After four years of watching in horror as hard-won equality was slowly being whittled away to allow people to discriminate against GLBT people using religion as the excuse, removing certain rights of Transgender people and using them as scape-goats to throw before an angry bigoted crowd who loved him who fed them, things might be getting back to normal after the national Dark Night of the Soul, that prolonged period of doubt in what is supposed to be the United States as embodied in the Declaration of independence and the U.S. Constitution often settled into law by Supreme Court decisions and Congressional action, a “spiritual darkness” that lasted four years.

Among those things he did on Day One, President Joe Biden issued an executive order strengthening anti-discrimination protections for the GLBT community by requiring federal agencies to assume that laws forbidding discrimination apply to sexual orientation and gender identity, not just race, religion, sex and national origin.

Once again, enforcement agencies under Biden will pursue legitimate discrimination complaints on behalf of GLBT people.

In June, 2020, the Supreme Court ruled in the Bostock Decision that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects workers from discrimination related to sexual orientation and gender identity in the workplace, Biden’s executive order extends to other areas like housing and education.

I have to insert here that this is personally important to me as, after what should not have been a struggle but a no brainer, in 2009 the Oklahoma City Public Schools added “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to student policies on bullying, harassment, and nondiscrimination, the students to which this could be life-saving were unprotected under Trump an Devoss, and the many years, the hours put in, and the sweat it took to get those words added were potentially to have become and remain a loss of years never to be gotten back.

To give his Executive Order weight, he pointed out that the new order will “build on” the protections cemented by the Supreme Court.

“All persons should receive equal treatment under the law, no matter their gender identity or sexual orientation,” the White House said in a statement.

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In that vein, trump had undone the Obama era regulation that forbade discrimination against transgender people in health care settings.

Trump came up with a laser aimed version of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell by banning transgender people serving in the military.

In 2019, the Interior Department removed the words “sexual orientation” from its guide on workplace discrimination. 

On the Sunday before the Biden/Harris inauguration, as a last insult on the way out the door, the Trump Justice Department a memo was issued by the acting head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, John Daukas, saying that the department should not extend Title VII protections to areas where longstanding gender-based policies on bathrooms and sports teams could come into play and that employers could cite religious beliefs that would allow them to discriminate against GLBT employees saying,

“Unlike racial discrimination, the Supreme Court has never held that a religious employer’s decision not to hire homosexual or transgender persons ‘violates deeply and widely accepted views of elementary justice’ or that the government has a ‘compelling’ interest in the eradication of such conduct.”

It is obvious that Trump had attempted to find some way to narrow the ruling by not acknowledging that the United States had moved passed his (my) generation and it is time to hand the world over to those who will live longer in it now.

Biden trumped Trump.

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