Friday, December 27, 2019

Full Weight And Force

Of the federal government is being used to persecute us.

For eight years we finally started to see an end to the discrimination against us,  laws were being passed, people began to see the oppression were lived under and said “Enough,” and court cases turned in our favor. This all happened when government stood behind us to end discrimination but all that has ended.

Now the government is leading the discrimination and oppression against minorities.
A White House official took a free trip to an anti-LGBTQ “hate summit”
Quartz
By Justin Rohrlich
December 26, 2019

An organization designated an anti-LGBTQ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center paid for a Trump administration official to attend its annual legal convention last summer, according to a recently released White House Office travel report. The arrangement was discovered by researcher Meredith Lerner of nonprofit government watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).

The report reveals that the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) picked up $2,123 in hotel costs, transportation, and meals for Jennifer Lichter, who is the deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy. The expenses were associated with the group’s Summit on Religious Liberty in Dana Point, California, last July. CREW says Lichter’s attendance “suggests the group’s influence is expanding within the Trump administration.”
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Over the past 25 years, the ADF says, the group has “played various roles in 52 victories at the US Supreme Court and hundreds more in the lower courts,” winning nearly 80% of its cases. The group was behind the spread of so-called bathroom bills in 2017, crafting model legislation that sought to restrict public restroom access to transgender Americans.
Then there is this attack by the current administration…
Interior Department Cut ‘Sexual Orientation’ From Anti-Discrimination Guideline
HuffPost By Chris D'Angelo
December 27, 2019

President Donald Trump’s Interior Department removed “sexual orientation” from a statement in the agency’s ethics guide regarding workplace discrimination.

“You shall adhere to all laws and regulations that provide equal opportunities for all Americans regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, or handicap,” reads one of 14 principles of ethical behavior in the agency’s 2017 guidelines. The 2009 version President Barack Obama’s Interior Department issued included the categories “race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability.”
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Interior chalked the exclusion up to a simple clarification in language. Agency spokeswoman Carol Danko said Interior complies with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s interpretation that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, religion and sex, extends to LGBTQ workers. 
Yeah, right, “chalked the exclusion up to a simple clarification in language” like totally ignoring Supreme Court rulings, and lower court rulings that including gender identity and sexual orientation as being protected under Title VII and Title IX.

Then within the White House staff members are being picked because their anti-LGBTQ beliefs.
Trump’s New Legal Adviser Is an Anti-LGBT, Fox News-Ready Bomb Thrower
The Daily Beast
December 27, 2019

If you don’t know who Jenna Ellis is, you are hardly alone. Many officials at the upper echelons of Trumpworld don’t really know her, either.

In more than a dozen conversations with senior figures in the White House, 2020 campaign, and broader Trump orbit, barely anybody had known Ellis as more than a blip on the Fox News radar—if that—before this October. “She literally came out of nowhere,” said one person close to President Donald Trump.

And yet, Ellis, a constitutional law attorney who’d worked since last year as the public policy director at the James Dobson Family Institute, has quickly gone from relative obscurity to talking directly with the president about politics and impeachment. In recent weeks, he’s reached out to her to ask about fighting back against his Democratic enemies, and has casually analyzed and praised her TV hits when she’s not around, say two people with knowledge of the president’s conversations.
Where did Trump animosity against LGBTQ people and especially against trans people come from?

Well I personally believe it came from his “Miss Universe” and when it was sued by a trans woman.
Transgender Miss Universe Canada contestant falls short of title
CNN
By Paula Newton
May 21, 2012

Jenna Talackova, the 23-year-old woman who forced Donald Trump and his Miss Universe Canada pageant to end its ban on transgender contestants, fell short of the national title Saturday night at the pageant in Toronto.
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Talackova then hired women's rights lawyer Gloria Allred, and the pageant's co-owner, Donald Trump, was left with no choice but to change the rules and let Talackova compete.
That is what I believe turned Trump against us… “All HIS beautiful, beautiful women” had a trans woman in their amidst them and I think he flipped out.

His lecherous sexual desires of the contestants is well know…
A Timeline of Donald Trump’s Creepiness While He Owned Miss Universe
From walking into a teen dressing room to joking about his obligation to sleep with contestants, Trump’s a storied pageant creep
Rolling Stone
By Tessa Stuart
October 12, 2016

Donald Trump was forced to sell the Miss Universe Organization – which also includes sister scholarship programs Miss USA and Miss Teen USA – in 2015 after his incendiary comments about Mexicans drove away broadcasters NBC and Univision. But Trump owned the pageant for nearly two decades, during which time he would have had the opportunity to come into contact with nearly 4,000 beauty queens.

On the heels of the damaging videotape on which Trump and former Access Hollywood host Billy Bush salivated over Days of Our Live actress Arianne Zucker, and joked about sexually assaulting women, came allegations that Trump entered the Miss Teen USA changing room where girls as young as 15 were in various states of undress.

Mariah Billado, Miss Teen Vermont 1997 told BuzzFeed, “I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a man in here.'” Three other teenage contestants from the same year confirmed the story. The former pageant contestants discussed their memories of the incident after former Miss Arizona Tasha Dixon told Los Angeles’ CBS affiliate that Trump entered the Miss USA dressing room in 2001 when she was a contestant.
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The Trump campaign did not offer a response to either story, but in a 2005 appearance on Howard Stern’s show, Trump bragged about doing exactly what the women describe. “I’ll go backstage before a show, and everyone’s getting dressed and ready and everything else,” he said.

His position as the pageant’s owner entitled him to that kind of access, Trump explained, seemingly aware that what he was doing made the women uncomfortable. “You know, no men are anywhere. And I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant. And therefore I’m inspecting it… Is everyone OK? You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. And you see these incredible-looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that,” he said.
How creepy is that?

In to his salacious desires for women was a trans woman and I think that brought out his transphobic hatred of us, because it was an affront to his “manhood.”

1 comment:

  1. I learned many years ago that laws come and laws go. On the books today off tomorrow. We all are at the whim and fancy of the twin parties of business, (in some circles and depending on who you are or where in the world you live, the twin parties of evil. At the marriage celebration in Hartford behind the old statehouse when I introduced the queerstories workshop presentation I reminded folks to be on the watch as this government has a way with snatching away. And if they had any trouble believing me then just ask the indigenous peoples, women, Blacks and other People of Color all about that paper that Uncle Sam gives out. Harry Hay in an interview reminded us all in these words, "They know you're a degenerate, and they've never forgotten that. You won't find that out until the push comes to shove. And then you'll find it out fast. because they're respectable in the eyes of God, and you aren't." And take heed dear friends and comrades the push as indeed come to shove.

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