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37 votes
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United States Supreme Court blocks Joe Biden administration rules against sex discrimination in schools
26 votes -
The International Olympic Committee published a study comparing trans- and cisgender athletes
15 votes -
Detroit’s LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce is helping create a business renaissance
10 votes -
Three generations of trans Americans reflect on what has (and hasn't) changed
9 votes -
The Witch Trials of JK Rowling
15 votes -
Alaska says it’s now legal “in some instances” to discriminate against LGBTQ individuals
12 votes -
Charles Silverstein, who helped declassify homosexuality as mental illness, dies at 87
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Gaytopia: Fed up with the horrific discrimination and violence against his community, Don Jackson had a plan to turn a remote spot in Northern California into the world's first gay-majority county
7 votes -
The trans swimmer who won too much
6 votes -
When trans and non-binary people age out of homeless services, there’s nowhere to turn
7 votes -
US Supreme Court rules in favor of Catholic foster care agency that refused to work with same-sex couples
9 votes -
Norway has banned hate speech against bisexual and trans people in a landmark change to its penal code
22 votes -
Poland to consider outright ban on LGBT+ Pride marches
14 votes -
Zillow now displays LGBT non-discrimination laws on homes
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US supreme court rules employers cannot discriminate against LGBTQ+ workers
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The US federal government will now allow health care providers to deny care to anyone they perceive as trans or gay
38 votes -
Daniel Radcliffe responds to JK Rowling's latest tweets about gender identity
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Switzerland votes to ban homophobic discrimination
10 votes -
Indonesian police officer claims he was fired for being gay, files lawsuit for wrongful dismissal
4 votes -
Will non-binary gender options on state IDs reduce discrimination?
8 votes -
Poll: Most Texas voters believe business owners shouldn't be allowed to refuse service to LGBT people
25 votes -
US President Donald Trump issues ‘freedom to discriminate’ healthcare order
20 votes -
Armenian MPs call for trans activist to be burned alive after historic speech
10 votes -
Arkansas court rules city can't enforce LGBTQ protections
9 votes -
New York passes Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) and legislation banning “conversion therapy”
12 votes -
Emerging consensus on LGBT issues: Findings from the 2017 American Values Atlas
4 votes -
Prime Minister Scott Morrison faces fresh fight on LGBTI discrimination from new campaign machine
4 votes -
"Queer people are allowed to exist – but only as long as they’re of a certain stock": 'The Wound' star Nakhane
5 votes -
Beliefs about homosexuality predict intentions to discriminate
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One in three LGBTI managers are afraid to be out at work: study
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Anti-transgender legislation devastates trans children — even when it fails
9 votes -
House Appropriations Republicans adopt "license to discriminate" amendment
13 votes -
Australian unions seek to end religious bodies' right to discriminate in hiring
11 votes -
Transgender teenager Aliza Johnson tackles discrimination in regional town
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A US jury may have sentenced a man to death because he’s gay. And the Justices don’t care.
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It's a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake: LGBT+ discrimination
Well, there comes a time in every community's existence where someone gets an idea for discussion from another thread he wishes were better framed. So buckle in. This discussion is intended to sit...
Well, there comes a time in every community's existence where someone gets an idea for discussion from another thread he wishes were better framed. So buckle in. This discussion is intended to sit at an uncomfortable cultural crossroads.
In the EU, gay spouses are now able to have the same freedom of movement rights as straight spouses. The Supreme Court in the United States ruled that a baker was treated unfairly by a Colorado regulatory commission when they tried to suss out if he discriminated against a gay couple who wanted to purchase a wedding cake.
In Brazil (you thought I was going to let this one be), courts have explicitly allowed conversion therapy to continue.
In Chechnya (a part of Russia that I always seem to struggle to spell), you could be hunted down and tortured or killed if you were gay, with people turning their own family members over to the local government. The local government, in absurdity, claimed after the purge that there were "no gays" in Chechnya, so there could have been no purge.
The point I'm trying to make here is that LGBT+ discrimination is an issue that should touch just about everywhere.
Before we get too deep, a point on terms. Discrimination, strictly speaking, is separating one thing from another. It is not necessarily a hostile act. If I say "you can drive only if your vision is good enough to read signs while you drive," that is discrimination on the basis of your ability to see, but most people aren't likely to say it's unreasonable discrimination (there is a rather obvious safety implication, for starters). Similarly, if you tell women to go to the bathroom in one space, and men to go to the bathroom in another space, that is discrimination based on gender. Is it reasonable discrimination? That might depend on if you're trans, and what state you're in.
This topic has to be more limited than this set up implies it will be. We won't be able to narrow things well enough to have a meaningful discussion otherwise. Today, we're just going to touch on the simple (ha!) matter of whether baking a wedding cake is art, whether refusing a wedding cake to a gay couple is discrimination, and what a government should be expected to do about it. So, the questions:
- Is making a custom wedding cake for a wedding "art"?
- Is refusing a custom wedding cake to a couple because it would be for a cause you do not support discrimination on the basis of that couple's identity?
- How should a just government resolve a dispute between a couple who feel unreasonably discriminated against and an artist who feels compelled to use speech for a cause they do not support?
And a bonus question:
- What role should a judicial branch have in advancing various groups' rights? Does relying on this less democratic method for securing rights open a movement up to counter-reaction or is the counter-reaction simply an inevitable consequence of a movement's success?
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US Supreme Court hands narrow win to baker over gay couple dispute
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US Supreme Court rules narrowly for Colorado baker who wouldn't make same-sex wedding cake
10 votes