It Is Not Just Here!

It has spread like a virus, like the plague... like hate.

Mother of trans teen takes legal action over Queensland's puberty blocker freeze for new patients under 18

Exclusive by Emma Pollard and Janelle Miles

ABC News AU

April 4, 2025

A mother of a trans teenager has successfully taken the first step in legal action against the Queensland Health Director-General over the state's freeze on puberty blockers.

The woman, whose name cannot be published to protect the identity of her daughter, has obtained an order in the Supreme Court to force Dr David Rosengren to provide her with a statement of reasons for the freeze.

In late January, Dr Rosengren approved a health service directive which banned public doctors from providing puberty blockers and hormone treatment to new gender dysphoria patients aged under 18.

When I read this I first thought that they were writing about the U.S. but then I saw the ".au" and I realized that it was Australia!

Adolescents who had already started the medications before January 28 were able to continue.

The ban has no end date but is due to be reviewed within 12 months.

In the meantime, the government has established what it described as an independent review into the evidence base for the therapies, led by former Victorian chief psychiatrist Ruth Vine. 

When Health Minister Tim Nicholls announced the sudden intervention in the medical treatment of children with gender dysphoria, he said it was necessary to "ensure that care is grounded on solid evidence".

Of course we know what they will find, they will use garbage research to base their findings to ban something that has been used since the 1970s with no problems but all of sudden because we use the same drug it has now "Become a problem!" but it is not a problem for kids with precocious puberty.

A trans teen's mother filed an application in the Supreme Court in Brisbane on March 20 to force Dr Rosengren to provide her with the statement of reasons explaining his decision to impose the ban.

This week, the court ordered Dr Rosengren to give her his statement of reasons by April 8 and to pay her legal costs.

The woman said she had asked him to provide her with the reasons in early February, but he failed to do so within the timeframe under the Judicial Review Act.

Here in the states a judge was tired of all the vapor research the conservatives based their banning us from bathrooms and the judge said "Show me the facts!"

"This application is hopefully just the first step in the battle. Once we get the statement of reasons my legal team will give me advice about whether I can challenge his decision and get his directive set aside."

They will not any legitimate reason to ban the puberty blockers because they do no harm. They have no data that shows that the reason they denied us the healthcare is purely for political reasons. 

Cuckoo Award

Congratulations!

Today's Cuckoo Award goes to our fearless leader Trump!

In just 74 day he crashed the stock market, on January 20th the market was 43,487.83 and today it is... 38,887.14 @ 1 PM when I'm writing this and dropping!

But wait! There is more... one year ago today the market was 41,797.87 so he wiped out a whole year of growth! in just seventy-four days!

Boy did he ever fix the economy!

I leave you with this clipping from the Los Angles Daily newspaper from October 1936 for something to think about...

And So It Begins!

You knew this was going to happen! There was no doubt that this was going to happen! Well it happened down in Florida.

Transgender student’s arrest for violating Florida bathroom law is thought to be a first

AP News

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM

April 3, 2025

A transgender college student declared “I am here to break the law” before entering a women’s restroom at the Florida State Capitol and being led out in handcuffs by police. Civil rights attorneys say the arrest of Marcy Rheintgen last month is the first they know of for violating transgender bathroom restrictions passed by numerous state legislatures across the country.

Capitol police had been alerted and were waiting for Rheintgen, 20, when she entered the building in Tallahassee March 19. They told her she would receive a trespass warning once she entered the women’s restroom to wash her hands and pray the rosary, but she was later placed under arrest when she refused to leave, according to an arrest affidavit.

Rheintgen faces a misdemeanor trespassing charge punishable by up to 60 days in jail and is due to appear in court in May.

Now she told them that she was going to do it but how otherwise would they have known?

Her arrest comes as many Republican-led states that have enacted restroom restrictions grapple with how to enforce them. Laws in Alabama, Kansas, Kentucky and North Dakota do not spell out any enforcement mechanism, and even the state laws that do largely rely on private individuals to report violations.

What are the potty police going to do? Everyone drop their draws to be inspected, but then they would catch those who had GCS. What they are really doing is going after those who don't look female and they are going to net a lot cis-women. How embarrassing will that be for a cis-woman who gets netted.

