Activist BLOCKS Texas senate’s sergeant at arms as trans woman compares lawmakers to Nazis

This is the shocking moment an LGBTQ activist stops a Texas Senate sergeant-at-arms from taking the microphone of a trans speaker, who compared lawmakers to Nazis as they consider criminalizing drag performances.

Loren Perkins, a transgender woman, appeared in the state capital Thursday to provide public comment on some laws that would ban drag performances in the Lone Star State.

Perkins was seen in a viral video on TikTok with more than 445 million views speaking to lawmakers beyond her two-minute speech mark when a security guard began walking her way.

Before the microphone was taken away, another activist ran in front of the sergeant and held out his arms to prevent him from interrupting Perkins’ speech.

“By manipulating the words of an ancient text and wedging it into legislation aimed at an at-risk minority population, you compare yourself to another group that gained popularity in Germany in the 1930s,” Perkins said. ‘When a little man with a smaller mustache stood before the crowds and proclaimed himself superior to the others, I see you here doing the same.’

Public speakers in the state senate can speak on issues for two minutes before being interrupted by a timer.

Perkins began his speech against Senate Bill 1601 and Senate Bill 12 at a steady pace before rapidly raising his voice at the end of his tangent.

He called out lawmakers who claimed they were pushing to restrict drag performances to protect children.

“By hiding your bigotry behind children as cowards, you will find yourself on the wrong side of history,” Perkins said.

Perkins later compared Texas legislators to Nazi Germany and claimed that both were anti-gay.

“Some of the first people jailed under Nazi Party rule were gay and transgender people,” Perkins said. “Probably the first woman to undergo successful gender reassignment surgery was murdered in that very prison.”

‘When those prison camps were liberated by the allies, we were the ones still in prison for our alleged crimes, for loving those we love and living our truth.

“We can see through this front legislation and access the intended target: the continued marginalization and otherness of the LGBTQIA+ community.”

Perkins continued despite the two-minute timer going off, raising her voice over both the timer and a loudspeaker trying to interrupt her.

‘Rhetoric intended to strike fear into the hearts of the people and the state. I will not sit here and debate your fascist ideology like the pebbles of bigotry who do not deserve such a stage in a public forum,” Perkins said.

A female speaker is then heard in the background trying to politely cut Perkins off as a man in a suit slowly approaches behind him.

“Thank you for your testimony,” the speaker said.

Perkins disregarded her time limit, leading a Senate sergeant to slowly push his way in to interrupt her from behind.

Within seconds, another activist jumped in front of the sergeant and held up his hands to stop him from reaching Perkins.

The sergeant was seen in close-up footage pulling the persistent activist as Perkins finished his tirade.

‘The bill is two seconds away from the three outdated and discriminatory pieces of law of the 20th century and I will not stand for it. We will not stand for it,’ Perkins said.