Campaign to put Trans Rights in Constitution

Sarah Holliday writes:

Today, voters in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District head to the polls for the Democratic primary. On the ballot is former Rep. Cori Bush, seeking a return to Congress after losing her seat in 2024. If voters give her another chance, she has made clear what her top priority would be: enshrining abortion and transgender “rights” into the U.S. Constitution.

Bush said she wants to advance the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) so that it becomes the 28th Amendment to the Constitution—which, in her view, could permanently lock abortion access and trans agendas into the nation’s foundational document. ...

Even in the early 1970s, critics foresaw serious problems. The STOP ERA movement, led by Phyllis Schlafly, warned that the amendment would likely trigger “government-financed abortion, the legal dissolution of biological differences between men and women, and restrictions on women’s legal rights in matters of divorce.” Those concerns never fully faded.