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nice thing but,
just in US not in other countries.
Good point
Hopefully this ruling will encourage other repressive countries to do the same.
Early step
This is only an early step in the fight. Just look at the near revolt by other protected classes.
So this negates Trump's earliest actions ???
So, I think it was Friday or Saturday that Trump and his daemonica were on the news with actions to negate LGBT rights ? Does this action from the Supreme negate that? Is it the latest action?
Trump on Friday rolled back
Trump on Friday rolled back ACA (Obama Care) protections against health insurance discrimination, this on its own doesn't touch that, this is around workplace discrimination however there is a bill in the works that would expand on the protections to explicitly include LGBT as a protected class main thing we can do now is make sure the party of bigots is out of the legislator and executive
The Elephants in the Room
I really don't think Trump gives a fuck about TG people one way or another.
For instance before the presidency his position on transwomen was "The more women the better".
Back then he was a Democratic liberal (but closet racist).
The real villains are the Republican conservatives who have given their support to a rogue outsider in return for him agreeing to a radical conservative agenda that seems more appropriate to the 19th century. What amazes me is that these people are not being called out. Long after Trump is gone these people will still be there, and will have left their mark in the judges they have had appointed.
Maryanne
Flying
Or otherwise
Love, Andrea Lena
language
I am no fan of Donald Trump or of the Republican party but I think the kind of language I am seeing here is uncalled for. You cannot have a dialogue with the forty per-cent plus of the country who support them if you insist on talking like a reversed right wing radio commentator.
There's a time to be polite
There's a time to be polite about things, and a time to call things out for what they are, now is the time to call things out, injustice for anyone is injustice for everyone
hummm?
Someone I know is a lifetime card carrying NRA, OK2A, ultra conservative trans who happens to live in the first and only state that has passed an anti red flag bill http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2019-20%20ENR/SB/SB...
Over a million people have applied to watch Trump on the 20th June in a convention center limited to nineteen thousand. All those people want to go just to throw tomatoes at him?
Hugs
Typed this while hiding behind a mask so no one will know who it is
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
Gawkers Beware - Where the Virus Come Sweeping
It's almost impossible not to want to watch a train wreck.
I'm sure there are millions of people who think Trump is WONDERFUL.
I'm just as sure that dozens of things that Trump has done have made many millions physically ill.
They say you should judge people by who they hang around with. Trump is buddies with authoritarian creeps like the Saudis, Putin, and Rocketman. He fights with western leaders of democracy and has pulled out of several key alliances.
It's said he's doubled down on the insanity of holding a large public gathering by adding 60,000 to the capacity. At the same time he demanding that every attendee sign waivers that hold him harmless if they get covid. Do you see the craziness there?
I cringed when I watched the protestors in the Twin Cities, even though most of them were masked. Science is a bitch. You can't fool with mother nature. If a huge catastrophe in Oklahoma is what it's going to take to get people to understand that covid is real, than maybe Trump is doing the rest of the country a service.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Madness
can be contagious.
I'd expect a rambilng speech full of errors from you know who at the weekend. I'm sure that part of it will be an attack on SCOTUS because of this decision. It really is too big a target to be missed at least part of his [redacted]
Samantha
Words, commas, etc are the key in any statement, law
Justice Samuel Alito said the majority went too far, calling the decision "legislation," in a dissent joined by Justice Clarence Thomas.
The three judges who disagreed with the decision wasn't because transgender were "allowed" the same provisional rights everyone else has, but the ruling included the word legislation as if the Supreme Court could legislate laws into existence. They gave a pretty good reason why the rest of the judges passed the favorable ruling.
(A man and woman work for the same company. Both professes to love men. The company fires the man because he's gay. The legislature has already passed a law that was illegal.) Now for the fuzzy zone. A person (he or she) is hired and later the company finds out that person expresses a desire to be addressed in a different gender. This person may or may not expose themselves but they were exposed. This person may or may not wish to express that desire on or off the job. And even if only off the job she or he is fired because of how she or he wishes to be perceived.
The court ruled it is still sexual discrimination which congress has passed a bill against.
Which many of you who have followed that damn bill realized transgender were explicitly removed from to facilitate passage of same bill. With the promise we (trans) would be picked up and added in the near future. It has taken years and the Supreme Court to bring transgender into the protection of the bill we were promised ten or fifteen earlier.
The wheels of justice turn slowly is certainly true in this instance.
Hugs People
Barb
Life is a gift, don't waste it.
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
Gorsuch's arguement
I believe that Gorsuch's arguement, "...it is impossible to discriminate against a person for being homosexual or transgender without discriminating against that individual based on sex.” will have far reaching effects in other areas too. Students should be protected by Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 in a similar manner. I can't see how they will be able to bar transgender students from their respective bathrooms in light of this. I would expect it might help the TG athletes compete in their chosen sports completions too.
The protests about unequal treatment of blacks by society have may have encouraged some minds to reconsider the overall topic of equality. Hopefully, the blocking of equal rights will continue to fall like dominos. I would love for an equal rights amendment for women to be passed.
Yep
I think this is going to be shutting down the holding of funding for a state allowing transgender students to compete in athletic events. This may be one of the biggest decisions for all of us that's been made. It should have implications on the military ban, the recent edict on healthcare, and probably more than we can think of. Given the court traditionally builds upon precedent this will likely be something that gets referenced for a very long time.
We won't necessarily see instant changes, but this is a huge victory for us!
Right Wing Christians with Money.
Before all this TG stuff started for me, in the late 70's, 80's and 90's I was part of very conservative, Fundamentalist, Evangelical Christian folk. That was before I actually read the Bible and just let the Pastor shout at us as he told us what to believe. Later in that period, I began to dream of becoming a Pastor myself as I exhaustively studied the Bible and other works. I went overseas three times as a Missionary, and Relief worker, and began to be dismayed at what I and those around me practiced, and how different the words of Jesus Christ were. We followed the edicts of the American Family Association closely, almost in lock step. It was shocking when I came back from Kenya and Israel in the early summer of 2001, and tried to actually change my own wicked ways. Then came September of that year, and the humiliating and sobering realization that the folk I hung with blatantly defied what I was trying to believe. I realized that if I kept following that darkness that I would burn in HELL.
By 2003, I left what I knew as Christianity. By 2004 I'd suffered a complete breakdown, and came out as Transgender, though I lay that to my own family and my own nature, not to the Church. Of Course heavy drugs and bent Psychiatry followed. Owing to my own guilt and self revulsion, I had studied Islam to try to understand why they were so mad at us. I became Muslim for 9 years. These days I am largely unaffiliated.
The Right Wing haters have gotten worse and they push their agenda with hatred and lies, the American Family Association being a large part of that. Trump is wiley and keyed into the fat pockets of the Right Wing. This is just my opinion. This will be a battle to the end. He does not care about morals, he just needs their money.