The Biden administration seeks to boost diversity in the federal judiciary Among the names expected to be brought forward today is U.S. It's been nights I've stayed up apologizing to George Floyd for not doing more and not physically interacting and not saving his life, it's not what I should have done, it's what he should have done." Star Tribune I look at them and how it could have been one of them. "I have a Black father, I have Black brothers, I have Black friends. “When I look at George Floyd I look at my dad, I look at my brothers, I look at my cousins, my uncles because they are all Black," she said. But I’ll give the last word to Daniella Frazier, then 18, who took the video that shocked the world. Frankly, there is no easy way into the testimony of the extraordinary witnesses to the last nine minutes and 29 seconds George Floyd's life one was only 9 years old at the time.
Trans visibility day 2021 trial#
The Derek Chauvin trial has begun, and it is brutal The ex-Minneapolis police officer is charged with second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020.
But it’s hard not to feel that the tide is going in the wrong direction for the wave of inclusion society needs. These are important and overdue protections. “In issuing this interpretive rule, we’re making it clear that lenders cannot discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity,” CFPB Acting Director David Uejio said in a statement. And in March, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced similar protections in lending through the Equal Protection Credit Opportunity Act, with an interpretive rule, will become final after a comment period. In this case, some can be found via the Biden’s administration’s clear signals of intolerance toward LGBTQ-related exclusions.Ī February executive order extended federal protections enshrined in the Fair Housing Act to explicitly prevent housing discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation. So far, HRC has identified at least 12 violent deaths of transgender or non-binary people, and no justice seems imminent.Īt this point in columns like these, I’m obligated to point out some good news. Last year, 44 transgender people were killed, most of whom were poor or otherwise under-resourced Black and Latinx folks. It’s worth your time to read the whole bill.Īlong with the coordinated legislative push, 2020 was a record year for violent deaths of transgender and gender non-conforming people. South Carolina’s HB 4047, among other things, would make it a felony for any medical provider to offer transition-related care, and threatens a possible 20-year prison sentence if convicted. In addition to barring children from school sports, many seek to prevent transgender people under 18 from accessing affirming medical care. Of the 192 anti-LGBTQ bills currently being debated across the country, 93 directly target transgender people. She told the Times that she opposes “demolishing women’s sports for the sake of feelings.”īut the sports ban legislation is just the tip of the iceberg.Īccording to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the 2021 legislative session has introduced a record-breaking number of anti-trans measures in statehouses across the U.S. Beth Stelzer, the founder of Save Women’s Sports, is an amateur power lifter who has been testifying in favor of removing transgender girls from team sports. Together, promoters see the issue as their last chance to curtail LGBTQ+ rights.
According to reporting from the New York Times, these measures are poll-tested, packaged, and promoted by conservative groups like the American Principles Project, Concerned Women for America, and the newly formed Save Women’s Sports. In Mississippi and Arkansas, they will become law this summer. Similar bills have been introduced in some two dozen states. At issue is a string of similarly constructed state legislation that aims to bar transgender girls from organized school sports for the purpose of “promot continued fairness in women’s sports,” to use language from South Dakota’s House Bill 1217.
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