It Is Getting Worst Out There!

Legislative and legal actions against LGBTQ+ are on the rise across the country and the world. We have have been left out of a hate crime law in Pennsylvania as hate crimes are increasing around the nation.

Trans people excluded from Pennsylvania hate crimes law in year of record-setting violence
York Daily Record
By Sammy Gibbons
December 14, 2021


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This year’s list tallied the highest number of deaths since the organization started tracking fatal violence against transgender people eight years ago. At least 50 transgender and gender-nonconforming people, including five in Pennsylvania, were killed in the U.S. as of Dec. 13. “At least” is key because these stories often don’t get told, or victims are misidentified in official reports, according to the Human Rights Campaign.&
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The report highlighted how legislation could protect LGBTQ people. But hate crime laws comprise just one piece of a much larger puzzle that, when finished, reveals methods to curb anti-transgender violence.

As the violence against us increases in Pennsylvania the Republican politicians don’t see any need to add us to the state’s hate crime law.

"Ever since then, we've been trying to amend the existing hate crime statute to incorporate protections for the LGBTQ+ community and the disability community without any success," said state Rep. Dan Frankel, D-Allegheny, who has introduced several bills over his career to protect LGBTQ people.

The majority of Pennsylvanians support LGBTQ people's civil rights and related legislation, said Rep. Brian Sims, D-Philadelphia, who was the first openly gay member of the House. But the Republican-led legislature "won't allow this issue to move at all," he said.

Hey so what if we are killed off, we vote Democrat anyway, so it is no skin off the Republicans’ teeth.

Meanwhile across the pond Hungary is passing anti-LGBTQ+ laws.

Hungary's anti-LGBTQ law breaches international rights standards - European rights body
Reuters
By Krisztina Than
December 14, 2021


Hungary's law that bans teaching about homosexuality and transgender issues in schools violates international human rights standards, the Venice Commission, a panel of experts of the human rights body Council of Europe said on Tuesday.

The legislation, which passed in June and has caused anxiety in the LGBTQ+ community and triggered sharp criticism from the European Union, bans the use of materials seen as promoting homosexuality and gender change at schools, ostensibly as a measure to prevent child abuse.

The constitutional law experts of the Venice Commission concluded that the amendments are not in accordance with international human rights standards and fail to ensure that children get access to objective and non-biased information on gender identity and sexual orientation.

"On the contrary: the amendments contribute to creating a “threatening environment”, where LGBTQI children can be subject to health-related risks, bullying and harassment," the panel said in its assessment.

"The amendments leave space only for one-sided and biased teaching, opening doors to stigmatisation and discrimination of LGBTQI people," the panel added.

Once again the conservative government doesn’t care, they know that they persecuting us and they don’t care what the rest of Europe and the world think. They know that with Russia rattling their sabers that the other EU and NATO countries are not going to do anything.

It didn’t stop them from passing the law earlier in the year.

Hungary's anti-LGBTQ+ law casts shadow over drag queen contest
Reuters
By Anita Komuves and Krisztina Fenyo
July 4, 2021


In a backroom of a dilapidated former factory outside Budapest, contestants wearing huge fake eyelashes and glittering dresses are preparing for Hungary's annual drag queen competition, all the while hoping it will not be the last.

"Let's party hard while we still can," drag queen Bonnie Andrews called out to a cheering audience as she took to the stage in a black evening gown and tiara.

Hungary's parliament passed legislation on June 15 that strengthens rules against paedophilia and bans the dissemination of content in schools deemed to promote homosexuality and gender reassignment.

Oh yes, they knew exactly what they were doing in passing the laws, the same is true with the Republicans in Pennsylvania, they know that they are propagating hate and energizing their fascist base.