It takes a special kind of privilege to refer to political discourse about issues that directly affect people's livelihoods as "politicos chat nonsense."
Buckle up, Señor Privilegio. And screw off for implying that elections don't have direct consequences for people who don't have your level of privilege.
- It takes a special kind of privilege to not acknowledge how the Trump presidency affected LGBT people alone.
- Defying precedent, the Trump White House did not formally recognize Pride Month, nor did the State Department.
- Soon after Trump was sworn in, LGBT rights and recognition were scrubbed from government and White House websites.
- Trump sought to remove questions related to LGBT people from the census, erasing them from the count.
- Trump sought to remove LGBT issues from the Commerce Department's equal employment policy.
- Trump banned trans people from the military.
- Trump ordered the Department of Education to remove nondiscrimination protections for trans students.
- Trump ordered the Department of Education to automatically reject civil rights complaints from trans students.
- The Trump administration sought to retain federal funding for schools that discriminate against LGBT people.
- Trump announced a proposal that would remove anti-discrimination protections for trans patients in health care.
- Trump proposed a regulation that would directly enable medical professions to deny all forms any/all care to LGBT patients based solely on a provider's personal beliefs.
- Trump established a new office within HHS with the sole purpose of defending physicians and medical professions who refuse care to LGBT patients.
- Trump granted a federally funded foster program to discriminate against families who are LGBT (as well as anyone who is not Christian).
- Trump circulated a federal government-wide regulation to erase trans people from all existing protections and acknowledgement completely.
- Trump ordered the Centers for Disease Control to stop using the word "transgender" in official reports.
- Trump proposed a rule to eliminate data collection on LGBT foster youth and parents, erasing all official knowledge of the needs of LGBT children.
- Trump ordered questions on sexual orientation to be removed from surveys of programs that relate to the elderly and disabled.
- Trump ordered HUD and Ben Carson to remove the words "inclusive" and "free from discrimination" from HUD's official mission statement.
- Trump ordered HUD and Ben Carson to scale back enforcement of nondiscrimination regulations.
- Trump ordered HUD and Ben Carson to permit emergency shelters to deny to access to transgender person who are homeless.
- Trump ordered HUD to cancel a survey on LGBT homelessness.
- Trump and the Trump Justice Department filed a brief in the U.S. Court of appeals that argued federal civil rights laws do not protect LGBT people from discrimination.
- Trump and Jeff Sessions issued broad guidelines to permit individuals to discriminate against LGBT people based on personal beliefs.
- Trump and Jeff Sessions specifically announced that the law doesn't disallow discrimination against trans people.
- Trump defended businesses who openly discriminated against LGBT people.
- Trump rolled back all protections for trans people in our prison system.
- Trump issued an executive order rolling back nondiscrimination protections for LGBT federal contractors.
- Trump ordered the State Department to deny visas to same-sex partners of foreign diplomats.
- Trump changed the rules specifically so the child of a same-sex couple born abroad via surrogate would be considered "born out of wedlock" and would not be granted U.S. citizenship.
- Trump removed the United States from the U.N. Human Rights Council, largely on the basis of LGBT issues.
- Trump refused to sign a statement condemning attacks on LGBT people in Chechnya because of #30.
- Trump ordered the USDA to remove a department policy specifically welcoming LGBT children in the 4-H program.
- Trump's nominations to the federal courts, as well as the Supreme Court, have expressed anti-LGBT views. Many have implied or overtly stated opposition to basic rights like marriage equality, and marriage equality could realistically be repealed.
- Trump's ICE has specifically mistreated LGBT migrants and asylum seekers.
- Trump has engaged in blatant inaction with regard to LGBT issues, including but not limited to violence against trans people.
And this list is laser focused on LGBT issues. There are many more affecting other groups.
It takes a special kind of privilege to think your plights are "generally the same as everybody else's."
Struck a nerve but still not sure why.
Politicos do chat nonsense. Actions and results I care about. Trump chatted nonsense about wanting to ban violent games, clearly against free speech, but the end result was nill.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/do...sts-video-games-blame-mass-shootings-n1039411
Still thanks for attempting a list, was a bit light in previous discussion (and discussion around here despite people normally crying woe is me). Something to possibly chew on here.
