This is a stab in the back, this is an "Et tu, Brute" betrayal.
Staffers have slammed the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children for rolling over without a fight.LGBTQ NationBy Greg Owen MondayFebruary 10, 2025The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was ordered to erase any mention of trans youth from public-facing media and resources last week or face losing its funding from Donald Trump’s Justice Department.The nonprofit complied.Independent journalist Marisa Kabas first reported the order on Thursday. A staff meeting held on Friday confirmed the purge of materials referencing trans youth.“All statements on all public facing material—including the website, reporting, training materials and survivor presentations—that spoke about genders other than male or female had to be edited to reflect male or female,” an NCMEC staff member told Kabas. “If those materials were not easily editable, they were to be removed.”
It is not just us that has been wiped out it is...
By Friday, NCMEC’s website had been scrubbed of all mentions of LGBTQ+ youth.
This is horrible! They caved-in without a fight when Lord Donald focused in on them they decreed all funding for us must stop!
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it would be removing all references to transgender people from its public materials.NBC NewsBy Kevin Collier and Ben GogginFebruary 7, 2025[...]“Earlier this week, like many federally funded non-profits, NCMEC was directed by DOJ to comply with Executive Order 14168,” a NCMEC spokesperson said in an emailed statement. “We are responding to this direction in a balanced way reviewing our publicly facing materials to ensure compliance while not impacting our 40-year mission of child protection.”As a nonprofit, NCMEC relies heavily on grant money from the Department of Justice. It is the nation’s largest private sector organization to search for missing and exploited children, and it coordinates with law enforcement and tech companies to identify and remove child sexual abuse material.[....]Groups that advocate for transgender people condemned the move by NCMEC as singling out and demonizing people who are already marginalized.“Missing persons organizations’ support should be available to all, and a minority group of children shouldn’t be targeted by the government,” the board of the Trans Doe Task Force, a trans-led nonprofit that searches for missing and murdered trans people, said in an emailed statement. “Many LGBTQIA+ children have gone missing due to unsafe conditions at home and unsupportive families.”
Back when I was interning for my MSW one of my assignments with the non-profit was to attend a meeting with Judicial Branch Court Support Services Division. Wow, fancy name but it didn't prepare me for what was ahead. At the meeting the agency was looking for shelter for a trans girl.
It is children like her, children that are thrown out on the streets that Trump is cutting funding to!
The girl was thrown out of her house in New York by her parents when she told them she was trans, she found her way to the bus station in Bridgeport. She was picked up by a pimp, hooked on heroin, forced in prosecution, busted, turns in her pimp, the pimp puts a contract out her, and she is shot on the court steps. At the meeting Court Support Service people said that they couldn't find and shelters to take her in... could we help?
Children like her are the people Trump wants to throw out on the streets!
The Modesto Bee wrote about it affecting Pride centers...
Veronica Ambrose, a community organizer at MoPride, said that while the DEI executive order does not directly impact her organization, it could restrict the grants it’s eligible to apply for in the future.“MoPride is always trying to make our community as diverse and equitable as possible,” Ambrose said.She noted that while she doubts nonprofits will bend to the order, she is concerned about the fate of programs that rely on direct federal funding.Roman Scanlon, executive director of the Cal Pride Center of Stanislaus County, said his organization primarily receives state funding, not federal, so it won’t be directly impacted by the executive order.However, CalPride collaborates with various community organizations, meaning the impact of federal funding cuts could extend beyond DEI-focused groups. Scanlon explained that because grants and funding streams are interconnected, cuts in one area can ripple across the entire community, affecting many other groups as well.
How many other Pride center are worried about their funding?
Context writes about LGBTQ+ legal organizations,
A lawsuit representing six active trans soldiers was filed by civil rights organisations GLAD Law and the National Center For Lesbian Rights (NCLR), against Trump's order on military service.
The American Civil Liberties Union and LGBTQ+ advocacy group Human Rights Campaign (HRC) have vowed to mobilise their networks to fight back against the directives.
I have started donating to LGBTQ legal organization;
I have worked along side of lawyers from GLAD for close to twenty years, since 2006 when I sat in on the Anti-Discrimination Coalition when we were trying to pass the gender inclusive non-discrimination bill. She is now working on a case for GLAD down in Washington DC she wrote on her Facebook page in part...
With a (tiny) bit of distance from the gloom of my D.C. visit, I have had time to reflect on an intense week of being in and out (and in) Court. Here is what I've got. It's a work in progress as we all take in the enormity of what we are facing. While I remain laser-focused on my area of expertise - defending transgender rights - I'm acutely aware that many other communities are under similar attack. My fervent prayer is that there are fierce and tireless advocates in those trenches too. My lane is and has been transgender advocacy and here are some reflections from my foxhole.The systematic targeting of transgender Americans represents far more than isolated acts of discrimination. Last week, during our hearing seeking emergency relief from the military ban, the judge cut through the government's pretense. She asked the government's lawyer how she could possibly defend, as rational, a policy that literally declares that being transgender violates the values of honor, truthfulness, discipline, selflessness and humility - even though transgender service members must meet the exact same rigorous standards as their peers.And then she went further, asking the government to reconcile this blatantly incoherent stance with the administration's sweeping attacks on transgender people -- far beyond the military and in so many disparate contexts. While our side will certainly argue that all these actions reveal the same underlying animus, what struck me most was the judge’s chilling, methodical listing of what this administration has done in less than two weeks.
It cost money to send lawyers around the country, it takes money to try these cases so I am donating to some of these organizations. But I am no long on the front lines, I turned that over to the next generation, but if you can afford it donate to these NGOs (Non-Government Organizations).
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