Caught Up In Frenzy

I don’t envy women who don’t pass the conservative muster for how a woman should look; there are a number of women who got caught up with the gender police.

Grandma mistakenly booked into all-male jail, staff thought she was transgender
WWLP
By:  WFLA
December 01, 2018

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) - A woman is suing employees of a Florida jail after they allegedly forced her to spend nearly 10 hours in a cell surrounded by 40 men because they suspected she was transgender,the Miami Herald reported.

Fior Pichardo de Veloz, 55, was had come to Miami from the Dominican Republic to witness the birth of her grandchild when she was arrested at the airport on an outstanding drug charge in 2013.

The arresting officer listed her gender as female. She was booked into Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and processed as a woman, then strip-searched, the newspaper reported.

Due to her history of high blood pressure, Pichardo was taken to a medical unit to be examined as a precaution.  A nurse noted she had been taking hormone pills and asked her whether she was a man. Despite Pichardo's denial of this, the nurse added this note to her file: "Transgender, male parts, female tendencies.”

The nurse told the doctor, who reclassified Pichardo as male without an examination, according to a newly-released appeals court opinion.
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But this month, an appeals court ruled the conduct of the nurse and doctor amounts to “deliberate indifference, the newspaper reported.

"Every reasonable prison officer and medical personnel would have known that wrongfully misclassifying a biological female as a male inmate and placing that female in the male population of a detention facility was unlawful," Judge Frank Hull wrote in an unanimous opinion.

The prison guards made fun of her and took pictures while she was being examined to confirm she was female.

I wrote about her back in 2016 and also two other cases where women was harassed because of the way she looks. The other woman was harassed at a L.A. concert by security and the third woman was harassed here in Connecticut at a Walmart in Danbury. Back in 2006 I wrote about a lesbian that they tried to kick out of a restroom in Anchorage.

As the “hate police” start casting their nets they are rounding up a lot of cisgender women.

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To the Republicans we are just a footnote.

Congress has threaten to not ratify the new Mexico, Canada, U.S. trade treaty because of a clause in it about protecting LGBTQ employees, but anti-LGBTQ Trump covered that base…

LGBTQ protections in Trump’s new trade deal were nullified… in a footnote
LGBTQ  Nation
By Alex Bollinger
December 3, 2018

A North America trade agreement’s LGBTQ provisions have been rendered meaningless – by a footnote.

The United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) – the trade deal meant to replace NAFTA – includes a paragraph protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination in the workplace. It says that the countries will “implement policies that protect workers against employment discrimination on the basis of sex, including with regard to […] sexual orientation, gender identity.”

Canada worked to get that provision in the deal, but Republicans in Congress denounced it as “insulting to our sovereignty.”

But we have been written off in a footnote…

The United States’ existing federal agency policies regarding the hiring of federal workers are sufficient to fulfill the obligations set forth in this Article. The Article thus requires no additional action on the part of the United States, including any amendments to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in order for the United States to be in compliance with the obligations set forth in this Article.

Which is total BS because we don’t have any federal laws protecting us, the Trump administration has seen to that. the administration has taken the position that we are not covered by Title VII and Title IX even through the courts have said otherwise.