When the Supreme Court upheld a ban on gender-affirming care for minors Wednesday, it didn’t resolve a broader question of whether transgender people are entitled to certain legal protections that would help them press constitutional challenges. But Justice Amy Coney Barrett went out of her way to explain why she thinks transgender people don’t deserve such protection. (MSNBC)
Transgender people are now being classified as non-Americans, non-human, and eventually non-citizens. Justice Coney Barrett has decided to play the role of God and decree who has rights and who doesn’t, making Justices Alito and Thomas seem like saints.
Two distinct laws passed in Nazi Germany in September 1935 are known collectively as the Nuremberg Laws: the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor. These laws embodied many of the racial theories underpinning Nazi ideology. They would provide the legal framework for the systematic persecution of Jews in Germany. (Holocaust Encyclopedia)
The ugly wheel of racism, Christian Nationalism, and Fascism has begun to veer straight into the protections afforded by our Constitution and our once impermeable democracy.
While the Nuremberg Laws specifically mentioned only Jews, the laws eventually extended to Black people and Roma and Sinti (Gypsies) living in Germany. The definition of Jews, Black people, and Roma as racial aliens facilitated their persecution in Germany. (Holocaust Encyclopedia)
WE all watch in shock and awe just how easily any one of us can suddenly be considered “THE OTHER,” regarding the Republican Party of Pro-Death.
