Every day, we live in a world where our identities are questioned, debated, doubted, dismissed, or distorted.
And yet, we stand here, alive, present, trying to build lives, build families, build futures. Any action opposed to that shows not a penchant for “common sense” as often the default argument, it shows a propensity for hate and intolerance.
These are veterans, individuals that promised their lives as they swore an oath to this country. A gift they gave, and we took it for their years of service. We owe them respect and dignity…not this.
A fundamental principle of regulatory fairness is to 'grandfather in' those established practitioners when professional rules are changed. To effectively invalidate an individual's entire working life with the stroke of a pen is unjust and utterly unconscionable.
Unconscionable and a cowardly act. This isn’t just illegal, this is blatant, targeted discrimination. As counter intuitive as this will sound, bear with me. I welcome this choice. I don’t welcome it happily, but I see the counter suit, the appeals and the precedent that this will lead to. The arguments made by this administration are basic, “we make the rules, so you follow those decrees.” There is no basis of following grandfather clauses and best practices that are equitable. It is a gold mine for discovery in this. Project 2025 and EOs prove that harm and exclusion is the point. If that is the point, then legal challenges will succeed. In my opinion.
We should absolutely continue to fight every fight they start. Last week I was angry and lost. I felt hopeless facing this wall of oppression. I can’t explain the what turned inside me, but I had it. I sat down and read, researched, I asked questions and informed myself. I analyzed the problem and saw that wall was only as strong as the bricks it was built with, and those bricks were weak. I found legal arguments and precedents that work for us. I wrote a brief and submitted the first one to the ACLU to test the waters in challenging these orders and decisions.
To summarize it. Our identity is our 1st amendment right. Forcing our gender marker defined identity is compelled language and that is a direct violation of our 1st Amendment rights. I will push this, shout this and fight for this because we are right about who we are.
That's an interesting strategic perspective Tabris. Yes, seeing this overreach as a gift for future legal challenges is wise. I trust you're exactly correct about the precedent.
I am absolutely supportive of the positive outcome you’ve explained. While at the same time continuing to voice my opposition to this administration’s immediate ethical breach of invalidating established careers. This administration by it character remains unconscionable.
I am a retired Marine who transitioned after I retired. You want to know something else that is bullshit? I get all of my medical care from the VA and now the only gender affirming care I am able to get is HRT, and that is only because I already had a prescription for it before March 17th of this year. I also have Tricare Prime, that no longer covers any gender affirming care, plus I have Medicare A&B, and that is very limited in gender affirming care coverage. So with what amounts to three federal medical insurance policies, all I can get covered is HRT. If I want any gender affirming surgeries I have to find a way to pay for them out of my own pocket.
Those are the kinds of obstacles these newly discharged trans veterans are about to run into. That is one of the reasons it was so important for the dems to hold fast, in order to block the anti-trans riders that were in the original CR. Since they caved, we no longer have any leverage to use to fight against them putting those riders back in the next CR. Please people, make sure that you remember the names and faces of the dems that turned their backs on us, and primary every damned one of them - along with Schumer.
More of, the cruelty is their point. To hell with this administration.
The people engineering, funding, and carrying out the propaganda campaign and enacting the laws and policies against transgender people must face 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 18 U.S.C. § 241, & 18 U.S.C. § 242 prosecution.
Some must get a needle or a rope, at least and handful of them.
The government is doing its best to erase the existence of trans people so it can respond to complaints of discrimination by denying the existence of offended parties. It is part of an alternative universe they are creating (and which too many people choose to live in) — denying the existence of trans people, demanding that all LGBTQ people defined as the subhuman creations of ‘groomers,’ putting ALL women ‘in their place,’ and reserving the rights and benefits of citizenship in this most wealthy nation to those who identify as white [cis]male heterosexual evangelist Christians.
