NY-11: Nicole Malliotakis' Dismal Record on LGBTQ Issues
Time and time again, Trump-loving State Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis has used votes and influence as an elected official to fight against efforts to improve LGBTQ rights and theres a chance she could bring her bigoted politics to the national stage.
Malliotakis, whose Assembly district encompasses the eastern side of Staten Island and a slice of the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, is embroiled in a heated general election race against incumbent Democratic Congressmember Max Rose in the battleground 11th Congressional District. Many New Yorkers, however, have only seen a very limited glimpse of that race through the lens of bitter political ads that are sorely lacking in substance.
What those ads dont spell out is Malliotakis record on issues important to queer Staten Islanders and Brooklynites in a pivotal swing district. In the Assembly, she has voted against same-sex marriage and the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), which added gender identity and expression as protected classes in the states human rights and hate crimes laws last year, all while peddling wildly false and transphobic narratives about bathrooms and cozying up to the fringiest figures of the far right.
Malliotakis conveniently waited until after she voted against same-sex marriage to claim that she apparently had a change of heart on the issue but then she continued to oppose other LGBTQ rights more crucial to the daily lives of queer New Yorkers, such as simply going to the bathroom.
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