SadKangaroo wrote on Jan 23
rd, 2025 at 12:58pm:
Imagine the absurdity of a woman of the cloth having to plead with the President of the United States to show an ounce of mercy to the very people he swore to serve and protect. The sheer necessity of such a plea is a damning indictment of the current state of leadership, or lack thereof.
And yet, for all the sanctimonious posturing about being "good Christians," the mere sight of a woman in a position of authority, particularly in the church, seems to send these paragons of virtue into fits of apoplexy. Their faith, it seems, is less about compassion and more about preserving their fragile sense of superiority.
You won, Frank. The victory was yours, or so you claimed. So why, then, are you drowning in tears and endless cries of victimhood?
What happened to the strength and resilience you were supposed to embody?
Instead of celebrating triumph, all we hear is a cacophony of grievances. It’s almost as if the victory never truly belonged to you in the first place, or you're so used to being a loser you don't know how to react in victory...
Waffle.
Anyway, the Trump order has nuffin' to do wiv 'harming' anyone. It is about protecting women's rights and everyone's freedom of conscience from a corrosive, stupid ideology::
Section 1. Purpose. Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women’s domestic abuse shelters to women’s workplace showers. This is wrong. Efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being. The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American system. Basing Federal policy on truth is critical to scientific inquiry, public safety, morale, and trust in government itself.
This unhealthy road is paved by an ongoing and purposeful attack against the ordinary and longstanding use and understanding of biological and scientific terms, replacing the immutable biological reality of sex with an internal, fluid, and subjective sense of self unmoored from biological facts. Invalidating the true and biological category of “woman” improperly transforms laws and policies designed to protect sex-based opportunities into laws and policies that undermine them, replacing longstanding, cherished legal rights and values with an identity-based, inchoate social concept.
Accordingly, my Administration will defend women’s rights and protect freedom of conscience by using clear and accurate language and policies that recognize women are biologically female, and men are biologically male.
Read the rest (which Bishop Binte forgot to discuss)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gen...
Some truth bombs:
(f) “Gender ideology” replaces the biological category of sex with an ever-shifting concept of self-assessed gender identity, permitting the false claim that males can identify as and thus become women and vice versa, and requiring all institutions of society to regard this false claim as true. Gender ideology includes the idea that there is a vast spectrum of genders that are disconnected from one’s sex. Gender ideology is internally inconsistent, in that it diminishes sex as an identifiable or useful category but nevertheless maintains that it is possible for a person to be born in the wrong sexed body.
(e) Agencies shall remove all statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications, or other internal and external messages that promote or otherwise inculcate gender ideology, and shall cease issuing such statements, policies, regulations, forms, communications or other messages. Agency forms that require an individual’s sex shall list male or female, and shall not request gender identity. Agencies shall take all necessary steps, as permitted by law, to end the Federal funding of gender ideology.
(g) Federal funds shall not be used to promote gender ideology. Each agency shall assess grant conditions and grantee preferences and ensure grant funds do not promote gender ideology.
Which bit denies dignity, mercy? Which bit is 'divisive'? (Isn't diversity our strength anyway??) Which bit is harmful?