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    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.
     
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    superchuck500 said:
    Yeah this isn’t wildly fascist. I’m old enough to remember the MAGA outrage at alleged White House instruction to social media about Covid.

    insidemedicine.substack.com

    BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

    Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
    insidemedicine.substack.com insidemedicine.substack.com
    Click to expand...

    Yeah, those forkers aren't going to erase us. fork every last person that voted for this vile hate.
     
    In October 2021, Dana Zzyym became the first person to receive a passport with an “X” marked in the sex field, instead of male or female.

    It wasn’t without a fight. Zzyym, a Navy veteran who is nonbinary and intersex, spent six years battling the State Department in court to get a set of accurate travel documents. Four years later, Donald Trump put people like them in legal limbo on his first day in office.

    On January 20, Trump signed a directive ordering the federal government to only recognize two immutable sexes, male and female, and to ignore what it called “an ever-shifting concept of self-assessed gender identity.” (Trump claimed during his inaugural speech the government would only recognize “two genders,” further muddying the waters.)

    Taken together, Trump’s stance rolled back government recognition, medical spending, and legal protections for transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people, in settings ranging from federal prisons to the passport office.

    Under the order, the State Department is no longer issuing new “X” passports and has suspended processing for those seeking to change the gender marker on their travel documents. This brings to a close a brief, four-year period during the Biden administration where Americans were allowed to choose their marker without corroborating it with medical certificates.

    Gender-diverse people already face heightened scrutiny and searches during travel, and the order is only going to make things worse, according to Carl Charles, a senior attorney at Lambda Legal, the advocacy group that represented Zzyym in their fight with the State Department.

    What’s more, Charles argued, despite Trump claiming his stance is about avoiding ideology and “restoring biological truth to the federal government,” the new policy is actually a partisan position far out of step with the modern scientific understanding of sex and gender.

    Intersex people, for instance, are born with a combination of anatomical, genetic, or hormonal characteristics that do not fall into the binary categories of male or female. Numerous expert groups like the American Medical Association medically recognize gender as a spectrum.

    “The sex and gender executive order is ideology,” Charles told The Independent. “It's ideology is, ‘Let’s ignore science. Let’s ignore the experts. Let’s ignore people’s lived experiences.’”

    It also creates a series of thorny civil rights questions for the new government.

    “What is the State Department going to do, decide an intersex person’s sex, or make them choose one?” Charles continued. “That goes against a whole host of constitutional principles I can think of.”................

    www.the-independent.com

    Dana Zzyym fought to get the first nonbinary passport. Now Trump has taken them away

    A Trump executive order halts the processing of nonbinary passports and sex-change requests on travel documents, leaving scores of applicants in limbo, Josh Marcus reports
    www.the-independent.com www.the-independent.com

     
    A House hearing descended into chaos when MAGA firebrand Nancy Mace, a lawmaker from South Carolina, repeatedly shouted an anti-trans slur.

    During a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Mace listed off a slew of government expenditures, when Ranking Member Gerald Connolly took issue with her use of the word “t*****.’

    “The gentlelady has used a phrase that is considered a slur in the LGBTQ communityand the transgender community,” he said, before being interrupted by the GOP Representative.

    “T*****, t*****, t*****. I don't really care,” Mace exclaimed as Connolly asked her to let him finish.

    “You want penises in women's bathrooms, and I'm not going to have it,” she continued.…….


    www.independent.co.uk

    Nancy Mace repeatedly shouts anti-trans slur in House hearing: 'I don't really care‘

    Mace once hailed herself as a lawmaker who ‘strongly support[s]’ LGBTQ rights
    www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
     

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