White House announces new actions to protect transgender Americans from state-level discriminatory laws

The legislation has since stalled in the Senate due to opposition from Republicans and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. In his Thursday statement, Biden said it is time to pass the Equality Act, to “help transgender persons around the world to live free from discrimination and violence.”

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., who is the mother of a transgender child, wrote in Teen Vogue, “It’s past time for the Senate to finish the job and get the Equality Act to the president’s desk.”

“At the end of the day, what transgender children need is the same thing that every child needs: the unequivocal love, support, and protection of their parents; the same chance to thrive as any of their peers; and the ability to be fully who they are, without fear of discrimination, violence or hatred,” Jayapal concluded. “The suffering of transgender children is not inevitable. It is our job — as leaders, as parents, as legislators — to push back on the attacks and to move us forward again toward true equality and justice.”

Yes, let's keep bending over for the 0.0002% of grifters.

Trans are democrat politicians' number one priority regardless of the arithmetic

Especially Pete Bootygig R3

has Caitlyn commented about this?

[quote] Republican governors in both Oklahoma and Arizona signed laws banning transgender youth from participating in sports.

That’s not true. It’s banning males from competing against females.

R2 you won't find me bending over for any of them!

Geriatric Biden needs better advice.

I wouldn't trust Kamala.

I miss the 90s when the transsexuals were where they belong. On Jerry Springer being laughed at.

[quote]I miss the 90s when the transsexuals were where they belong. On Jerry Springer being laughed at.

…and also in Eddie Murthy’s car.

Maybe the T community needs to examine where this violence, and threats of violence, comes from. And understand that they are no better, because they're fucking not.

Supporting gender affirming medical treatments means transing children. Biden doesn't know what he's signing off on. They just put stuff in front of him and he agrees .

Log Cabin has called for a "real discussion" on the issue and is opposed to transing children. One of the few gay organizations to do so.

They aren't "anti-LGBT laws," they are laws to reserve girls' sports for actual girls. Period.

Offering gender reassignment surgery doesn’t make a kid trans. Telling children that trans people exist doesn’t make them trans. Acknowledging basic human rights for trans people doesn’t make people trans.

Are you deranged? The anti-trans trolls on here are so devoid of empathy and emotional intelligence, it’s skin crawling.

What IS a woman, though?

^ Also, I'm still trying to figure out how homegirl can say she's in a lesbian relationship but doesn't identify as female (non-binary) in the same breath.

The mental acrobatics required to subscribe to these ideologies are downright Olympian.

Who's really controlling things here?

"Love" means acceptance but proper psychological treatment and watchful waiting before medical conditions which may have life transformating negative impacts. I am Jazz is a cautionary tale. Why is no one among the Democratic elites drawing the correct conclusions?

They are unable to say "no" to any claim to victim hood or it is merely misguided but cynical political calculation. (They actually think this will win more votes than it loses them.)

I think hard-core, and probably younger, ideologues are running the party and the media as Boomers (and Silent Generation types like Biden) lose contact, lose their footing, and lose confidence.

It's a massive failure of the elites, leaving the door open for the Republicans.

[quote] What IS a woman, though?

Is 9th grade biology no longer taught??

[quote] they are laws to reserve girls' sports for girls.

R15 Transgender is a lie and mental illness. Fuck off.

Meanwhile, a loaf of bread is $30. But this administration has their priorities.

OP's headline mis-states the Yahoo headline. No action described in the article overturns state laws. If those laws are to be reversed it would be thru the courts not by federal action. The Biden administration is doing a few things, including flying a trans flag, which does nothing.

Curious. I can’t recall an administration making this kind of statement on behalf of us gays and lesbians. Or Native people. Or immigrants and refugees.

^ I for one welcome our trans overlords...er, overtheys.

The statement by Obama when he made October LGBT History Month for one, r25, and his statements after Obergefell, and the Statue of Liberty for immigrants and refugees, just off the top of my head.

Looking it up, I see Biden made a similar statement in October for Indigenous Peoples' Day, Obama made a similar statement back in 2009.

It's hilarious how much you just made up in that post. Whatever keeps you irrationally angry, I suppose.

Just curious, did the Indigenous Peoples Day announcement feature policy statements and initiatives to help Indigenous people.

It may very well, just asking.

He did not r28. You can read the statement for Indigenous People’s Day at the link.

But I guess for r27 none of that matters.

It did indeed mention policy statements and initiatives already made and those to come, r28 and r29, it's right there in the statement, which you're hoping no one will read and that they'll just take your word for it. The follow-up a few weeks later had more.

There is nothing about specific policy in the statement I posted r27. Read it yourself. An additional statement six weeks(!) later is not the same thing and you know it.

R31, your friend claimed no president had ever made similar statements about LGBT, Native peoples, immigrants or refugees that were made by Biden about trans people.

This isn't true. Presidents make statements like this all the time when it comes to policies and incentives.

The only one you thought you had a "gotcha" on was the Indigenous Peoples' Day statement, by moving the goalposts and saying that you two didn't just want a similar statement but "policy statements and initiatives."

Unfortunately, you're both wrong. Look at the 3rd paragraph.

Of course you're going to say it doesn't count, because you are a troll, and that's what trolls do. They lie, then move goalposts, then just claim the facts they don't like "don't count." It's old. We've all seen it before. That tactic hasn't convinced anyone of anything since 2014.

The last I'm going to say about this is that everyone -- absolutely EVERYONE -- should look stuff up for themselves. Don't be one of those dullards who just takes what someone says online as fact. Look it up. Verify everything. Yes, even what I say. Everything.

Once you do, you'll be able to weed out the real people from the trolls pretty easily.

