They’re Worried Also.

Who? The United Nations Human Rights Committee about the Republicans’ anti-LGBTQ pogrom!

The U.N. Human Rights Committee Is “Deeply Concerned” About Anti-LGBTQ+ Discrimination In the U.S.
The review also highlighted a wide array of human rights violations.
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By Samantha Riedel
November 13, 2023

A United Nations committee says it is “deeply concerned” about numerous U.S. human and civil rights abuses in a new report, including the ongoing rise in state-level discrimination against LGBTQ+ people.

On November 3, the U.N. Human Rights Committee (HRC) concluded its review of the state of human rights in the U.S., the first such review held in nine years due to a pause during the COVID-19 pandemic. The committee’s report highlighted 29 different “matters of concern” in which the U.S. continues to violate the U.N.’s International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, despite signing on to the document in 1992. In particular, the committee expressed concern over worsening “discriminatory treatment that persons continue to face based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.”

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The committee also identified more than two dozen other areas in which the U.S. urgently needs to address human rights violations, including murdered and missing Indigenous women, the criminalization of homelessness, drone bombings abroad, and racism in policing. The report also criticized the U.S. for failing to protect human rights in territories it controls, like Puerto Rico and Guam. But despite a laundry list of major concerns, human rights watchdogs say that U.S. ambassadors did not take the committee or its report seriously, especially as they related to policing and military issues.

In one ear out the other.

All the UN does is highlight the discrimination to the world we already knew and knew that the government wouldn’t do anything.

This is far from the first time LGBTQ+ rights abuses in the U.S. have drawn international attention. Last year, U.N. Independent Expert Victor Madrigal-Borloz concluded that “equality is not within reach, and often not even within sight” for many U.S. citizens who are LGBTQ+.

“The evidence shows that, without exception, these actions rely on prejudiced and stigmatizing views of LGBT persons, in particular transgender children and youth, and seek to leverage their lives as props for political profit,” Madrigal-Borloz wrote at the time.

To paraphrase “A Tale of Two Cities”
"It was the best of times for those who conform to the norm, it was the worst of times for those who are different!"

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Later this afternoon I’m going out to a reunion of the company that I retired from… it should be interesting.

I hate driving at night but most of the was will be divided highways so the headlight glare will not be as bad.