Trans and queer youth deserve safe online spaces where they can find support, resources, and connection. They deserve privacy and protection, not policies that put their identities, conversations, and communities at risk.

Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) requires covered platforms to exercise "reasonable care" to prevent a defined list of harms to minors, enforced by both the FTC and state attorneys general. This enforcement structure hands a Trump-controlled FTC and Republican AGs in states actively legislating against LGBTQ+ people a federal legal tool to pressure platforms to suppress LGBTQ+ content.

KOSA's own lead sponsor, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, has stated plainly that the bill would "protect minor children from the transgender in our culture." Platforms facing liability will over-moderate, removing or deprioritizing content about gender identity, sexual orientation, and LGBTQ+ health resources to avoid enforcement risk.

The stakes for LGBTQ+ youth specifically are high. According to The Trevor Project, 39% of LGBTQ+ youth seriously contemplated suicide in the past year. Research from Brookings finds that 44% of LGBTQ+ youth feel safe online compared to just 9% in person, and that they rely on the internet for health information, community, and support at significantly higher rates than their non-LGBTQ+ peers. KOSA puts those lifelines at risk.

Will you add your name to show you stand with Christopher Street Project and tell Congress that KOSA would hurt trans and queer youth?