Just another dispicable move by this administration to deprive members of the military regardless of their sexual preferences who have served their country with honor. I just don’t know how this administration sleeps at night - they have no conscience and no morals - IT IS ONLY RIGHT THAT WE PROVIDE FOR THESE SERVICE MEMBERS AS WE WOULD FOR ANY MEMBER OF THE MILITARY- ALL STATES SHOILD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO RESOLVE THIS ISSUE
None of us civilians deserve what vets have given us, but the disgraceful ones causing this deserve it even less. Thank you vets and so sorry for all the harm this has caused any of you 💔
Just wanted to share that WPATH has been responding to the anti trans things governments are doing and the plan as of 2024 was to put out more research . The next symposium is November 2026 in Mexico City .
I often wonder if Trump got the crap beat out of him because his “Daddy” caught him trying on his “Moma’s” clothes in her closets.
Talk about conversion therapy! I’d call whatever happened to Trump some really harsh AVERSION therapy, so harsh that he now wants to make sure that everyone knows he “disapproves” of transgender people.
His behavior is becoming more and more weird and his tangential thinking is hard to follow. IF it seems like Trump isn’t really running the country it’s because he ISN’T!
The people in his cabinet and all their support staff are running the country, with Trump making short appearances to give the impression that he’s aware of reality and what is happening in this country and that he approves of everything.
AVERSION therapy: little Johnny steals a candy bar from the local “5 and dime” and someone breaks a couple of his fingers on his non-dominate hand, while saying to Little Johnny, “Don’t get caught stealing again because this is totally non-Trump behavior. You can steal, just don’t get caught!”
Ok, off the soapbox.
Well, maybe just one more observation: the government isn’t working very well these days; nobody answers their phone, nobody calls you back when you leave a polite message; Tennessee Dept. of Homeland Security had phone banks with so many choices I forget why I called. Oh, yes, trying to get a “Real ID”. It ‘s just a total SNAFU!
Every day, we live in a world where our identities are questioned, debated, doubted, dismissed, or distorted.
And yet, we stand here, alive, present, trying to build lives, build families, build futures. Any action opposed to that shows not a penchant for “common sense” as often the default argument, it shows a propensity for hate and intolerance.
These are veterans, individuals that promised their lives as they swore an oath to this country. A gift they gave, and we took it for their years of service. We owe them respect and dignity…not this.
A fundamental principle of regulatory fairness is to 'grandfather in' those established practitioners when professional rules are changed. To effectively invalidate an individual's entire working life with the stroke of a pen is unjust and utterly unconscionable.
Unconscionable and a cowardly act. This isn’t just illegal, this is blatant, targeted discrimination. As counter intuitive as this will sound, bear with me. I welcome this choice. I don’t welcome it happily, but I see the counter suit, the appeals and the precedent that this will lead to. The arguments made by this administration are basic, “we make the rules, so you follow those decrees.” There is no basis of following grandfather clauses and best practices that are equitable. It is a gold mine for discovery in this. Project 2025 and EOs prove that harm and exclusion is the point. If that is the point, then legal challenges will succeed. In my opinion.
We should absolutely continue to fight every fight they start. Last week I was angry and lost. I felt hopeless facing this wall of oppression. I can’t explain the what turned inside me, but I had it. I sat down and read, researched, I asked questions and informed myself. I analyzed the problem and saw that wall was only as strong as the bricks it was built with, and those bricks were weak. I found legal arguments and precedents that work for us. I wrote a brief and submitted the first one to the ACLU to test the waters in challenging these orders and decisions.
To summarize it. Our identity is our 1st amendment right. Forcing our gender marker defined identity is compelled language and that is a direct violation of our 1st Amendment rights. I will push this, shout this and fight for this because we are right about who we are.
Thank you for doing this.
That's an interesting strategic perspective Tabris. Yes, seeing this overreach as a gift for future legal challenges is wise. I trust you're exactly correct about the precedent.
I am absolutely supportive of the positive outcome you’ve explained. While at the same time continuing to voice my opposition to this administration’s immediate ethical breach of invalidating established careers. This administration by it character remains unconscionable.
