All Things LGBTQ+ (3 Viewers)

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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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Guess this can go here
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CNN) — In one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s first moves as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, the agency released guidance Wednesday for the US government, external partners and the public that offers a narrower definition of sex than the ones used by many scientists and that aligns with a January executive order signed by President Donald Trump.

The department also launched a website promoting these definitions and created a video defending a ban on transgender women participating in women’s sports.

HHS says the action was prompted by Trump’s January 20 executive order titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” which required the agency to provide “clear guidance expanding on the sex-based definitions set forth in the order” within 30 days.

Wednesday’s publication furthers the Trump administration’s efforts to deny the existence of people who identify as transgender, nonbinary or intersex, a sharp departure from the Biden administration’s attempts to create more inclusive health policy and research.

The executive order and the new HHS document provide similar narrow definitions of words like “sex,” “female,” “woman,” “girl,” male,” “man” and “boy.” HHS adds definitions like the term “father,” described as a male parent, and “mother,” a female parent.

There were slight variations in the definition of “male” and “female.” Trump’s executive order, for instance, said a male is a “person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.” HHS’s definition explains that a male “is a person of the sex characterized by a reproductive system with the biological function of producing sperm.”………..

HHS issues new definitions of terms like ‘sex,’ ‘man’ and ‘woman’ that critics say ignore science | CNN

In one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s first moves as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, the agency released guidance Wednesday for the US government, external partners and the public that offers a narrower definition of sex than the ones used by many scientists and that...

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About 10 percent of adults now identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or something other than heterosexual in 2024, an increase that has almost doubled since 2020 from 5.6 percent, according to a Gallup poll released Thursday.

The uptick is mostly brought on by young adults part of Generation Z with more than one in five adults born between 1997 and 2006 identifying as LGBTQ+. Older generations, including Millenials, have lower rates of identification.

Identification rates among young adults have increased from 18 percent in 2020 to 22 percent in the last two years. Older generations are experiencing identification rate increases but not at the same levels, the polling found.

Millennials had a two-point increase from 10.3 percent to 12.0 percent during the same period and Generation X increased from 3.8 percent to 4.8 percent.……

Nearly one in 10 adults now identify as LGBTQ+ — a significant rise since 2020

The number of people identifying as LGBTQ+ has nearly tripled in 12 years

www.independent.co.uk

 

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RFK Jr. targets transgender protections, calling sex ‘unchangeable’ in new guidance

‘Sex’ is defined under the new guidance as an ‘immutable biological classification as either male or female’

www.independent.co.uk

 

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RFK Jr. targets transgender protections, calling sex ‘unchangeable’ in new guidance

‘Sex’ is defined under the new guidance as an ‘immutable biological classification as either male or female’

www.independent.co.uk

mn them brainworms have really been snacking.