Do female people even matter?
Biden says the Supreme Court move to ruin the lives of millions of women might actually matter because hey it might be trans kids next.
Joe Biden has warned of new attacks on civil rights as the supreme court prepares to strike down the right to abortion, telling reporters at the White House that LGBTQ+ children could be the next targets of a Trump-dominated Republican party he called “this Maga crowd” and “the most extreme political organisation … in recent American history”.
Focus, Joe. Never mind the purported next targets, focus on the current targets, the people formerly known as women. Ever heard of them?
“What happens,” the president asked, if “a state changes the law saying that children who are LGBTQ can’t be in classrooms with other children? Is that legit under the way the decision is written?”
Why do you ask, Joe? Why isn’t the decision’s effect on women enough to object to?
While I am glad that it is BIden and not Trump who is president right now, I am not a Biden fan. I find it so hard to believe that this is the best we can do when it comes to electing a president; and this is what we ended up with. This sort of statement, coupled with the posting of R. Levine to a high-level office, shows how little regard he actually has for women and women’s rights, as if his treatment of Anita Hill was not a good indicator.
And nobody is going to pass a law telling LGBTQ+ kids that they can’t be in school classrooms.
Same. It drove me nuts watching all the good candidates peel off leaving us with Biden of all people. Why can’t we have nice things?
Yes, this was such an odd thing for Biden to say. Women losing the right to abortion is, of course, bad enough. But if someone wanted to bring up other possibilities to mobilize those who aren’t already concerned, why bring up something so loony tunes? “You’re gay — sit in the hallway.” Wtsf. It reminds me of the religious right invoking the image of concentration camps and soldiers going door to door confiscating Bibles every time they don’t like a law.
He probably means school bathrooms: “they’re not allowed to pee.” But that’s not what he said. He created a boogeyman.
I’m beginning to think the Know-Nothings had a point about Catholics…