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Texas Native Lizzo Slams State Over Anti-Trans & Abortion Ban During SXSW Keynote Speech

The Grammy Award-winning singer said was “not proud to rep Texan policies right now.”

Grammy Award-winning singer Lizzo is not here for Texas’ anti-Trans and anti-abortion laws. The pop star is now using her platform to bring about awareness to these dangerous new policies.

During her keynote address at the South by Southwest festival in Austin on Sunday (Mar. 13), the musician, who is native to Houston, shared her grievances while blasting her native state for recent decisions she described as  “a violation of human rights.”

“I’m proud to rep Houston, but I’m not proud to rep Texan policies right now. And there are very regressive laws being passed,” Lizzo said to the crowd regarding her thoughts on the controversial legislation. “They are taking away the right for young children to have a chance to live authentically as themselves, and it's a violation of human rights. Trans rights are human rights,” the 33-year-old added.

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Elsewhere the “Good as Hell” musician also slammed the state’s restrictive abortion bill, which bans most abortions after six weeks. The new law also allows private citizens to sue any individual who “aids or abets” a woman who receives the procedure after detecting fetal cardiac activity.

“We got a lot of other things y’all need to be handling instead of y’all being in people’s homes, telling them what to do with their body and being all up in their uterus,” Lizzo said. “Mind your business. Stay out of my body.”

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