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Edited by Mrph1 on Dec 1st 2023 at 6:53:59 PM
A procrastination in of itself
They're not acting like thouse people they are thouse people.
Any more news on the state of emergency declaration in one state?
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In at least one bright spot in North Carolina, UNC has said they won't enforce the law.
The declaration came in a motion asking a federal court to halt civil legal proceedings against the university system while a higher court decides a separate case on transgender rights from Virginia.
University system President Margaret Spellings wrote in an affidavit that, pending the outcome of the North Carolina case: “I have no intent to exercise my authority to promulgate any guidelines or regulations that require transgender students to use the restrooms consistent with their biological sex.”
The university system’s lawyers went further, noting in a filing that the state law contains no enforcement mechanism and the university system also hasn’t “changed any of its policies or practices regarding transgender students or employees.”
“There is nothing in the Act that prevents any transgender person from using the restroom consistent with his or her gender identity,” the lawyers wrote.
They ask the federal judge to halt proceedings against the university system pending the outcome of a case on transgender rights being heard by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia as well as a separate case by the federal Department of Justice against North Carolina.
Five dueling cases over the law are pending in federal courts in North Carolina.
The UNC System had been named as a defendant along with Gov. Pat Mc Crory in a case filed on behalf of plaintiffs including students and university employees. Plaintiffs say the law requiring them to use restrooms matching the sex on their birth certificate is discriminatory.
Separately, a three-judge panel of the Virginia appeals court gave a favorable ruling to a transgender student seeking to use high school restrooms in line with his gender identity. The Virginia school board he sued has asked for a new hearing before the full appeals court. That case hinges on a federal antidiscrimination law that’s also central to the North Carolina cases.
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
Which will just give the NC GOP more incentive to gut the UNC system.
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
They can try but UNC is in the pocket of BB&T and they've sided against McCory and North Carolina.
The GOP isn't gonna be able to do much when UNC is being funded by a bank.
edited 30th May '16 12:27:51 PM by LeGarcon
Oh really when?
Sure about that? My impression from US politics is that the GOP's love for corporations stops once they don't let the GOP screw over people enough.
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Oh yeah, apparently they got pissy when corporations "bullied" Georgia into ditching its bathroom laws.
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Which worked.
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President Obama has declared June 2016 as LGBT Pride Month.
The would-be novelist
Is it because 1 year earlier "love won?"
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Probably, but I'm happy with this.
He brings it up in the second paragraph, so possibly. Though June has always been considered LGBT pride month since the Stonewall era.
Mikon :3
LGBT Pride Month is the government's way of trying to make us forget they still treat us as second class citizens in many ways.
Influential cult leader James Dobson calls upon his sheep to murder trans people.
The would-be novelist
Well, a big part of the government anyway.
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The government isn't a monolith. The part that wants us to be second class citizens isn't the part that wants LGBT Pride Month.
Mikon :3
I'd rather have equality than a special month to remind me that if I lived in another part of the country, my fellow citizens might not want to shoot me as much.
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Dobson: Can the piece of trash get slapped with charges of inciting violence?
On the other hand, that would mean a lot of GOP members would get hit as well. And a lot of clergy. And there would be a lot of complaints of silencing free speech.
I wonder how well they would take to cishet people concealed carrying for the explicit purpose of preventing some moron's heteronormative hero fantasy...
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A procrastination in of itself
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It's not a one or the other thing, this isn't local governments who allow LGBT discrimination trying to hand out the month, it's a federal goverment executive that's actively fighting for LGBT rights multitasking.
This is like saying that Black History Month should be done away with because racial discrimination is still a thing.
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Blowout soon fellow Stalker
Yeah, this isn't the feds saying something to placate people or look progressive. They're genuinely on our side and fighting with us.
Oh really when?
Mikon :3
I'm not saying abolish it. That's not even close to anything I said. But celebrating LGBT pride here in the Deep South? It might happen in Atlanta and New Orleans, but that's about it.
A procrastination in of itself
Well yeah but I'd assume that that's because it's not safe to celebrate it, not because a person resents a helpful branch of government giving them a long overdue offical month, while another branch of government (that the helpful branch is fighting) is being a dick.
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Mikon :3
I do resent that we were given a special month before we were given marriage. That would be like if the government recognized Black History Month before it passed the Voting Rights Act. It might have been seen as a nice gesture by some, but that's about it.
And some better news: Veterans may soon have access to gender-confirmation procedures.
edited 3rd Jun '16 7:43:37 AM by Morgikit
Would she have felt safer with giant bearded muscular Ft M transexuals in there? Also, tall and deep voiced doesn't mean not biologically female.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
Also apparently they're not trying to create a "hierarchy of rights" but think that ciswomen should have more rights than transwomen.
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The Feds are in the right here. Public schools are funded by the government through taxpayers. The government does not have the right to discriminate, and I certainly don't want them using my tax dollars to do it.
The states are acting like those deluded "sovereign citizen/free man on the land" people. "The federal government has no authority over me. Let me site some legalese I heard on the internet that allows me to break any law I want. Hey, why are you arresting me?"
edited 27th May '16 6:59:55 AM by Morgikit