Question: How will they know that the person walking into a bathroom is trans? The Advocate reported,

The officers initially told Rheintgen they would only issue a notice to appear before the judge and release her. They subsequently declared her unsuitable for release and arrested her after she became “sassy,” and they feared she would try to use the restroom again, according to the arrest affidavit.

You go girl!

Just think for a moment, they are not going to arrest any trans woman who passes, it will be trans woman like me who are immediately identified as trans. Also what will happen with someone like me down in Florida, my birth certificate say "female" the Constitution says,

Article IV

Section 1

Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.

My state recognizes me as female so I would assume that all the other states have to also recognizes me female in their states because Article IV, Section 1.

I think that we should take a page out of the Civil Rights era of the 1960s and 70s and have massive arrest like they did with the lunch counter sit-ins. Have a line of trans women who one at a time go in the bathroom to be arrested. Just flood their judicial systems.

A Tale Of Six States!

This is a tale of how three states passed or did not pass legislation about us.

Transgender bathroom restrictions take effect as Montana governor signs law

The law requires public buildings including the state Capitol, schools, jails, prisons, libraries and state-funded shelters to provide separate spaces for men and women.

AP News

March 27, 2025

Transgender people in Montana can no longer use bathrooms in public buildings that do not align with their sex assigned at birth after Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte signed new restrictions into law Thursday.

The law, which takes effect with its approval, requires public buildings including the state Capitol, schools, jails, prisons, libraries and state-funded domestic violence shelters to provide separate spaces for men and women.

It defines the sexes in state law based on a person’s chromosomes and reproductive biology, even as a district court ruling earlier this year declared the definitions unconstitutional.

Attorneys for the ACLU of Montana filed a legal challenge to the law within hours of it being signed. They asked a state judge in Missoula to block Gianforte and Monana Attorney General Austin Knudsen from enforcing the law.

And the results of that trial...

Montana’s anti-transgender bathroom restrictions are on hold under a judge’s order

AP News

April 2, 2025

A judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a Montana law that restricts transgender people’s use of bathrooms in public buildings.

The measure, which Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte signed into effect last week, threatened to deprive transgender people of their constitutional right to equal protection under the law, Montana District Court Judge Shane Vannatta ruled. The law prevents people from using restrooms in public buildings that do not align with the sex they were assigned at birth.

The five people who sued over the law were likely to prevail, Vannatta added in his ruling.

The new law “is motivated by animus and supported by no evidence that its restrictions advance its purported purpose to protect women’s safety and privacy,” Vannatta wrote.

If they want to ban us they should also ban pastors and legislators!

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Meanwhile down in California  the state legislature rejected a trans ban on student athletes.

Political Notebook: After heated hearing, CA legislators kill trans sports ban bills

Bay Area Reporter

By Matthew S. Bajko

April 1, 2025

After a heated hearing Tuesday in Sacramento, California legislators killed two anti-transgender sports bans introduced by Republican lawmakers. It comes as the Trump administration is investigating a statewide sports organization over the Golden State’s policy that allows transgender student athletes to play on the sports teams aligned with their gender.

Assembly Bill 89 authored by Assemblymember Kate Sanchez (R-Rancho Santa Margarita) aimed to ban trans girls from playing on female athletic teams. AB 844 by Assemblymember Bill Essayli (R-Corona) would also have banned trans boys from playing on male sports teams.

A fool’s errand, as the Democratic-controlled Legislature was never expected to adopt the bills, the votes on the transphobic legislation by the Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism Committee was appropriately scheduled Tuesday on April Fools’ Day. The panel rejected AB 89 on a 7-2 vote and AB 844 on a 6-2 vote during the hearing but left the roll open for absent members.

Here in Connecticut the 30+ anti-trans bills including bill that banned us from sports never made it out of committee.

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Over in Colorado...

Statehouse Democrats move to expand protections for transgender Coloradans

Democrats in the Colorado legislature introduced two bills that would add protections for transgender people in schools and the courts. They’re expected to meet strong Republican opposition.

Colorado Sun

By Lucas Brady Woods

April 1, 2025

The Colorado Senate commemorated Transgender Day of Visibility on Monday with a resolution on the chamber floor, but Democrats want to do more than just talk.

