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LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender, Queer) issues have been a major debate in our society the last two decades of the 20th Century and continues to be in the first two decades of the 21st Century. Whether it is marriage, child rearing, bullying or hate crimes there isn't a topic that doesn't include some element of LGBT. Contrary to media and some political talking heads, most Americans want everyone to be who they are. It only becomes a problem when militant activity overrides the civil rights issue. We have much to agree with on this subject if we would not let the very small militant groups dominate the conversation. Separating political agendas and fringe militancy from the honest social debate on this issue is needed. LGBT demographics were revealed in a 2017 Gallup poll concluded that 4.5% of adult Americans identified as LGBT with 5.1% of women identifying as LGBT, compared with 3.9% of men. A different survey in 2016, from the Williams Institute, estimated that 0.6% of U.S. adults identify as transgender. Follow the debate below.
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Supreme Court Won’t Let U.S. Implement Rules Protecting Transgender Students

8/18/24
from The Wall Street Journal,
8/16/24:

Justices leave in place lower-court orders blocking Biden administration from extending Title IX

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a Biden administration request to implement its overhaul of regulations barring sex discrimination in education, leaving in place temporary injunctions lower courts issued that put on hold new protections for transgender students, along with other provisions. A five-justice majority issued an unsigned order saying the administration hadn’t justified the high court’s intervention at this stage in the litigation, but noted that a federal appeals court had set an expedited schedule to consider the case, which pits Republican-led states opposed to expanding recognition of transgender students against Biden administration policy that seeks to expand protections for them. Four justices agreed that three provisions of the challenged regulations should remain blocked while the litigation continues. But they said the majority should have let the rest of the regulations, which implement the landmark law known as Title IX, go into effect. “Many unchallenged provisions (such as those governing preemployment inquiries about an applicant’s marital status or sex and prohibiting pregnancy discrimination) include no reference to gender identity discrimination,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a partial dissent, joined by fellow liberal Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, as well as Justice Neil Gorsuch, a conservative who in 2020 wrote the court’s opinion extending civil rights protections to LGBT employees. The majority, however, agreed with lower courts that found it impossible to separate the new provisions focusing on transgender students from the rest of the regulations.

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