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Thursday, January 23, 2025
Legislating Gender Discrimination
WHAT I NEED is a list of Trump's executive orders. That shouldn't be a problem. Did he in fact sign one prohibiting transgender girls from playing girl's sports in all American schools, or public schools? What about transgender boys? Will they be prohibited from playing boy's sports? Does he have the power to do that? Does Congress? Or will it be abjudicated all the way to the Supreme Court, and will SCOTUS rule that its up to the states? Trump evidently signed an order declaring that in these United States, there are officially two genders, male, and female. This is in response to the fact that in recent years, there has been a sharp increase in the number of people who have "come out" and publically declared themselves to be a gender other than male or female. The number of actual non binary genders out there right now is unknown to me, and perhaps to everyone, but, suffice to say, probably considerable. Congress will probably pass legislation of this sort, a male and female only bill; Trump will doubtless sign it. We shall be a nation of male, female, and nothing else. What next? Will heterosexuality be legislated by Congress or decreed by der fuhrer Herr Trump to be the only acceptable sexual orientations in America? Legislating transgenderism out of existence by pretending that it doesn't exist might sound like a simple easy solution on the surface, but only a little cursory thought and analysis is required to see that it is in fact no such thing. Transgender and gay people and non binary people are going to exist, evidently in fairly considerable numbers, whether or not we the American people or mainstream conservative society or conservative Christian America, or whatever, pretends they do not, or tries to legislate them out of existence, and they are going to demand recognition, tolerance, and acceptance. A majority of Americans, despite Trump and Trumpism, believe that they deserve these things, which they considerable fundamental. Why can't MAGA-folk and conservative Christians, which are to a large extent the same people, get this through their indoctrinated little heads? So, here we go again, with more culture wars, wars that the right wing simply cannot, in the long run, win. Gay and transgender and non polar peeple have a large number of social and political allies; the progressive community, basically. Gay, transgender, and non polar people do not choose consciously to be who they are, any more than heterosexual people decide and choose to be heterosexual. They are compleed by their genetic make up to b what they are, just lie the rest of us, just like those of us with black or blonde hair, light or dark skin, just like those of uw who are either tall, short, or something in between. All these laws banning transgender kids from playing sports are nothing but pure discrimination, just a blatant as racist or ethnic or religious dicsrimination, and based on hatred and narrow mindedness, like all discrimination. Racism, gender bias, religious bigotry, and homo and transphobia are all products of traditional, conservative ideals and beliefs, not progressive. Progressive ideals and beliefs are opposed to all discrimination. By electing Trump, the United States has essentiallly written a blank check to the white Christian nationalist supremacist movement, and embraced the hatred it harbors for gay and trans people, as well as non Christian people, non white people, and progressive people opposed to conservatism. The forces of Trump will encounter resistance as powerful as the forces they have assembled to oppress us.
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