"The pendulum has swung," DOJ's Jared Littman said in a court hearing Wednesday, arguing that all transgender people — at all ages — can be denied needed medical care.
This entire fight against trans people is manufactured and directly tied to toxic religion.......such a small percentage of our population that falls under trans banner. Who are they to tell us what to fucking do with our bodies? The fascist cultural wars, wedge issues - get people focused on the right hand why they steal from us out of the left hand. The humans that allow themselves to fall trap to this propaganda are truly fucking gullible.
This discrimination against trans people is so petty, so mean, so small. For the Federal Government to expend resources to punish this very small segment of our population is nonsensical. It is a distraction, culture war clickbait. It hurts my heart. I am cisgendered Grandma.
For some trans people, those of us who have had bottom surgery, denial of hormones means that within 6 months we face Hypogonadism and this will cause permanent irreversible damage to our bones and our body which can bring about fractures, organ damage, and certain death.
I hope the Trump admin gets sued into the ground. They all belong there.
To everyone cisgender commenting here, I can only say "Thank you for your support. Now what are YOU gonna do about it?" This isn't a criticism, it is a call to action. It is a demand for organization. If it matters to you that prisoners are tortured this way, and that your trans friends and loved ones are in danger, how will you protect them? Let me know in the replies!
Will you volunteer for a political campaign (I am!), do phone banking, organize protests, help trans people with DIY HRT efforts, form a group that protects trans people from harassment in bathrooms/public, give money directly to poor trans people, open your home to homeless trans people, help a struggling trans person find a job, etc? What will you do? Because trans people NEED NEED NEED cis people to use their privilege to help us in this moment. Use it well! (And don't just say "I'll talk and post on social media." We do plenty of that already. We need action!)
That the DOJ and attorneys such as Littman are more than happy to misuse the resources of the Federal government to work so much harm on so small a population that only wants to live their own lives as they deem fit says much about the perverted priorities of the Trump Administration where Maxwell gets a sweetheart deal and J6 felons get pardons and ICE goons are empowered to attack those lawfully seeking the proper exercise of their authority and responsibility to oversee what is being perpetrated against detainees who have not been credibly accused of any felony nor convicted of any crime.
This is EXACTLY what we warned about when they started going after trans participation in sports. The end goal has ALWAYS been the total erasure of the trans identity in the eyes of the law. Period, end of story.
"The Convention defines genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group".
These five acts include
-killing members of the group,
-causing them serious bodily or mental harm,
-imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group,
-preventing births, &
-forcibly transferring children out of the group.
Victims are targeted because of their real or perceived membership of a group, not randomly.
The convention further criminalizes "complicity, attempt, or incitement of its commission". Member states are prohibited from engaging in genocide and are obligated to pursue the enforcement of this prohibition. All perpetrators are to be tried regardless of whether they are private individuals, public officials, or political leaders with sovereign immunity."
Hicklin v. Precythe, No. 4:16‑cv‑01357‑NCC (E.D. Mo.) the Magistrate ruled that it is unconstitutional to deny hormone treatment to transgender inmates. It would be equivalent to denying insulin to a diabetic.
The case has been upheld and reaffirmed by numerous federal judges.
It just goes to show that this administration will do anything they can to hurt people simply because of who or what they are. This is typical of Republicans who really have no legitimate answers to the problems of everyday people who just happen to be different than them. Republicans don't care about the average person. Their view of what government should look like is so narrow minded that it is draconian and totally out of touch with what society at large wants. There is a history that dates back over a hundred years where Republicans stomp on minority populations writ large. Slavery, comes to mind. The Constitution says equality for all, yet we still have not attained it. The fight the LGBTQ+ community is having to wage, again, and again, is emblematic of that inequality.
Thank you for keeping us updated on this case. This BOP case should receive more attention than free-world cases, not less. Detainees and prisoners are wards of the state, absolutely helpless to manage their own health care or protect themselves from danger. The state that has confined them has the duty to maintain their safety and health. The prospect of the judiciary allowing the federal government to undercut this duty with its own executive orders and rulemaking is terrifying.
What you’re actually saying here is that the BOP should be ALLOWED to withhold care that will result in trans inmates literally dying. Your cute little disclaimer means NOTHING, and you are a murderous bigot.
Denying a transgender person hormone therapy is medically equivalent to denying a diabetic insulin. That comparison comes directly from Dr. Randi Ettner, who has treated transgender patients for more than forty‑five years. She serves on the board of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, which is governed by physicians, psychiatrists, and endocrinologists.The medical experts do not agree with your claims. Courts are not creating special treatment. They are following established standards of care that have been recognized for decades.You are free to dislike those standards, but that does not make them wrong. It only means the science is not on your side.
