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DHS quietly eliminates ban on surveillance based on sexual orientation and gender identity
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I'm not sure this is legal because if a man and a woman both like men and you only surveil the man who likes men, then you are selecting him for surveillance because of his sex which is a protected class
As if rules matter to theses people anymore. All that matters to them is getting to the Zyklon B as fast as possible because the bible told them to kill the gays.
Yep. They are mad as hell about the gay marriage thing. Prior to that happening, they were mad as hell about gays even being acknowledged as existing, w/o being arrested and imprisoned.
So they set about creating trans as a wedge issue. I don't think the bathroom thing worked as well as they thought it might, so they really, really focused on the "men in womens sports" thing and kept hammering on that. They still keep hammering on it.
So they'll start with trans, but they don't want to stop there. They want to roll back all advances for gays, starting with marriage first and onto shoving everyone back in the closet and policing content creation.
If they succeed there, they'll move onto things like compulsory xtian attendance and reversing scientific knowledge here, at least in public schools. They are very very butthurt about adherence to their little book club dropping 1% point or more year over year...they are still butthurt about things like the Scopes Monkey Trial, FFS and think their stupid text should supplant real science, especially on matters like basic biology.