Sometimes They Even Know That They Went Too Far

Up in North Dakota the Republicans passed a resolution condemning LGBTQ+ community as being “unhealthful.”

'Hurtful and Divisive': North Dakota GOP Gov. Condemns Own Party for Passing Anti-LGBT Resolution

Newsweek

By Jocelyn Grzesczak

July 23, 2020

The governor of North Dakota condemned his own political party for passing an anti-LGBTQ resolution, calling it "hurtful and divisive."

Gov. Doug Burgum, a Republican, issued a statement early Thursday morning on his Facebook page denouncing the resolution, which asserts that many "LGBT practices are unhealthy and dangerous, sometimes endangering or shortening life and sometimes infecting society at large."

"As I've long said, all North Dakotans deserve to be treated equally and live free of discrimination," Burgum said in his statement. "There's no place for the hurtful and divisive rhetoric in the NDGOP resolutions."

Hundreds of delegates helped pass Resolution 31 over the weekend during North Dakota's GOP convention. The resolution primarily functions as a list for why LGBTQ protections would hurt straight and cisgender people.

The Democrats reply…

State Rep. Josh Boschee, a Democrat who serves as the North Dakota House minority leader, said the resolution contains "blatant lies."

"This is nothing to help the image of North Dakota," Boschee, the state's only openly gay member of the Legislature, said in a statement. "This is just a gut punch to see they would approve language like this."

This is typical Republican behavior, attacking minorities to play towards their bigoted base.

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Meanwhile Trump is ignoring the recent Supreme Court decision…

Trump Presses Limits on Transgender Rights Over Supreme Court Ruling

The Trump administration is pressing forward with policies limiting transgender rights. Many rules that have been in development for years have now either been finalized or have gone into effect.

New York Times

By Chris Cameron

July 24, 2020

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday published its rule allowing single-sex homeless shelters to exclude transgender people from facilities that correspond with their gender identity, pressing forward with limits on transgender rights despite a Supreme Court ruling that extended civil rights protection to transgender people.

The new rule on homeless shelters will go into effect after a 60-day comment period. Administration officials argue that it will make women’s shelters safer by preventing men from gaining access to abuse or attack women seeking protection.

Transgender rights groups say it is more likely to force some transgender women to go to men’s shelters where they could face assault.

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The Education Department has rescinded Obama-era rules that allowed transgender students to use bathrooms of their choice or participate in sports corresponding with their gender identity. The Justice Department has moved to roll back protections for transgender people in federal prisons, and the Office of Personnel Management has suspended protections for transgender employees of federal contractors.

“Across the board, when you’re cut out of the federal protections you used to have, people are more likely to experience discrimination, and they’re less likely to talk about it,” said Robin Maril, an associate legal director at the Human Rights Campaign, the largest L.G.B.T. rights group.

“It has a significant chilling effect,” she added.

You can say that again, it has created fear and anxiety in the community since many trans people live below the poverty level.

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Then we have these Trump supporters,

Trump Supporter Attending Pro-Police Rally In Pittsburgh Chants “Kill Transgenders!”

Gaily Grind

By The Gaily Grind Staff

July 26, 2020

A pro-police rally in Pittsburgh on Saturday afternoon took a turn for the worse when one of the rally’s attendees began chanting “kill transgenders.”

Many at the Back the Blue rally were wearing apparel supporting President Trump and waiving thin blue line flags, which are intended to show support for law enforcement.

Many nearby are heard reacting in shock at the call to violence.

Hmmm beginning to suspect that "all lives matter" doesn't actually mean what it says it does.

The leader of a Back the Blue rally in Pittsburgh switched from chanting "All lives matter" to "Kill transgenders"

It is hypocritical that the Republican say that they are for getting the government off of people’s back but they want to tell us what we can do with our bodies, they want to tell us who we can love, and they want the police to repress our Constitutional rights to abridging our freedom of speech and our right to for the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.