Forget about the Muslim countries that throw gays off of roof tops, the REAL problem is that Texas doesn't want boys to play girls' sports
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lgbtq-advocates-letter-united-nations-texas_n_65aed552e4b0f55c6e30740c Advocacy groups say that Texas’ anti-trans policies violate a crucial global treaty that protects human rights.
Five human rights groups issued a letter to the United Nations on Monday, arguing that Texas legislation has violated the rights of queer and trans people in the state.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, Equality Texas, GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign and the Human Rights Clinic at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law signed a joint letter urging the United Nations’ human rights experts to call on the federal and Texas state governments to protect LGBTQ+ people.
In the letter, the advocacy groups argue that Texas has violated the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights treaty, which recognizes the rights of all humans to enjoy “civil and political freedom and freedom from fear.”
The ICCPR, which was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 1976 and enforced 10 years later, was ratified by the U.S. in 1992. As a result, it became “the ‘supreme law of the land’ under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which gives ratified treaties the status of federal law,” according to the ACLU.
“Thus, the United States—including its federal and state entities—is obligated to act in accordance with this treaty,” the letter says.
As curtailing access to gender-affirming care and trans people’s participation in sports has become a political crusade among the Republican Party in the past few years, Texas’ GOP government has engaged in some of the country’s harshest attacks on LGBTQ+ rights.
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“We are now in crisis mode in Texas,” Johnathan Gooch, the communications director at Equality Texas, told HuffPost. “Hopefully this petition to the U.N. will start to remind people about the rights that they have under international law and hopefully we can begin to hold state lawmakers accountable for the harm they’re doing to our community.” Last year, Texas passed seven anti-LGBTQ+ laws, including banning trans athletes from participating in sports at the college level and barring trans youth from receiving gender-affirming care. In 2022, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) instructed the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate families of transgender minors on the grounds that affirming a child’s gender identity amounted to “child abuse.” State Attorney General Ken Paxton has similarly initiated investigations into pharmaceutical companies that sell puberty blockers, according to The Texas Tribune. He has also demanded medical records from Texas patients who sought gender-affirming care at a children’s hospital in Washington state. These laws and investigations have created a culture of fear, the letter says, and have trickled down into all parts of Texas life. An instance of this occurred last year, when a trans boy in Texas was kicked out of his school play after securing a leading male role.
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Gooch said he has seen families make the heartbreaking decision to split up, with one family member staying and working in Texas and the other moving out of state in order to obtain gender-affirming care for their trans child. The U.S. Department of Education has made efforts to clarify rules to protect queer and trans students in schools, but Gooch said the Biden administration needs to have a more robust response to keep the rights of LGBTQ+ people safe. “Texans’ rights to privacy are being violated by these laws and policies,” Gooch said. “No one should have to bring medical records or a birth certificate that was issued near or at the time of birth just in order to play on a sports team or be in a play.” Support HuffPost At HuffPost, we believe that everyone needs high-quality journalism, but we understand that not everyone can afford to pay for expensive news subscriptions. That is why we are committed to providing deeply reported, carefully fact-checked news that is freely accessible to everyone. Help keep news free for everyone by giving us as little as $1. Your contribution will go a long way.
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Convince me this isn't just a long term con in order to get regular Americans to pay attention to girl sports. No one gave a shit before they thought 'boys' were participating
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>>1260228 Still don't give a shit. Men are superior in everyway.
Replacing women with men would make the plays much better.
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>>1260232 Forgot to mention, women voted for this as well.
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OP sounds like a mad faggot, who is losing the culture war
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>>1260222 hello everyone yes i am the resident lgbt groomer and i want to stop texas from doing whatever it is they are doing. you may all get very mad at me.
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>>1260228 What will be the cope when all women's sports are just trannies competing against other trannies and every women's world record in any kind of art or sport is held by a tranny and all women are passed up for jobs for trannies? I actually can't wait because this will never not be hilarious and women voted for this
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>>1260478 when backed into a corner, libs will deny ever having supported it and blame Republicans.
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>>1260478 So far these supposed superhuman trannies have consistently lost to the 'real women' in competitions but
I guess that doesnt matter!
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>>1260487 >Lies. Facts dont care about your feelings little chuddy.
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>>1260502 Jeez, I went to work, ate dinner and you're still here spreading bullshit?
Touch some grass, buddy. This isn't healthy.
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this interest for the sex or preferences of the others is a PSYCHOSIS, all these interests for who what how ... is really a disgusting psychosis... from a Christian POV all that slur is a sign of psychotic obsession. and the will as a man to be considered a woman is simply clownesque. Even in the most retrograde Sicilian rural areas nobody was aking nothing about sex. This gender studies are simply idiotic.
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>>1260573 Why are you angry?
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>>1260232 This. All sports are now co-ed, women can be as equal as they wanted, troons can continue doing male things while pretending to be girls.
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>>1260228 Kek yeah, it does seem like a psyop
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>>1260485 That's not true universally. You should look into Fallon Fox and what happened to some of the opponents "she" fought.
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Why is /pol/ acting like this is the start of a civil war?
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>>1260469 Is the “culture war” in the room with you now?
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god made Adam and then eve from a rib, WTF wants to be a rib person?
god made Adam and then eve from a rib, WTF wants to be a rib person? Thu 25 Jan 2024 18:36:57 No. 1260628 Report Quoted By:
>>1260577 Religious theocrat
Men are superior, so why would a superior man want to be a woman?
It's as simple as that(also, chicks with dicks)
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>>1260617 yes this is a wiki article explaining how you were brainwashed
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>>1260485 [CITATION NEEDED]
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>>1260469 >>1260606 >>1260617 >>1260577 What's with you retards from reddit congregating in this board? Imagine writing reddit takes on 4chan lol.
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>>1260469 oh shit we got a culture warrior here
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>>1260925 nobody is stopping you from spamming schizophrenic takes, i'm not sure why you're upset about not being in a hugbox. just go back to pol
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LGBTQ chomos mad up in this thread. Yet again LGBTQ proves it has no place anywhere near children and instead belongs on a sex offender registry.
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>>1260941 of course you're not stopping me because you can't lol. I just want to know why you're here and not on your reddit hugbox.
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>>1260960 i'm fine with you're retarded voice being heard though, you on the other hand are crying about mine
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>>1260960 i'm fine with your retarded voice being heard though, you on the other hand are crying about mine
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>>1260968 >crying about Republicans in every thread >trying to own the chuds so hard that accidentally become a schizoposter >"I'm not crying about you, it is you who are crying about me" Rent free. Sad.
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>>1260982 did you just take my point and make it shittier and nonsensical
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>>1260996 Your point? You have a point? I thought you were doing your usual shitlib whingefest schizoposting. Try a Xanax.
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>>1261005 Eventually he'll have to get up to drain his colostomy bag, change out his feeding tube and buy more coke, so we'll get a little break from the horseshit.
I'm not sure when that's gonna happen though.
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>>1261009 I love when shitlibs try to troll 4chan as if we're not used to it by now. They come in with the most obvious bait and rehearsed insults and then pretend that we got pwn'ed.
Even the tumblr feminist trolls circa 2015 had better insults than these twitch debate bros audience faggots. And those bitches got BTFO lol.
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/news/: quantity over quality
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>>1261022 quantity is a form of quality in itself, bud
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>>1261021 I like how this obvious /r/the_donald refugee election tourist is trying to gatekeep 4chan now
>"We" >"shitlib" haha how edgy
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>>1261530 It would be embarrassing for you if I say I'm not a Trumper, huh?
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>>1260232 This. We already have artificial wombs so women will be replaced by faithful AI waifus and men will finally be free.
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