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> Chances are excellent Rubio might be doing this to try and draw attention away from several state supreme court rulings striking down bans on transgender care and drag shows incepted and championed by republicans.

Mostly, those have been federal trial courts (and some, like the Florida drag ban one, also preliminary injunctions preventing enforcement while the case proceeds, not final rulings striking them down) not state supreme courts issuing the rulings.

Senator Gillibrand (D) has been working on this with as much interest and conviction as Rubio for several years now.

Rubio is a member of the "gang of eight" which means he's about as uniparty as they come - the letters next to the names of people on that committee do not mean anything. Their allegiance is to the military industrial complex. They've all got the stamp of approval of the US intel community, which has probably been spying on them and blackmailing them since they launched their first political campaigns.