‘Hypocrite’ Trump axed transgender protections
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President Trump appears to have lost control of his administration – after officials went ahead to scrap anti-discrimination protections just days after the President intervened.
Last week the President said he would not repeal Obama’s executive protections for LGBT people, with Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner said to have convinced the President to ignore his strategists on the issue.
In a official statement just days ago, the White House claimed: “President Donald J. Trump is determined to protect the rights of all Americans, including the LGBTQ community. President Trump continues to be respectful and supportive of LGBTQ rights, just as he was throughout the election.
“[The order which] protects employees from anti-LGBTQ workplace discrimination while working for federal contractors will remain intact at the direction of President Donald J. Trump.”
However, despite Trump’s assurances, it emerged over the weekend that newly-confirmed Attorney General Jeff Sessions has pulled the federal government’s legal support for Obama administration anti-discrimination protections for transgender students.
The implementation of the educational anti-discrimination protections were previously postponed after a legal challenge from a string of Republican states.The case was meant to be heard this month, but rather than defend the protections, Sessions filed a bid to postpone the court date indefinitely – meaning the order will likely never come into force as the case may never be heard.
The government’s short court submission says: “Defendants-appellants hereby withdraw their pending November 23, 2016 motion for partial stay pending appeal.
“The parties jointly move to remove from the Court’s calendar the February 14, 2017 oral argument currently scheduled for that motion.
“The parties are currently considering how best to proceed in this appeal.”
The protections for school students, while distinct from the executive order protecting LGBT workers, fundamentally applies the exact same principle of LGBT non-discrimination as the order that Trump claimed to support.
Activists believe the shift shows just how little control the President has over his Cabinet, given Sessions’ long record of anti-LGBT activism.
Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin said: “After being on the job for less than 48 hours, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has signalled his intent to undermine the equal dignity of transgender students.
“Transgender students are entitled to the full protection of the United States Constitution and our federal nondiscrimination laws.
“It is heartbreaking and wrong that the agency tasked with enforcing civil rights laws would instead work to subvert them for political interests.
“President Trump must immediately reverse course and direct the DOJ to uphold guidance protecting transgender students.” -
That wasn't what happened.
The White House stated a few weeks ago: “President Donald J. Trump is determined to protect the rights of all Americans, including the LGBTQ community. President Trump continues to be respectful and supportive of LGBTQ rights, just as he was throughout the election.
“[The order which] protects employees from anti-LGBTQ workplace discrimination while working for federal contractors will remain intact at the direction of President Donald J. Trump.”The only thing that occurred over the weekend was that newly-confirmed Attorney General Jeff Sessions pulled the federal government’s legal support for Obama administration anti-discrimination protections for transgender students.
This has nothing to do with gay people in the workplace. This is about all the drama around transgender people who have not yet transitioned using the bathroom of the gender they want to transition to. This only applies to students and schools in states that had filed lawsuits, nothing to do with gay rights.
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I partly agree with this.
I support transsexuals using the bathroom for the gender they present as, I don't support transgenders who claim to be something other than what they present as, such as Elliot Cope claiming to be a boy while only ever presenting as a girl.
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Alright…
First, Jason287...while I applaud your want to participate in the forums instead of just up/down porn like a robot, remember that you must provide a link to the news, in order for others to read it and make informed comments on what the article is about.
Unless you Americans want to hog all the opinion forums to yourselves.
This bathroom thingie sounds funny to me, since we don't have such laws in Mexico. If you're m2f you are going to use the toilet anyway since that is the only thing in a women's bathroom, so no one sees your genitalia. And if you're f2m you use the toilet instead of the urinals anyway since, as far as I know, there's no procedure to create a penis (if there is please enlighten me)
The only way I think this law is valid is that unfortunately, the facial features tend to give out a m2f person (unlike f2m, in which it seems the transition doesn't need facial surgery). Yes, I know there are transexuals who don't need facial surgery, but there are some with blatant male features.
And I agree with raphjd, this supossed 'transgenders' or 'twitter sexual identities' aren't doing any good to real transexuals, who actually go to the point of changing their bodies in order to match their outside appearance with their inner appearance.
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There are 2 ways doctors create a penis for f2m; Metoidioplasty and Phalloplasty.
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There are 2 ways doctors create a penis for f2m; Metoidioplasty and Phalloplasty.
Thanks raphjd.