They’re also proposing new protections for trans people.

“Transgender Coloradans are part of the fabric of our communities. They are parents, students, care givers, faith leaders and neighbors,” said one of the resolution’s sponsors Sen. Lisa Cutter, a Jefferson County Democrat. “They experience elevated levels of poverty, discrimination and violence.”

All Senate Republicans refused to support the resolution, staying seated as it was presented on the chamber floor while other lawmakers stood in recognition. But their steadfast opposition isn’t deterring the legislature’s Democrats, who introduced two bills on Friday aimed at further protecting trans rights under state law.

At the state capitol here in Connecticut, a rally was held in the Capitol and one of the guest speakers was the Lt. Governor.

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Down in the peach state of Georgia, the Democrats walk out!

Georgia Democrats’ frustration with anti-transgender bills boils over into a walkout

AP News

By  JEFF AMY

April 2, 2025

 Boxed into what they saw as an unsavory vote on outlawing spending on gender affirming care for transgender prisoners, Georgia Democrats chose a third option Wednesday. They walked out.

Chants of “Take a walk!” echoed under the gold dome of the state Capitol from dozens of House Democrats who said they’re exhausted by a blizzard of bills attacking transgender people.

The bill at hand, Senate Bill 185, would ban state prison spending on “sex reassignment surgeries,” hormone replacement therapy, or other surgeries “intended to alter the appearance of primary or secondary sexual characteristics.”

The 100-2 vote, which sent the measure to Gov. Brian Kemp for his signature or veto, was a chance for Republicans to embarrass Democrats on an issue that the GOP believes is unpopular with voters.

The federal courts have all said you cannot deny us "medically necessary" treatment which includes hormones and gender confirming surgery. So all this really does is play to their base.

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Down in Florida you know that they had to introduce an anti-LGBTQ bill...

GOP advances bill that would legalize anti-LGBTQ+ workplace discrimination

One critic called the bill an insult LGBTQ+ people and a waste of government resources.

LGBTQ Nation

By Daniel Villarreal

April 1, 2025

Florida state Republican lawmakers have advanced a bill that would allow public employees and state contractors to openly discriminate against LGBTQ+ co-workers without fear of punishment.

The so-called “Freedom of Conscience in the Workplace Act” (S.B. 440) would forbid public employers from requiring workers to use transgender people’s personal pronouns and forbid employers from punishing any employee for expressing “a belief in traditional or Biblical views of sexuality and marriage, or … gender ideology.”

The legislation would also remove “nonbinary” gender options from employment forms and forbid any entities from requiring workers to undergo LGBTQ+ cultural competence training. The bill would not apply to private employers.

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One bill would ban local governments from enacting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies (including any recognition of Pride Month) by defunding these initiatives and removing local officials who promote them. Another would prohibit any taxpayer funds from supporting DEI initiatives in state agencies, among state contractors, or grantees.

Of course the state entirely ignores Title VII! Which Trump's Supreme Court ruled in our favor in the 

G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board case and the R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v EEOC & Aimee Stephens case!

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And to end on a positive note...

Minnesota House rejects bill banning transgender athletes from competing in girls' and women's sports

CBS News

By Jonah Kaplan

March 3, 2025

The Minnesota House has rejected a bill that would have banned transgender athletes from competing in girls' and women's sports.

The Republican-backed bill was voted on Monday evening. All 67 GOP House members voted for the bill, while all 66 Democrats opposed it. Sixty-eight votes were needed for the bill to pass. 

An executive order from President Trump fueled debate inside the Minnesota State Capitol before the vote.

The hours-long debate capped a full day of rallies in support and opposition of the proposal, including a visit from Riley Gaines, a former collegiate swimming star turned activist.

The Republicans even brought in some heavy guns... a women college swimmer to testify. But even with her the bill was rejected the was introduced as a result of a Trump executive order.

"History has never looked favorable upon any movement that criminalizes people based solely on the fact of who they are," Rep. Leigh Finke, DFL-Falcon Heights, said at a news conference Monday afternoon.

