#DHS ends ban on intelligence activities targeting people for #sexualorientation, #genderidentity
Source: Center for American Progress
From the article: "Essentially, all employees and job seekers, a total of approximately 153 million Americans, benefit from the protections the EEOC provides. The Equal Pay Act—a law requiring equal pay for equal work that the EEOC enforces—covers virtually all employers, while other laws enforced by the EEOC apply to all but the smallest employers. Whether they work in the private sector or for the government, practically all employees and those applying for jobs are protected by the EEOC against illegal employer actions" (Annotations removed for clarity)
#EEOC #EqualEmploymentOpportunityCommission #AcceptanceMatters
#Discrimination #Disabled #Ableism #ADA #Elderly #Ageism #Minorities #PeopleOfColor #Racism #Gender #Sexism #Pregnancy
#SexualOrientation #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQDiscrimination #LGBTQIAPlus #Lesbian #Gay #Bisexual #Transgender #TransgenderDiscrimination #Queer #Intersex #Asexual #NonBinary
#HumanResources #Recruiters #TalentAcquisition
https://www.advocate.com/politics/dhs-allows-surveillance-sexual-orientation
NOW! ACT...NOW!!! 
#DHS quietly eliminates ban on surveillance based on #sexualorientation 
and #genderidentity 
In a word, #USASurveillingLGBTIApluspeople 
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/dhs-now-allows-for-surveillance-based
#ErinInTheMorning 2 March 2025
#DHS Now Allows for #Surveillance based on #SexualOrientation or #GenderIdentity
If you or your loved ones are part of the American #LGBTQIAplus 
community, there are steps to take to protect yourself.
Oh by the way,
Conversion/Reeducation camps for:
Are so unbelievably backwards that I just gotta say, we've been too tolerant a people for too long re: intolerance in the medical field.
This is our bootlicking, paternalistic, patriarchy loving fault.
Those of us in medicine.
Period.
See: ABA therapy & conversion therapy, Lovaas.
https://autisticadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2.-Summary.pdf
#ADHD #TransRightsAreHumanRights
#SexualOrientation
#ActuallyAutistic
Gender and beliefs shape homophobic attitudes, according to study…
Sexual orientation is believed to result from complex processes that are still widely debated. However, for several years, a large body of research has sought to identify potential biological factors... #sexualorientation #lgbt #genderaffairs #sociology #society
#PeeweeHerman #star #PaulReubens #comesout #posthumously in new #documentary.
A two-part #HBO #documentary titled #PeeweeAsHimself, which #premiered earlier this week at #Sundance, showed Reubens discussing his #sexualorientation and a #relationship with a #man named #Guy.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TV #Movies #Representation #Culture
#Maine is standing firm on #HumanRights!
The Maine Human Rights Act Guarantees...
Equal Employment Rights
- The RIGHT to freedom from discrimination in employment.
- The opportunity for an individual to secure employment without discrimination… is declared to be a CIVIL RIGHT.
The #MaineHumanRightsAct prohibits discrimination because of race, color, sex, #SexualOrientation, age, physical or mental disability, genetic pre-disposition, religion, ancestry or national origin.
The Maine Human Rights Act also prohibits discrimination because of filing a claim or asserting a right under the Worker’s Comp Act or retaliation under the Whistleblower’s Act.
Unlawful Employment Discrimination
- For any employer to fail or refuse to hire an applicant
- For any employer to discharge an employee
- For any employer to discriminate against an employee with respect to recruitment, tenure, promotion, transfer, or compensation
- For any employment agency to fail or refuse to classify properly or refer for employment an applicant
- For any labor organization to exclude from apprenticeship or membership an applicant
- For any employer, employment agency, or labor organization prior to employment or admission to membership of an individual to ask questions, keep as record, use application form, issue any notice, employ a quota system
- For any employer, employment agency, or labor organization to retaliate against a person who has opposed a violation of the Maine #HumanRightsAct because of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, genetic pre-disposition, religion, ancestry or national origin or because of asserting a claim under the Worker’s Comp Act or Whistleblower’s Act."
