but it’s not governing. This is political theater designed to demonize, deflect, and distract Floridians away from the stories state leaders don’t want to talk about.” 🧵(4/4)
jul 15, 2025, 10:26 pm • 13 0 • view
First it’s immigrants, now it’s trans individuals. Who will be next? DeSantis and his administration are made of the same cloth as the Trump administration. Fascism and hate!
jul 16, 2025, 8:07 am • 3 0 • view