These bills and bathroom bills are throw backs to the days of the Jim Crow laws banning Blacks from bathrooms used by Whites. They used the same arguments to ban Blacks, they used the same arguments to ban gays from bathrooms... save the children!

Is This His Guidebook?

I have to wonder where is Trump getting all his evil ideas? It from Putin whispering in his ear? Or is it from other dictators? Because I don’t think Trump is smart enough to think of it on his own.

America’s Future Is Hungary

MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.

The Atlantic

By Anne Applebaum

May 2025

Flashy hotels and upmarket restaurants now dominate the center of Budapest, a city once better known for its shabby facades. New monuments have sprung up in the center of town too. One of them, a pastiche of the Vietnam War memorial in Washington, D.C., mourns Hungary’s lost 19th-century empire. Instead of war dead, the names of formerly “Hungarian” places—cities and villages that are now in Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Poland—are engraved in long granite walls, solemnly memorialized with an eternal flame.

But the nationalist kitsch and tourist traps hide a different reality. Once widely perceived to be the wealthiest country in Central Europe (“the happiest barrack in the socialist camp,” as it was known during the Cold War), and later the Central European country that foreign investors liked most, Hungary is now one of the poorest countries, and possibly the poorest, in the European Union. Industrial production is falling year-over-year. Productivity is close to the lowest in the region. Unemployment is creeping upward. Despite the ruling party’s loud talk about traditional values, the population is shrinking. Perhaps that’s because young people don’t want to have children in a place where two-thirds of the citizens describe the national education system as “bad,” and where hospital departments are closing because so many doctors have moved abroad. Maybe talented people don’t want to stay in a country perceived as the most corrupt in the EU for three years in a row. Even the Index of Economic Freedom—which is published by the Heritage Foundation, the MAGA-affiliated think tank that produced Project 2025—puts Hungary at the bottom of the EU in its rankings of government integrity.

Gee does all this sound familiar? Is this where we are heading? To the bottom of the dung heap?

Hungary was taken over by a “strongman” who took over like Trump did but Viktor Orbán did it in 2010 when he started his second term. Since then he has wrecked the political system, bullied the media, and appointed his cronies to the courts. Hmm… sounds like Trump’s playbook doesn’t it?

What is this Hungarian model they so admire? Mostly, it has nothing to do with modern statecraft. Instead it’s a very old, very familiar blueprint for autocratic takeover, one that has been deployed by right-wing and left-wing leaders alike, from Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Hugo Chávez. After being elected to a second term in 2010, Orbán slowly replaced civil servants with loyalists; used economic pressure and regulation to destroy the free press; robbed universities of their independence, and shut one of them down; politicized the court system; and repeatedly changed the constitution to give himself electoral advantages. During the coronavirus pandemic he gave himself emergency powers, which he has kept ever since. He has aligned himself openly with Russia and China, serving as a mouthpiece for Russian foreign policy at EU meetings and allowing opaque Chinese investments in his country.

Getting chills up your spine yet?

This autocratic takeover is precisely what Bannon, Roberts, and others admire, and are indeed seeking to carry out in the U.S. right now. The destruction of the civil service is already under way, pressure on the press and universities has begun, and thoughts of changing the Constitution are in the air. But proponents of these ideas rarely talk about what happened to the Hungarian economy, and to ordinary Hungarians, after they were implemented there. Nor do they explore the contradictions between Orbán’s rhetoric and the reality of his policies. Orbán talks a lot about blocking immigration, for example, but at one point his government issued visas to any non-EU citizen who bought 300,000 euros’ worth of government bonds from mysterious and mostly offshore companies.

He rhapsodizes about family values, even though his government spends among the lowest amounts per capita on health care in the EU, controls access to IVF, and notoriously decided to pardon a man who covered up sexual abuse in children’s homes.

Forget Mein Kampf! This is the new Twenty-First Century version complete with social media.

Hungary’s transformation into an ‘electoral autocracy’ has parallels to Trump’s second term

AP News

By  JUSTIN SPIKE and NICHOLAS RICCARDI

February 15, 2025

Hours before President Donald Trump was sworn in to begin his second term, promising a “golden age” for America, the leader of a Central European country was describing the years ahead in strikingly similar terms.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Trump’s return would usher in Hungary’s own “golden age” and mark the “collapse” of liberal democracy.

