Biden/US priorities: Trans Day of Visibility more important than Easter?

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https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/slap-in-the-face-to-all-christians-in-america-us-conservatives-fume-over-joe-bidens-latest-move-on-easter-sunday/news-story/d9bf08d345eaff68b431398d09dc3992

Nothing is more important than GI, it is truly the new religion of today…

Silly old fool

when is it not a day of trans visibility?

Hasn't March 31 been 'Trans Day of Visibility' since 2019 at least? So it simply happens to fall on Easter Sunday this year?

Yup ... just people trying to look for stuff to be offended about.

Does anyone know if this proclamation means that, in America, the President has given the date legal or governmental significance of some kind as opposed to it just being a socially recognised occasion used by organisations for campaigning purposes?

I’m presuming he’s not declaring it an official holiday like other US holidays such as Veteran’s Day or Presidents Day or MLK Day.

I’m just curious as to why, other than political and/or virtue signalling, Biden made this pronouncement ? 🤔🤔

Wasn't the date of the Trans Day of Visibility decided in 664 at the Synod of Whitby?
You know - like gay rights demonstrators in Dublin in 1983 were carrying a placard saying 'Trans Rights are Human Rights'
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/dublin-pride-removes-altered-photo-of-protest-from-its-website-after-complaints/a1068338702.html

😂
Bualadh bos!

A Proclamation is official support. That's all. He's done it every year since 2021, and Obama did it for the Trans Day of Remembrance for 3 years too.

Stop taking cues from US Conservatives...

Not "just people." Paid-up MAGA trolls. There's plenty to be angry about, not least reasonable people leaving completely unnecessary open goals to a genuinely disgusting and undemocratic right - but this seems rather silly.

Wouldn't it be more of an event to hold a Trans Day of INvisibility.

Now that would be something to see - or not. 😂

😂🤣

Maybe it's a healthy eating initiative? He's seizing on the opportunity the clash of dates gives him, because he's concerned a prominent Presidential Easter message will increase international Easter egg consumption.

I've already started eating mine though, so hah, Biden!

Have you heard the new version of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
"Friends, Romans, Transwomen" it's such a tiny revision I'm sure no one will notice.

This. All these supposed Christians seem to have forgotten Easter is a moveable feast.

Anything to stir up some outrage at trans though right?

Just culture war crap being stirred and lapped up.

Catholic president says people should not be bigots.
Bigots that claim to be Christian get offended

Annual international day on a fixed date, coincides with religious day on variable date.

Religious extremists get upset

You mean the Christians who banned any religious symbols on the children’s drawings for Easter?

I was interested to read that Biden is Roman Catholic.

I think he should listen to the Pope a bit more, if that’s true.

'the most fundamental freedom to be their true selves'

What is this true selves?

I mean actually?

I don't think it's the clash with Easter that is the problem. It's the fact that the trans rights lobby is now so visible that to anyone who isn't already a card carrying member, all this extra visibility is going to do is irritate people.

We already have a whole month of the year for Pride, which now seems to be mainly about all the letters to the right of the LGB, then there's trans history month a few months later, and yet on International Women's Day which is only one day of the year to celebrate half the human population, trans women are also prominently featured. There is no day of the year when trans people and their issues aren't highly visible. The whole thing is just quite tone deaf.

The fact that it clashes with Easter this year is really neither here nor there.

I wondered why you hadn’t highlighted the Easter egg competition rules……

I don’t mean the ‘Christian(s) who banned religious symbols on egg paintings at Easter - because it wasn’t Biden, it has also been a rule for 45 years ….. to paint images in line with the years theme, and to not promote bigotry, discrimination etc
Note that the quotes taken from the leaflet being provided are selective - the rules are not to promote religious discrimination, not to have questionable content, and also the outrageous bit to not include religious symbols.
(I don’t recall ever seeing a child opt to paint religious symbolism when decorating an Easter egg)

Note that the outrage posts only quote extracts from the rules, and if an image is provided have only shown the front page - not the back page with the rules. A copy of the full flyer is linked below

The egg painting is run by the National Guard, the theme of the competition is “celebrating our military families”
The rules have also been in place for 45 years

https://www.foxnews.com/media/religious-themed-designs-banned-white-house-easter-egg-art-contest.amp

"On behalf of First Lady Jill Biden, The Adjutants General of the National Guard are asking youth from National Guard families across the United States and all U.S. territories to submit artwork inspired by the theme ‘Celebrating our Military Families,’" the flyer continues.
Children are asked to design eggs with images based on their own lives. "Selected designs representing the unique experience and stories of National Guard children will be brought to life on real hen eggs by talented egg artists from across the country and displayed at the White House this Easter and Passover season," the flyer says.
Children also can't promote material that promotes "bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual or promotes discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age" in their designs.

https://www.rawstory.com/amp/trump-biden-egg-religion-fact-check-2667638977

Fyi on all the misleading swirl re White House and Easter: the American Egg Board flyer’s standard non-discrimination language requesting artwork has been used for the last 45 years, across all Dem & Republican Admins—for all WH Easter Egg Rolls —incl previous Administration’s," she reported on Saturday.

https://www.rawstory.com/amp/trump-biden-egg-religion-fact-check-2667638977

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/03/28/white-house-announces-theme-and-activities-for-the-2024-easter-egg-roll/

https://firstliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024_Youth_Art_Egg_Flyer.pdf

I'd also add that I'm not sure what purpose it all serves.

If the trans rights lobby were using all this visibility to campaign for things like third spaces and extra sporting categories, I'd see the point in it. But if it's really just to keep telling the world that trans people are valid and trans rights are human rights, which is actually code for "women who want single sex spaces and sports and people who care about child safeguarding are evil bigots", all this extra visibility is likely to be more counterproductive to their aims than anything else.

You'd think that would be what they are aiming for, seeing as they all are so obsessed with passing. And just quietly living their lives. And peeing peacefully...

That Biden should listen when the Pope said that trans people should be treated with respect?

And what does the Pope say about women's rights and child safeguarding?