Subj : Weakling
To : Angela Walker
From : Lee Lofaso
Date : Mon Nov 02 2020 12:45 am
Hello Angela,
>I can list a few ways that Trump being president has tangibly and negatively
> affected my life in a real way!
Here is a site I found that lists some of the things the Trump
administration has done, and is doing -
https://transequality.org/the-discrimination-administration
>Under Obama, LGBT individuals such as myself had federal legal protections
>against discrimination. LGBT students could feel safe in public - they could
>use public restrooms without fear of legal action being taken against them -
>something that should be a basic human right for all Americans.
Sure. But even so, this country is still short in regards to ensuring
basic human rights for all Americans.
>LGBT employees had federal non-discrimination protections. Transgender
> persons could participate in the Armed Services. I could go on.
And it would still be incomplete, as more needs to be done. Much more.
>Thanks to Trump, all of that has been reversed and then some.
He wants to go back in time. Before the time of Abraham Lincoln.
I am putting things nicely.
>He's actually gone as far as to legally "disappear" transgender people by
> redefining gender in the legal context as an un-changeable binary
> determined by a doctor's glance at birth that can never be changed or
> modified on any legal documents recognized by his government.
I know a woman who is a man. I first met her when she was 14 years old.
Actually, she was a he, but dressed as a she. At the time she was a
school student and liked to play with other girls in her class. Well,
the teacher also knew, so it was not like it was all some big secret.
Anyway, a few years later she fell in love with a guy in the navy.
And then she did what happens to lots of other girls. She got pregnant.
That is when her real problems began.
She and her fianc� wanted to get married. But her government would
not allow her to get married to a guy because her birth certicate said
she was male. And she could not get her birth certificate changed to
female.
That is when she decided to go public.
A very visibly pregnant man(?) went on television (the Today show)
and was interviewed by Bryant Gumbell. This was some thirty years ago.
I do not know if she wound up having a baby boy or a baby girl. But
it was naturally conceived.
The point I am getting at is we have two genders and five sexes.
But many times we confuse them. Sometimes deliberately so.
* male
* female
* pseudo-hermaphrodite
* true-hermaphrodite
* eunuch
>While I haven't been arrested for using a public restroom nor have I been
> discharged from service or fired because of who I am, knowing that those
> are the rules of the land has profoundly affected my psyche and
> self-esteem.
The boy and girl in the Philippines were no different than any
other boy and girl in the world. Except that one of them had to
play by rules imposed upon him/her by his/her own government.
>I feel vastly less-safe as an LGBT American than I did under Obama - I feel
> at-risk when I go to work, when I go shopping, when I pay my bills, when I
> fill out forms, and very much so when I see a doctor or seek any sort of
> medical care.
Gilead's theocracy. That's what they call it in Margaret Atwood's
"The Handmaid's Tale". Maybe the current one will be called something
else. The only good thing being this one would be incompetent.
>When Trump was elected, I knew it would be bad for LGBT Americans but he's
> done more to hurt us than I'd even imagined. His words when he asked the
> Supreme Court to rule that LGBT Americans have no legal protections against
> discrimination - and lost the case - "It's unfortunate. It's very
> unfortunate."
With a 6-3 majority now in his favor, what do you think the ruling
will be when it comes up for reconsideration? Think about it.
7 Catholics, 2 Jews. One of those Jews being his own personal pick.
And the other one a Catholic.
>So I have to live with knowing that the leader of my country believes it's
> very unfortunate that he couldn't officially legalize discrimination
> against people like myself.
Oh, he has the numbers now. He really does have the numbers. Bigly.
>.. and now that he's installed his pet, Amy, into the Supreme Court, that
>decision is likely to be overturned - along with dismantling the Affordable
>Care Act that protects 30 million Americans with health care in the middle
> of a pandemic, not to mention women's rights. Roe vs. Wade? Gone, just a
> matter of time.
Get your white wings and your red robe out ...
>Regardless of how you feel about abortion, I submit that taking away the
> right of every woman to make that decision for herself after decades of the
> status quo represents a monumental step backwards in terms of personal
> rights and freedoms - well, rights not pertaining to straight white men,
> that is.
"I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege."
~ Sean Connery
I am sure Sir Sean Connery was talking about white privilege ...
>But I'm getting off-topic so I'll return to my premise and conclude that
> yes, my life is much worse than it was when Obama was in charge. I think
> that actually applies to the vast majority of Americans, as COVID does not
> represent an anomoly - it's not an external event that has nothing to do
> with Trump's leadership as he'd like you to think - it's a direct result of
> his empowerment!
I always thought the Chinese Flu had slanty eyes ...
>Consider this: China tried to hide the SARS outbreak of 2008 just as they
> tried t hide COVID but American agents and the CDC played a major role in
> exposing the truth in time to stem the spread. However in 2019, the
> president of the United States was praising China's leadership and even in
> early 2020 he was on TV commending China's efforts in dealing with the
> virus - assuring us it was not threat to America. Forget everything he's
> done to hamper the efforts to get the virus under control since it exploded
> in America... I submit that it's the fault of himself and his global
> influence that this thing ever got out of control worldwide in the first
> place! He's done a 180 on China by calling it the "China virus," well I say
> we call it the "Trump virus!" To that end, Trump has made all of our lives
> SO much worse, worldwide!
He is incompetent. Never had a plan at all as to how to deal with
the virus. Still has no plan. He was told about it, in plenty of time
to prepare. He had all the experts at his disposal. And was not able
to come up with any kind of plan as to what to do.
This is not something one can just go through with. It is not something
that will just go away on its own. The virus will continue doing its
thing until it runs out of people to infect. It is that simple. Which
is probably why he hasn't got a clue.
--Lee
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