The messaging overlap was no surprise.

Orbán’s strongman style has long served as an inspiration for U.S. conservatives, who have looked at Hungary as a possible model for a right-wing America with less immigration, fewer regulations and the removal of democratic constraints they see as unwieldy or inconvenient.

So is Trump taking instructions from Putin and Orbán? It is almost like a conspiracy of dictators coaching one another!

Orbán has formed a close bond with Trump and has made multiple visits to the president’s Florida resort. This week, the prime minister praised Trump’s unilateral outreach to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine. During one of last year’s U.S. presidential debates, Trump praised Orbán as “a strong man. He’s a tough person.”

I don’t know about you but I don’t get a warm-fuzzy feeling about this!

Orbán used state power to crush rivals, remake the judiciary and game elections to make it much harder to oust his party. He has cracked down on LGBTQ+ rights, immigration, the media and civic organizations.

Just this week Trump issued elections reforms by executive order! The Brennan Center writes…

A coalition of voting rights organizations filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to challenge President Trump’s unlawful executive order on voting that attempts to seize the power to set voter registration rules from Congress and the states, and doing so in a way that would violate federal law and the Constitution if carried out by the Election Assistance Commission (EAC). Key provisions of Trump’s order could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters, particularly voters of color, women voters, naturalized citizens, voters with disabilities, voters with low incomes, and first-time voters.

The Constitution specifies that Congress and the states can set the rules for our elections, not the President. On March 27, several of the groups also sent a letter to the EAC urging them not to take action in response to key provisions in the executive order, as doing so would violate federal law.

Late last month Trump attacked the law firms that filed cases against him in an effort to intimidate the legal system, he has threatened to impeach judges that ruled against him, VOX wrote,

Their democracy died. They have lessons for America about Trump’s power grab.

Hungarians who lived through Viktor Orbán’s 2010 power grab warn Americans: Act now, before it’s too late.

by Zack Beauchamp

Feb 5, 2025

A leader who voters rejected several years ago returns to power, largely thanks to discontent with the incumbent party’s economic performance. Almost immediately upon taking office, the leader launches a blitzkrieg designed to strengthen his personal grip on power. He claims unprecedented power over the budget, fires the leaders of government oversight agencies, and places vast policymaking power in the hands of an unelected wealthy ally. The opposition, divided and disorganized after electoral defeat, struggles to formulate an effective response as democracy begins to buckle.

The country I am describing is, of course, Hungary in 2010.

That year, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán returned to power after his defeat in 2002. He then launched an ambitious plan for turning a vibrant democracy into an authoritarian state, moving so swiftly to remove all formal checks on his power that few Hungarians truly understood how much power he was accruing. Judges and watchdogs were replaced with pliant cronies; his top allies took command of policymaking apparatus while developing tools for controlling the press.

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Orbán’s 2010 takeover depended crucially on his legislative dominance. His Fidesz party had a majority large enough to amend the Hungarian constitution at will. With that much power, it was easy for him to seize full control over the government in record time.

By contrast, Trump’s House majority is one of the narrowest in history. And in the Senate, the filibuster severely limits what Republicans can pass. The legislative balance of power situation forces Trump to rely on executive orders of dubious legality, creating a number of different ways to check his abuse of power (like lawsuits) that wouldn’t have worked in Hungary of 2010.

But the thing is the Republicans in Congress are gutless… they worry about Musk throwing millions of dollars against them, they worry about Trump’s wrath instead of the Constitution and the people of our country.

We still have time but the sand is running down... they talk about the elections the other day being a wakeup call for Trump because the elections were so close. But I say it has to be a wakeup call for us! We lost, I don't care how close it was this time... we lost! The MAGA block is untied in tearing down the country, they hate LGBTQ+ people, they hate immigrants, they the government and they want to make it into a fascist nation to punish us and everyone else who is not White, evangelical Christian, and straight. And if you look at Hungary that is exactly where they are now!

So be scared and hope that the courts can stop him!!!!!

On My Soap Box Today.

