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squistion Footballguy Jun 9, 2021 Add bookmark #1,012 There is no protection for LGBT+ folks, so even if they actually say "I am firing you for being queer after seeing you got married" there is no recourse as there is zero employment discrimination protection for LGBT+ people. squistion Footballguy Jun 9, 2021 Add bookmark #1,018 https://www.upworthy.com/29-states-can-fire-you-for-being-gay-is-your-state-one-of-them 29 States Can Fire You For Being Gay. Is Your State One Of Them? And in 34 states it is legal to fire someone solely for being transgender. If you think this is as ridiculous as I do, you're going to want to see what Michigan's hilarious "Don't Change Yourself: Change the Law" campaign is doing about it. Footballguy Jun 10, 2021 Add bookmark #1,028 https://www.courierpress.com/story/opinion/columnists/jon-webb/2020/06/16/despite-supreme-court-you-can-still-get-fired-being-gay-trans/3197494001/ Despite Supreme Court ruling, you can still get fired for being gay, transgender [...] It doesn’t protect everybody, though. Depending on where you work, you can still get fired for being gay or transgender. Under U.S. law, religious organizations are basically exempt from protections baked into the Civil Rights Act. Sometimes called the “ministerial exception,” it bars ministers from suing for discrimination. According to Evansville attorney Erin Borcherding Bauer, with Barber & Bauer LLP, Monday’s decision won’t do anything to overturn that. Gorsuch’s opinion made that clear, she said. [...] some of his greatest hits in that link

Oh and Andy could do what he did back then wrestling women, he would get a trans that would whip his arse nowadays.

The Trans-Pacific-Partnership was dedicated to creating a free trade zone with the nations surrounding China. If someone wanted no tariffs they'd start by supporting that. By the way it still happened, just without the US.

My statement was more of a general point of view on why the reactions to trans people are what they are sometimes, and biological reactions to "the enemy." These are literally our lizard brain characteristics that won't go away despite hormones or whatever. Trans women don't suddenly lose aggression because they are now "female." It's still there. If you're in front of me wearing a dress and makeup, and then suddenly you Alpha Male it up because you're pissed, you're going to spread the illusion that trans people (namely trans women) are violent when it's suits them. It's a biological trait to incite fear in the others around you. Lions growl deeper. Monkeys and apes scream louder and show their teeth. Human males stand a little taller, puff out their chests a little, deepen their voice. I've seen other videos of where trans women do this when they feel they are being threatened.

Nailed it! Libs are calling it Transphobia so that they can make it a "Republican's are evil" agenda when it's purely a women's rights / child welfare issue. They can't allow that to be the issue because then they can't make the trans community a victimhood and capitalize on it.

I view trans as something I don't really care about as long as the person deciding to be trans is not impacting anyone else. If my neighbor is a cross dresser and likes to put on womens clothes and go out on friday night, cool. Good for him. If my neighbor decides he is trans and wans to get breast implants, cut off his junk, start taking hormones, etc... I really don't care. I could pretty much say the same thing about any hobby someone has.... Is trans a mental illness? ... are people who like to have sex with people dressed as furry animals mentally ill? Or is it just a weird fetish? I don't know and I really don't care. the problem with trans is that a group of people (mainly liberals) have decided to make it everyone elses problem. They always need a new group to be marginalized and scream for ________ rights, and trans became one of them. I dont hear anyone yelling about cross dressers rights or furries rights. And it obviously goes hand in hand with men in womens sports. So when you have Brendan deciding he is now Brenda and deserves to play on the female collegiate golf team, now you're bothering other people and pushing your agenda onto others. Now we have to bring science and biology into the equation when it could have just been Brandan's personal hobby to be a woman. So yeah, it's about the trans adults as well.... since those are the ones trying to play sports or the ones going around baiting restaurant employees into calling them the wrong pronoun while filming their fake outrage, etc.

What is a “trans advocate”? I thought the main issue was protecting the kids? Is it moving to not being accepting of trans adults either?

Unfortunately I can’t admit I’m wrong about this issue because I don’t think I am. I believe that trans people should be allowed to live their lives with dignity and respect. I think teenagers should be able to make medical decisions in consultation with their parents and doctors without government interference or restriction, unless public health issues are involved, and in the cases of gender therapy or surgery they are not. I think gender dysphoria is a mental disorder that can lead, if untreated, to suicide; the only treatment to gender dysphoria is therapy and ultimately a sex change operation. I do not believe that a teenager can be talked into gender dysphoria. I do not believe that a straight teenager can be talked into trans or gay. Finally I don’t believe that trans athletes should play in girls sports but it’s a really minor issue to me. These things I believe based on what I read and understand. If public opinion is 80-20 going the other way I can’t help that. It is what it is.

