Racial justice advocate Kimiya Factory has given a powerful and rousing speech against a proposed anti-trans bathroom bill in Texas, claiming it is time to “stand in solidarity” with the trans community in the face of anti-LGBTQ+ laws.

Factory, together with Equality Texas, delivered the speech to not only protest the proposed bill – which would mean all bathrooms, changing rooms and domestic violence refuges in the state could be designated by biological sex, and would also disallow gender-neutral bathrooms – but also to call on cis women to extend solidarity to their “trans siblings”.

“My rights are being stripped away from me, not by trans women in the bathroom stalls… but in violent House sessions at mahogany wood tables by white, cisgender lawmakers,” the activist and founder of Black Freedom Factory said in the speech on Wednesday (30 July).

She added: “Trans folks have been at the front of Black Lives Matter protests, have been at the front of pro-immigration – it is time for us to stand in our privilege the way that trans folks have stood for us for centuries.”

Factory added that she would “embrace trans women in a tight hug” and thank them for “living in their truth”.