All Things LGBTQ+ (4 Viewers)

[Farb]

Didn't really see a place for this so I thought I would start a thread about all things LGBTQ since this is a pretty hot topic in our culture right now

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/17/sup...y-that-refuses-to-work-with-lgbt-couples.html

• The Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a unanimous defeat to LGBT couples in a high-profile case over whether Philadelphia could refuse to contract with a Roman Catholic adoption agency that says its religious beliefs prevent it from working with same-sex foster parents.
• Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in an opinion for a majority of the court that Philadelphia violated the First Amendment by refusing to contract with Catholic Social Services once it learned that the organization would not certify same-sex couples for adoption.

I will admit, I was hopeful for this decision by the SCOTUS but I was surprised by the unanimous decision.

While I don't think there is anything wrong, per se, with same sex couples adopting and raising children (I actually think it is a good thing as it not an abortion) but I also did not want to see the state force a religious institution to bend to a societal norm.

 

[Optimus Prime]

“My son said, ‘You can’t tell me you love me and support somebody who’s going to hurt me,’” Fisher recalled.

This is such a simple, profound and sad statement

I will say that it's not like Trump's/MAGA/GOP opinion on trans matter were some deep dive, buried in the fine print position. They were very clear and upfront about it

The parents knew what Trump/MAGA thought, they knew what they wanted to do, and knew their child was trans but chose to support Trump anyway

It took discovering the suicide pact and that statement to jar them

I will say I'm glad that it jarred them enough to change their vote. I wouldn't have been surprised if they did like so many other and just voted for Trump anyway and hoped and prayed it wouldn't be that bad

 

[Optimus Prime]

I’m sure it has to do with more than one analysis saying that Trump’s anti trans anti Harris ads (Harris is for they them, Trump is for you) were by far his most effective and therefore a not insignificant factor in his victory hence the distancing
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Representative Nancy Mace is proudly embracing her George Wallace moment. It’s time for dissent.

When Vivian Malone and James Hood enrolled at the University of Alabama in 1963, Governor Wallace traveled to Tuscaloosa to stand defiantlyin the doorway of the Foster Auditorium.

In tailored suit and tie, the white Southern governor, whom Dr Martin Luther King once called “perhaps the most dangerous racist in America today”, prevented the two Black students from attending class.

Wallace’s Stand in the Schoolhouse Door upheld the impassioned promise he made while delivering his inaugural address: “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever”. Mace has clearly studied this history and chosen to side with its least savory character.

When Sarah McBride became the first openly transgender woman elected to Congress this past November, Mace swiftly introduced a House resolution to ban McBride from using the bathroom.

This legislation, which has far-reachingimplications, might as well be known as Mace’s Stand in the Bathroom Door.

When cruel injustice becomes enshrined in law by politicians fueled by hate the only conscionable response is to dissent.

Yet, in the face of escalatinganti-trans rhetoric and legislation on Capitol Hill, Democrats have remained eerily silent.

That is why, in a commitment to affirm the basic human dignity and respect all people deserve, I helped lead a group of trans women, nonbinary people, and cis allies in holding a sit-in in a women’s bathroom in Congress.

Holding a banner that read “Flush Bathroom Bigotry”, we openly disobeyed House policy and defied Mace and House speaker Mike Johnson’s hate.

We are inspired by the long and proud tradition of everyday people coming together to confront injustice – people willing to take a risk to uphold a vision for the future we deserve, from the 1960 sit-in at a Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, that helped to catalyze the Black Freedom Movement, to the 1966 sip-in at Julius’ Bar in New York City that helped to ignite the movement for queer liberation.

We held these histories in our hearts as we raised our voices together: “Democrats grow a spine, trans lives are on the line.” Capitol police tightened handcuffs around our wrists and hauled 15 of us off to jail.

Mace followed along to the US Capitol police headquarters. With a megaphone magnifying her hate, she hurled anti-trans slurs at us while we sat locked in our cells. So far, only a single member of Congress, Representative Maxwell Frost, has condemned her abhorrent hate speech……..

The white vigilantes, who took it upon themselves to terrorize and murder the Black people whom this memorial honors, commonly justified their heinous acts by claiming, like Mace, that they were “protecting” women, who invariably were cis and white.

Racism’s pernicious construction – that is to say, false imagination – of Black people as inherently posing a threat to white women has excused egregious acts of racist violence.

Mace adopts a similar logic to the southern segregationists she cosplays as while advancing her own viciously anti-trans hate.

