“Good” news, employers! You can now go back to discriminating against the office tranny!
In the roughly 87 years that Donald Trump has been President (we’re basing that on what it feels like to America), just about the only thing that’s been consistent is his desire to undo anything and everything that Barack Obama accomplished.
That effort, while diligent, has met with mixed results, with “repeal and replace” representing the most spectacular failure.
But just because undoing the last President’s legacy hasn’t always gone as planned doesn’t mean Trump is going to stop trying – persistence is apparently the key to “success” here.
That’s why on Thursday, Jeff Sessions’ (in)Justice Department is rolling back another Obama-era policy. Specifically, he’s getting rid of a federal policy that said transgender workers were protected from discrimination under a 1964 civil rights law.
Here are the details from BuzzFeed:
Sessions’ directive, obtained by BuzzFeed News, says, “Title VII’s prohibition on sex discrimination encompasses discrimination between men and women but does not encompass discrimination based on gender identity per se, including transgender status.”
“Although federal law, including Title VII, provides various protections to transgender individuals, Title VII does not prohibit discrimination based on gender identity per se,” Sessions writes. “This is a conclusion of law, not policy. As a law enforcement agency, the Department of Justice must interpret Title VII as written by Congress.”
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The memo reflects the Justice Department’s aggression toward LGBT rights under President Trump and Sessions, who reversed Obama-era guidance that protects transgender students after a few weeks in office. Last month, Sessions filed a brief at the Supreme Court in favor of a Christian baker who refused a wedding cake to a gay couple. And last week, the department argued in court that Title VII doesn’t protect a gay worker from discrimination, showing that Sessions will take his view on Title VII into private employment disputes.
If this seems completely unnecessary to you, that’s because it mostly is. This is just a blatant (not to mention mean-spirited) attempt to pander to whatever is left of Trump’s base.
Of course this sets up the completely ridiculous scenario where the federal government will end up spending tax payer dollars to fight transgender workers in court. How fun is that, right?
Needless to say, this is just further proof (as if we needed any more following the President’s ill-advised and widely lampooned decision to use decree-by-tweet to ban transgender service members earlier this year), that Trump is no “friend” to the LGBT community.
And as with all things Trump, “there’s a tweet for that”…
Ironically, that is technically true. Because by losing, Hillary did indeed “bring in someone that will threaten [the] freedoms and beliefs” of the LGBT community.
The they go again!!
The Basket of Deplorables Making America Great Again . . .,
For Whom?
Please fill in the blank: _________________________________
sane people
Will someone please explain to the actual sane people exactly what is Sessions and his bigoted brothers afraid of? Does this racist pig think that if a transgender person walks past him that he would suddenly have a deep seated desire to change to a female? Or is he afraid that a former female, now male, would stand at the wall of urinals when he is also there? How is a transgender person being accepted in society going to effect his life?
And I don’t wanna hear all the bullshit excuses about “some kid in gym class or school bathroom” because the youth of America have a much better grip on reality than he does! And I don’t wanna hear that some cross-dresser pretends to be transgender so he can gain access to a women’s restroom and attack her! You simply cannot deny thousands of people the right to follow their gender identity because “someone” “someday” “might” commit a crime.
And his ex-buddy trump cannot change his mind. We already have his opinion in print. However, he is such a moron he may not even know what the letters LGBT mean.
Murphy, The Managing Deplorables in charge of Making America Great Again have an agenda. The agenda consists of parsing through two folders. Their own personal folders. The collective personal folders of their targeted constituency. Please don’t be shocked to find that there is overlap between the two folders. In these folders one can find many social issues, political issues, cultural issues, hot-button emotional issues that touch upon highly evocative fears, prejudices or biases to include race, ancestry, national origin, gender, home grown beliefs, religion, conspiracy beliefs, cults and the like. It doesn’t matter if these matters of heart and mind are based on truth, as long as they ultimately command allegiance, loyalty, support and votes from the targeted constituency.
It’s the job of the The Managing Deplorables in charge of Making America Great Again, to constantly to go through and add to material to the folders as well make hay on what’s in the folders.
So, when Trump attacks Transgenders in the military he’s doing the Manager’s work. When sessions is Making Transgender Discrimination Great Again, he’s doing the the Manager’s work. When Trump and Stephen Miller attack immigrants and erect a Muslim ban, they are doing the Managers’ work. When Trump intentionally fails to come to the aid of Puerto Ricans, who look and sound to him like Mexicans, he’s doing the Manager’s work. It’s their go to play-by-play book.
There you have it. When the polls look grim or when news is about to come out that Ivanka and Kushner are using private email to conduct WH business or that Mueller requested the exact documents that cause Trump’s GERD to degrade his esophagus, those folders one up and The Managing Deplorables in charge of Making America Great Again go merrily to work on destroying the lives of thousands of Americans.
What is Jeff hiding in his own closet(s) because he is complaining way tooo much? Just a thought……..