https://www.maine.gov/mhrc/laws-guidance/employment/guarantees
#GBLTQRights #ImmigrantRights #Maine #DEI #USPol #FuckTrump
Multiple #government #websites #purged of #LGBTQ+ #content following #Trump’s #inauguration
#GLAAD reported that mentions of words such as “#lesbian”, “#bisexual”, “#gay”, “#transgender” and “#sexualorientation” are no longer accessible on the official #WhiteHouse #website, while “#LGBTQ+” brings up zero results.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/22/donald-trump-white-house-resources-lgbtq-hiv/
#WhiteSupremacist #President #DonaldTrump #Revokes #Workplace #Discrimination #Rules Enacted By #LBJ In #1965
#ExecutiveOrder11246, #forbade #federal #contractors from #discriminating on the basis of #race, #color, #religion, #nationalorigin, #sex, #sexualorientation or #genderidentity.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-revokes-workplace-discrimination-rules-203613947.html
who are cis people? What is a cis man? What makes a man cis? What makes a man trans?
(in case anyone wants to misrepresent any of this video or my posting of it -- no one is or should be disposable. Even if you don't like them.
I might say otherwise in my own personal experiences with a handful of people who have behaved unconscionably towrd me, but that's neither my ideal nor what I think would bring a better world.
Even less so on demographic grounds. Like, I understand if Person A abuses you, yeah you will be experiencing a range of emotions -- or shutdown, or cycle through them. But that's individual, not systemic. anyway.)
Obvious one we should all be able to agree on tho: posturing based on attacking others is not "real" gender. It's just insecurity getting defensive at other people.
"Republicans are using strategic litigation to effectively rewrite the Fourteenth Amendment to prioritize conservative white men and embryos above and beyond everyone else. They are warping something used to grant rights into a bludgeon to take them away, and are redefining who counts as a person in the United States."
#Trump #ElonMusk #Project2025 #HumanRights #race #gender #SexualOrientation #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteSupremacy #heterosexism #14thAmendment
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"Yet over the past year, conservatives have been increasingly open in their beliefs that pregnant women, transgender adolescents, affirming parents of trans kids, and immigrants are not legally entitled to the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections—all while arguing that fertilized eggs are."
#Trump #ElonMusk #Project2025 #HumanRights #race #gender #SexualOrientation #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteSupremacy #heterosexism #14thAmendment
/4
"The Fourteenth Amendment was intended to extend full citizenship to formerly enslaved Black people, and it undergirds the right of all Americans to be treated equally under the law, no matter who they are or in which state they reside."
#Trump #ElonMusk #Project2025 #HumanRights #race #gender #SexualOrientation #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteSupremacy #heterosexism #14thAmendment
/3
"But based on the contents of that manual, the MAGA movement’s longer-term goals aren’t exactly a mystery. Still, if people want a broader sense of what’s coming down the pike in the months and years ahead, it’s instructive to look at litigation involving rights granted under a Reconstruction-era addition to the Constitution."
#Trump #ElonMusk #Project2025 #HumanRights #race #gender #SexualOrientation #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteSupremacy #heterosexism #14thAmendment
/2
"The far right is weaponizing a doctrine that granted rights and liberties in order to snuff out the citizenship of anyone who isn’t a white man.
It’s a chilling fact that the Project 2025 playbook written for Donald Trump’s administration is just a roadmap for the first 180 days."
~ Susan Rinkunas
#Trump #ElonMusk #Project2025 #HumanRights #race #gender #SexualOrientation #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteSupremacy #heterosexism #14thAmendment
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https://newrepublic.com/article/189651/gop-supreme-court-citizenship-attack
"As I reported on Monday, for months Meta has been blocking dozens of LGBTQ related hashtags from search and down-ranking LGBTQ content. Meta’s new “free speech” policies do nothing to ensure ''errors' like this don’t continue to occur.
~ Taylor Lorenz
#MarkZuckerberg #ElonMusk #Trump #media #Meta #Facebook #disinformation #dictatorship #bullying #race #gender #SexualOrientation
/3
"It’s a retreat from limiting harm to users….
It was never about facts nor should it have been. It was always about limiting harm to Facebook users and advertisers. No reputable company wants its product or service placed next to a gruesome image of sexual exploitation, violence or bigotry."
~ Siva Vaidhyanathan
#MarkZuckerberg #ElonMusk #Trump #media #Meta #Facebook #disinformation #dictatorship #bullying #race #gender #SexualOrientation
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/08/mark-zuckerberg-supporting-trump-maga
