President Biden publicly celebrated both dates. Conservatives responded furiously.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/30/easter-transgender-day-of-visibility-culture-war-00149841 The “culture wars” have reached Easter.
President Joe Biden on Friday issued a proclamation recognizing March 31 as Transgender Day of Visibility, just as he has commemorated the day every year since he has been in office.
As Easter Sunday falls on March 31 this year, conservatives responded furiously, accusing the president, who is Catholic, of attempting to stifle Christian values by highlighting the event during an important religious holiday.
The controversy, which has galvanized conservatives and which transgender advocates say is manufactured, is the latest in a series of social conflicts that has enveloped the political process and current electoral cycle.
House leadership voiced their outrage, as did the Trump campaign, demanding an apology from the White House. The White House pushed back, saying that “as a Christian who celebrates Easter with family, President Biden stands for bringing people together and upholding the dignity and freedoms of every American.”
The Transgender Day of Visibility, observed on March 31 each year, was started by advocates 15 years ago as a way to celebrate transgender people and raise awareness of the discrimination they face.
Easter falls on a different date each year that is determined by a calculation related to lunar phases — the overlap between the two this year is coincidental. It is common for there to be multiple proclamations for the same date: Easter Sunday will also be Cesar Chavez day.
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In his Friday statement marking the globally celebrated day, Biden affirmed the rights and freedoms of all transgender Americans. Highlighting the rise of extremism against transgender youth in particular, Biden referenced the proliferation of laws that “target and terrify transgender kids and their families,” including bills that ban books with LGBTQ+ content and threaten health workers providing gender-affirming care. In a statement to POLITICO on Saturday, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates added that, “it’s unsurprising politicians are seeking to divide and weaken our country with cruel, hateful, and dishonest rhetoric. President Biden will never abuse his faith for political purposes or for profit.” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign released a statement calling on Biden to “issue an apology to the millions of Catholics and Christians across America who believe tomorrow is for one celebration only — the resurrection of Jesus Christ.” Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican who often talks of his Christian faith, took to X to pillory the president’s statement. “The Biden White House has betrayed the central tenet of Easter — which is the resurrection of Jesus Christ,” Johnson wrote. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said, “There is no length Biden and the Democrats won’t go to to mock your faith, and to thumb his nose at God.” Meanwhile, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) posted to X: “We can all celebrate Easter and the teachings of Jesus by modeling kindness, compassion, and loving thy neighbor - and yes, that includes trans folks and families.” The Human Rights Campaign, a prominent LGBTQ+ civil rights group, pushed back in a post to X, writing that “Not only would Trump’s policies drag us back in time – apparently he also doesn’t know how the calendar works.”
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Democratic strategist Matt McDermott described the GOP attacks as in “bad faith” and “part of an ongoing effort to bully, harass, demean, and demagogue trans Americans for simply trying to live their lives.” Some Republicans, such as House GOP conference chair Elise Stefanik, further alleged the Biden administration supported a ban of religious symbols at White House Easter celebrations this year. Although Fox News reported that a flyer calling for youth art submissions for the celebration asked that submissions not include “religious symbols” or “overtly religious themes,” an official involved with the Easter egg roll told POLITICO that the egg roll is part of a USDA initiative to promote eggs and that the language used was standardized and would have been the same under previous administrations.
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Fitting as Easter marks the day Jesus transitioned from being dead to alive.
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>>1283504 It's usually the other way around for the trooners 41% or 56% or whatever it's up to of the time.
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>>1283504 >>1283507 I'm DEAD
I transitioned from being alive to DEAD from these two posts.
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how many fag days are there now?
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>>1283519 two
Everything is upended. The sun probably won't rise tomorrow.
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>>1283543 >The sun probably won't rise tomorrow. That's probably true for at least one gay AIDS basket.
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>>1283519 Dude they wont stop until it's the whole year. Last pride 'month' I remember that tranny U.S. Navy Admiral purposefully calling for celebrating pride "season"
Don't ever believe them when they claim to only want an inch. Its ALWAYS just the first step before trying to take the whole thing.
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>>1283569 They already want to take your kids away if you don't give the groomers access to them.
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>>1283577 Nobody believes it can happen to them until it does.
tranny easter jesus bunny
>>1283492 i dressed up a a cute transgender jesus with easter bunny ears and had an easter hunt for eggs and consecrated bread
(I awoke today from my self induced 3 day coma from taking too much x and coke and partying and sucking my fellow tranny's cocks)
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>>1283599 We're trying to add new information here. Not tell people things we already know.
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This thread proves once again the right wing can't meme and only recycle the same 2-3 mean spirited attempts at jokes.
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>>1283625 This is no groom Monday bud so your kind is shit out of luck for the next 12 hours.
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>Starts a culture war >Complains about the culture war Why do they do this?
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>>1283492 You will never be a woman OP
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>>1283628 You should groom yourself once in a while.
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>>1283628 This explains why you're so stinky, bath and comb your hair.
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>>1283625 You just stole a right wing meme right there
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>>1283778 "the right can't meme" is projection though
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>>1283492 >who is Catholic Nigga, are you retarded?
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>>1283779 >>1283779 You mean the right wing projects.
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>>1283811 oh yeah, i literally did mean that. sorry, i've been drinking
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>>1283492 why do demon pedophiles have a holiday?
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>>1283492 What a "coincidence" the lgbt only mess with Christian holidays and but never with the Islam special days or traiditions.
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>>1283831 >>1283840 What's with this samefagging?
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>>1283546 It's true for a member of every demographic you complete waste.
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>>1283840 I'm pretty sure Ram-a-Dan is a fag holiday.
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>>1283492 the jew who created the day knew what they were doing. they knew one day it would fall on Easter. It like most of what jews do was meant to wash away Christianity and the culture of others. Alternate days are created on the same or close to the same day as a replacement to what has exists for over 1000 years.
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>>1283876 But Jews invented your religion
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>>1283876 Salt Lake City is like the second biggest concentration of lgbtxyz outside of The Bay Area. Their all expats from out of state. That is not by accident. For them it's a turn on. Western religious values replacement is some kind of fetish for them. Like the more 'pure' and uncorrupted they percieve something the more they get off on inserting themselves into it. And yeah than analogy means exactly what it sounds like.
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>>1283876 The Jew who created Easter?
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>>1283876 That is indeed how calendars work. And it's moreso your religion's fault if anything for having a holiday whose day varies year-to-year.
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>>1283942 >Western religious values replacement is some kind of fetish for them. They want the feminists and the lgbt to be their new religions.
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>>1284159 >They want the feminists and the lgbt to be their new religions It already is. Unironically.
They demand that their "cross" be displayed in public places throughout the nation and the western world and if you refuse prepare to be called a heretic.