Bernie I Am Once Again Asking For Your Support

Props to you for making the poll, but it's probably a useless gesture; Trump no longer has any official power and you'd be far better served sending petitions to folks still in office who can actually affect the change you want.

Though I can't really think of any legal challenges facing LGBTQ+ folk right now? I think the courts have pretty well dealt with anything major that could come up.

people can still get fired for being lgbtq+ and there are hate crimes, and a lot of trans people are still scared to use the bathroom because of violence, also it's still legal to send children to conversion camps in many states. Also, thank you. I didn't make the petition, I think it's just out of spite to trump.

Anyone fired for being LGBTQ+ has a civil cause of action (I.E they can sue the business) if they can prove it was indeed purely because of their sexual orientation. I thiiiiiiink there are limited religious organization exceptions to this, but that's pretty logical; no person would work for a religion that is opposed to them anyways.

I oppose trans people in bathrooms for the opposite sex. They are rooms that exist to facilitate the exercise of a bodily function, and we split them by body types because it makes people uncomfortable to have folks of the opposite sex in the same room while such a private bodily function is conducted. I don't care if trans people identify as their old sex, nobody has a right to make others uncomfortable in such an intimate way. There's a great quote that I often recite here, uttered first over a century ago, "The right to swing my fist ends where the next man's nose begins."

In practical terms, it means that a trans person is free to do whatever they want with their own body, but they have to respect the body of others and and others' views of that body and their own privacy. It would be like me, a Catholic, saying that we Catholics deserve to be represented with a crucifix in every single religious building on earth despite the fact that we only represent about one-in-seven of the global population.

You and I obviously agree that such a demand is unfair, and if we agree on that then why would we disagree on something that only applies to a tiny percentage of the population and is arguably over something less important (Body<soul)?

Signed

Thanks! You're great, the website is called: change.org, you can make your own petitions for what you believe in, and they are proved to actually make changes, this one guy painted his nails, then got ISS for it, and we got him a lot of supporters, so they changed the rule, and he paints his nails to school frequently!

Can I have the link for it?

yeah: https://www.change.org/

so does this mean it would be supporting trump?

no, it wouldn't because it goes directly to trump saying stop being mean to lgbtq+

signed and shared;)

thanks

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Signed!

thanks! love your username btw

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I’ll do this as soon as I can

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Hi guys! I found another petition that made disowning your child either illegal, or gave it a long legal process so that "parents" wouldn't want to go through all of that, and if the "parents" did disown the child, It would also make the "parents" give them financial support, please support these

What happens if the parents simply don't have the financial capability to support the child and therefore have to give it up to a foster center?

Not saying it's a bad idea...just curious if it has a loophole for those situations.

giving up a child to foster care isn't the same thing as disowning them with hate and disgust because of who they are and who they love

I mean...I guess then I don't know where the child ends up if disowned.

Believe me, I understand the point you're trying to make, I'm just thinking about the policy aspects of that. So long as it doesn't screw up the foster system even more than it is I'm 100% down.

it could be called house help or smth

I'd like to "hire" you as pls help me sort this out and put more details on the petition so we can make this happen. Or what if instead of making disowning your children illegal because worse things might happen to them if the parents can't like abuse, so what if there was something like an app you can download for kids who have been disowned with lgbtq+ friendly houses they can take refuge in that are able to foster children as well. In the app you'd put down your location if you can take someone in, then the child in need of a house can go on the app, click on you, and then the app gives walking directions to you, it also has a messaging system where the child can message you if needed so they could let you know that they need help, and need a home.

I'm no policy maker, but here's what I think needs to be understood and then facilitated (made to happen):

First, the one issue I'd have with such an app is that it would make it far too easy for sexual predators to lure kids into their grasp. If a child can leave their house and be given walking directions to a "friendly house" that an app on their phone says is safe, just imagine how easily horrible people could take advantage of them. It's likely that those kids would never be seen again, or at least not for years or decades after being kidnapped like that...it's happened before and that would be my only fear.

We have to accept that preventing broken families is impossible. Sad as it is, it's just reality. That said, you can absolutely work to make the situation better for as many as possible. What we need to first ensure is that we are not in any way making it easy for the government to destroy a family that is in fact good and the only issue is the child thinking life is worse than it is. Bad as it is that some bad families exist, it'd be worse if a kid was able to break one by throwing a petty tantrum and calling a hotline that created a legal basis of action for someone to take the kid away. That would gut the parents to no end.

That recognized, I'd say we really just need to work on improving CPS (child protection services) and foster care. If someone thinks something is wrong with a family, including any member of that family, they can call CPS and a court hearing will be scheduled wherein the situation of that family is assessed. If the parents are truly abusing a child for ANY reason (I'm talking things like not giving them food, shelter, medicine, or truly serious verbal abuse, not just verbal disagreements with something the child claims to say or be) then the courts will assign the child to foster care. The issue with foster care is the adoption system is hugely expensive and time consuming. Part of that is to ensure that only good people get through the process to take newly-adopted kids home, but part of it is also inefficiency that could be streamlined.

Sorry for writing so much. This issue is just a sad affair entirely, because the only way to ensure kids get help is to make the process so clunky that bad people don't try to abuse it.

That is true, and I agree that this is the sad reality of things, thank you for listening to my ideas and thinking them over so that I don't do anything that effects the world badly.

Hey you're welcome!! Don't feel bad about trying to do good, the world needs people like you who are stepping up and at least trying. )

Thanks!