Escalating anti-LGBT+ hate and the terrorism it inspires

Ironbite4

Ironbite4

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Good hugging lord she went full Karen. Joanne Karen Rowling has just gone full TERF.

Ironbite-and people still pay her for her mediocre book series about magic.
 
Ungnome

Ungnome

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End goal is to erase Stonewall itself. They just haven't gotten that far yet.
 
Ungnome

Ungnome

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How much you want to bet the girl was upset because her mother was upset, not the other way around.... That woman sounds absolutely delightful... M&S does realize that it's perfectly OK to fire a customer, right?
 
Pocket

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Ungnome said:
M&S does realize that it's perfectly OK to fire a customer, right?
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Nobody does anymore. "The customer is always right" has trickled all the way up to top-level management (but only if the customer is bitching about insipid things, not if they're expecting actual basic consumer protections that should be a universal human right).
 
The Mighty Mollusk

The Mighty Mollusk

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Spent 19 years in retail. Managers love to claim that they have your back, but the minute a customer complains about anything, you're in deep jive. Customer service workers are treated as a disposable resource, not humans.
 
Ungnome

Ungnome

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Some places still back their employees up, but large corporate chains generally don't....
 
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Once again trans people are much more likely to be the victims of violence, not be the perpetrators of it.... Your much more likely to be shot by a cis white male than anyone else in this country.
 
Pocket

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Even if you're also a cis white male who's done everything to deserve it!
 
NovaSaber

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theappeal.org

Trump DOJ Erases Trans People from Crime Data Surveys

Trump's Justice Department has removed questions about gender identity and trans people from at least four federal surveys.
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Trans people are more than four times as likely to experience violent crime. Behind bars, incarcerated trans Americans experience sexual violence at more than 12 times the rate of other imprisoned people, according to U.S. Department of Justice survey data.


Despite these statistics, the federal government will no longer collect data about the gender identity of people who experience violent crime or sexual misconduct.


In a series of unpublicized revisions last month, the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics has removed all references to gender or gender identity from at least four federal surveys, The Appeal has confirmed. Experts say these changes will make it nearly impossible to monitor crimes and other forms of violence experienced by trans people.


Federal data on trans people is critical because surveys on minority groups require large sample sizes to be accurate. The four newly modified surveys sample hundreds of thousands of respondents each year. Private organizations don’t have the resources to collect data at that scale.


“The removal of sexual orientation and gender identity questions from federal surveys is devastating to our understanding of LGBT populations’ health and wellbeing,” Ilan Meyer, senior scholar for public policy and sexual orientation law at the Williams Institute of UCLA, told The Appeal via email. “Such data is important for setting policy goals for interventions. The removal of sexual orientation and gender identity data will leave policymakers, researchers, and advocates with no valid information on the victimization of LGBT people.”


The DOJ did not respond to a request for comment.
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Ungnome

Ungnome

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Erasing statistics on trans people doesn't make us not exist. Just like clamming the affordability crisis is a left-wing hoax doesn't make it easier for your average family to afford housing and groceries. It's the whole COVID death reporting thing all over again.... Beginning to wonder if Trump is part cartoon ostrich.
 
wonko the sane?

wonko the sane?

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It's going to hide the scale of violence against women as well. Not to downplay the violence against trans, but hiding gender data in this context works against pretty much every body.
 
Ungnome

Ungnome

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Yup. This friggin admin is monstrous. The entire lot of them need to be inmates in the very prisons they are currently regulating.
 
Patch

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More petty bullshit


As you walk down a particular hallway on the seventh floor of the Humphrey Building in Washington, D.C., you'll find a line of photographic portraits of all the people from years past who have led the Public Health Corps at the federal Department of Health and Human Services.

Only one of those portraits is of a transgender person: Adm. Rachel Levine, who served for four years as President Biden's assistant secretary for health. She was the first transgender person to win Senate confirmation, and her portrait has been displayed in the hallway since soon after she was confirmed in 2021. The role is a four-star admiral position in charge of the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service.

Levine's official portrait was recently altered, a spokesperson for HHS confirmed to NPR. A digital photograph of the portrait in the hallway obtained by NPR shows that Levine's previous name is now typed below the portrait, under the glass of the frame.
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An HHS staff member who asked not be identified for fear of professional retribution called the change "disrespectful" and added that it exemplifies "the erasure of transgender individuals by this administration."
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