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Allowing the Republicans to retain control means we lose control of everything, since the Republican refuse to do their job and be a check on the President. Which means that, if you vote to have the House and Senate be in Republican control, then you are voting for Trump. There isn't a single Republican running for public office who would stand up to to Trump, not one.
Original join date: 11/23/2004
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The proposal seems to be about how to define sex for the purposes of various policies.
Within the medical community, sex is seen as distinct from gender, and determined by biology. This is a view shared by Stanford, the American Psychological Association, the World Health Organization, and Planned Parenthood.For the last year, health and human services has privately argued that the term “sex” was never meant to include gender identity or even homosexuality, and that the lack of clarity allowed the Obama administration to wrongfully extend civil rights protections to people who should not have them.
But officials at the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed that their push to limit the definition of sex for the purpose of federal civil rights laws resulted from their own reading of the laws and from a court decision.
Mr. Severino, while serving as the head of the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at the Heritage Foundation, was among the conservatives who blanched at the Obama administration’s expansion of sex to include gender identity, which he called “radical gender ideology.”
https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spr...ur-health.html
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/b...im-so-confused“We don’t know how to measure gender,” says Stefanick, director of the Stanford Women and Sex Differences in Medicine, or WSDM (pronounced “wisdom”), Center. “Sex is generally assigned at birth, based on external genitalia, after which a broad range of biological, particularly reproductive, sex differences are assumed. Individuals are then, usually, forced into a binary model of gender — with distinct masculine and feminine categories — when the possibilities are much broader and more expansive.”
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/le...ender-identityAccording to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, "Gender is cultural and is the term to use when referring to women and men as social groups. Sex is biological; use it when the biological distinction is predominant." And according to the World Health Organization, "Sex refers to the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women. Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women."
It appears that the Obama administration defined sex differently in order to extend protections and obligations, in which case the Trump administration is just going back to the more widely accepted definition. It is self-serving for conservatives at this point, although there is utility in clarity, and if you want the Trump administration to have less power in general, you shouldn't be in favor of presidential administrations changing definitions of terms from the commonly accepted meanings in order to achieve policy objectives.It’s common for people to confuse sex, gender, and gender identity. But they’re actually all different things.
Sex is a label — male or female — that you’re assigned by a doctor at birth based on the genitals you’re born with and the chromosomes you have. It goes on your birth certificate.
Gender is much more complex: It’s a social and legal status, and set of expectations from society, about behaviors, characteristics, and thoughts. Each culture has standards about the way that people should behave based on their gender. This is also generally male or female. But instead of being about body parts, it’s more about how you’re expected to act, because of your sex.
Gender identity is how you feel inside and how you express your gender through clothing, behavior, and personal appearance. It’s a feeling that begins very early in life.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
It makes more sense if you start to think that they don't actually believe the lie they're selling. A lame excuse is just a lame excuse to justify what they wanted to to anyway.
Like how Saudi Arabia doesn't actually expect people to believe they're story about the reporter whose arms and legs mysteriously fell off.
Ron Desantis and Brian Kemp are both openly racist. Kemp is overtly disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of voters to steal the election. DeSantis spoke at a White Supremacist rally.
Both are among the Trumpieast Trumsters running.
Shows Met's true leanings, not really a centrist Republican after all, just another GOP Trump supporter.
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
That you can just justify this away as righting the ship over the previous administration just "achieving policy objectives", well then that just shows what a complete lack of empathy you have for other people, especially an already HEAVILY discriminated against minority.
"How does the Green Goblin have anything to do with Herpes?" - The Dying Detective
Hillary was right!
Am I mistaken on anything I've said regarding the policy, or the definition of sex?
I disagree with the notion that Kemp and DeSantis are openly racist, although both are flawed candidates.
However, why should a centrist Republican embrace Abrams and Gillum?
The pushback against facts worries me.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
What do Midwesterners care about Ay-rabs? Some of them probably thought the poor guy had it coming for whatever reason. Meanwhile, speaking of the late Mr. Khashoggi:
Conservatives mount a whisper campaign smearing Khashoggi in defense of Trump
Why am I not surprised this has happened? Gutless, cowardly, despicable Republicans willing to do ANYTHING to protect Trump, even going so far as to smear the name of a man who was brutally murdered, allegedly by agents of his own government. I’d love to hear our resident Republican enablers defend this vile ****.Hard-line Republicans and conservative commentators are mounting a whispering campaign against Jamal Khashoggi that is designed to protect President Trump from criticism of his handling of the dissident journalist’s alleged murder by operatives of Saudi Arabia — and support Trump’s continued aversion to a forceful response to the oil-rich desert kingdom.
In recent days, a cadre of conservative House Republicans allied with Trump has been privately exchanging articles from right-wing outlets that fuel suspicion of Khashoggi, highlighting his association with the Muslim Brotherhood in his youth and raising conspiratorial questions about his work decades ago as an embedded reporter covering Osama bin Laden, according to four GOP officials involved in the discussions who were not authorized to speak publicly.
Those aspersions — which many lawmakers have been wary of stating publicly because of the political risks of doing so — have begun to flare into public view as conservative media outlets have amplified the claims, which are aimed in part at protecting Trump as he works to preserve the U.S.-Saudi relationship and avoid confronting the Saudis on human rights.
Avatar: Here's to the late, great Steve Dillon. Best. Punisher. Artist. EVER!
Checking in with the leader of the free world:
https://www.reuters.com/article/saud...-idUSS8N1TF01RGermany will not export arms to Saudi Arabia while the current uncertainty over the fate of journalist Jamal Khashoggi persists, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday.
Campaigning for her party in a regional election, Merkel repeated to a news conference her earlier condemnation of Khashoggi’s killing, which Saudi Arabia admitted had taken place inside its consulate in Istanbul.
“First, we condemn this act in the strongest terms,” she said. “Second, there is an urgent need to clarify what happened - we are far from this having been cleared up and those responsible held to account ... As far as arms exports are concerned, those can’t take place in the current circumstances.”
"How does the Green Goblin have anything to do with Herpes?" - The Dying Detective
Hillary was right!