Joe Biden's plans for LGBT+

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SunsetBeetch · 19/08/2020 10:32

Whilst there are lots of good thing in here (the reversing of the ban on trans people in the military, for example), there is also this:

"Guaranteeing transgender students have access to facilities based on their gender identity. On his first day in office, Biden will reinstate the Obama-Biden guidance revoked by the Trump-Pence Administration, which will restore transgender students’ access to sports, bathrooms, and locker rooms in accordance with their gender identity. He will direct his Department of Education to vigorously enforce and investigate violations of transgender students’ civil rights."

How he squares this with his pledges regarding women's rights, I do not know. I could scream!

joebiden.com/lgbtq-policy/

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highame · 19/08/2020 11:24

Don't forget, Corbyn was so sure he was going to win, so were many others. Democrats are so far ahead in the polls that I doubt this could swing it but you never know. What I do know about the electorate is that they can give bloody noses if they think they're being ignored

ThinEndoftheWedge · 19/08/2020 11:13

Does anyone think Trump will use this on his campaign? A bit of an open goal surely.

It doesn't matter how much the Democrats try to make out only right wing Christian evangelicals are against this - most normal people can see clearly that allowing males access to female only spaces/sport on the say so of the male is utterly insane.

Could it bring some welcome sunlight? (Yes - I am trying hard to find a chink of hope on this).

highame · 19/08/2020 11:09

This could be a major error. I was going to vote Lib Dem at the last election. Never done that before, always voted Labour. However, suddenly their utterly stupid wokeness ended up with me spoiling my ballot and a lot of people I know did the same thing or voted Conservative.

Do political parties know anything about the electorate? Lots of voters in the US will be despairing of Trump but when it comes to their daughters, that's a different ball game. Women will re-think their votes. I just really, really don't get it. Trump will just use this to inflame division.

teawamutu · 19/08/2020 11:08

So similar to Labour - don't think about appealing to the voters you need to get in to government, just preach to the converted.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 19/08/2020 10:56

How out of touch must he be to think this will resonate with the voters he needs to win back from Trump?

MadamBatty · 19/08/2020 10:48

Utterly insulting to the Civil Rights movement too.

Suffrajester · 19/08/2020 10:39

He's going to alienate a lot of voters. I remember on Twitter he was saying "trans rights are this era's civil rights movement", as if the civil rights movement were over and Black Americans have equality now. Utterly out of touch with the realities of working class life and the people he expects to vote for him.

SocialMedea · 19/08/2020 10:38

He is handing votes to Tango.

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