This entire fight against trans people is manufactured and directly tied to toxic religion.......such a small percentage of our population that falls under trans banner. Who are they to tell us what to fucking do with our bodies? The fascist cultural wars, wedge issues - get people focused on the right hand why they steal from us out of the left hand. The humans that allow themselves to fall trap to this propaganda are truly fucking gullible.
And, unfortunately, all leads to the Supreme (Ecclesiastical) Court of the United States.
Yes, the Fascist Extreme Court.
This discrimination against trans people is so petty, so mean, so small. For the Federal Government to expend resources to punish this very small segment of our population is nonsensical. It is a distraction, culture war clickbait. It hurts my heart. I am cisgendered Grandma.
For some trans people, those of us who have had bottom surgery, denial of hormones means that within 6 months we face Hypogonadism and this will cause permanent irreversible damage to our bones and our body which can bring about fractures, organ damage, and certain death.
I hope the Trump admin gets sued into the ground. They all belong there.
To everyone cisgender commenting here, I can only say "Thank you for your support. Now what are YOU gonna do about it?" This isn't a criticism, it is a call to action. It is a demand for organization. If it matters to you that prisoners are tortured this way, and that your trans friends and loved ones are in danger, how will you protect them? Let me know in the replies!
Will you volunteer for a political campaign (I am!), do phone banking, organize protests, help trans people with DIY HRT efforts, form a group that protects trans people from harassment in bathrooms/public, give money directly to poor trans people, open your home to homeless trans people, help a struggling trans person find a job, etc? What will you do? Because trans people NEED NEED NEED cis people to use their privilege to help us in this moment. Use it well! (And don't just say "I'll talk and post on social media." We do plenty of that already. We need action!)
That the DOJ and attorneys such as Littman are more than happy to misuse the resources of the Federal government to work so much harm on so small a population that only wants to live their own lives as they deem fit says much about the perverted priorities of the Trump Administration where Maxwell gets a sweetheart deal and J6 felons get pardons and ICE goons are empowered to attack those lawfully seeking the proper exercise of their authority and responsibility to oversee what is being perpetrated against detainees who have not been credibly accused of any felony nor convicted of any crime.
But you know who has been “credibly accused” - AND found guilty - of a felony? The man who decides that only he be allowed to define, and defile, sex.
This is EXACTLY what we warned about when they started going after trans participation in sports. The end goal has ALWAYS been the total erasure of the trans identity in the eyes of the law. Period, end of story.
Anti transgender laws commit 2 of the 5 types of genocide as defined by the 2nd UN Convention on Genocide
"The Convention defines genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group".
These five acts include
-killing members of the group,
-causing them serious bodily or mental harm,
-imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group,
-preventing births, &
-forcibly transferring children out of the group.
Victims are targeted because of their real or perceived membership of a group, not randomly.
The convention further criminalizes "complicity, attempt, or incitement of its commission". Member states are prohibited from engaging in genocide and are obligated to pursue the enforcement of this prohibition. All perpetrators are to be tried regardless of whether they are private individuals, public officials, or political leaders with sovereign immunity."
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention
Hicklin v. Precythe, No. 4:16‑cv‑01357‑NCC (E.D. Mo.) the Magistrate ruled that it is unconstitutional to deny hormone treatment to transgender inmates. It would be equivalent to denying insulin to a diabetic.
The case has been upheld and reaffirmed by numerous federal judges.
It just goes to show that this administration will do anything they can to hurt people simply because of who or what they are. This is typical of Republicans who really have no legitimate answers to the problems of everyday people who just happen to be different than them. Republicans don't care about the average person. Their view of what government should look like is so narrow minded that it is draconian and totally out of touch with what society at large wants. There is a history that dates back over a hundred years where Republicans stomp on minority populations writ large. Slavery, comes to mind. The Constitution says equality for all, yet we still have not attained it. The fight the LGBTQ+ community is having to wage, again, and again, is emblematic of that inequality.
Thank you for keeping us updated on this case. This BOP case should receive more attention than free-world cases, not less. Detainees and prisoners are wards of the state, absolutely helpless to manage their own health care or protect themselves from danger. The state that has confined them has the duty to maintain their safety and health. The prospect of the judiciary allowing the federal government to undercut this duty with its own executive orders and rulemaking is terrifying.
What you’re actually saying here is that the BOP should be ALLOWED to withhold care that will result in trans inmates literally dying. Your cute little disclaimer means NOTHING, and you are a murderous bigot.
Denying a transgender person hormone therapy is medically equivalent to denying a diabetic insulin. That comparison comes directly from Dr. Randi Ettner, who has treated transgender patients for more than forty‑five years. She serves on the board of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, which is governed by physicians, psychiatrists, and endocrinologists.The medical experts do not agree with your claims. Courts are not creating special treatment. They are following established standards of care that have been recognized for decades.You are free to dislike those standards, but that does not make them wrong. It only means the science is not on your side.