No to the economy and war but trans issues are massively motivating. Reasonable people can disagree about climate/energy policy or foreign policy issues like Ukraine or such, I could see voting one way or the other on candidates over such things. But trans is a killer issuer with a glaring red line. People who support it are morally bankrupt and I will never vote for a trans-advocate for any position anywhere ever.

It's a really simple answer. The trans thing was pushing us more toward men being in the locker room with girls. Anyone with a daughter and common sense would know that's a massive issue.

Just to clarify (because I have so much trouble believing it)- is this issue (trans) SO important to you that you prioritize it over the economy, energy, foreign affairs, war, all other issues?

1-5 for me hit home. I did not vote FOR Trump. I voted against the democrats. I do not care who it is. I likely will never vote democrat again after the shitt they have pulled over the last 10 years. They go out of their way to be on the wrong side of things. Then get super pisssed off when people do not want to follow. 4/5 is something I am never going to get behind with something like 10 nieces/great nieces. The "trust the science" people suddenly are so dumb on this issue. I literally do not care if your name is barny and you want to be called Betsy. Does not matter at all to me. If that is what make YOU happy. Go for it. But understand the world does not bend to YOU. You do no get to go to places women go. You do not get to play sports with women and expect the rest of us to pretend not to notice you are bigger, faster and stronger. That is simply not fair OR safe to women/girls. All of these people that keep coming out to support Trans Athletes never had to compete against them or to have to change in a locker room with them. Funny how that works. Easy to say when you never had to look across as a woman and see some dude you have no chance of beating. "oh but only ____ percent of trans athletes play sports. You are blowing it out of proportion." Is that ____ a 0? If not, the percentage is too high. If you believe that anything more than 0 is ok, I can never support anything you do as a party. You actively are trying to put women in danger because of your rabid support of trans people.

8. Drag queens and trans shouldn’t be allowed around children

Only a day ago you accused the Florida shooter of being trans and a liberal (it turns out he was MAGA and white supremacist- go figure!) Perhaps as an alternative to your plan, we should deport deliberate spreaders of false information?

Owen McIntire, a 19-year-old man who was in town on spring break from a university in Boston, allegedly wore women's clothing during the attack. https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1913339720161013788

All liberals a freaking sick. A school board meeting in California featured emotional debate over transgender athletes being allowed to share locker rooms with high-school girls. One girl who cried during a speech was told to "wrap it up" by the board president. During the Lucia Mar Unified School District (LMUSD) board meeting on Wednesday, a high-school junior girls' track athlete at Arroyo Grande High School named Celeste Diest took the podium to recount her experience of having to change in front of a biologically male trans athlete before practice, while that athlete allegedly watched her undress. "I went into the women's locker room to change for track practice where I saw, at the end of my row, a biological male watching not only myself, but the other young women undress. This experience was beyond traumatizing," Diest said, as she began to choke up and cry. "Adults like yourself make me and my peers feel like our own comfort was invalid, even though our privacy was and still is completely violated." Diest then fought through her tears to argue that the trans athlete's XY chromosomes define the person as a male, adding, "That is basic biology." But Diest was then interrupted by LMUSD board president Colleen Martin. "Okay, please wrap it up," Martin said, gesturing to Diest to finish her point. The teen then sniffled and continued speaking. "I just want to ask ‘what about us?’ We can not sit around and allow our rights to be given up to cater to an individual that is a man, who watches women undress and is stripping away female opportunity that once was fought for us. Sadly we have to try and regain our rights back. I hope you put effort into the restoration of our school safety." Diest then walked away from the podium to a roaring applause from the audience before Martin tried to silence the cheers Martin even began slamming her gavel down to try and temper the growing applause, but the cheers only got louder after that. "No!" Martin yelled when the cheers got louder. Then, Martin just sat there silently as the applause continued for several more seconds, before it finally tempered, and the next speaker gave another speech opposing trans inclusion. Prior to Diest's speech, one of the other speakers, a woman named Shannon Kessler, who was scheduled to go after the teen, asked Martin whether she could give her speaking time to Diest. But Martin denied that request. https://www.foxnews.com/sports/california-girl-cries-recounting-trans-athlete-experience-school-board-president-says-wrap-up

