Servicemembers know that discrimination against trans servicemembers is wrong.
Around the world militaries have no problem with trans servicemembers, our NATO allies have trans servicemembers including our neighbor to our north, Canada.
Last week I wrote about a trans sailor that they granted an exception to the ban, the acting Secretary of the Navy has approved her request.
Former Vice President Biden comes out in support of trans rights.
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More Than Two-Thirds Of The Military Supports Transgender Servicemembers, Study FindsIt is only Trump and his fellow Republicans who hate our guts.
Texas Public Radio
By Emily Elena Dugdale
May 18, 2020
The UCLA study shows broad support among servicemembers for transgender people in the military. But the military still bans transgender people from enlisting.
Earlier this year, Emma Shinn moved to a big, hillside house outside of San Diego to work at Camp Pendleton. A Marine judge advocate who transitioned in 2016, Shinn said the move to a new city and new house has been a little stressful.
But she's been comforted by the reaction she's received as she reconnected with Marines who knew her before she transitioned. "They knew me as the old Captain Shinn," she said, sitting at the dining room table in her new house.
Now as she reconnects with her old colleagues, she said they accept her and don't treat her any differently. "Everyone in the unit has welcomed me with open arms," she said.
A recent study from UCLA showed that two-thirds of cisgender active duty military personnel support transgender service members. That number goes up among service members who identify as women or people of color.
Around the world militaries have no problem with trans servicemembers, our NATO allies have trans servicemembers including our neighbor to our north, Canada.
Last week I wrote about a trans sailor that they granted an exception to the ban, the acting Secretary of the Navy has approved her request.
Former Vice President Biden comes out in support of trans rights.
Biden Talks Trans Rights, Calls Conversion Therapy Sick at FundraiserMeanwhile Trump wants to strip healthcare from us.
Biden also gave a shout-out to the late Aimee Stephens and talked about vetting his potential VP choices.
The Advocate
By Trudy Ring
May 14, 2020
Joe Biden invoked the importance of transgender rights and called conversion therapy “sick” during a virtual fundraising event for his presidential campaign Wednesday night.
The presumptive Democratic nominee also gave a shout-out to the late Aimee Stephens, the trans plaintiff in an employment discrimination case pending before the Supreme Court. The fundraiser was hosted on Zoom by another LGBTQ+ ally, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, and was attended by 115 people, the Biden campaign reports. Biden spoke from his home in Delaware.
One attendee, Vlada Knowlton, asked Biden how he would protect trans people from “unjust attacks” and discrimination, according to a press pool report by John Verhovek of ABC News. She is the mother of three children, one of them transgender.
Biden said he would work to get Congress to pass the Equality Act, which would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, public accommodations, and other venues on a nationwide basis. He also said he would rescind Donald Trump’s ban on military service by transgender people, and seek to end conversion therapy, which attempts to turn LGBTQ+ people straight and/or cisgender. He called the practice “sick.”
HHS rule will reverse nondiscrimination protections in health care for more than 1.5 million transgender peopleThere is a difference between the Republicans and the Democrats… one wants to dehumanize us and the other wants to protect us.
Yuba Net
By Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law
May 18, 2020
May 18, 2020 – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is expected to announce a final rule in the coming weeks that reverses federal protections prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity in health care.
The regulation could create added barriers to accessing health care for an estimated 1.4 million adults and 150,000 youth who identify as transgender in the U.S., including the significant number who have underlying health conditions that put them at particular risk of serious illness related to COVID-19.
Recent research from the Williams Institute found that an estimated 320,000 transgender adults have underlying health conditions that could increase their risk for COVID-19-related illness. This includes 208,500 who have asthma, 81,100 who have diabetes, 72,700 who have heart disease, and 74,800 who have HIV. In addition, an estimated 217,000 transgender people are age 65 and older.
“Our research finds that transgender people experience health disparities compared to cisgender people and often lack access to health care,” said Jody L. Herman, Scholar of Public Policy at the Williams Institute. “They also face persistent discrimination in health care settings, which is a concern for many transgender adults.”
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Hate our guts? Not really sure about that. Sure there are individuals who do espouse hate as a mental screen that Freud named as 'reaction formation'. If these persons flood their minds with hate, that process keeps those individuals from experiencing their honest feelings of IDENTIFICATION AND ATTRACTION! OOPS!
ReplyDeleteIn a recent editorial, (attribution is lost); what the CONSERVATIVES wish to conserve is their waning power base, money is simply no object, as these individuals employ well trained consultants quite well versed in the art of manipulating the public opinion on a SUBCONSCIOUS LEVEL.
The core strategy:
'We must protect the children'. And, well who is against that? Never mind the fact that conservatives have done a piss poor of job of advocating for the underpaid, underclass and their children.
Now the effort turns sinister.
No matter what the 'gender outsider' enacts or lobbies in favor of, these psychologist/consultants merely twist the debate to make the whole matter appear that it is somehow a 'threat' to children.
And then the 'holier than thou' pile onboard, with the fervor of 'so called christian' crusaders.
A classic example of this is how the North Carolina 'Bathroom Bill' got so much negative air time and subsequent political push-back. The well paid conservative consultants saw the effort, 'smelled political red meat', and pounced.
WHAT TO TO?
Later,
Velma