Trump will give healthcare workers the right to refuse to treat LGBT people

maybeware:

genquerdeer:

fattyatomicmutant:

stillwithhernothim:

THIS SHOULD ENRAGE ALL OF US!

The Trump administration is considering a new “religious freedom” rule that would allow healthcare workers to refuse to treat LGBT patients.“
Please… read that again.

WOULD. ALLOW. HEALTHCARE. WORKERS. TO. REFUSE. LGBT. PEOPLE.

#RESIST

He’s done more than “consider a rule”

He’s even created an entire division that fields complaints that these people would make in case someone tries to strong arm them to do it!

He even created a website hot button that use a help desk so it can get you a representative!

We knew they’d try harder after the trans band failed.

this is murder.

Trans women have already been denied care by emergency responders, and died as a result, that has already happened. Now that fucker wants to bring that back, with legal protections for killers who do that.

That is murder. Make no mistake, this will kill people.

While this will affect all LGBT people this is specifically targeted at trans people. Now instead of just having to worry about getting basic gender affirmation care, a trans person (or any other LGBT person for the matter) can just be left in the middle of the road bleeding out after a Nazi tries to kill us.

This is also way more than just a theoretical as stated in the article Bush-era legislature that allowed this allowed at least one transgender woman to die, as she could not get to a doctor in time!

U.S. high court turns away dispute over gay worker protections

The United States Supreme court turned away a case in which a woman was fired for being a lesbian. The woman was working as a security guard and challenged the case in a lower district court, and lost she then appealed to the supreme court who denied her saying that they agree with the previous national district court ruling that title IX does not specify sexual orientation and therefore does not apply and this discrimination, while being discrimination is legally allowed. The court shutting this down means that it did not pass the rule of four which means that three or less of the judges disagree with this. With Donald Trump as president with some old justices he could replace those who disagreed even. This is a scary time in America and I remind everyone to stay safe.

U.S. high court turns away dispute over gay worker protections

Mother fires photographer after learning she is a lesbian

Lesbian Faith Grace, just lost one of her customers, a mother who hired her for maternity photos, for that reason because she’s a lesbian. This occurred in Alabama, which not to generalize people in the state has many people who are homophobic, and in general having a very negative opinion of the LGBT community. This person was truly directly discriminated against for being a lesbian. The woman found out after seeing an LGBT flag, (the article does not specify whether it was the rainbow flag or another) and immediantly fired her.

Mother fires photographer after learning she is a lesbian

Ugandan police raid and shut down queer film festival

A LGBT film festival that was scheduled to run for 2 days in Uganda was shut down on its first day, after police were tipped off to it. The police went to even being held in an abandoned warehouse equipped with AK-47s with the intent to kill or arrest those in attendance. Luckily while the event was shut down there has been no report of arrest and everyone in attendance seems safe, this is however unconfirmed that no one was arrested.

Ugandan police raid and shut down queer film festival

Bermuda is set to be the first country to end marriage equality

The Bermudian Parliament is currently in the process of passing a bill that would ban all same-sex marriage, it has already passed in the House of Assembly, the lower house of the Bicameral Congress of Bermuda. This comes after the Bermudian supreme court ruled that denying marriage went against the Human Rights Act, as it treated people different on the basis of sexual orientation. While there are people against it in Parliament it still looks like it will be passing. This law will not be enacted Post Facto however, and any marriages that happen previous to the passing will be valid.

Bermuda is set to be the first country to end marriage equality