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Offline TomSea

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Jeff Sessions reverses protections for transgender rights
« on: October 06, 2017, 02:12:30 am »
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Jeff Sessions reverses protections for transgender rights
BY Jason Silverstein

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is ending an Obama-era policy protecting transgender employees from discrimination, showing yet another strike from the Trump administration on LGBT rights.

Sessions wrote in a memo that a landmark 1964 civil rights law does not apply to gender identity, despite the Justice Department expanding that definition when former President Barack Obama was in office.

Read more at: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/jeff-sessions-reverses-protections-transgender-rights-article-1.3543222

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Re: Jeff Sessions reverses protections for transgender rights
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2017, 02:15:45 am »
Jeff is alive! Who knew.
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Re: Jeff Sessions reverses protections for transgender rights
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2017, 02:16:04 am »
Should read "Jeff Sessions declares there are no special rights for transgenders.  One cannot reverse a protection of a right if there are no rights to begin with.
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Re: Jeff Sessions reverses protections for transgender rights
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2017, 02:21:32 am »
Shit. Now I can't get the special parking spot at work because I wear a dress.

Damn you Jeff Sessions!!!!!
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