Post Presidential opinions regarding LGBT rights in the future

[KaraBulut]

Hmm. A Federal Judge in Kentucky...

Millions of dollars in legal expenses for less than 40 trans athletes. Yet, the Republicans are already working on Congressional legislation to nationalize a ban on trans people competing in sports, while Nancy Mace polices the Capitol bathrooms.

Unfortunately, the same rules also protected sexual orientation.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/09/federal-judge-vacates-bidens-title-ix-rule-00197353

A federal judge blocked the Biden administration’s new Title IX rule nationwide, crushing its efforts to strengthen discrimination protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

The ruling: Eastern District of Kentucky Court Chief Judge Danny Reeves in an order Thursday said the regulation on Title IX, the federal law that bars sex-based discrimination, is unlawful. He said the rule is “arbitrary and capricious” and violates the spending clause and the First Amendment, among other issues.

Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers in Congress are teeing up measures to restrict transgender student participation in sports and aiming to codify that sex under Title IX means sex assigned at birth. The GOP-led Congress is working quickly to deliver on President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign promises that targeted transgender students participating in women’s sports.

 

[TX-Beau]

Unfortunately, there are enough of us that will pretend that this will not affect them. Even though it's ultimate aim is undoing Obergefell and all the strides made in the past decades towards equality.

 

[rareboy]

They are definitely coming for Obergefell and homos like Peter Thiel is essentially helping to fund the efforts, however indirectly.

But it won't happen within the next 2 years if Congress still actually has any relevance.

Thomas and Alito are slavering to get a case up the chain that will allow them to overturn before they retire.

 

[Dargelos]

A little taste of things to come. The porn site Gayboystube had to change its name to Gayporntube because Google would no longer include it in search results as of Trumpday. Freedom of speech, yeehah.

 

[cityboy-stl]

Honestly, I expect JUB and most other porn sites to be forced offline sometime this year. Following that, any site of service to the gay community such as Human Rights Campaign etc., as well.

 

[rareboy]

At least one state has issued a statment pushing back on Trumps' 'No such thing as Trans' executive order.

 

[rareboy]

A little taste of things to come. The porn site Gayboystube had to change its name to Gayporntube because Google would no longer include it in search results as of Trumpday. Freedom of speech, yeehah.

I suspect that Project 2025 will force many sites to shut down as TrumpCo. forces the media to its knees. As you note, there really is no 'freedom of speech' in the US. It has largely always been one of the myths trotted out.

The right wing, religious nationalists will continue moving forward with their plan to enact 'Don't Say Gay' laws across the country, aided by the tech world who will easily and willingly filter out what the Owners or CEO's don't like.

 

[frankfrank]

On the way to a spic-and-span, antiseptically clean, barren, soulless USA, entirely owned by the Musk-D...ump-Putin cartel.

New York City fell on February 13, now that Eric Adams is doing all of D...ump's list of demands, in exchange for charges against him being dropped (with some resistance, but the resistance will be defeated). Next in line, no doubt before March: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to face "Trumped"-up bogus federal charges of some kind, given the option to avoid those charges by falling in line. The cancer is now Stage Five.

 

[rareboy]

Some good news...hopefully a reprieve, but I am seeing this is one of the cases that will rocket up to the Supreme Court.

And not end well for trans people.

 

[pigface]

Honestly, I expect JUB and most other porn sites to be forced offline sometime this year. Following that, any site of service to the gay community such as Human Rights Campaign etc., as well.

Or move to file servers operating in countries outside america.

 

[cityboy-stl]

Or move to file servers operating in countries outside america.

Moving to a hosting server outside the US will not stop republicans from shutting down anything they don't like. They'll make the sites inaccessible.

 

[pigface]

It's already known - to the rest of the world - that if you want a safe, secure email account, or cloud storage, you don't use an American service. Other Internet services are going to move in that direction too.

 

[cityboy-stl]

It's already known - to the rest of the world - that if you want a safe, secure email account, or cloud storage, you don't use an American service. Other Internet services are going to move in that direction too.

That still is not going to stop Trump and the republicans fascists from blocking and forcing sites they don't like offline in the U.S.
They will all be inaccessible in the U.S. no matter where they're hosted.

 

[cityboy-stl]

I told you so. They're coming for everything.

 

[KaraBulut]

I told you so. They're coming for everything.

Seems kinda familiar.

Degenerate art - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

In fairness, more artists are cancelling shows at KC to boycott compared to the number KC of "degenerate art" shows that MAGA board is pro-actively canceling. Hopefully, the Village People will be available to sub in.

Trump’s Kennedy Center Cancels Pride Concert That Would Have Featured Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington - Washingtonian

No explanation was given, the chorus says: "We regret that this opportunity has been taken away."

www.washingtonian.com

 

[rareboy]

I told you so. They're coming for everything.

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What is even more disgusting, hypocritical and outrageous is that Trump threw Richard Grenell in there...his homo DEI hire from his first term.

Grenell and Thiel will be sewing the pink triangles onto the uniforms of the homos at some point.

But yeah. TrumpCo. and Project 2025 will be coming for homo visibility and civil rights.

Hopefully the GMC can find an alternate venue in Washington where they can perform that week.

I suspect that World Pride in DC will end up being a huge bust.

 

[unloadonme]

Just spotted this report on BBC News. An actor called Hunter Schafer, a transgender woman, who, on a previous passport was listed (Is "listed" the right word? Described? Categorised? Gendered?) as F, has now been listed on a new passport as M.

Hunter Schafer: Trans Euphoria star says new passport lists her as male

Hunter Schafer, a transgender woman, hits out at President Donald Trump's policies on gender.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[KaraBulut]

Just spotted this report on BBC News. An actor called Hunter Schafer, a transgender woman, who, on a previous passport was listed (Is "listed" the right word? Described? Categorised? Gendered?) as F, has now been listed on a new passport as M.

Hunter Schafer: Trans Euphoria star says new passport lists her as male

Hunter Schafer, a transgender woman, hits out at President Donald Trump's policies on gender.

www.bbc.co.uk

She appeared on the Netflix series "Euphoria".

He's a video to add some perspective:

It's going to be interesting to see what happens when she goes through customs in a foreign country.

 

[unloadonme]

He's a video to add some perspective:

Thanks. She says in the video that she doesn't give a fuck about the change, but clearly does.

It's going to be interesting to see what happens when she goes through customs in a foreign country.

Indeed.

 

[pigface]

Might come a time not so far off when you can't get into more than a few countries on a usa passport, no matter what personal details are printed.