Seems that white people are treated differently by Summit public schools in California . “You get presented with, on equal merits, like a white person or a black person or whatever. Yeah, we're going with the black person,” revealed Jonathan Ferrer, Director of Human Resources for Summit Public Schools, a charter network operating in California and Washington, to an OMG hidden camera, admitting to employment practices that violate federal and state anti-discrimination laws. During the hidden camera investigation, Ferrer acknowledged that hiring decisions are often made based on race. He explained further that hiring is evaluated in terms of the school’s perceived cultural needs, adding, “Who do we feel is best for kids right now in the context of that school site or that classroom? So if it’s a person of color, great. If it’s a trans teacher, great.” Ferrer also discussed how the district’s DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) priorities impact candidate selection. When asked if there are certain quotas they try to meet, he explained, “Obviously we have a lot of kids that identify as LGBTQ, maybe even trans. So we have one trans teacher in our district… and so I think it’s just culturally, we just naturally look for those folks.” Ferrer also admitted that political ideology plays a role in who is and isn’t hired. When asked if Summit Public Schools would ever hire someone who supports Donald Trump, Ferrer bluntly replied, “I don’t think we would hire them.” He elaborated that the school uses DEI-based interview questions to filter out candidates who do not align with the district’s values. “We do have DEI questions built into our selection process,” Ferrer said. “We have a rubric… if they say any of these things, this is not someone who's answering the question the way we’re aligned to answer the question.” He provided an example of the kind of response that would disqualify a candidate, saying, “If the candidate or teacher is like, ‘Well, I want to make sure that [students] learn about conservative values,’ blah, blah, blah… that’s probably not what we are looking for.”

Registered Republican Bible thumper Comments making fun of liberal protesters anti-trans posts on Threads (posting on Threads at all would also align with the making fun of liberals theme) Allegedly kicked out of political discussion group for “white supremacist views” Alleged photo in MAGA hat and camo shorts (in the one confirmed photo he also has a camo backpack)

Alleged posts on Threads saying “Trans women are men” and that Taylor Swift is a man. maybe it was @Maximum Overkill

I see this being reported in other posts but I have not personally verified the veracity. https://x.com/search?q="Florida State University"&src=trend_click&vertical=trends The 20 year-old Florida State University alleged school shooter, Phoenix Ikner, the son of a Leon County Sheriff's deputy whose gun he used, is a Republican who quotes the Bible and made fun of anti-Trump protesters. Not trans. Not an illegal immigrant.

I ain’t reading 100 pages or whatever, sounds like it was all over the place and did include anti-white sentiment which was my understanding of a primary original motive. Interestingly in regards to the violent Tranny motive, Hale says they did not know trans was a thing until age 22. Perhaps if Hale had transitioned sooner they may have been happier?

Go get perverted somewhere else! See a psychiatrist After President Donald Trump issued an executive order restricting access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 19, many hospitals nationwide abruptly cut off treatment for trans youth. This sent thousands of families scrambling, with some even wondering if they needed to leave the country to protect their family’s future. If enforced, President Trump’s order will deny transgender youth access to medically-necessary care, like puberty blockers and hormone therapy, even as these same treatments remain readily available to their cisgender peers. The order also intends to cut or reduce federal funding for health care providers who refuse to prioritize the Trump administration’s political preferences over their patients’ medical needs. Since his first term, Trump and his administration have carried out a years-long effort to roll back protections for LGBTQ people. Beginning in January, the Trump administration issued a series of executive orders that remove protections for trans people. His directives include targeting transgender students, banning trans Americans from military service, and giving federal agencies the green light to openly discriminate against their trans employees. These orders align with the extremist vision of Project 2025, a sweeping right-wing agenda that seeks to dismantle civil rights protections, consolidate presidential power, and dehumanize transgender people.

No one obsesses over trans folks like MAGA folks. TRANS DERANGEMENT SYNDROME ACTIVATED!

