https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-unspeakable-misogyny-of-the-trump
"One of the reasons we’re in the mess we’re in is because this country fails to
face up to its shortcomings. Just as we have never grappled with our deeply
embedded racism, we have never acknowledged our misogyny, both prejudices so
deep that they are woven into the fabric of who we are in a way that makes it
almost impossible to unravel.
There are so many ways in which the Trump regime is using the knee-jerk
misogyny of most Americans to continue its assault on women, particularly women
of color.
Unemployment for black women rose nearly two percentage points in 2025. Men, on
the other hand, joined the labor force at three times the rate of women. During
the same time, the Trump regime has dismantled the Women’s Bureau at the
Department of Labor, gutted diversity programs, and instructed the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission not to prioritize gender discrimination
charges. It’s also advanced what the National Women’s Law Center calls a “false
and dangerous narrative” that the success of working women constitutes reverse
discrimination.
Negatively impacting the economic independence of women is not ancillary to the
Trump regimes agenda, it’s a goal. After all, women who are financially
dependent are easier to control. The Trump regime, of course, isn’t solely
interested in rolling back rights, it wants to rewrite history.
MS Now
reported last week that Donald signed an executive order declaring the
accomplishments of transgender women to be, in his words, “an improper
ideology.” He’s also ordered the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum
not to recognize transgender women or risk losing its funding. House
Republicans pass an amendment banning transgender women from the museum
entirely, erasing women like transgender activists Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P.
Johnson, and Lynn Conway from the national record.
There is significant overlap between misogyny and homophobia. Donald has signed
executive orders that officially recognize only two sexes in the US, male and
female; banned transgender people from military service; and outlawed gender
affirming care for minors. The corrupt, illegitimate super-majority of the
Supreme Court allowed both bans to take effect. Prisons have been allowed to
replace hormone therapy with conversion therapy, which as of today has been
legitimatized by the Supreme Court in a shocking 8-to-1 ruling thanks to
Justices Sotomayor and Kagan. Demonstrating just how comprehensive the assault
on LGBTQ+ rights have been, the LGBTQ+ option was eliminated from the national
suicide and crisis lifeline.
Hundreds of NIH grants have been cut because they contain the word “gender.”
Pam Bandi has directed the FBI to offer cash rewards for the arrest of
transgender activists she called domestic terrorists.
The outrageous tactics of the Trump regime aside, it’s really quite simple:
Transgender women are women; their rights are women’s rights; their history is
women’s history. This is a human rights crisis being perpetuated by our own
government against our own citizens."
Via Muse.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