So a meaningless statement.
Did not recognise a meaningless event.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/0...nt-mean-trump-is-trying-to-erase-lgbt-people/ would seem to be a reasonable counter in that one.
First I am hearing of the census one (they were kicking off about something else pointless when I heard about it). Nice data to have but I am not seeing the great slight or great use for what the census normally goes for/is intended for.
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2017/06/16/commerce-dept-leaves-out-lgbt/ seems like they brought it back, if that was the result of an outcry then that does rather bring much of the rest of this into question.
If I look into this am I going to see something similar to how various flavours of medical disability exclude people? Can't be having to drag a pack of hormones around and all that if you are on a mission.
Is this that title 9 thing? That seemed more like a simple wording change from where I sat.
That I assume is the use toilet matching identity thing. What was the end result of that one? Did anybody actually get barred and properly troubled.
Seems like much ado about nothing
https://www.npr.org/sections/health...-protections-reversed-by-trump-administration
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/...lthcare-conscience-rule-blocked-civil-rights/ The system works?
Can't find the defence of the no gays please medic office thing. Most of the rest appear to have stories but this one eluded me.
https://www.hrc.org/news/hhs-decision-allows-discrimination-against-jewish-lgbtq-and-other-families . Far from ideal in that one. One to actually contemplate here and possibly more than just bluster. Got a case (different one to that) up on the supreme court as we speak so guess it is time to await the results there
https://www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/fulton-v-city-of-philadelphia/
I do have to wonder whether this is actual legal changes vs clearly established precedent here.
https://time.com/5068160/cdc-banned-words-transgender/ seems to refute that one. Might have to go looking for final reports, leaked emails or whatever else.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc...ng-data-collection-lgbtq-foster-youth-n996066 . Six of one, half a dozen of another there. I do like data in things but there are times when it can become a burden.
If the programs are for the elderly and disabled does it really matter?
If so then some pointless buzzwords are gone. Whoo.
https://archive.curbed.com/2020/8/17/21372168/ben-carson-hud-housing-trump
Whether he ordered or not seems up for debate, though
https://www.washingtonblade.com/202...up-on-anti-transgender-homeless-shelter-rule/
The conforming to their identity in segregated shelters is a tricky thing from where I sit. There are merits for and against. Hope those that need it can get it though.
OK. Is a specific survey a necessary item?
The system works?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-lgbt-rights-discrimination-rules-title-vii/
https://www.advocate.com/transgende...-will-not-protect-trans-people-workplace-bias
Going to want examples of that one.
The prisons thing is a question without easy answers from where I sit.
Do they need special consideration over baseline laws already there and well established?
Actual equality vs pragmatism.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...gn-diplomats-unmarried-deported-a8564451.html . Fun one there. Something to contemplate at least.
[*]Trump changed the rules specifically so the child of a same-sex couple born abroad via surrogate would be considered "born out of wedlock" and would not be granted U.S. citizenship.
It left,
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...aves-trump-withdraw-nikki-haley-a8407151.html , though whether the basis was LGBT issues or general isolationism is a different matter.
Silence could be refusal I guess, especially if pointed, and if the rest of these were evidence it would speak to somewhat poor optics.
So another pointless buzzword was removed and they are still welcome to join? Whoo.
Gay marriage realistically be repealed? Pull the other one.
Went looking and found
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/...nt-trans-hiv-healthcare-mental-health-deaths/ . Seems to be generally ICE being ill funded and equipped. Excuse for reforming ICE but part of a greater pattern is a hard one.
An unqualified statement without any examples.
Anyway can well see him being no friend or great champion of the gay alphabet soup set (or at least the trans* element of that). As far as net results that the man on the street (even if some flavour of minority) needing to pay attention to them over otherwise living their life and leaving politics to an amusing hobby... Still not really seeing it. If you want to do the "woe is us, give us money to do activism, have some rage bait" set then seems like they do a nice line in ensuring their existence as do most rage bait authors regardless of political stripe. Somewhat amusingly though some of that might be quite happily fixed if more got off their arses and did some things in the world -- if some random Christian charity is the only one providing services at the levels required...