Posted on 06/28/2022 5:14:11 PM PDT by RandFan
A group of House Democrats on Tuesday announced they would move to codify federal protections for transgender people.
The proposal, dubbed the “Transgender Bill of Rights,” would codify the Supreme Court’s 2020 Bostock v. Clayton County decision that protects employees against discrimination for being gay or transgender.
The proposal would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to explicitly include protections for gender identity and sex characteristics, expand access to gender-affirming care and ban conversion therapy.
It would also require the attorney general to designate a liaison dedicated to overseeing enforcement of civil rights for transgender people and invest in community services to prevent anti-transgender violence.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and co-chair of the Transgender Equality Task Force, said in a statement that the resolution would ensure transgender people can lead “full, happy lives.”
“As we witness Republicans and an extremist Supreme Court attack and roll back the fundamental rights of trans people across our country, and as state legislatures across the country target our trans community with hateful, bigoted and transphobic attacks, we are standing up and saying enough is enough,” Jayapal said.
Jayapal introduced the proposal alongside Reps. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), Marie Newman (D-Ill.), Mark Takano (D-Calif.) and Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.). The bill has 84 other co-sponsors.
The bill’s proponents cited Friday’s Supreme Court decision overturning the constitutional right to an abortion.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in a concurring opinion that the court should also consider overturning some of its other precedents decided under the same substantive due process protections at the heart of Friday’s decision, like rights to same-sex marriage and contraception.
The Bostock decision was not mentioned in Thomas’s concurring opinion and involved a different legal question.
But Thomas’s opinion has caught the eye of many Democrats who believe the Supreme Court’s conservative majority is poised to roll back rights extended to LGBTQ people in past cases.
This is what these ding dongs waste their time doing while President Retard screws up the country 🤪
Mental illness is not a “right”, it’s a disease.
Shouldn’t this be the Transgender Betty of Rights?
This is sure to be a crowd-pleaser.
Remember when Republicans were constantly being warned not to “give in to extremes” because it would “alienate moderate voters” ?
Economic disaster looming, globalists looking to start WWIII, our border being overrun, and then this is the priority.
The right to keep a bare ass shall not be infringed.
How about a “say gay” bill?
When a man says he’s a woman, we tell him, “no, you are gay”.
Rats aim to destroy the family fabric.
IMO they keep pushing the Trans crap to move the Overton window and in the process make gays and gay marriage seem “normal” by comparison
Go for it! Double down on the craziness, November is coming up.
No - no more carving out groups for political leveraging.
Revoke the civil rights act outright.
Punch a communist.
Meanwhile, most Americans care about inflation, gas prices, crime and the southern border invasion.
“Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in a concurring opinion that the court should also consider overturning some of its other precedents decided under the same substantive due process protections at the heart of Friday’s decision, like rights to same-sex marriage and contraception.”
Substantive Due Process is a blank check to legislate from the bench.
Only a Satanist nation would do such a thing. Better hope it doesn’t happen.
My first thought was “There’s an election loser.”
All the transgender people are going to vote for the democrats anyway, but I’d expect a few of the church ladies are democrats but can’t stomach this agenda.
Here’s a question: would this bill accomplish anything other than create more bureaucracy?
Will anyone at all be better off as a result of this?
While at the same time they are destroying the “Bill Of Rights” for normal, sane and decent people.
I would say it's a spiritual disease, Satan is working full time and so far winning the souls of godless Americans.
What is a woman? If they can’t answer that simple question they have no business dictating anything to anyone.
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