Tennessee's anti-trans ban on minors' medical care is at SCOTUS. It's already been a long and winding path, and that will continue, but we will keep forging ahead.
I don’t pretend to completely comprehend the complicated legal jargon. I continue to read your Substack to educate myself and share what I learn when it comes up in conversation. I wish more people had the time and took the effort to educate themselves on particular cases and the importance of the judicial branch when it comes to our freedoms and the survival of democracy. Thank you Chris for making the seemingly out of reach for the average American more accessible through your Substack articles.
The most dangerous part of this moment in our history is the severe lack of empathy which has been cultivated all across the country, on every level, from the top down.
The reason we are moving backwards in our rights instead of forwards, is that Trump and his Christian Nationalist friends have been spreading that lack of empathy like an oil into the machine, through the cracks into Congress, between the gears of the judicial system, all across the state and local legislatures, where it finally collects in the oil pan of the American people. America is a machine oiled with hatred and uncaring. I think anybody who tried to talk their family member out of voting for Trump can see this effect clearly.
The question will be... will the engine run on such a lubrication, or will it gum up and break down? Only time will tell.
With social media being such an easy place for everyone to speak their minds, it's also a place to learn what we're up against. I think we're letting things get out of hand and not asking what we can do about it.
Trump has made it perfectly clear as to what he plans to do. Why should we put up with someone who is supposed to represent all Americans while in Our Whitehouse yet will only represent those who fall on their knees before him and lick his boots.
Where is our fighting spirit. He knows he scares the hell out of everyone and it's so deliberate. It's time to scare the hell out of him and tear down the Fourth Reich before he gets it finished. Thanks to Project 2025 he's closer to becoming King than most of us imagine. We must not and cannot allow him to get away with it.
TREASON! That's been his backbone from well before he ran for office. We have the right to stop him for his Treasonous behavior and remove all the other Authoritarians who are helping him steal our nation out from under us.
With social media being such an easy place for everyone to speak their minds, it's also a place to learn what we're up against. I think we're letting things get out of hand and not asking what we can do about it.
Trump has made it perfectly clear as to what he plans to do. Why should we put up with someone who is supposed to represent all Americans while in Our Whitehouse yet will only represent those who fall on their knees before him and lick his boots.
Where is our fighting spirit. He knows he scares the hell out of everyone and it's so deliberate. It's time to scare the hell out of him and tear down the Fourth Reich before he gets it finished. Thanks to Project 2025 he's closer to becoming King than most of us imagine. We must not and cannot allow him to get away with it.
TREASON! That's been his backbone from well before he ran for office. We have the right to stop him for his Treasonous behavior and remove all the other Authoritarians who are helping him steal our nation out from under us.
Thanks Chris. Gender Dysphoria is serious and people deserve care. Again politicians want to control what doctors do to help people. Women (abortion bans) and now the LGBTQIA community. We do need to be there for each other ❤️🥰
I hope so; I fear not. The Supreme Court, emboldened by the Trump Three, no longer bothers to listen. Precedence no longer matters. The Court will range far and wide to bolster whatever medieval yearnings it has (see Alito’s reference to a witch trial judge to bolster Dobbs). I do not trust these mean-spirited justices.
The charge that right wingers are now in the ecstatic throes of retribution … are correct.
But what about SCOTUS? Is it not equally compelled? Justice Thomas still seems infuriated about that “high tech lynching” as well the injustice of affirmative action (except for himself). Justice Alito seems angry at a non-Catholic world—all those Jews and Muslims, libs and fags, those darn trans, too!
You are Brilliant, Chris, while this case before this Supreme Court seems (doomed from the start) complicated for sure, you laid it out perfectly here. Blessings,for all who will be effected by what ever decision comes, and I support All LGBT people's.Thank you and will reStack ASAP 🙏💯👍🌈
For crap sake, why don't they just establish restrooms for Trans and LGBTQ people only?
Why in the hell do folks let the Trump Fascist Party (I insist they're on the Republican Party ticket illegally) push them around? There are enough of us in America to fight back without the help of heteros but we already know there are plenty who would stand with us.
Remember when Mayor White of San Francisco was assassinated? The people marched the streets in really long lines of our people and others, candles in hand and anger in their hearts.
And Stonewall in Greenwich Village was a big deal when invaded. New Yorkers don't put up with bullshit. NYC is the most popularity diverse city in the US. They had a grand riot over that.
If lawmakers still want to pretend that gay men are a bunch of sissies, easy to abuse without the scary fighting with other straight guys, they need to look again.
Having lived my 78 years in a nation that pretends to be equal and free is just a big fucking joke. Never has been and never will be. I hate being ashamed of my white flesh and blonde hair but considering the history of white men in America I'm proud of my homosexuality because it's an international community of peace loving individuals and our members are of every race.
