I’m extremely concerned that this article implies we are allowing people from alabama to interact with science. Sure, they need access to basic science things like fire, and electricity (questionable if they should be allowed to use breakers), but what if an understanding of critical thought, and accidentally reading the bible unsupervised, causes unexpected outcomes.
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Media refuses to identify what religion those people are.
Maybe later tonight I will go on Facebook and find out who complained. Give them a call at work tomorrow.
Tommy Tuberville:
Transgender: Bad
Incest: Good
I would like to compare the number of trans people who have had an illegal relationship with a child to a straight person.
Better yet, members of the GOP
Of course, it's Alabama
Well... Yeah. That's where space camp is.
You've got a lot of Republicans in congress that pretend to be dumb. I think Tuberville is the genuine article.
If Trump wins, we're going to have a new Lavender Scare.
Of course I learned all about the red scare in school. They left out the persecution of homosexuals. Wonder why…
That's textbook transphobia there, they are literally afraid of a trans person for no reason
Every day I feel like I can't possibly hate these people more and every day they show me I have a larger capacity for hate than I previously assumed.
They're developing a facet about myself that I don't enjoy developing.
Now imagine the unending, visceral vitriol you'd be feeling if you also happened to be transgender, and you'll come close to understanding how I feel 24/7.
Well I think you’re beautiful being who you truly are. So fuck those other people.
I really wish people understood the psychological toll of this shit. It sucks to wake up, read the news, and be constantly reminded that a substantial amount of people hate people who are like me.
I got past hate a long time ago. Every time I see things like this now, I just think "of course" and it sucks. It's more just disappointment in how the US got here at this point. How have we allowed money to be used to control people so easily? The amount of things people manage to not know about because it goes against their position is insane. There needs to be more control over basically anything that calls itself news that requires certain things out of them.
Firing an employee for being transgender would be such a slam dunk of a discrimination/wrongful termination lawsuit. Easy fucking money.
LGBT+ are not actually a protected class in a lot of states. They kind of get covered by gender protections, but not completely, so I can definitely see this happening with no legal consequences.
Fun fact, according to the supreme Court, the part of the civil rights act that protects from discrimination on grounds of your sex also protects gender identity and sexual orientation as both of these require taking the person's sex into consideration to discriminate in the first place.
Section 508 of the Social Security Act makes it illegal in all 50 states.
Incorrect. The Supreme Court ruled that no employee in the United States can be fired on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity, enshrining LGBTQ protections as part of the Civil Rights Act. The ruling occurred in 2020.
“I don’t hate these people, man,” Yarbrough said.
Oh, but you do, buddy. You do.
Doesn't hate them, just wants them to hide away and never encounter others. Perfectly reasonable /s
He left out the “I would just prefer they don’t exist”
These douchebags would rather shove anyone marginally different than them into the closet rather than having to be mildly uncomfortable in public or having to have a difficult discussion with their children.
There's also the right-wing obsession with "grooming" and protecting kids from "sexualization". It happened with gay people 50 years ago and now it's trans peoples' turn.
All the while their actual "high ranking" members are known to be a bunch of pedophiles. Conservatism is a cancer.
Oh don't worry, they're working their way back to gays as quick as they can. And then interracial couples will be next on the list after that.
Usual fucking rhetoric.
"They live their lives, I live mine." All while going out of their way to fuck with them.
To be fair I am also concerned about children's safety in Alabama, for a multitude of reasons and non has to to with transgender people.
Considering who their former chief justice and almost senator was, I'd definitely say they have bigger child safety problems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Moore_sexual_misconduct_allegations
And all of it has to do with Republicans
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