It’s gross that Biden supports transitioning of gay kids used as gay conversion therapy. He did spend the first 40 years of his career as opposed to gay existence and gay rights so it’s no surprise though.

Have Biden or Obama ever made a stamerement that addresses gay people directly? Not LGBTQ which usually means solely trans but gays directly?

Better Joe should act to protect Roe v. Wade.

R14, Liberal women have been convinced, brainwashed, coerced, bamboozled, and/or threatened into supporting the "let's pretend it's not a wolf in sheep's clothing, but is, rather, a real sheep to allow in all our flocks" stance.

I'm so disgusted by my having to side with Republicans on this issue---the heretofore unimaginable happenstance of their supporting science and reality while Democrats reject both---that now I hope "trans-genders" sweep aside all women's athletic records, populate women's teams galore, and otherwise destroy all semblance and social acceptance of "women only" spaces.

Anti-Trans Trolls hissing and spitting their venom on Datalounge? Guess it must be one of those days that end with y.

This is great news for the LGBT Community. It is good to have Joe Biden in the White House.

R37, It’s good for the trans community. Mr. Defense Of Marriage Act doesn’t give a fuck about anybody else

What is good for the Trans Community, is good for the LGBT Community. The LGBT Community does not share the conservative agenda of "all for me, fuck the rest!".

[quote] Anti-Trans Trolls hissing and spitting their venom

Because all rational, sensible people should unequivocally support the notion that a man in a dress is a woman!

[quote]I'm so disgusted by my having to side with Republicans on this issue---the heretofore unimaginable happenstance of their supporting science and reality while Democrats reject both---that now I hope "trans-genders" sweep aside all women's athletic records, populate women's teams galore, and otherwise destroy all semblance and social acceptance of "women only" spaces.

Unfortunately, it looks more and more like all of this and losing abortion rights completely is what it is going to take to wake up a good portion of the American populace to this bullshit. There will come a tipping point. The problem is, we may never recover after that tipping point is reached because it's going to come at the same time, or after, the tipping point is reached that makes democracy of any kind work in the US. Women will be put back into the 1950s like the Repugs want and they'll simultaneously have cheated their way into permanent power making a reversal of the loss of rights permanent.

I got my reddit account suspended for 3 days for saying something terrible and horrific about trans people.

What is this terrible thing that I said?

I said that gender dysphoria is a mental illness.

And they banned me. So I nuked my whole account. See ya, reddit.

Thank you President Biden for making it so easy for us in 2024. We love you. Keep it comin'.

R37 offers nothing to advance his stance other than puerile name-calling and the unsupported claim that anything benefitting the "T" also benefits the "LGB."

That latter assertion I would certainly like r37 to expound on.

He could literally have just come out, said "fuck women and girls!", and accomplished the same thing.

Misguided Democratic leadership is determined to die on this perceived "new Civil Rights" cause, r45.

[quote] Because all rational, sensible people should unequivocally support the notion that a man in a dress is a woman!

It's called freedom of expression. The same right that allows you to voice your disapproval of Trans. How typical right wing of you to demand that you have the right to dictate who can express himself and who can't.

Deplorables have the right to say shit that makes no sense. They have the right to be ok with losing their homes to pay medical bills. And they have the right to care more about what to call a man in a dress than about being exploited by the Republican Party.

Because the world is going to end, because a man in a dress can call himself a woman. That is what makes the world go boom. Just like gay marriage made the world go boom. Obama taking away the guns made the world go boom. Yeah, everything the Liberals are fighting for makes the world go boom. BOOM!

[quote] Republican governors in both Oklahoma and Arizona signed laws banning transgender youth from participating in sports.

Like the trans movement itself, this statement is false and intentionally misleading. No one is trying to stop any youth from participating in sports. They’re saying participation must be fair and that usually means competing against one’s own sex.

Anyone who parrots this shit is the lowest of mindless a mindless follower. You’re in a cult.

R15, and anyone else who would allow this ideology anywhere near children, has no business calling anyone else deranged.

"Because the world is going to end, because a man in a dress can call himself a woman."

No one on this site has any problem with a man wearing a dress, or even with him CALLING himself a woman. Those are things that only affect him. We have a problem with enshrining his delusions in law. Why are you, and Democratic leaders, being so dishonest about this issue? Can't you see that voters will see right through this? Can't you see that female voters, in particular, will smile and nod along in public, and then go and vote for the people who will end this utter madness?

And by the way, your above statement is all that is needed to fully qualify you as a TERF. Welcome to reality.

[quote] We have a problem with enshrining his delusions in law.

For a liberal gay man, who considers himself a member of the LGBT Community, it comes off as bigotry to oppose protections for a minority group.

Trans are part of the LGBT Community. They deserve as much protection from discrimination and bigotry as the rest of the LGBT Community.

And that is the difference between a Liberal and a Conservative: A Liberal believes that everybody deserves to be treated with respect, dignity and having equal rights, while the Conservatives prefer their opposition, and certain minorities, to be inside a gas chamber instead of gaining equal rights.

So, fuck 51% of the population, R52? Deny them their right to Title IX protections, freedom of assembly, freedom from male sexual harassment in intimate spaces, freedom to choose female medical providers, and on and on? Okay, good luck with that.

And yes, R53, I know SO many women who are calling for trans people to be put in gas chambers. Those Karens, amirite?

[quote] For a liberal gay man, who considers himself a member of the LGBT Community, it comes off as bigotry to oppose protections for a minority group.

Men are not a minority.

This is an issue of competing rights and in these scenarios there will be a need for definite terms and laws. And one side will not get what they want.

I want to ask why it is so important to you to protect the rights of men who identify as women over that of actual women and girls.

r54, who exactly is denying women these rights? Or are you trying to make your typical right wing argument that equal rights are special rights putting a minority above, say, white people?