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Parents and educators grade Alberta's education bill

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/p ... i-AA1tmYrL

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SCOTUS justices as well as members of Trump's incoming admin have suggested same-sex marriage should be a state issue
Fred Wellman
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From my friend Ashley Mack:

35 states have a state constitutional amendment or statutes prohibiting same-sex marriage.

Chances are your state has a ban. SCOTUS justices as well as members of Trump’s incoming admin have suggested same-sex marriage should be a state issue.

Local elections matter!

November 17, 2024 at 10:51 AM


https://bsky.app/profile/fpwellman.bsky ... 5r57ln3s2q

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Supreme Court to hear case on definition of a woman

25 November 2024

Judges at the Supreme Court are to consider how women are defined in law in a landmark case brought by Scottish campaigners.

It is the culmination of a long-running legal dispute which started with a relatively niche piece of legislation at the Scottish Parliament, but which could have big UK-wide implications.

It will set out exactly how the law is meant to treat trans people, and what it really means to go through the gender recognition process.

And it could have implications for the running of single-sex spaces and services, and how measures aimed at tackling discrimination will operate in future.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgv8v5ge37o

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He's the first known transgender lawyer to argue before Supreme Court.For Chase Strangio the mission 'is not lost on me'

Source: CNN US

Published 8:00 AM EST, Sun December 1, 2024

CNN — A single 15-minute argument in the middle of this week could change Chase Strangio’s life – and the lives of so many people like him in the United States. Strangio, an attorney for the ACLU, is set to make history Wednesday as the first known transgender person to argue before the US Supreme Court. And he’ll do it as part of the most high-profile dispute on the docket this session. The case, US v. Skrmetti, challenges a Tennessee law that bans treatments, including hormone therapy and puberty blockers, for transgender minors and imposes civil penalties on doctors who violate the prohibitions.

Some two dozen similar laws have been enacted in recent years in Republican-led states. The high court’s ruling could have a cascading effect, not just for the families and physicians whose lives are deeply intertwined with its outcome – and who await Strangio’s appearance at the lectern with guarded hope – but also for the next chapter of civil rights law in the United States.

For Strangio, the professional path that’s led to this moment – in which he’ll have 15 minutes to present his argument to the justices – cannot be unwoven from his life outside the courtroom. “It is not lost on me that I will be standing there at the lectern at the Supreme Court in part because I was able to have access to the medical care that is the very subject of the case that we’re litigating,” he said recently.

The justices will decide whether Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for children and adolescents violates the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause, a question that could allow a majority of the court to hold that laws targeting transgender people are unconstitutional and discriminatory.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/01/us/chase ... index.html

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He's the first known transgender lawyer to argue before Supreme Court.For Chase Strangio the mission 'is not lost on me'

Source: CNN US

Published 8:00 AM EST, Sun December 1, 2024

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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/01/us/chase ... index.html

More on that here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... skrmetti/

Edit: From the Mother Jones article:

If the Supreme Court sides with Tennessee, for example, states might be emboldened to try banning other types of sex-specific healthcare, such as IVF or birth control, the ACLU warns.

This is yet another example of the attitude that posits "well it doesn't affect me so I don't care" can be so dangerous. The more minority rights are trammeled, the more likely that one day any given person will be affected. This is why a "all for one and one for all" defense is so important. Unfortunately, voters in 2024 did not seem to have learned that lesson.

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Morons. The nation should go on strike over this, though sadly this won't be a dealbreaker for most Americans.

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Manning being based as usual.

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If Republicans Can Take Away My Rights Today, They’ll Take Yours Tomorrow
by Robin S.C. Griffin
December 5, 2024

Extract:

(Other Words) I’m not Christian anymore, but it feels like I’ve managed to find the kind of life King Solomon talked about in Ecclesiastes 5:12: “Sleep is sweet to the one who works.”

Conclusion:

Attacks on trans people are broadly unpopular outside Trump’s base, and we make up a small fraction of the population. Policies that make our lives better and safer — or even just leave us alone — come at essentially no cost to everyone else.

The fact of the matter is that Republicans are warming up for their bigger goals. If they can wipe away two decades of progress for trans people in a few short months, they’ll have playbook for overturning gay marriage by the end of the year.

If they can convince you to look the other way while they invade the medical history of trans people, maybe you won’t notice when they use the same authority to let insurance companies deny you coverage for a preexisting health condition.

They don’t care how normal my life is — or yours. The point is to crush anyone they don’t like and to reward their wealthy backers. I can’t say where they’ll stop, but I share Solomon’s cynicism from the back half of Ecclesiastes 5:12: “But the satiation of a wealthy man will not permit him to sleep.”

Read more here: https://otherwords.org/if-republicans- ... omorrow/

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/politics ... index.html

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Lithuania’s top court declares anti-LGBT law unconstitutional

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/1 ... titutional

TLDR the court's reasoning from what I understand is that "a family can also be some kid living with grandma and their aunt; it is therefore wrong to assume that the only valid family is two heterosexual parents"

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can you like.

not repost transphobia

More on that by France 24:

https://www.france24.com/en/video/20241 ... der-lunacy

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