Seen surprisingly little celebration about this, the Biden administration just this past Friday (April 26th, 2024) issued a rule that does the following:
Explicitly states that queer people (including transgender people) are protected from discrimination in healthcare, this means they cannot be discriminated against or denied care based on their status as a transgender person. As set out by the ACA.
Additionally adds that nondiscrimination rules also apply to things like AI tools that may be used by healthcare professionals, and adds that those tools need to be evaluated to ensure that they do not enable discrimination.
It explicitly extends nondiscrimination protections to these cases and gets in front of the whole "oh well I put the numbers into the machine and the machine just happened to do racism about it so it's fine and it's not my fault" issue. Instead, this ruling says "actually, it's your job to know what that machine is and will do, and failure to do that is you fault." which is really good for patient protection!!
All in all, pretty fucking cool shit, hell yeah.
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WE ARE NOT FOUND DEAD, WE DO NOT PASS AWAY UNEXPECTEDLY, WE ARE NOT JUST BULLIED. WE ARE ATTACKED AND MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD BY HATEFUL BIGOTS THAT ARE ENABLED BY THE TERRORIST RUN LEGISLATION.
edit: ID in alt
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Okay so JK Rowling has:
• Openly been transphobic as fuck
• Donated tons of money to causes which have eroded trans rights across the globe, to the point of being one the biggest forces behind the current transphobe movement
• Defended slavery in her most popular work (House elves LIKE being slaves thoooo 🙄)
• Used racist caricatures which have racist names in her most popular work (Kingsley Shacklebolt, Cho Chang, Seamus Finnigan)
• Used antisemitic caricatures in her most popular work (Goblins)
• And if you're still "well, but..."-ing the antisemitism of the Goblins, the recent game was straight-up the definition of blood libel
• Completely botched her representation of native americans because she doesnt care enough to do research
• Used the name of the man who invented conversion therapy as a pseudonym to write books
• Made a movie set in her universe where the *VILLAINS* goal is to stop the holocaust (which. WOW)
• And has now engaged in ACTUAL HOLOCAUST DENIAL
Seriously, how bad does she have to get before you all will admit to yourselves that supporting her is the same as supporting nazism??? "It was part of my childhood!" Same!!! And it sucks to admit that something you used to love is actually awful and harmful!!! But also at some point you have to just...move on!!!! "Oh I'm sure its just a mistake!" Why, because she claimed that ONE character is gay and wouldnt even let it be shown ever??? Because the main villain was slightly more cartoonishly racist than she is???? Because one of the most popular characters quit being a cartoon racist *BECAUSE HE WAS HORNY*?
Seriously. Give up Harry Potter. No grey area anymore.
Edit: forgot some shit she did, added it
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Stamp :3
For patches and public walls (lol totally kidding Im a law abiding citizen/j)
Making more patches and spencils about gender affirming healthcare because yk, I live in Florida and still can't access it (Please help)
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I'm so done mourning the loss of fellow trans kids while the media dead names them. I'm so done with the people who refuse to acknowledge the reason these trans kids are no longer here is because of the way they chose to live their life. I'm so sick and done with a world that's been built in a way that has set us up for failure.
Fuck TERFS transphobes and bigots. Trans rights
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