Conservative Outrage Over Trans Day Of Visibility!

Transgender Americans are human too.

Today is Easter.

Today is the 5th year anniversary of the shooting of rapper Nipsey Hussle.

Today is Trans Day of Visibility.

Conservative, [I meant] outrage pimps are blasting President Joe Biden for acknowledging today is the day to honor those transgender Americans missing or killed. Transgender women are 10 times likely to be killed because of perceptions of dating one would make straight cisgender men gay. Transwomen are subjected to ridicule, sexual assault, hate and isolation. 

Project 2025, a blueprint from the Heritage Foundation is hoping Republicans and Donald J. Trump authoritize a "new deal" of conservative principles.

Republicans are resorting to culture wars like transgender rights, the border, Israel, Muslims and crime to spook voters.

Not helpful we have folks like Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Boosie Badazz, Pastor Troy and other rappers still pushing this transphobia and homophobia. 

Many of the far right's most notorious members as well as the insufferable lawmakers in the House and Senate are blasting Biden for acknowledging it on Easter.

Easter is still celebrated. 

The White House Easter Egg roll will happen on Monday. It will be 2086 before Easter falls on March 31.

I doubt any of these people will live to see that day.

The Democratic president issued the proclamation on Friday, calling on “all Americans to join us in lifting up the lives and voices of transgender people throughout our Nation and to work toward eliminating violence and discrimination based on gender identity.”

But in 2024, the March 31 designation overlaps with Easter, one of Christianity’s holiest celebrations. Trump’s campaign accused Biden, a Roman Catholic, of being insensitive to religion, and fellow Republicans piled on.

“We call on Joe Biden’s failing campaign and White House to issue an apology to the millions of Catholics and Christians across America who believe tomorrow is for one celebration only — the resurrection of Jesus Christ,” said Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign’s press secretary. She assailed what she called the Biden administration’s “years-long assault on the Christian faith.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), said on social media that the “Biden White House has betrayed the central tenet of Easter” and called the decision “outrageous and abhorrent.”

White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said the Republicans criticizing Biden “are seeking to divide and weaken our country with cruel, hateful and dishonest rhetoric.”

“As a Christian who celebrates Easter with family, President Biden stands for bringing people together and upholding the dignity and freedoms of every American,” Bates said. “President Biden will never abuse his faith for political purposes or for profit.”

Biden devoutly attends Mass and considers his Catholic upbringing to be a core part of his morality and identity. In 2021, he met with Pope Francis at the Vatican and afterward told reporters that the pontiff said he was a “good Catholic” who should keep receiving Communion.

But Biden’s political stances on gay marriage and support for women having the right to abortion have put him at odds with many conservative Christians.