We are always there for these kids.

These are our kids and we need to make sure that we are lifting them up and giving them a path to success.

So we are working very hard to make that happen.

And because we now, and it shows that representation matters,

10% of the California legislature is now LGBTQ, 12 out of 120.

And it's actually mostly not San Francisco, L.A.

We have queer legislators from all over the state, from the Central Valley, from the Inland Empire, from San Diego.

It's an amazing and beautiful tapestry of our community and tapestry of California.

And even though we know that so much of the hate directed our community is happening

in other states, unfortunately it's here in California too.

And we know that we have school boards in particular in some very conservative areas

that are demonizing and attacking our LGBTQ youth in ways that are so, so dangerous. And so

about a week ago, our caucus, the 12 of us, we said not on our watch and we introduced legislation to ban these forced outing policies as some school boards are starting to adopt.

Because we know that for all of us, a lot of experience in this room in terms of coming out,

in terms of when, if, how someone comes out to their parents, that is our decision and no one else's damn business.

And we're going to make that clear in the law of the state of California but as we fight all the nasty people out there who are trying to

harm us and we're going to beat them or we're going to win let's celebrate let's

have just a festive and uplifting month I I am so excited about it. Happy pride everyone

We are all before I get too far into the show. I'm just going to make sure that my audio is fine because

Let me just let me get live here and hear myself

Okay, my audio is decent i'm gonna see here it's jacked up all the way rumble studio has has kicked off some serious improvements in terms of the methods of tinkering with some of the stuff.

Let me just make sure the audio is good.

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