Donald Trump's treatment of women and hatred for our community is the most wicked of all male treatment of anyone not licking his boots and kissing his fat ass.
Can we somehow have the strength to force our government to immediately remove all the Trump Fascists and put them where they can never take our voices and our Constitution and our rights away.?
If we don't stop them before January we're screwed out of our iffy Freedom and all that's supposed to go with it. If our LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY has to lead the way then let's do it. We already have the need to Overthrow what Trump has done to our government. We're smarter than they are. I hate weapons but, hey, this is war and they already have the weapons.
Do we think Donald will succeed in turning our military against us? We need to ask and find out.
I'm really sick and tired of being angry over this bullshit. Action speaks louder than words. Perhaps the indigenous Americans who don't own casinos would love to join us.
Thanks for your summary. I am appreciative that same-sex marriage and gay in the military bans have developed for the better since the 1990s. The trans bans are quite another matter.
A link provides a useful map. The map as a whole covers red territory. Republican government has meant anti-trans legislation with some exceptions.
Leave people alone to live their lives and love who they chose.
To all the people who are suddenly shocked and appalled by people, who have been around for years and never been a threat, Why?
Reality points to the fact that within the GOP, only they can decide who is deserving of rights! While overlooking their own deviates and flaws within their ranks?
So far Women have been stripped of reproductive rights, (only the beginning)!
Look in and visualize the hypocrisy of those within your perfect world of which you overlook or tolerate, the liars, cheats, wife beaters, child abusers, men who assault and rape women and children, I suppose it’s easier to point at others, while ignoring your on problems?
Here’s a suggestion, look at the man you just elected as President, and his unqualified picks for Cabinet Secretaries, and other positions within the government! All unvetted, many, with serious problems and conflicts of interests, but total Trump loyalists!
We are all in peril!
Project 2025 is nothing but selecting the darkest parts of World and American history, (see 1933 Germany/Hitler and Americas, 50’s/McCarthyism
A vision for full control of Government to benefit the Billionaires and the Large Corporations!
This group, the grand old party, have been working on this since, the 80’s to take over…
It will get bad, before it gets better! But don’t give up!
I have faith that Trump, will mess it up, he always does!
Thank you for the reminder that it's gotten better in the past after some pretty big setbacks, and we have to keep telling our stories and living.
I don’t pretend to completely comprehend the complicated legal jargon. I continue to read your Substack to educate myself and share what I learn when it comes up in conversation. I wish more people had the time and took the effort to educate themselves on particular cases and the importance of the judicial branch when it comes to our freedoms and the survival of democracy. Thank you Chris for making the seemingly out of reach for the average American more accessible through your Substack articles.
The most dangerous part of this moment in our history is the severe lack of empathy which has been cultivated all across the country, on every level, from the top down.
The reason we are moving backwards in our rights instead of forwards, is that Trump and his Christian Nationalist friends have been spreading that lack of empathy like an oil into the machine, through the cracks into Congress, between the gears of the judicial system, all across the state and local legislatures, where it finally collects in the oil pan of the American people. America is a machine oiled with hatred and uncaring. I think anybody who tried to talk their family member out of voting for Trump can see this effect clearly.
The question will be... will the engine run on such a lubrication, or will it gum up and break down? Only time will tell.
With social media being such an easy place for everyone to speak their minds, it's also a place to learn what we're up against. I think we're letting things get out of hand and not asking what we can do about it.
Trump has made it perfectly clear as to what he plans to do. Why should we put up with someone who is supposed to represent all Americans while in Our Whitehouse yet will only represent those who fall on their knees before him and lick his boots.
Where is our fighting spirit. He knows he scares the hell out of everyone and it's so deliberate. It's time to scare the hell out of him and tear down the Fourth Reich before he gets it finished. Thanks to Project 2025 he's closer to becoming King than most of us imagine. We must not and cannot allow him to get away with it.
TREASON! That's been his backbone from well before he ran for office. We have the right to stop him for his Treasonous behavior and remove all the other Authoritarians who are helping him steal our nation out from under us.
Think about it.
Thank you for reading.
Richard La France
With social media being such an easy place for everyone to speak their minds, it's also a place to learn what we're up against. I think we're letting things get out of hand and not asking what we can do about it.
Trump has made it perfectly clear as to what he plans to do. Why should we put up with someone who is supposed to represent all Americans while in Our Whitehouse yet will only represent those who fall on their knees before him and lick his boots.
Where is our fighting spirit. He knows he scares the hell out of everyone and it's so deliberate. It's time to scare the hell out of him and tear down the Fourth Reich before he gets it finished. Thanks to Project 2025 he's closer to becoming King than most of us imagine. We must not and cannot allow him to get away with it.
