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Donald Trump and his War on Trans [1]

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Date: 2025-02-05

Trump won the election, half by spouting lies about trans people. He made them a boogeyman. He played on people's fears. It worked.

But it wasn't enough for Trump. He had to do more. He took them out of any diversity, equity, and inclusion programs by banning the programs, went after them for bathroom use, and promised to fire any that were openly trans, and he'll ban them from the military. I thought that would be the end of it. I was wrong.

He didn't just say that he's doing something about trans. He bragged about it as a "great honor." How stupid, and cruel. "Chemical castration." There's no such thing. If there was, he should try some.

"Medical mutilation of innocent children." You talk about it as though they didn't have any choice in the matter. That they were being forced into it by parents, teachers, friends and coaches.

The government will not allow federal funds to be used for "gender affirming care." Not only that. But you can't even talk about it anymore. Children won't be able to ask others to use their chosen pronouns.

I sure hope that the funds Trump is talking about doesn't include Medicare. Medicare currently does, or did, cover all or some of the cost of gender affirming surgeries. I checked.

Calling gender affirming care "barbaric medical procedures," once again stigmatizes something that was already tough enough to deal with, for the ones who need it.

"Should never have been allowed to take place!" Says who? Are you saying that no gender affirming care should ever be given at all to anyone, ever? No matter what age they are?

You are not exactly connecting the dots between the start of your post and the end.

You've already made trans people pariahs in their own families and society. Did you really need to attack such a small segment of society? Why take away the respect that they have for themselves?

I know. Cruelty isn't a bug. It's a feature.

The Executive Order, from Jan.28th, is titled, "Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation."

The actual text of the order:

The overboard reactions by Trump and the Republicans show a deep-seated fear of anything that is different. Something that challenges their perceived masculinity. It shows how insecure they are.

There oughta be a law. I hope the ACLU digs it out and files a lawsuit over this. It's time to draw that line in the sand.

Then, just to add insult to injury, today he signed an executive order called: "Keeping Men Out Of Women Sports." It's exactly what you think it is. Still another attack on the trans community.

Federal funds will be withdrawn from any institution that allows men to compete in women sports. Again mandating that there are only two sexes, men and women.

In recent years many educational institutions and athletic associations, have allowed men to compete in women's sports. This is the demeaning, unfair, and dangerous to women and girls, and a denies women and girls the equal opportunity to compete and excel in competitive sports.

It shall be the policy of the United States to rescind all funds from educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities, which results in the endangerment, humiliation, and silencing of women and girls and deprives them of privacy.

.. take all appropriate action or affirmatively protect all female athletic opportunities and all female locker rooms and thereby provide the equal opportunity guaranteed by Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972.

Locker rooms. Worse than sharing bathrooms to the Republican mind.

It even gets into athletic associations that have qualifications for participation such as testosterone levels.

Many sports specific governing bodies have no official position on requirements regarding trans identifying athletes. Others allow men to compete in women's categories if these men reduce the testosterone in their bodies below certain levels or provide documentation of "sincerely held" gender identity.

It goes on to say that they will force this policy on the United Nations and the Olympics Committee.

He couldn't leave it at that. Again he had to spew hate and include a video of him signing it on Truth Social.

It's a declaration of war on trans people. It was never just a matter of women's sports. You just made it a war for your ugly minded followers. Even Republican legislators had to make it an issue about bathrooms in the Capitol.

Any court in the land would see this as an affront to civil rights. Except for this version of SCOTUS. They could rule that there are only two sexes, male and female. And that would be the end of it. But there would have to be a case that would go through several courts before getting there.

This is a situation that brings to mind the famous quote of Martin Niemöller, which comes in different versions:

First 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 for me.

Everyone has a right to be who they are, and live that way in peace.

We shouldn't even be calling them Republicans anymore. That's an insult to Abraham Lincoln. We should call them who they are, the Fascist Party. That's the nice tag. It really should be the Nazi Party.

The Nazis started out by going after the homosexuals, gay men and lesbians. When that wasn't enough they found other groups to crush. When those were all gone, they turned on the Jews, who they had been attacking all along.

This hate has to be stopped now, before it spreads out of control.

No sooner did I post the diary and went and looked at others, I found this on the NCAA capitulating.

This was a time to stand firm. But colleges and universities do get government grants for science and technology. I understand it. I just don't agree with it.

"President Trump's order provides a clear, national standard." A clear standard for suppression of civil rights, is what it should read.

Why do the dominoes keep falling Trump's way? Has no one learned that you have to stand up to tyrants? When you don't, they take more.

That line in the sand needs to be drawn again with an ever deepening groove until Trump falls into it.

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