Trump Admin Push to End Global Criminalization of Homosexuality

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2 hours ago, shoful said:

 

Those are completely different things!! When you are a transgender you are going through a slew of surgeries and taking medication! NO ONE should be allowed to serve when that is going on. They allowed people who already transitioned and are fine to serve. If someone serving in the military had to get a heart transplant and take medication for a year I can guarantee they would not let them serve during that time. Which is the same for a transgender. The military is not a ****ing regular job its life and death. No one who is weak from surgeries or on **** should be in the way of that, its just common sense. 

All four US military service chiefs disagree with you. They know a little more about “life and death” than you do. All four have stated that there is no harm to units from transgender service. 

In fact, 20 countries allow transgender military personnel to serve openly: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and Cuba. 

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2 hours ago, Economy said:

This!

 

Also Republicans in general are not as warm towards LGBT as Democrats and then in situations like the bakery situation with the wedding cake for the lesbian couple don't wanna make laws forcing those opposed to not discriminate

 

But I also think many on this site blow the republican threat against gays out of proportion. They make it sound like they are out to get them in their sleep

 

PS: Not saying Republicans have a good view on the issue tho. I just think it's exaggerated

 

It may not be full support like Democrats but the US isn't in a Uganda situation either, by some ppls dramatic posts like (fearing for our lives) ud think the government was trying to kill u

 

The Republicans are systematically rolling back rights. No one in the US believes it is going to be like Uganda, but they would like to have th3 same rights as other humans. 

Just because you don’t know about it, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. You don’t have to worry about it, as you live in Canada. 

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The man made someone who is so extremely homophobic his vice president, empowered so many homophobic organizations, and did so many anti-lgbt things in office to his own country, you really think he is going to/ doing this for LGBT people in other countries lol

The Transgender Military Ban

Rescinding Guidelines on Treatment of Transgender Students

That “Religious Freedom” Guidance

Gutting Obama’s Antidiscrimination Order for Federal Contractors (gay discrimination in the workplace)

he has said

America is “going to hell” because the NFL defended openly gay player

“There can be no discrimination against gays. I’m against gay marriage.”

shall we go on.......

 

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9 hours ago, TheShameMonster said:

yassss trump zaddy!!!

nothing but respect for MY president

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Anti-LGBT Actions (thusfar) during the Trump Administration:

 

 

01.28.19 - President Trump meets with Ginni Thomas, wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and anti-LGBTQ group Groundswell at the White House. According to news reports, Ms. Thomas led a meeting with President Trump at the White House where participants denounced transgender Americans and claimed the historic, nationwide marriage equality ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court was “harming the fabric of the United States.” The Supreme Court is on the verge of deciding whether to take up a case regarding Trump's ban on allowing transgender service members from serving in the nation's armed forces. 

01.23.19 - The Trump Administration approved a waiver request by South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, which could give faith-based adoption agencies the ability to deny LGBTQ couples adoption rights based on so-called "religious exemptions" -- all while using government tax dollars. 

12.20.18 - The Trump Administration tightens its regulations on access to food stamps, affecting about the 1 in 4 LGBTQ adults who apply for the SNAP program. 

12.19.18 - The Trump Administration discharges two service members in the Air Force after disclosing their HIV-positive status to the Department of Defense. 

12.09.18 - The Trump Administration quietly shuts down a HIV research facility in Montana after the administration objected to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its scientists using fetal tissue as a part of its research to find a cure for HIV and AIDS.

November 23, 2018: The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) erased critical guidance that helped federal agency managers understand how to support transgender federal workers and respect their rights, replacing clear and specific guidance reflecting applicable law and regulations with vaguely worded guidance hostile to transgender workers. While this guidance change did not change the rights of transgender federal workers under applicable law, regulations, Executive Orders, and case law, it is likely to cause confusion and promote discrimination within the nation's largest employer.

August 10, 2018: The Department of Labor released a new directive for Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) staff encouraging them to grant broad religious exemptions to federal contractors with religious-based objections to complying with nondiscrimination laws. It also deleted material from an OFCCP FAQ on LGBT nondiscrimination protections that previously clarified the limited scope of allowable religious exemptions.

June 11, 2018: Attorney General Jeff Sessions ruled that the federal government would no longer recognized gang violence or domestic violence as grounds for asylum, adopting a legal interpretation that could lead to rejecting most LGBT asylum-seekers.

