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You know, we talk a lot about the H.B. 300 bill and it's a bill that's very, very damaging.

No question about it to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

And it's something that we have to talk about.

And I'm very, very happy to welcome the show, Alexis Sneller, policy and communications officer for PA family.

Alexis, thanks for joining me. I appreciate it.

Thanks so much for having me on the show. I'm glad to be able to shed light on this.

No, please do. Tell us about this bill. I played a couple clips over the last couple of days that Tom Shaheena sent me and I appreciate that.

And Dan is also sending some clips as well. So give us the overview of what this bill would do.

Yes, so H.B. 300 would add sexual orientation and gender identity as a protected class.

And while we all agree that everyone should be treated with dignity and respect, this bill has a lot of consequences that go far beyond that.

And really, what it would end up doing because we've seen bills similar to H.B. 300 have been passed in about half of the states and then also in local ordinances across the country.

And we've seen that they've been used to do two main things which are to remove privacy rights for women and forced men into women's spaces and to also harm religious liberty and stop people from really exercising their deeply held religious conviction.

And it would also punish people too, right? I mean, if you don't use somebody's preferred pronouns, that would become essentially a crime.

Yes, we've actually seen instances where again, areas that do have these kinds of laws where people have literally been fired from their jobs for not using someone's pronouns that they're asking.

And these are even instances where people are willing to just refer to their name to refer to a person and third person.

But if, for example, a man who identifies as a woman, if they do not go out of their way to call them pronouns that are not accurate, then people have lost their jobs.

Alexis, I played a couple clips this week of the committee hearing and the one of the representatives there who's saying that men should be allowed in women's shelters, for example, women's prisons.

And they have nowhere else to go in these circumstances. But what about the women who are in shelters and don't really want a biological male in there?

And many of them are probably possibly dealing with things maybe from other men. What about their rights? And where's their recourse in all this?

You know, it's so important that we shed light on these things when I was collecting stories of what has happened in similar states with this bill.

I just had to stop collecting women's shelter stories because there's so many of men taking advantage of these laws, going into women's spaces and sexually assaulting or raping women.

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