ACLU to Immediately Sue if Trump Admin. Greenlights Trans Erasure

[left-of-center2012]

Source: Advocate

Reaction was swift after The New York Times reported today that the Health Department is pushing a memo to deny the existence of trans identity and move toward eliminating nearly all federal protections for gender-nonconforming people. All major LGBTQ organizations condemned the proposed policies and the American Civil Liberties Union told the Trump administration they should anticipate a furious legal battle.

"This is an attack on the very lives and existence of transgender people," James Esseks, director of the ACLU LGBT & HIV Project, said in a statement. "It is painful, it is hateful, and it will not go unchallenged. Transgender people have the right to not only exist, but to fully participate in public life. Transgender people are real and transgender lives have meaning.

"If the Trump administration moves forward with these hateful and hurtful policies, they will once again be met with opposition in courts and in communities. More and more courts are seeing that policies targeting transgender people have no place in our country. The ACLU will fight back against any efforts to use transgender people as political pawns and continue to seek full equality for transgender and nonbinary people."

A bigot at the Department of Health and Human Services, Roger Severino, is spearheading a memo that would define gender identity as immutable and defined by genitalia at the time of birth. The memo is the first step in getting all federal agencies to have consistent messaging about trans identity -- namely, that it doesn't exist -- and to roll back protections for gender-nonconforming people in public schools, universities, and in health care. The memo is partly a response to recent court decisions and Obama-era guidelines that expanded protections and rights for transgender people.


Read more: https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2018/10/21/aclu-immediately-sue-if-trump-admin-greenlights-trans-erasure

[mountain grammy]

1. This is horrific.

First they came for the transgendered.

[Honeycombe8]

8. He's pulling everything out of his a** for the mid-terms. This issue is a rallying cry for his base.

Like immigration, the transgender bathroom thing is an issue that sticks in their craw and gets them very worked up.

He has also tried the old "we're working on a yuge tax cut bill for the middle class...it's yuge...."

[mountain grammy]

10. One thing I've learned the last couple of years

if he wants this, it'll happen. This is denying the existence of a real human condition.How far will they go? Laws? Arrests?

Wonder what Caityin will say when they lock her up.

[duforsure]

12. I agree

He also does this to redirect attention away from issues he doesn't want in the news cycles, and they do stuff to reduce the impact from other news issues. Like he's now using immigration again and using fear and hate to promote it with.

[Honeycombe8]

16. True. nt

[Initech]

2. Of course if it comes to Trump's SCOTUS...

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[appalachiablue]

4. K & R. ACLU, thanks. Polish Pastor Martin Niemuller wrote:

[keithbvadu2]

5. How are they going to define homosexuality out of existence?

How are they going to define homosexuality out of existence?

How are they going to define all non-Christian gods out of existence?

[Haggis for Breakfast]

6. Trump does NOT have the authority to do this.

It is issues like this that have made me a PROUD card-carrying member of the ACLU. For decades.

Support the ACLU if you can. I support and contribute to only a few, but the ACLU is one, as well as the SPLC (the Southern Poverty Law Center). They do good work and help people who have no power to defend themselves. Especially against this fascist administration.

[Mr.Bill]

7. Almost every day

Trump threatens to do things he does not have the authority to do.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

9. And that will make it all the sweeter when we

throw his sorry ass in jail. Forever.

And then repeal all of his heinous policies.

[LakeSuperiorView]

13. Pi is 3. There is no such thing as climate change. The Sun orbits the Earth, which is obviously flat

Ignorant assholes think they can define anything.

[ooky]

11. Its a shame we have so many people in this country

who are so bothered by people that aren't hurting them. Classless bullies, and incredibly un-american.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

14. This is terrible, but good to know the ACLU will take immediate action.

Let's hope they don't have to.

[Gothmog]

15. The ACLU will win this lawsuit

[BigmanPigman]

17. I hope this gets more millenials to vote.

This is an issue that they care about a lot.