Summary
Donald Trump signed an executive order rolling back transgender and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, reversing key measures introduced by Joe Biden.
The new order declares the federal government will recognize only two genders and bans agencies from promoting gender transitions.
Federal documents, prisons, and agencies must comply.
Trump also targeted environmental justice grants and diversity training programs.
Civil rights groups condemned the move, pledging legal challenges.
Don’t worry. According to
Russiansideological purists, this outcome is better for my trans son than if Kamala Harris had won.Now if you’ll pardon me, I have to get back to working on moving my family out of this shit-hole country.
I’m trans, but I’d rather kill myself than vote for genocide.
Thank you for making that decision for every trans person in the USA.
Sorry, I made the only decision I could. Every fucking day I listened to the stories and testimony coming out of Gaza. It was either vote against the genocide or do something much more drastic. I wouldn’t have survived voting for genocide. I hung on because I chose to believe the Axis of Resistance could hang on and keep fighting until a ceasefire. And they did!
Instead of punching left at people who wouldn’t vote for genocide, punch right at the transphobes that want to kill us. If you want to be mad at me, be mad at me. I can handle it. But you’re gonna have to work with me if we’re gonna get through this together.
We were trying to work together to stop the fascists but too many people like you let perfect be the enemy of the good. Now we can only hope that there will be something to save in four years.
If you actually believe we need to stop the fascists, you can’t just wait four years to try again. Fuck this “we can only hope” loser talk. We can do a hell of a lot more than that! If you really believe this is a fascist takeover, start acting like it.
Look, I get it, there’s more that must be done. But there’s only so much an individual can do. We need to work together again and this time, stay united.
They’re a tankie, mate. Not much use arguing, they’re starting from a bad faith position.
You punched left with the biggest fist when you voted for trump to win.
You didn’t vote for trump but that isn’t relevant.
You need to get off your ideological high horse and study game theory.
You Helped Trump
This presidency is partially your fault.
This presidency is all our faults! Do you really feel like you did everything you could to stop Trump?
Yes. I voted against him.
What does being trans have to… :sees
.ml: oh.Okay tankie.
Whatever dronie.
Personally, if it’s my rights vs being a part of a genocide I’m ready to get my passport revoked.
It’s not like I had money to flee the country, and my retirement plan was already to die in the water wars.
So you chose being part of the same genocide and additionally the future genocide of LGBT people in America. Are you fucking joking?
I voted for the non-genocidal candidate (PSL) tyvm
So you voted for Trump.
Trump won by more votes than all the third party votes combined. Third party votes had zero impact in my state too.
You voted for Trump.
You could have voted for Harris, worked hard to convince others to vote for Harris (who instead chose not to vote), and done everything else in your power to prevent Trump from coming into power. You didn’t. So you voted for Trump. That’s the reality of a two-party system.
So you voted for Trump.
No I voted for Claudia de la Cruz
I’m sure your ideological purity is a great comfort to my son who has just been legally declared a woman.
I got my name/gender markers updated a few years ago.
The Democrats lost the election due to a combination of their support of Israel (and corresponding economic impacts) and their terrible campaign/no primary. If you’re looking for people to blame they’re not on your left.
My son. He’s a transman. Trump declared him legally a woman yesterday.
Oh, that’s a confusing way to put it then. I don’t put much stock in what the federal government ‘declares’, their proclamations don’t mean it’s reality.
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. It means good luck getting a passport or any other federal documentation with your actual gender on it. It means drugs and medical treatments that are approved at the federal level for gender transition won’t be available anymore. It means if you live in a state that isn’t friendly to trans people, you are going to suffer.
So it means trans people are fucked. How do you not know this?!?
And it’s not like the issue with Palestine is better under Trump. We had the choice between a candidate who would at least try to put pressure on Netanyahu… and one who will happily do whatever is asked of him by extreme evangelical Christians who believe Israel needs to be dominant in the Middle East so Jesus will come back.
How the fuck does anyone conclude that the Democrat is bad in comparison to that?
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Now you’re complicit with the upcoming genocide of trans people but go ahead and enjoy that warm fuzzy feeling you have from saving Palestine from Kamala Harris.
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
This time around it’s started with Palestinians, democrats acting helpless to stop the genocide (while actually arming it). It does not fill me with confidence that if LGBT people became a political liability that democrats wouldn’t unite with the republicans on our extermination too.
If it’s your rights. Fuck me if mine gets caught up in it, since it’s “for the greater good”. Right tankie?
According to Russians ideological purists, this outcome is better for my trans son than if Kamala Harris had won.
Said nobody ever.
You must have slept through the year prior to the election or been offline. This place was swamped with people who, in the name of saying Palestine was THE issue shouted continuously about ‘bLuE mAgA’ and how people need to stay away from the democratic party, which when people do that you get this as the alternative.
in the name of saying Palestine was THE issue
Conveniently ignoring that Trump is also worse for that whole situation.
People were saying they weren’t willing to vote for the Democrats because they supported genocide. Say what you want about that, but it has nothing to do with trans people; literally everyone was perfectly aware they’d be worse off with a Trump victory.
It has to do with trans people because you don’t get to pick one candidate on this topic and another on that topic. By outright rejecting the democratic candidate these same people where willing to throw every minority and marginalized group in our own country under the bus for that one ideologically pure stance.
And it isn’t even actually ideologically pure, since the Republicans are 1000% worse on Israel and Palestine.
Okay, and?
The statement in the parent comment
According to Russians ideological purists, this outcome is better for my trans son than if Kamala Harris had won.
is false, because nobody said that. Simple as that. You can take issue with the anti-Democrat stance, but nobody tried to imply it’d result in a better environment for trans people.
Can’t afford rice and bread, .01% hold more wealth than the rest combined, but persecuting trans people and renaming the Gulf of Mexico will fix those problems…… how?
What problems? None of this is affecting a billionaire negatively.
Shit like this is what gets people like Trump elected. It is also what protects the capital class from any consequences.
Well he did sign an executive order “addressing the cost of living crisis,” so rice and bread prices are all fixed now! If only Sleepy Joe thought to sign something! /s
Yeah but what about the price of eggs?
Went up to 10 dollars.
At least the people in Gaza are okay now.
people in Gaza*
* - Israeli settlers who are no longer being sanctioned by the US.
Pretty sure none of the residents of Gaza is okay right now, even though the bombing has temporarily paused.
That’s the point…Gaza protest voters are bigger suckers than trump voters…
MULTIPLE orders once you read past the language on merit based hiring.
Full text of each order here:
First, roll back 78 Biden orders on various protections:
INITIAL RESCISSIONS OF HARMFUL EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND ACTIONS
Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government
Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing
Reforming The Federal Hiring Process And Restoring Merit To Government Service
I’m gagging on the phrase “Defending Women” in the context of anything done by this rapist and his misogynist forced-birther cronies. Especially as a cynical “justification” for denying/destroying the lives of nonbinary, trans and intersex people.
(Look at Melania’s Defense Hat, she knows who women need protection from.)
Congratulations on helping fascism win, you are equally culpable for everything that happens for the next 4 years as Biden was in Gaza. And I hope you lose just as much sleep over it.
