The Cookout

I am absolutely speechless and downright disgusted at what TPTB are doing. As a Black person with Black disabled relatives and friends I don't even know where to begin.

TBA along with the callers break this down perfectly.
Look at this mess:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu9aDteO0GU

LGBTQ+ Mofos out here committing full-blown blasphemy and claiming that "God is Trans."

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Do you know how many individuals (especially wypipo) are going to abuse these extra special privileges and protections and use this to their advantage as they expand their neverending, abominable fuckery at society's literal expense? The pandora's box is opening.

Federal appeals court says Americans with Disabilities Act protections cover 'gender dysphoria,' handing a win to trans people​

By Devan Cole, CNN

Updated 7:17 PM ET, Tue August 16, 2022


Trans pride flags flutter in the wind at a gathering to celebrate International Transgender Day of Visibility.

Washington (CNN)A federal appeals court said Tuesday that the Americans with Disabilities Act covers individuals with "gender dysphoria," handing a win to trans people in a case concerning a former inmate who alleged discrimination at a Virginia prison.

In a majority opinion issued by a three-judge panel with the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the court wrote, "In light of the 'basic promise of equality ... that animates the ADA,' we see no legitimate reason why Congress would intend to exclude from the ADA's protections transgender people who suffer from gender dysphoria."
Gender dysphoria describes an uncomfortable conflict between a person's assigned gender and the gender with which the person identifies, according to the American Psychiatric Association.

"We have little trouble concluding that a law excluding from ADA protection both 'gender identity disorders' and gender dysphoria would discriminate against transgender people as a class, implicating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment," the ruling read, referring to a constitutional clause that has been used in court to protect minority groups from discrimination.

The treatment of trans inmates has long been a focus of advocates for trans rights, with stories of abuse fueling calls for reforms and more targeted anti-discrimination laws. Activists hailed Tuesday's ruling, saying it will be a helpful precedent for future litigation.

The case at hand concerned Kesha Williams, a trans woman with gender dysphoria who was held for six months at a Virginia prison.

"Though prison deputies initially assigned her to women's housing, they quickly moved her to men's housing when they learned that she was transgender," according to the ruling, which said that while held in the men's facility, Williams "experienced delays in medical treatment for her gender dysphoria, harassment by other inmates, and persistent and intentional misgendering and harassment by prison deputies."

2022 is already a record year for state bills seeking to curtail LGBTQ rights, ACLU data shows

Williams sued several individuals connected to the prison, claiming that the way she was treated was a violation of the ADA and other laws.

A district court initially dismissed Williams' case on the basis of the ADA's explicit exclusion of "gender identity disorders not resulting from physical impairments" from protection under the law. Williams appealed, arguing that because the language of the exclusion is dated and undefined, it was up to the court to determine whether gender dysphoria is protected under the ADA.

The appeals court, citing an updated medical understanding, reversed the lower court's dismissal.

"In sum, we hold that Williams has plausibly alleged that gender dysphoria does not fall within the ADA's exclusion for 'gender identity disorders not resulting from physical impairments,'" the ruling said.
CNN reached out to attorneys for several of the defendants named in the case for comment.

Though the matter still needs to go back to a lower court to settle additional questions central to the case, Joshua Erlich, an attorney for Williams, told CNN that Tuesday's ruling "is a really meaningful win for trans people more broadly because this opinion applies not just (to) people who are incarcerated, but for workplace accommodations, for public accommodations."

"The ruling in this case is consistent with the ruling in Bostock several years ago ... that extended employment protections under Title VII to trans employees," he said, referring to a 2020 Supreme Court ruling that said federal civil rights law protects LGBTQ workers.

He continued: "I think that this ruling in a lot of ways was mandated by the language in Bostock. To the extent that Bostock has created a positive trajectory for trans rights, this is a continuation of that."

A number of advocacy groups signed onto a friend-of-the-court brief for the case co-authored by the LGBTQ legal rights group GLAD and the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR). In a statement following the ruling, NCLR's legal director Shannon Minter said that the "decision sets a powerful precedent that will be important for other courts considering this critical issue."

And Jennifer Levi, the director of GLAD's Transgender Rights Project, said in the same statement that it "would turn disability law upside down to exclude someone from its protection because of having a stigmatized medical condition."

"This opinion goes a long way toward removing social and cultural barriers that keep people with treatable, but misunderstood, medical conditions from being able to thrive," Levi said.

CNN's Kristen Rogers contributed to this report.

mamluke13 said:

Its wild cause I rarely if ever see them irl why are they so important

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So they can have more reasons to continue to neglect, ignore, and undermine Black people while prioritizing everybody else over us. Lifting everyone's boat except ours. And then the "Brown" people will swim to our sinking boat not to actually save and help us on some fake "Black & Brown" stuff, but to push us all off and take over the boat before chaining it to the "Minority Coalition" yacht (that we built) with no Black people in it or on it.

Notice how the only Black LGBT issue people are distracting themselves with and focusing on right now is Brittney Griner being trapped in Russia? And sadly, also notice how no one is even talking about the cold-blooded murders of Jayland Walker and Amir Locke, the Black victims of the racist Buffalo, NY terrorist attack, and other anti-Black racist attacks anymore? Why does the life of Brittney Griner matter more than Black people who are not celebrities or rich? Why can't all of these Black people get justice, coverage, and support? Where has the spirit of 2020 gone?

