While gender is less determinative than youth, education and income in whether someone has internet access, there are significant gender gaps in half of the 40 countries Pew Research Center surveyed in 2015.
It’s official: North Carolina is getting sued for the passage of HB2, the law that bans LGBT nondiscrimination protections and forces transgender people to use the wrong bathrooms.
Lambda Legal, the ACLU, the ACLU of North Carolina, and Equality North Carolina filed a lawsuit challenging HB2 on behalf of three individual plaintiffs and two advocacy groups (the ACLU of NC and Equality NC).
The lawsuit argues that the new law denies LGBT people equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment because the new law was designed to single LGBT people out for discrimination and less protection.
“H.B. 2 was motivated by an intent to treat LGBT people differently, and worse, than other people, including by stripping them of the protections afforded by the City of Charlotte’s Ordinance and precluding any local government from taking action to protect LGBT people against discrimination,” the lawsuit alleges. By doing so, it continues, “H.B. 2 imposes a different and more burdensome political process on LGBT people than on non-LGBT people who have state protection against identity-based discrimination.”
Hell yes. Do the damn thing, y’all. Take. It. Down.
Burn it all down.
Destroy the “law” that was passed in the dark of the night. Destroy the state government that allowed this to happen. Destroy those who would attempt to defend this measure as some sort of “freedom” or “right to comfort.”
You would think that this is a good move, but it’s nothing more than caving to corporate pressure.
Had Disney, AMC, NFL, et al. not threatened to cease productions and events in Georgia, this bill would have been signed without issue, even in the face of public protests. This has already happened in North Carolina.
Governor Deal does not care about the citizens of Georgia; his only concern, like the Republicans he aligns himself with, is to ensure that corporate interests are met. And the corporations that put the pressure on are only in it for profit, anyway. They’re taking advantage of the social media firestorm so that they may receive positive press for “taking a stand,” while stealing the support of those who haven’t see through the veil.
How hypocritical for these strict Constitutional conservatives. The bible and God/Jesus are not in the Constitution. We separate church and state for this EXACT reason.
#freedomFROMreligion #nones
The freedom to practice religion does not trump the rights of others to live comfortably.
The United States of America is only one of two countries that has not approved and accepted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The other is South Sudan, which has already begun the ratification process.
Among other things, the CRC ensures children under the age of 18 have the right to life, identity and name, education, freedom of expression, equal opportunity, healthcare, psychological recovery, cultural sensitivities for minority/indigenous groups, and access to information [x].
The lack of the CRC in the USA is part of the reason why it is okay to send children to abusive “camps” that attack their identity as LGBTQ+ minorities, enroll them in private schools that intentionally deny students opportunities to learn about science (particularly anatomy and sexuality), and sign away their children’s rights to the state.
It is also why juveniles in the USA can be sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole, a legal implications that particularly affects people of color, especially Black and Latinx children.
The CRC also specifies that children should not be disciplined in a manner that is considered abusive, and the USA therefore does not regulate the “discipline” occurring in homes of at-risk children, even when it qualifies as mental or emotional abuse.
Due to the lack of the CRC, children can be relocated against their will (eg, deportation/trafficking) to potentially dangerous and life-threatening places, can be separated from their parents, or can be kept in isolation.
Basically, the United States, which claims to be a great champion of human rights, has consistently refused to ratify or even introduce the bill to ratify the Convention of the Rights of the Child.
Update on this (2016): USA is now the only country not to ratify the CRC. [x]
Over half of public school students are poor enough to qualify for lunch subsidies, and almost half of black children under the age of six are living in poverty. [x]
The US is one of two “developed” country with the lowest standards for child well-being (Romania is the other). [x]
16 million kids live in poverty and 138 thousand kids are homeless (2013-2015). [x]
Homelessness in children has increased by 60% in the past 6 years. [x]
In 2001, 325,000 children were at risk for becoming victims of sexual exploitation in the United States. [x]
Of all sex trafficking victims in the USA: 17% are underage girls and 10% are underage boys. [x]