I’m in a “Grr…” mood today for some reason. Maybe it is the political climate we are in but today I’m waiting for the news on the tariffs… I have a 2017 Toyota Prius Prime and I was planning on getting a new one but forget it if Trump puts a tariff on them. You know it affects not only me but also the car dealers, the mechanics, the sales and office staff.

I am making Southern Homestyle Buttermilk Biscuits (The house smells delicious!) to have with strawberries and blueberries, and whipped cream. I glanced at the blueberries… product of Peru. So that will most likely be hit with a tariff!

After four years of steady growth we are now back to where we were back in Trump’s first term, it only took 70 days for him to tank the economy.

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Then we have all the anti-trans bulls**t.

This is from GLAD (GLBT Legal Advocates and Defenders)...

Second Federal Court Blocks Trump’s Transgender Military Ban   

Lead attorneys in earlier case Talbott v. Trump respond to the now second nationwide preliminary injunction—this time in the case of Shilling v. Trump

In Shilling v. Trump today, U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin Hale Settle issued what will now be a second nationwide preliminary injunction blocking implementation of the transgender military ban resulting from Trump’s January executive order. Earlier this month, U.S. District Court Judge Ana Reyes in Talbott v. Trump issued a first nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the ban. In a forceful order in which Judge Reyes held that the ban undermines national security and is likely unconstitutional she called it “soaked with animus and dripping with pretext.” Earlier tonight in Talbott, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the Department of Defense can take no action negatively impacting any servicemember while the court is considering the department’s motion for emergency stay.

Department of Defense implementation of the ban to identify and separate transgender servicemembers was scheduled to begin on March 28, a rapid timeframe former military leaders have characterized as “rushed” and “alarming,” noting that the complexity of the military personnel system requires “months of careful planning and timelines.”

Today’s order in Shilling, along with the injunction previously issued in Talbott by Judge Reyes, prevents the Department of Defense from initiating separation proceedings against any transgender service members or otherwise enforcing the ban.

I am friends with a number of lawyers at Glad and one of them wrote on Facebook:

I've never really understood Shakespeare's line 'The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers' from Henry VI. Admittedly, I've never even thought about it that deeply, not being a Shakespeare fan myself, far from it. But given the current climate, I find myself repeating this line over and over, trying to make sense of what's happening. Turns out (probably not news to my more literate friends), it's spoken by a character plotting to overthrow the government, recognizing that eliminating those who uphold the rule of law is the first step toward creating tyranny. This takes on new meaning as we witness systematic attempts to neutralize the legal profession's independence, a cornerstone of our democratic system.

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And then there is the policy activated by this administration to routinely request bond, essentially a financial deposit, from plaintiffs challenging government actions. People who seek to challenge unconstitutional government action could face demands for thousands of dollars as "security" before a case moves forward. This money stays locked up during litigation, which often takes months or years. Everyday citizens don't have this kind of money lying around, exactly why this administration is pushing this policy. It's another way to deny access to justice for those who can't afford the cost of admission.

These tactics reveal a comprehensive strategy to neutralize legal opposition, and some major law firms are helping it happen.

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This isn't merely, or even largely, about bringing powerful law firms to heel. It's about neutralizing the essential mechanisms of democratic accountability. By intimidating the legal profession, the administration creates a chilling effect on those who are sworn to uphold the constitution and preserve its values.

These tactics are what dictators do. It what fascists do, and it what authoritarians do! 

Through My Lens

I wanted so much to go to the Capitol on Monday but my back said... "No I don't think so!" I did not think I could stand that long on hard marble floors. But one thing that I did notice from all of the post on Facebook about it at that and at other LGBTQ+ events.

Nobody spoke for the seniors or the disabled. "Nada", "Zilch" and "Zip".

They need a check list...

☐ At Pride parades events do they have a trolley or a bus for seniors or the disabled people to ride?

☐ At rallies do they have anywhere seniors or the disabled people can sit?

☐ At Pride events do they have sign language interpreters or other forms of communication assistance for those with hearing impairments?

☐ At Pride events do they have any speakers for the disabled or seniors at the events?

At many events I see that they do have sign language interpreters, they do have seating for those who can stand too long but those are far and few between.

Pride is all about inclusion but let us not forget those in our community who have additional barriers to cross.