The Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to dismantle protections for trans and intersex people in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities, according to a government memo obtained by Prism. The memo, dated Dec. 2, takes aim at existing standards of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) that the department says do not comport with the Trump administration’s…
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homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 266d
Pro-rape party taking action
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · -1 pts · 266d
I know the focus is on the trans hatred, but how can they purposely discriminate against intersex people? They have no choice in how they were born. Are they considered immoral just because "god" made them that way?
spoobitydoo@fedia.io · 11 pts · 266d
Neither do trans people.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 266d
That would be a very Calvinist thing to do, yeah. The church I grew up with thought that being born with a disability was some kind of punishment from god, so it's just gods will that we do our part and make their life a living hell.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 266d
Tell me you don't get it without telling me you don't get it.
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 0 pts · 266d
The (very dumb) argument against trans is a forced binary that insists you stick with the category assigned to you at birth. Admitting intersex people exist at all contradicts that binary argument entirely.