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Many time we get thrown under the bus by some of our gay brothers and lesbians sisters. We seen this when marriage equality was past… “WE WON!” and walked away to the marriage chapel. Well we seen what happen to the right for a person to chose if they want to terminate their pregnancy after 50 years.

It is the domino theory all over again but instead of countries falling one by one our hard fought legal victories are falling here and around the world.

Poland's Trans Citizens Fear They'll Become Target of the Right
Acceptance of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people is actually rising in the conservative nation, with trans Poles remaining vulnerable.
The Advocate
By Ryan Adamczeski
August 25 2022


With support for gays and lesbians on the rise in Poland, the country’s transgender citizens fear they'll be a major target of the right wing ahead of next year’s parliamentary election. 

The same day in June that Warsaw held its Pride celebration, the chair of the conservative Law and Justice party, Jarosław Kaczyński, met with voters in the nearby town of Włocławek to voice his disdain for trans people, The Guardian reports.

“We have elementary knowledge in biology, we know that gender is determined at the level of chromosomes. … In extreme cases, an operation must be performed, but this does not mean that after this operation a man will be a woman and a woman will be a man,” he said.

He taunted the crowd, making a point to look at his watch, saying, “It’s now half past 5; before I was a man but now I’m a woman.”

We have become the low hanging fruit for all the frustrations of the far right-wing conservatives, they hadn’t any luck in making the lesbians and gays whipping boys so now they are focusing their anger and hate at us.

The Polish government has attacked the LGBTQ+ community on several past occasions, with the country’s president, Andrzej Duda, running a successful reelection campaign two years ago based on anti-queer rhetoric. He is a member of Law and Justice.

Recently, polls have shown growing acceptance for gay people in Polish society, which trans activists believe will make them the next target for the party. Trans author Maja Heban told The Guardian that Kaczyński’s June remarks amount to “workshopping” material for upcoming campaigns.

Polish politician Krzysztof Śmiszek added that “homophobia doesn’t resonate the way it used to” with Polish society. Śmiszek is head of the parliamentary group on LGBT+ equality and member of Parliament from the New Left party, 

“Poland in 2022 is not so easy to be manipulated with homophobia … Kaczyński consciously did not choose the entire LGBT group, but only transgender people,” he said.

Where are our gay brothers and lesbian sisters do they have our back in Poland or are they ducking for cover and glad that it is not them? I sometimes feel that it is more like LGB_tq

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In politics here in the US a Republican doesn't like diversity... he wants everything "Lilly White."

Senate GOP candidate Blake Masters suggests diversity at Federal Reserve is harming the economy

Masters, of Arizona, defended the remarks in a video and lashed out at what he called President Joe Biden's "affirmative action regime."

NBC News

By Zoë Richards

August 29, 2022

Blake Masters, the GOP nominee for a Senate seat in Arizona, suggested in a sarcastic tweet this week that the sluggish economy and the high rate of inflation were tied to diversity in the high ranks of the Federal Reserve.

"Finally a compelling explanation for why our economy is doing so well," Master, who has been endorsed by for President Donald Trump, wrote Sunday in retweeting an Associated Press article with the headline: "Fed tackles inflation with its most diverse leadership ever."

The article noted that more female, Black and gay officials are now weighing in on interest-rate decision-making than ever before in the central bank's more-than-100-year history.

All this diversity makes my head spin!

I want only people who look and think like me, none of these blacks and immigrants, none of these fruit cakes and… and… and none of these WOMAN! And god forbid women in pants!

In May, he was among a group of conservative candidates who invoked versions of the “great replacement theory” — a conspiracy theory that claims there is a plot to weaken the influence of white Americans — by saying Democrats want to give amnesty to thousands of immigrants to claim them as voters.

Masters has also disparaged Black women, having previously argued that Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman confirmed to the high court, was “a horrible pick” and an “affirmative action candidate.”

In Monday's video, Masters also attacked Vice President Kamala Harris, who he said was “so incompetent she can’t even get a sentence out.”

Take me back to the land of “Mayberry,” “Ozzy and Harriet,” and “Father Know Best”!

Bloomberg reported that there is actually a lack of diversity in the Fed...

There are currently five female Federal Reserve bank presidents, including Lorie Logan, who leads the Dallas branch. Lisa Cook is the Federal Reserve’s first Black female governor. Federal Reserve data released in May, however, show that the overwhelming majority of employees are male and White.

Further, four of the 12 Federal Reserve banks don’t employ a single Black economist, and there has never been a Latino leader at the organization. Women comprise fewer than a third of the economists at the central board as well as 11 of the 12 branches. The board counts one Black man among its 400 economists. There are currently no Black female economists at the board. The bank employs no Native American or Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander economists.

Back in grad school I was asked why diversity is important. It was a very easy question to answer, when you have a homogeneous company everyone thinks the same way, in a diverse business different cultures, religions, race, genders, and sexual orientation all shape they way people think bring many new ideas and ways of thinking to a company.

I like to use IBM as an example. Back in the late sixties and the seventies you could spot an IBM rep a mile away… they all had a “flat top” haircut, a blue suits, a thin blue tie, and a pocket protector.

Then this rising star came along who invented a way to speed up computers that is still used today, "dynamic instruction scheduling” (As eyes glaze over) it was an earth shattering invention that was latter said to be one of the major discoveries in computer science. But IBM fired their rising star, why? 

Because she came out trans in the land of the flat top haircuts, a blue suits, a thin blue tie, and a pocket protector, Lynn Conway went on to be one of the must influential computer scientists of this generation.

Then we had two hippies who walked into IBM with their idea but were entirely dismissed of their garage workshop invention… the personal computer. IBM was mainframes not these little toys. IBM brought men to the moon! Those two hippies went on to found Apple!

When you have a diverse workforce you get new ideas, not old ideas rehashed.

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Note: I am not painting the whole LGB community, it is just small group of individuals who are ant-trans. The vast majority of LGB support us. But like most groups they are only interested in their own community.