Democrats Announce "Transgender Bill Of Rights"

Democrats Announce “Transgender Bill Of Rights”

On Tuesday, House Democrats announced their plans to write into law federal protections for transgender people.

The resolution, nicknamed the “Transgender Bill of Rights,” aims to codify the Supreme Court’s 2020 Bostock v. Clayton County decision. The precedent says that gay and transgender employees are protected from discrimination.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal led the push in the House and tweeted that she was “proud to stand with my colleagues to introduce a Trans Bill of Rights” in the House.

The Democrats’ new bill of rights is aimed at expanding the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include protections for members of the LGBTQ+ community. It will also enshrine access to gender-reassignment procedures and ban conversion therapies.

The attorney general would also get the ability to designate a government liaison to oversee the civil rights of transgender people.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal touted the resolution as a great step forward in helping transgender people live “full, happy lives.”

“As we witness Republicans and an extremist Supreme Court attack and roll back the fundamental rights of trans people across our country, and as state legislatures across the country target our trans community with hateful, bigoted and transphobic attacks, we are standing up and saying enough is enough,” Jayapal said.

Reps. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), Marie Newman (D-Ill.), Mark Takano (D-Calif.) and Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) introduced the bill along with its 84 other Democrat co-sponsors.

Democrats are backed by over 30 organizations. Some of them are progressive stalwarts like the Human Rights Campaign, The National Education Association, and the National Center for Transgender Equality.

Americans of all stripes and colors are facing the worst economy in decades and this is what the Democrats are working on passing. It’s just a distraction. We need monetary relief, lower taxes, and interest rates that make it easier to buy homes again. Why do you think the Democrats are trying to push this now?

Joel Bailey

Joel Bailey is a social commentator and writer at the Next News Network. He graduated from Fisher College in Boston, Massachusetts and was adopted from Africa. He is proof of the American dream and learned conservative values at a young age.

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Patricia from TN says:

July 1, 2022 at 11:13 am

Here we go. A special "Bill of Rights" for special interests. They will modify it and modify it until they have ALL the rights and we can go pound salt. Heed my warning!
Werner Zuercher says:

July 2, 2022 at 2:00 pm

Their are only 2 genders, one is a male with a penis the other is a female with a vagina, and this is a fact!
Any such transgender will be renounced as NIL by the Supreme Court!
Bandit says:

July 7, 2022 at 11:51 am

nothing. With a working set of eyes can see where this administration is going, the monster biden is doing everything for his chinese allies and doing nothing for the American people. I must ask myself who does the biden work for? Does he work for the American people? Or does he work the china? With everything that biden is doing for china 9 e would think that he not only works for china but that he belongs to china. That kid of his hunter has spent how much time in china? Was it three or four years or so! Well either way you chop them up the bidens are agents for china, everything the biden monster does is for china! He sent china 1 million barrels of oil from our strategic petroleum reserve why so he can force our dependence on other nations for what we need. The biden monster has once again proven that he is a traitor to the people and to the country, biden needs to not only be impeached but everyone in his admin need to be removed from office as well.