Biden proclaimed the first instance of "Transgender Visibility Day" to occur onEaster Day.

Nithavela · Apr 1, 2024

Hazelelponi said:
I was under the impression this was the first year it became a nationally recognized occasion.

Yes, there was a bunch of the LGBTQ enthusiasts who declared the day back in 2009, but it wasn't a national day until this year.

I don't think the national recognition should have occurred on a Holy day. Pick another year.

Your impression is wrong. Biden has recognised this day since 2021.

A Proclamation on Transgender Day Of Visibility, 2021 | The White House

Today, we honor and celebrate the achievements and resiliency of transgender individuals and communities. Transgender Day of Visibility recognizes the generations of struggle, activism, and courage that have brought our country closer to full equality for transgender and gender non-binary...

www.whitehouse.gov

RestoreTheJoy · Apr 1, 2024

SavedByGrace3 said:
Biden made a special point of declaring this as a part of presidential power and authority:

"NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility."

And BTW, nobody said anything about being afraid.

He did, but this was started by President Obama.

Pommer · Apr 1, 2024

RileyG said:
This is so embarrassing. Mental disorders should be treated, not celebrated.

Shame only works on things that are under the person’s control, even then it is largely ineffectual.

Servus · Apr 1, 2024

Pommer said:
Shame only works on things that are under the person’s control, even then it is largely ineffectual.

Isn't there some middle ground between shaming and glorifying?

RocksInMyHead · Apr 1, 2024

RestoreTheJoy said:
He did, but this was started by President Obama.

It was started in 2009, but I don't think there was any recognition from the government at that point - it was just activists doing activist things. I believe Biden was the first US president to make it official in 2021.

Nithavela · Apr 1, 2024

Ceallaigh said:
Isn't there some middle ground between shaming and glorifying?

I think it's called "tolerance".

BNR32FAN · Apr 1, 2024

pgp_protector said:
Ah so you want Easter & Transgender Visibility Day to occur on the same day again in 2029?

No I’d rather transgender visibility day to occur on April fools day every year. It seems appropriate given the disingenuous theme of both days.

Pommer · Apr 1, 2024

Ceallaigh said:
Isn't there some middle ground between shaming and glorifying?

Allowing transfolk to be visible without shame≠glorifying

Pommer · Apr 1, 2024

BNR32FAN said:
No I’d rather transgender visibility day to occur on April fools day every year. It seems appropriate given the disingenuous theme of both days.

My, how clever, ridiculing a sexual minority.

Malleeboy · Apr 1, 2024

I have no issue with having a day of visibility for Trans people, it is a reminder I need to pray for people who are suffering, even if I fundamentally disagree with their worldview, desired changes to society and their solutions to their challenges. Better to have open debate, rather than things being done without anyone being informed. The greater the level of exposure, the greater the chance for scrutiny, less likely harmful agendas are likely to proceed. (Their used as pronoun, as the group contains individual of either of the two sexes, not to use non gendered pronouns per se.)
People should be more aware of that there are contentions around having (what I hold to be) men in women's spaces, men in women's sport and the medical support for removal of healthy and functioning organs (especially by people, generally under the age of consent to other life changing actions)

As for Biden, he was in a no win situation. Failing to proclaim he would be attacked for not supporting this group, which his most ardent supporters care deeply about. Whereas proclaiming it, he must have known that his opponents would use it against him. US elections are about energizing the base, and getting the base out to vote. Giving his opponents the line that, "Creepy Joe cares more about ensuring men can enter your daughters bathroom, and less about Jesus." is a great way to energize their base..

RoBo1988 · Apr 1, 2024

Matt5 said:
Polls are irrelevant. Who counts the votes is what matters, and only in key districts. Of course, lots of other cheating and gaming can happen too.

Biden can't lose.

100 million votes for '24 My prediction.
Reagan won 49 states, and Nixon won 48 with a little more than half of Biden's total. Most peculiar...

Servus · Apr 1, 2024

Pommer said:
Allowing transfolk to be visible without shame≠glorifying

But they are being glorified nonetheless.

Servus · Apr 1, 2024

Pommer said:
My, how clever, ridiculing a sexual minority.

It's more a matter of ridiculing the madness of woke society.

Pommer · Apr 2, 2024

Ceallaigh said:
It's more a matter of ridiculing the madness of woke society.

If it’s “madness” to recognize that other people might be different in a way that I’m not at all used to seeing, (and that there is nothing inherently “wrong” with that), call me crazy.

Servus · Apr 2, 2024

Pommer said:
If it’s “madness” to recognize that other people might be different in a way that I’m not at all used to seeing, (and that there is nothing inherently “wrong” with that), call me crazy.

That's not what's actually going on though. What's actually going on has gone way beyond that. That's why you have to emphasise it.

Pommer · Apr 2, 2024

Ceallaigh said:
That's not what's actually going on though. What's actually going on has gone way beyond that. That's why you have to emphasise it.

And how is this being “emphasized“?

Bradskii · Apr 2, 2024

Pommer said:
And how is this being “emphasized“?

Calling them perverts is the most recent method.

Servus · Apr 2, 2024

Pommer said:
And how is this being “emphasized“?

Because there's a lot more is involved with this than just "recognizing that other people might be different".

Servus · Apr 2, 2024

Bradskii said:
Calling them perverts is the most recent method.

How is that recent?

Bradskii · Apr 2, 2024

Ceallaigh said:
How is that recent?

It was said recently. What on earth do you think I meant?

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