Republicans never, ever cared about veterans. It was all political posturing and another tool for their political machine.
I am a retired Marine who transitioned after I retired. You want to know something else that is bullshit? I get all of my medical care from the VA and now the only gender affirming care I am able to get is HRT, and that is only because I already had a prescription for it before March 17th of this year. I also have Tricare Prime, that no longer covers any gender affirming care, plus I have Medicare A&B, and that is very limited in gender affirming care coverage. So with what amounts to three federal medical insurance policies, all I can get covered is HRT. If I want any gender affirming surgeries I have to find a way to pay for them out of my own pocket.
Those are the kinds of obstacles these newly discharged trans veterans are about to run into. That is one of the reasons it was so important for the dems to hold fast, in order to block the anti-trans riders that were in the original CR. Since they caved, we no longer have any leverage to use to fight against them putting those riders back in the next CR. Please people, make sure that you remember the names and faces of the dems that turned their backs on us, and primary every damned one of them - along with Schumer.
More of, the cruelty is their point. To hell with this administration.
The people engineering, funding, and carrying out the propaganda campaign and enacting the laws and policies against transgender people must face 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 18 U.S.C. § 241, & 18 U.S.C. § 242 prosecution.
Some must get a needle or a rope, at least and handful of them.
The government is doing its best to erase the existence of trans people so it can respond to complaints of discrimination by denying the existence of offended parties. It is part of an alternative universe they are creating (and which too many people choose to live in) — denying the existence of trans people, demanding that all LGBTQ people defined as the subhuman creations of ‘groomers,’ putting ALL women ‘in their place,’ and reserving the rights and benefits of citizenship in this most wealthy nation to those who identify as white [cis]male heterosexual evangelist Christians.
My parents were the Greatest Antifa Generation, and this is not the America they fought to defend - and that one uncle died to defend.
Just another dispicable move by this administration to deprive members of the military regardless of their sexual preferences who have served their country with honor. I just don’t know how this administration sleeps at night - they have no conscience and no morals - IT IS ONLY RIGHT THAT WE PROVIDE FOR THESE SERVICE MEMBERS AS WE WOULD FOR ANY MEMBER OF THE MILITARY- ALL STATES SHOILD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO RESOLVE THIS ISSUE
You answer your own not-quite-question: They sleep at night *because* they have zero conscience to keep them awake.
None of us civilians deserve what vets have given us, but the disgraceful ones causing this deserve it even less. Thank you vets and so sorry for all the harm this has caused any of you 💔
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:adac9008-2277-468f-addb-28823ee85d52
Just wanted to share that WPATH has been responding to the anti trans things governments are doing and the plan as of 2024 was to put out more research . The next symposium is November 2026 in Mexico City .
I often wonder if Trump got the crap beat out of him because his “Daddy” caught him trying on his “Moma’s” clothes in her closets.
Talk about conversion therapy! I’d call whatever happened to Trump some really harsh AVERSION therapy, so harsh that he now wants to make sure that everyone knows he “disapproves” of transgender people.
His behavior is becoming more and more weird and his tangential thinking is hard to follow. IF it seems like Trump isn’t really running the country it’s because he ISN’T!
The people in his cabinet and all their support staff are running the country, with Trump making short appearances to give the impression that he’s aware of reality and what is happening in this country and that he approves of everything.
AVERSION therapy: little Johnny steals a candy bar from the local “5 and dime” and someone breaks a couple of his fingers on his non-dominate hand, while saying to Little Johnny, “Don’t get caught stealing again because this is totally non-Trump behavior. You can steal, just don’t get caught!”
Ok, off the soapbox.
Well, maybe just one more observation: the government isn’t working very well these days; nobody answers their phone, nobody calls you back when you leave a polite message; Tennessee Dept. of Homeland Security had phone banks with so many choices I forget why I called. Oh, yes, trying to get a “Real ID”. It ‘s just a total SNAFU!