Wednesday, August 03, 2016

Breaking News… Supreme Court Blocks Trans Rights!!!!

This just in Supreme Court just blocked student’s rights to use the bathroom of their gender identity… putting Title VII and IX protection in jeopardy.
Supreme Court grants emergency order to block transgender male student in Virginia from using boy's restroom
LA Times
By David G. Savage
August 3, 2016

The Supreme Court intervened for the first time Wednesday in the controversy over transgender rights and blocked a lower court ruling that would have allowed a transgender boy to use the high school restroom that fits his “gender identity.”

In an unusual 5-3 order, the justices granted an emergency appeal from a Virginia school board which said it is fighting to “protect the basic expectations of bodily privacy of Gloucester County students.”

The school was seeking to be exempted from the Obama administration’s position that schools nationwide are required to allow transgender students to use the bathroom they prefer.

Justice Stephen G. Breyer signaled he did not support the school’s emergency appeal, but said he joined the court’s four conservatives as a “courtesy” to put the issue on hold until the justices can review the matter when they return in the fall.

“In light of the facts that four justices have voted to grant the application referred to the court by the Chief Justice, that we are currently on recess and that granting the stay will preserve the status quo,” he wrote, “I vote to grant the application as a courtesy.”
This fall’s elections are now even more important, with vacancies of up to three Supreme Court judges possible the election of the next president is increasingly important. It can chance the direction of the country for a generation.



There are many people who say that in good conscious they cannot not vote for Hilary Clinton, but I ask in good conscious can you not vote for her? In good conscious can you let all the protections that the LGBT community has won under the current presidency be wiped out? Most of the third party candidates are not on the ballot in enough states to win the Electoral College and others are polling so low that they are not even in the double digits.
There is so much to lose that my conscious will not let me vote other than democratic. The loss of presidency and having a Republican control Congress and president is will spell disaster for the United States.


1 comment:

  1. you are absolutely right in this Diana and I hope that your countrymen and women listen to you or that at least trump self destructs at the rate that he is doing now. I am still appalled that he got this far!

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