Ignoring The Law.

You probably low expectations of the current administration when it comes to LGBTQ+ community and you will probably not be surprised that the Department of Justice and the Department of Education is not going to enforce the law.

Department of Education sends mixed messages on transgender student protections
The department stands by its controversial policy on trans student athletes.
ABC News
By Sophie Tatum andKarma Allen
September 9, 2020


The Trump administration said it plans to investigate alleged discrimination against LGBTQ students following this summer's landmark Supreme Court rulings that said sexual orientation and gender identity are protected traits under existing civil rights law -- but only in certain circumstances, according to documents released by the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights.

An updated guidance posted via a letter to various Connecticut schools, the Education Department said transgender students still can't play on school sports teams that correspond with their gender identity and instead should be assigned to teams that correspond with their biological gender at birth.

The governor of Connecticut said that he is not going to fight the US Department of Education and put at risk millions of dollars in federal aid in other words he threw us under the bus.

"Do we applaud that someone won't be discriminated against based on sexual orientation from participating in sports? Absolutely. But we cannot do that without saying this other decision that excludes transgender students, essentially, is -- it's so harmful and so offensive to us, as it would be to transgender students," Chandy [the legal director at the National Women's Law Center] said.

The right wingers are rallying behind DeVos.

"You can't immediately just say, because the court has said no employment discrimination where sex now reaches certain aspects of sexual orientation and gender identity that leads to a particular outcome for bathrooms, locker rooms or sports teams," said Ryan Anderson, a senior research fellow at conservative-leaning think tank Heritage Foundation.

And the Department of Education said…

Of transgender athletes, the Education Department's Richey said in one of the documents, "If the school offers separate-sex teams, the male student-athlete who identifies as female must play on the male team, just like any other male student-athlete," arguing that separating students for single-sex sports teams "must be based on biological sex."
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"Transgender girls are girls. And we are for girls' rights," Chandy, of the National Women's Law Center, said.
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"The Education Department now says they're going to interpret Title IX as allowing them to investigate claims of discrimination based on a student's sexual orientation. But if you read the letters, it appears that they are doing so rather grudgingly and trying to read the Bostock decision as narrowly as possible," she said.

There is only one way to stop the Trump administration persecution of us is to vote Democratic in November.

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A followup of yesterday’s post…

Russian ‘Cossack soldiers’ prowled the streets hunting down LGBT+ folk during Pride week. They wound up targeting straight people
Groups of men in Cossack military uniforms have been filmed roaming the Russian city of Yekaterinburg during Pride week in “anti-LGBT patrols”.
Pink News UK
By Emma Powys Maurice
September 8, 2020


According to the Russian news outlet E1RU, the men were on the look out for LGBT+ activists, but succeeded in targeting straight people who they thought looked queer.

The group briefly detained at least one “absolutely heterosexual” student, 19-year-old Alexander Zinovyev, because he had dyed hair and wore an earring.

“Why’d you dress up like this? Are you one of them?” Zinovyev recounted one of the men saying to him. “Do you even know that we control the propaganda of gayness among the people?”

He said the men who intimidated him carried certificates declaring themselves to be “Ural Voluntary Cossack Corps”. While most of the group were dressed in military camouflage, others were patrolling in civilian clothes.

Hmm… who do they sound like?

Right-wing groups clash with counter protesters in several U.S. states
Reuters
By Andrew Hay
August 15, 2020


Right wing demonstrators fought with leftist counter protestors in Georgia, Michigan and Oregon on Saturday drawing in riot police and SWAT teams.

Groups ranging from an anti-government patriot group in Portland, Oregon to alt-right Proud Boys in Kalamazoo, Michigan battled anti-fascists and Black Lives Matter activists as months of anti-racism protests increasingly pitted Americans against one another.

Several dozen demonstrators, many armed and carrying Confederate battle flags, staged a rally in the Atlanta suburb of Stone Mountain next to a park famed for its giant monument to leaders of the breakaway slave-holding states.

A mix of militia members, Confederate followers and supporters of President Donald Trump faced off against more than a hundred left-wing protesters, some armed, many carrying signs or wearing T-shirts supporting Black Lives Matter.

Does this sound like what is happening in Russia with Putin’s goon squad?

Pink News goes on to say,

He claimed that around fifty people were participating in the patrols, with some Cossacks travelling over 200km from Chelyabinsk to support their Yekaterinburg “brothers”.

Yup, they sounds just like Trump’s stormtroopers.