Midweek Mirth

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Pivotal Moments

 

Morning

Lifted from Sicko Ricko

Happy Trans Day

Lifted from Debra - She Who Seeks

Stonewall, and the lesser-known 1966 Compton's Cafeteria riot (3 years *before* Stonewall) in the Tenderloin neighborhood, marked pivotal moments in trans resistance, where transgender women, drag queens, and queer patrons fought back against police harassment. If not for those Queens, where would the community be?

Harm or Injury

 

Morning

Just when I thought things were looking up....

As if a letter on a document causes harm or injury to a segment of society.

SCOTUS Rules In Favor of Trump's Anti-trans Passport Policy

"Given the order, any passports being issued, renewed, or corrected moving forward will reflect sex assigned at birth for the applicant.

“Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth — in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment,” the concurring justices wrote in the order.

Justice Katanji Brown Jackson wrote the dissenting opinion, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. In it, she remarked that the Trump administration had routinely begun to seek relief from SCOTUS where they often find an “obliging audience.”

"This Court has once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification," she wrote. “The documented real-world harms to these plaintiffs obviously outweigh the government’s unexplained (and inexplicable) interest in immediate implementation of the passport policy.” "

Maybe we should get rid of the gender designation altogether. As long as the name and photo match, 

does it really matter?

New Pope

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