May 11, 2018: The Bureau of Prisons in the Department of Justice adopted an illegal policy of almost entirely housing transgender people in federal prison facilities that match their sex assigned at birth, rolling back existing protections.

March 23, 2018: The Trump Administration announced an implementation plan for its discriminatory ban on transgender military service members.

February 18, 2018: The Department of Education announced it will summarily dismiss complaints from transgender students involving exclusion from school facilities and other claims based solely on gender identity discrimination.

January 26, 2018: The Department of Health and Human Services proposed a rule that encourages medical providers to use religious grounds to deny treatment to transgender people, people who need reproductive care, and others.

January 18, 2018: The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Civil Rights opened a "Conscience and Religious Freedom Division" that will promote discrimination by health care providers who can cite religious or moral reasons for denying care.

December 14, 2017: Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were instructed not to use the words “transgender,” “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “fetus,” “evidence-based,” and “science-based” in official documents.

October 6, 2017: The Justice Department released a sweeping "license to discriminate" allowing federal agencies, government contractors, government grantees, and even private businesses to engage in illegal discrimination, as long as they can cite religious reasons for doing so.

October 5, 2017: The Justice Department released a memo instructing Department of Justice attorneys to take the legal position that federal law does not protect transgender workers from discrimination.

September 7, 2017: The Justice Department filed a legal brief on behalf of the United States in the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing for a constitutional right for businesses to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation and, implicitly, gender identity.

August 25, 2017: President Trump released a memo directing Defense Department to move forward with developing a plan to discharge transgender military service members and to maintain a ban on recruitment.

July 26, 2017: President Trump announced, via Twitter, that "the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military."

July 26, 2017: The Justice Department filed a legal brief on behalf of the United States in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, arguing that the 1964 Civil Rights Act does not prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or, implicitly, gender identity. 

June 14, 2017: The Department of Education withdrew its finding that an Ohio school district discriminated against a transgender girl. The Department gave no explanation for withdrawing the finding, which a federal judge upheld.

May 2, 2017: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a plan to roll back regulations interpreting the Affordable Care Act’s nondiscrimination provisions to protect transgender people.

April 14, 2017: The Justice Department abandoned its historic lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s anti-transgender law. It did so after North Carolina replaced HB2 with a different anti-transgender law known as “HB 2.0.”

April 4, 2017: The Departments of Justice and Labor cancelled quarterly conference calls with LGBT organizations; on these calls, which had happened for years, government attorneys shared information on employment laws and cases.

March 31, 2017: The Justice Department announced it would review (and likely seek to scale back) numerous civil rights settlement agreements with police departments. These settlements were put in places where police departments were determined to be engaging in discriminatory and abusive policing, including racial and other profiling. Many of these agreements include critical protections for LGBT people.

March 2017: The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) removed links to four key resource documents from its website, which informed emergency shelters on best practices for serving transgender people facing homelessness and complying with HUD regulations.

March 28, 2017: The Census Bureau retracted a proposal to collect demographic information on LGBT people in the 2020 Census.

March 24, 2017: The Justice Department cancelled a long-planned National Institute of Corrections broadcast on “Transgender Persons in Custody: The Legal Landscape.”

March 13, 2017: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that its national survey of older adults, and the services they need, would no longer collect information on LGBT participants. HHS initially falsely claimed in its Federal Register announcement that it was making “no changes” to the survey.

March 13, 2017: The State Department announced the official U.S. delegation to the UN’s 61st annual Commission on the Status of Women conference would include two outspoken anti-LGBT organizations, including a representative of the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM): an organization designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

March 10, 2017: The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced it would withdraw two important agency-proposed policies designed to protect LGBT people experiencing homelessness. One proposed policy would have required HUD-funded emergency shelters to put up a poster or "notice" to residents of their right to be free from anti-LGBT discrimination under HUD regulations. 

The other announced a survey to evaluate the impact of the LGBTQ Youth Homelessness Prevention Initiative, implemented by HUD and other agencies over the last three years. This multi-year project should be evaluated, and with this withdrawal, we may never learn what worked best in the project to help homeless LGBTQ youth.

March 8, 2017: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) removed demographic questions about LGBT people that Centers for Independent Living must fill out each year in their Annual Program Performance Report. This report helps HHS evaluate programs that serve people with disabilities.

March 2, 2017: The Department of Justice abandoned its request for a preliminary injunction against North Carolina’s anti-transgender House Bill 2, which prevented North Carolina from enforcing HB 2. This was an early sign that the Administration was giving up defending trans people (later, on April 14, it withdrew the lawsuit completely).