We aren’t doing the “tango” im sh!tting on you for being a creepy trans supporter, that’s it

The UK Women’s Pool Championship Final was contested by two transgender players on Sunday, sparking furious protests and online backlash. The tournament was subject to protests and a social media storm after Harriet Haynes and Lucy Smith, who were both born biologically male, defeated a line up of female-born opponents to reach the final. The Ultimate Pool Women’s Pro Series Event 2, which took place in Wigan, saw protests hit the venue. Inside the venue, protestors shouted: “He’s a man and we stand with Lynne Pinches” — one of Britain’s top female pool players who turned down her first ever professional contract in February. Protestors inside the venue on Sunday held up signs saying “Save Women’s Sport” as Haynes walked past. Pinches said she did so because of her belief that transgender players have an unfair competitive advantage. She also said that she rejected a place on the Ultimate Pool Tour, which features the game’s top 32 players. Pinches said that an apparent u-turn by the sport’s governing body and main promoters regarding transgender policy was the “final nail in the coffin,” adding: “I was done then.” Haynes is no stranger to controversy as the issue of trans athletes in the world of pool continues to be subject to legal challenges and fierce debate. Last year, Irish billiards champion Kim O’Brien made headlines after she forfeited her place in the European Pool Championships final, refusing to play against her transgender competitor, Haynes. Lucy Smith meanwhile, Haynes’s transgender competitor, became the Women’s Pro Series Champion in September 2024. Comments underneath a photo of Smith holding the trophy, posted by Ultimate Pool, were disabled on social media after some social media users reacted angrily. In August 2023, the World Eightball Pool Federation (WEPF) and its promoters Ultimate Pool Group, made a decision not to allow transgender players to compete against “naturally born women,” however it later reversed that decision — saying they would adhere to the guidelines set by the International Olympic Committee and the World Professional Snooker and Billiards Association. The u-turn was protested by Pinches in November 2023, when she conceded the Women’s Champion of Champions tournament to opponent Harriet Haynes in Prestatyn. Pinches claimed on Monday that she had been told to leave Sunday’s event by Ultimate Pool. The English Pool Association (EPA) and WEPF currently allow transgender athletes to compete without restriction, as stated on the EPA website. However, the EPA’s bylaws on transgender athletes have been under review since December 2023. Last August, the English Blackball Pool Federation (EBPF) — which runs county level competitions in England — announced that they were banning transgender women from playing in their Ladies’ events, saying they wanted players to “enjoy a safer environment” and ensure “equality and fairness for all”. Haynes, who transitioned at the age of 23, was crowned champion on Sunday, winning the £1,800 prize money. Haynes, now 34, has taken a legal challenge against the move by EBPF, with the landmark case set to be heard next April. Speaking to the Independent in December, Haynes said of the court case: “I’ve never really considered myself a trailblazer. I’m just a woman who is trying to live my life, and all I want to do is just be treated the same as any other woman. “I work in an office environment and I’m treated like a woman every single day in the rest of my life. This is the only aspect of my life where I’m not.” Haynes has argued that Pool is “not a gender affected sport,” telling the newspaper: “We’re not talking about boxing or golf – we’re talking about pool.” Following Sunday’s final, former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies slammed the final as “bloody ridiculous and grossly wrong in every way,” while broadcaster Piers Morgan labelled the event “preposterous.” Responding to the online controversy, Ultimate Pool released a statement on Monday. “Due to ongoing legal proceedings, Ultimate Pool is currently unable to comment on this specific matter. We hope that we are soon able to clarify our position publicly. The statement added: “In short: we love women’s pool. Therefore, we are determined to continue to try and do our best for the future of the game. We’d like to use this opportunity to congratulate Marrion Jude, Harriet Haynes, Kirsty Clugston and Louise Maher on their victories this weekend. “We understand the need for reasoned, sensible debate around this issue but we also dress that ultimate pool will not tolerate abuse of any of its hundreds of players on social media.” Lynne Pinches, meanwhile, issued a statement claiming that she was ordered to leave the event on Sunday, a development described by supporters of the 51-year-old veteran of the eight ball circuit as “disgraceful.” Former world number one tennis player Martina Navratilova sent her support to Pinches, writing in response: “Disgraceful. This is so effed up- our “left wing” politicians in these countries-US, UK, Australia, Canada and where ever else- need to wake up and start protecting women and our sex based spaces and they clearly need to protect our language. Compelled speech is not ok, ever!!!!” Pinches, who refuses to play pool professionally with transgender competitors, took to her platform to add: “This still upsets me that I am self excluded. The positive effect on sport becomes clear when you no loner play. I miss playing at the high level. I miss my friends. I just miss it.”