TREASON! That's been his backbone from well before he ran for office. We have the right to stop him for his Treasonous behavior and remove all the other Authoritarians who are helping him steal our nation out from under us.
Think about it.
Thank you for reading.
Richard La France
Thanks Chris. Gender Dysphoria is serious and people deserve care. Again politicians want to control what doctors do to help people. Women (abortion bans) and now the LGBTQIA community. We do need to be there for each other ❤️🥰
But will the telling of stories be enough?
I hope so; I fear not. The Supreme Court, emboldened by the Trump Three, no longer bothers to listen. Precedence no longer matters. The Court will range far and wide to bolster whatever medieval yearnings it has (see Alito’s reference to a witch trial judge to bolster Dobbs). I do not trust these mean-spirited justices.
The charge that right wingers are now in the ecstatic throes of retribution … are correct.
But what about SCOTUS? Is it not equally compelled? Justice Thomas still seems infuriated about that “high tech lynching” as well the injustice of affirmative action (except for himself). Justice Alito seems angry at a non-Catholic world—all those Jews and Muslims, libs and fags, those darn trans, too!
Anybody else remember when this kind of crap led to nationwide boycotts?
You are Brilliant, Chris, while this case before this Supreme Court seems (doomed from the start) complicated for sure, you laid it out perfectly here. Blessings,for all who will be effected by what ever decision comes, and I support All LGBT people's.Thank you and will reStack ASAP 🙏💯👍🌈
An exceptional piece. Thank you.
Well done
For crap sake, why don't they just establish restrooms for Trans and LGBTQ people only?
Why in the hell do folks let the Trump Fascist Party (I insist they're on the Republican Party ticket illegally) push them around? There are enough of us in America to fight back without the help of heteros but we already know there are plenty who would stand with us.
Remember when Mayor White of San Francisco was assassinated? The people marched the streets in really long lines of our people and others, candles in hand and anger in their hearts.
And Stonewall in Greenwich Village was a big deal when invaded. New Yorkers don't put up with bullshit. NYC is the most popularity diverse city in the US. They had a grand riot over that.
If lawmakers still want to pretend that gay men are a bunch of sissies, easy to abuse without the scary fighting with other straight guys, they need to look again.
Having lived my 78 years in a nation that pretends to be equal and free is just a big fucking joke. Never has been and never will be. I hate being ashamed of my white flesh and blonde hair but considering the history of white men in America I'm proud of my homosexuality because it's an international community of peace loving individuals and our members are of every race.
Donald Trump's treatment of women and hatred for our community is the most wicked of all male treatment of anyone not licking his boots and kissing his fat ass.
Can we somehow have the strength to force our government to immediately remove all the Trump Fascists and put them where they can never take our voices and our Constitution and our rights away.?
If we don't stop them before January we're screwed out of our iffy Freedom and all that's supposed to go with it. If our LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY has to lead the way then let's do it. We already have the need to Overthrow what Trump has done to our government. We're smarter than they are. I hate weapons but, hey, this is war and they already have the weapons.
Do we think Donald will succeed in turning our military against us? We need to ask and find out.
I'm really sick and tired of being angry over this bullshit. Action speaks louder than words. Perhaps the indigenous Americans who don't own casinos would love to join us.
Thank you for reading.
Richard La France
Thanks for your summary. I am appreciative that same-sex marriage and gay in the military bans have developed for the better since the 1990s. The trans bans are quite another matter.
A link provides a useful map. The map as a whole covers red territory. Republican government has meant anti-trans legislation with some exceptions.
https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/healthcare/youth_medical_care_bans
Excellent.
Leave people alone to live their lives and love who they chose.
To all the people who are suddenly shocked and appalled by people, who have been around for years and never been a threat, Why?
Reality points to the fact that within the GOP, only they can decide who is deserving of rights! While overlooking their own deviates and flaws within their ranks?
So far Women have been stripped of reproductive rights, (only the beginning)!
Look in and visualize the hypocrisy of those within your perfect world of which you overlook or tolerate, the liars, cheats, wife beaters, child abusers, men who assault and rape women and children, I suppose it’s easier to point at others, while ignoring your on problems?
Here’s a suggestion, look at the man you just elected as President, and his unqualified picks for Cabinet Secretaries, and other positions within the government! All unvetted, many, with serious problems and conflicts of interests, but total Trump loyalists!
We are all in peril!
Project 2025 is nothing but selecting the darkest parts of World and American history, (see 1933 Germany/Hitler and Americas, 50’s/McCarthyism
A vision for full control of Government to benefit the Billionaires and the Large Corporations!
This group, the grand old party, have been working on this since, the 80’s to take over…
It will get bad, before it gets better! But don’t give up!
I have faith that Trump, will mess it up, he always does!