March 1, 2017: The Department of Justice took the highly unusual step of declining to appeal a nationwide preliminary court order temporarily halting enforcement of the Affordable Care Act’s nondiscrimination protections for transgender people. The injunction prevents HHS from taking any action to enforce transgender people's rights from health care discrimination.

February 22, 2017, 2017: The Departments of Justice and Education withdrew landmark 2016 guidance explaining how schools must protect transgender students under the federal Title IX law.

 

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Has he talked to his VP lately?

lmao.  He is so not getting any gay votes.  Nor would he get us stoners if he all the sudden legalized Mary Jane Holland across the land

My liver and lungs hate me these last 2 years.  I swear to god this shitshow of a reality needs to change ASA-mutha****an-P.  (That version of ASAP comes from a voicemail I was left from a client when I worked in a community outreach dept lol!)

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6 hours ago, Whispering said:

The Republicans are systematically rolling back rights. No one in the US believes it is going to be like Uganda, but they would like to have th3 same rights as other humans. 

Just because you don’t know about it, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. You don’t have to worry about it, as you live in Canada. 

What rights are they rolling back in general?

 

Edit: fair enough I read your other comment and it's more than I thought

 

Although only a few you listed are actually directly aimed at the LGBT. Most stuff like rolling back food stamps is just a general right-winged thing to do in cutting back social spending it has nothing to do with the LGBT specifically

 

Unless theres some detail in the changes I don't know about that specifically is against LGBT

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Stunt to make people forget about other stuff (building the wall) 

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I support this. 

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5 hours ago, Economy said:

What rights are they rolling back in general?

 

Edit: fair enough I read your other comment and it's more than I thought

 

Although only a few you listed are actually directly aimed at the LGBT. Most stuff like rolling back food stamps is just a general right-winged thing to do in cutting back social spending it has nothing to do with the LGBT specifically

 

Unless theres some detail in the changes I don't know about that specifically is against LGBT

 

1. The Trump Administration approved a waiver request by South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, which could give faith-based adoption agencies the ability to deny LGBTQ couples adoption rights based on so-called "religious exemptions" -- all while using government tax dollars. 

2. In February of 2017, the administration withdrew guidance that helped public schools implement Title IX, under which discrimination on the basis of sex was illegal. The withdrawal left transgender students unprotected.

3. In April 2017, under President Trump, the Justice and Labor Departments cancelled conference calls with LGBTQ+ organisations, which for years gave the LGBTQ+ community a voice.

4. On 26 July 2017, President Trump announced on Twitter that transgender individuals would not be allowed to serve “in any capacity” in the US Military.

5. The Trump administration attempted to expand circumstances in which federal contractors and private employers could cite religious freedom as a reason for discrimination. 

6. The Department of Education said it would dismiss complaints from transgender students who were not allowed to use school bathrooms that matched with their gender identity, according to The Washington Post. 

7. Under President Trump, the Justice Department rolled back protections for transgender inmates that were put in place by President Obama.

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So, the ambassador is going to have dinner and talk about it. The USA doesn't have the power to change the laws of other countries. The countries that need change the most, frankly hate the USA, and don't want change. Economics seems to have more impact now than UN resolutions. Businesses making demands from governments before they open shop in a new country, or certain events like a final four tournament not being played in a state. Bolton wanted to be at war with Iran by the end of 2018, and Pence is talking too. Going off-topic here, but the only thing keeping us out of war is the European countries that are still in the nuclear agreement with Iran. In my opinion. Religious indoctrination plays a huge role in this too. There's alot to talk about, but try talking someone out of the religious indoctrination of an entire country that has a state religion.

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Trump doesn’t know ha

 

 

 

 

 

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On 2/19/2019 at 10:49 PM, DCgaga said:

Guys, you all wanted this, if you're angry over it just because it's Trump, then what the h*ll is wrong with you guys, seriously.

 

On 2/20/2019 at 12:09 AM, Wigless said:

wig tbh. finally republicans are doin something good. 

 

23 hours ago, shoful said:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna973081

Since not many of you like to report positive things Trump has done: Here’s the tea 

 

23 hours ago, shoful said:

What.. Trump appointed him and he is literally first ever openly highest ranking gay man in any republican administration. Trump does not discriminate. He chooses people mostly based on his thoughts on how well they will get the job done. 

 

 

 

Here’s actual FRESH tea