By suggesting trans women inherently pose a threat to the safety of cis women, she justifies all acts of violence committed against us, both physical and political.

Mace seems proud of this brutality. To her, our bodies are to be dismembered and placed as a present under the Christmas tree of cis salvation.

Mace’s infatuation with hawking grotesque anti-trans merchandise harkens back to the despicable racist tradition of selling souvenirs that celebrated lynchings.……

Why aren’t more politicians condemning Nancy Mace’s vicious anti-trans stunts? | Jay Saper

Lawmakers should break their silence about the escalating anti-transgender rhetoric and legislation in the US Capitol

www.theguardian.com

 

[coldseat]

I’m sure it has to do with more than one analysis saying that Trump’s anti trans anti Harris ads (Harris is for they them, Trump is for you) were by far his most effective and therefore a not insignificant factor in his victory hence the distancing
================

Representative Nancy Mace is proudly embracing her George Wallace moment. It’s time for dissent.

When Vivian Malone and James Hood enrolled at the University of Alabama in 1963, Governor Wallace traveled to Tuscaloosa to stand defiantlyin the doorway of the Foster Auditorium.

In tailored suit and tie, the white Southern governor, whom Dr Martin Luther King once called “perhaps the most dangerous racist in America today”, prevented the two Black students from attending class.

Wallace’s Stand in the Schoolhouse Door upheld the impassioned promise he made while delivering his inaugural address: “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever”. Mace has clearly studied this history and chosen to side with its least savory character.

When Sarah McBride became the first openly transgender woman elected to Congress this past November, Mace swiftly introduced a House resolution to ban McBride from using the bathroom.

This legislation, which has far-reachingimplications, might as well be known as Mace’s Stand in the Bathroom Door.

When cruel injustice becomes enshrined in law by politicians fueled by hate the only conscionable response is to dissent.

Yet, in the face of escalatinganti-trans rhetoric and legislation on Capitol Hill, Democrats have remained eerily silent.

That is why, in a commitment to affirm the basic human dignity and respect all people deserve, I helped lead a group of trans women, nonbinary people, and cis allies in holding a sit-in in a women’s bathroom in Congress.

Holding a banner that read “Flush Bathroom Bigotry”, we openly disobeyed House policy and defied Mace and House speaker Mike Johnson’s hate.

We are inspired by the long and proud tradition of everyday people coming together to confront injustice – people willing to take a risk to uphold a vision for the future we deserve, from the 1960 sit-in at a Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, that helped to catalyze the Black Freedom Movement, to the 1966 sip-in at Julius’ Bar in New York City that helped to ignite the movement for queer liberation.

We held these histories in our hearts as we raised our voices together: “Democrats grow a spine, trans lives are on the line.” Capitol police tightened handcuffs around our wrists and hauled 15 of us off to jail.

Mace followed along to the US Capitol police headquarters. With a megaphone magnifying her hate, she hurled anti-trans slurs at us while we sat locked in our cells. So far, only a single member of Congress, Representative Maxwell Frost, has condemned her abhorrent hate speech……..

The white vigilantes, who took it upon themselves to terrorize and murder the Black people whom this memorial honors, commonly justified their heinous acts by claiming, like Mace, that they were “protecting” women, who invariably were cis and white.

Racism’s pernicious construction – that is to say, false imagination – of Black people as inherently posing a threat to white women has excused egregious acts of racist violence.

Mace adopts a similar logic to the southern segregationists she cosplays as while advancing her own viciously anti-trans hate.

By suggesting trans women inherently pose a threat to the safety of cis women, she justifies all acts of violence committed against us, both physical and political.

Mace seems proud of this brutality. To her, our bodies are to be dismembered and placed as a present under the Christmas tree of cis salvation.

Mace’s infatuation with hawking grotesque anti-trans merchandise harkens back to the despicable racist tradition of selling souvenirs that celebrated lynchings.……

Why aren’t more politicians condemning Nancy Mace’s vicious anti-trans stunts? | Jay Saper

Lawmakers should break their silence about the escalating anti-transgender rhetoric and legislation in the US Capitol

www.theguardian.com

Democrats have turned into spineless jellyfish without the sting in the face of this trans bigotry and Republican hate because of the election and how many voters have responded. What a predictable disappointment.

I think it's obvious now that trans and other LGBTQ+ people really don't have a party that will advocate for their basic dignity and their issue. Time to become a lot more militant towards both parties now.