Harbinger said:

This country so damn racist that it prioritizes trans issues over the most abused demographic in the country, us.

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And you have an endless stream of silly dense mofos (including LGBT and others) talking about how Black people need to look outside of our own "bubble" to "understand different perspectives and viewpoints" and that "Black people aren't the only ones suffering" and that being Black and dealing with racism doesn't mean that Black people should continue to ignore the issue of trans, gays, immigrants, white women and everybody else. And that "Black LGBTQIA+ people also exist and are being erased" and "being Black and dealing with racism doesn't permit you to be an asshole to everyone else and their issues."

To any non-Black lurker:

Shame on you. What a way to project your insensitivity onto us.

Were non-Black LGBTQIA+ American people hunted down and then enslaved, subject to horrific cruel and unusual punishment, and brutally and heartlessly tortured on inhumane plantations from the cradle to the grave?

Were they or any other non-Blacks as a group in America fed to alligators, had their families permanently separated via slave auctions, labelled as property and subhuman by law, systematically redlined and robbed of all their wealth and livelihoods and ideas, systematically locked out of employment due to their race, lynched, forcibly segregated, experimented on, stripped of their culture and lanaguage and heritage, murdered for learning to read and write, genocided and had their very own cities burnt down by the government and racist mobs, the primary target of Jim Crow and deep rooted obscene racist hatred and racial abuse and attacks (that even children couldn't escape from, just ask Emmett Till, oh wait...and Carolyn Bryant is still not in prison), etc?

Does their suffering compare to the 467+ years of nonstop, targeted oppression of Black people with the perpetrators of crimes against us still getting slaps on the wrists (if they're not getting winks and high fives from the judges, police, jury and the general public)?

Outside of the Holocaust that lasted for only about 6 years, did it ever happen again and did white Jewish people not get compensation via cash reparations, preventative and legal protections (which are enforced), and land (the country of Israel) for it?

Did white and red Native Americans not already get reparations in cash, land reservations, casinos, resources, and legal protections (which are enforced) in spite of the violent genocide that happened to their people?

Did older LGBTQIA+ couples not recently get offered cash reparations (especially in back taxes) to make up for the time that they couldn't legally get married to each other?

We have an Asian Daniel Holtzclaw and an Asian Peter Liang that murdered and raped Black people, but is there an Asian Breonna Taylor or an Asian George Floyd or an Asian Trayvon Martin?

Didn't Latino leaders publicly state and make it clear that our Negro issues aren't Latino issues and that Black people can hold our own nuts (despite Black fighting for the rights of their ungrateful racist sorry asses)?

In fact, after us fighting for all of these immirgrants for all these years, if push comes to shove and the US faces a severe crisis (war, famine, etc.), these immigrants will have a country (their homeland) to run back to. What country or homeland can a Foundational Black American run back to?

And finally, did Foundational Black American people ever, ever get any reparations in cash, land, resources, protections and laws (that are enforced) for what happened to us as a group 467+ years later? We are still suffering and unwell (especially economically) as we were never compensated for what happened to us due to ongoing, governmental and societal anti-Black racism that still exists today.

We have been severely neglected as a group and cannot afford to wait to put ourselves last. Not anymore. And if you were a true ally to Black people, you would understand that and not act as opposition against us.

If there is 1 nurse on a hospital floor, is the nurse supposed to go care for a person who is in critical condition and severely bleeding and having a stroke, or are they to care for an entitled person demanding aid for a broken finger and just entered the hospital? Think about that.

Here is the point.

You know absolutely nothing about Black American people and our struggles.

We have done everything and fought for every group imaginable while getting no real support or love in return. In fact, we have gotten even more hate, mockery, and vitriol for fighting against injustice.

You feel entitled to our energy and help even when many of y’all don't like, help, value, or respect us to begin with.

We are tired.

We are drained.

We are not your mules.

If you are not fighting for cash reparations, protections, and resources specifically for Foundational Black Americans as well as punishment to those who wrong us, then you are not our ally.

If you see any other issue (e.i. LGBTQIA, classism, immigration, abortion, Asian Hate, Ukraine-Russia War, Anti-Semitism, COVID, moneypox, climate change and global warming, foreign conflict, etc.) as equal to if not greater than the nonstop oppression of Black American people, then you are not our ally.

If you are not Black first, then YOU ARE NOT OUR ALLY.

Our struggles and oppression are significant enough on their own and don't need to be merged with the world's or anybody else's problems.

DO NOT UNDERMINE US. STOP IT.

Injustice everywhere in the nation ends when injustice against us ends. Repair Black America to fix America.

If you have nothing productive to say to us or do for us, then keep calm and keep our name and our ancestors' names out your gotdamn mouths.

Sapphire said:

More protection for the protected class... Does anyone wonder why so many kids suddenly wanna be trans? Cause they are a protected class.

They did just admit it IS a disability though would mean, medically speaking, it is not "normal" and is considered a mental condition which they just spent the last 10 years denying. So which is it?

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Even kids know who is "cool", who is popular, and who gets treated special and who doesn't. Kids may be naive, impatient, blissful, and short-sighted, but that doesn't make them dumb and completely non-observant of what's going on.

As for the bolded, that's just the dominant white society and its minions taking both sides of the argument again and screaming "I'm white and I say so." It's about permanent interests, permanent gains, permanent power, and permanent benefits. Everything else is disposable to them.