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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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    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.


    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.”................


     
    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.…….


     
    The National Park Service eliminated all references to transgender people from its website for the Stonewall national monument on Thursday. The monument commemorates a 1969 riot outside New York City’s historic Stonewall Inn, led by trans women of color, that ignited the contemporary gay rights movement.

    The move comes as federal agencies across the country seek to comply with an executive orderDonald Trump signed on his first day in office, calling for the US government to define sex as only male or female.

    “This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals – especially transgender women of color – who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights,” organizers at the Stonewall Inn and the non-profit Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative said in a statement.


    Since Trump returned to office last month, he has signed a series of executive orders targeting trans Americans, including by banning trans athletes from women’s sports, restricting healthcare for trans youth and transferring incarcerated trans women to men’s facilities; a US judge, however, temporarily blocked federal prisons from implementing the order to move trans people. Many of the orders have been framed as “defending women”.

    The Stonewall national monument, located in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, has become a symbol of the LGBTQ+ rights movement. One June night in 1969, LGBTQ+ patrons of the historic gay bar resisted a police raid. Although recollections of the night vary, by many accounts a Black trans woman named Marsha P Johnson “threw the first brick”.

    During the George Floyd uprisings in June of 2020, a march for Black trans lives began at the Stonewall Inn. It was followed by the largest-ever march for Black trans lives in Brooklyn later that month.

    Barack Obama designated the site as a national monument in 2016.

    Earlier this week, the homepage for the monument said: “Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) person was illegal.”

    On Thursday, it said: “Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal.”……..

     
    The National Park Service eliminated all references to transgender people from its website for the Stonewall national monument on Thursday. The monument commemorates a 1969 riot outside New York City’s historic Stonewall Inn, led by trans women of color, that ignited the contemporary gay rights movement.

    The move comes as federal agencies across the country seek to comply with an executive orderDonald Trump signed on his first day in office, calling for the US government to define sex as only male or female.

    “This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals – especially transgender women of color – who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights,” organizers at the Stonewall Inn and the non-profit Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative said in a statement.


    Since Trump returned to office last month, he has signed a series of executive orders targeting trans Americans, including by banning trans athletes from women’s sports, restricting healthcare for trans youth and transferring incarcerated trans women to men’s facilities; a US judge, however, temporarily blocked federal prisons from implementing the order to move trans people. Many of the orders have been framed as “defending women”.

    The Stonewall national monument, located in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, has become a symbol of the LGBTQ+ rights movement. One June night in 1969, LGBTQ+ patrons of the historic gay bar resisted a police raid. Although recollections of the night vary, by many accounts a Black trans woman named Marsha P Johnson “threw the first brick”.

    During the George Floyd uprisings in June of 2020, a march for Black trans lives began at the Stonewall Inn. It was followed by the largest-ever march for Black trans lives in Brooklyn later that month.

    Barack Obama designated the site as a national monument in 2016.

    Earlier this week, the homepage for the monument said: “Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) person was illegal.”

    On Thursday, it said: “Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal.”……..


    These mother forkers really are trying to erase and rewrite history like the Nazi's did.

    Asking all of the Republicans when is it okay to start referring to the Republican party and the new iteration of the Nazi's. Do we need to wait for their "final solution" to start? I remember when Republicans used to talk about slippery slopes. Every accusation is a confesion.
     
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    “And because nothing gay related will be ever even mentioned in school, no need for the pride flag to be seen”
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    Utah state lawmakers are fighting to ban the display of Pride flags — but not Nazi or Confederate flags — in schools and on all government property.

    Utah’s House Education Committee introduced a bill this week that bans Pride flags in all public schools and other government buildings, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. The bill passed committee — with the only two Democrats voting against it — and is now on its way to the House floor.

    The bill allows for “a historic version of a flag…that is temporarily displayed for educational purposes,” which Republican lawmaker Trevor Lee says will include Nazi and Confederate flags, according to the Tribune.

    Lee, who first introduced the bill in an effort to “ban Pride flags,” argued displaying the Nazi and Confederate flags may be necessary for a school’s curriculum.

    “There are instances where in classrooms, you have curriculum that is needed to use flags such as World War II, Civil War,” Lee told the House committee, according to the Tribune. “You may have a Nazi flag. You may have a Confederate flag, and so you are allowed to display those flags… as part of the curriculum, and that is okay.”………

     
    I fear we’re going to see this happen more often over the next four years


     

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