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Busy Philippsis showing her support for the LGBTQ community amid a wave of discriminatory legislation in states across the country — and she is asking others to do the same.
TheGirls5evastar, 42, made her pleain an Instagram post on Thursdayfeaturing a photo of the actress and her daughterBirdie Leigh, 13, who is gay andprefers they/them pronouns.
“Quick. What do you call a parent who’s supportive of who their kid is?” she asked in the caption of her post. The answer, she said, is “A parent. That’s all. 💗.”
In addition to asking her followers to “show up” for the LGBTQ community, Philipps also requested they support LGBTQ and Trans rights activists such asChris Mosier(the first trans athlete to compete for Team USA),Kai Shappley,ALOK,Adri PéreandJeffrey Marsh.
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TheDawson’s Creekalum also requested support forGender Infinity, which provides services to transgender, nonbinary, genderqueer, and gender non-conforming people and their families.
“Be supportive. Amplify. Be loud. Because it might be your kid someday,” Philipps continued in her caption. “But even if it’s not, what would it say about you if you only care about kids like your own? 🤷♀️🌟💗.”
In December 2020, Philipps revealed on an episode of herBusy Philipps Is Doing Her Bestpodcast that Birdie is gay. (Philipps shares Birdie and her second daughter Cricket Pearl, 8, with husband and screenwriter Marc Silverstein.) Philipps said Birdie first opened up about being gay and pronoun preferences when they were 10 years old.
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In February, Texas governor Greg Abbottsent a letterdirecting the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to “conduct a prompt and thorough investigationof any reported instances” of gender reassignment surgery in minors, somethinghe has called “abusive.”
According to a lawsuit filed that same month, the state has officially begun such investigations into families that allegedly fall under that criteria.
The 33-year-old singer saidthat while she is “proud to rep Houston,” she is currently “not proud to rep Texan politics right now” due to the “very regressive laws being passed” in the state, according to NBC News.
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“They’re taking away the right for young children to have a chance to live authentically as themselves,” said the Texas native. “It’s a violation of human rights. Trans rights are human rights.”
“We got a lot of other things that we need,” she said before noting “there are people in charge who can change things on a systemic level and they’re letting us down.”
source: people.com
