{"id":1584818,"date":"2022-08-02T12:04:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T16:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1584818"},"modified":"2022-08-02T12:04:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T16:04:49","slug":"democrats-proposed-transgender-bill-of-rights-only-a-symbolic-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-proposed-transgender-bill-of-rights-only-a-symbolic-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats\u2019 Proposed \u2018Transgender Bill of Rights\u2019 Only a Symbolic Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-proposed-transgender-bill-of-rights-only-a-symbolic-resolution%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1584818&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><em>News Analysis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>House Democrats introduced a symbolic \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-transgender\">transgender<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-bill-of-rights\">bill of rights<\/a>\u201d last month that has been erroneously hailed as a package of major civil rights reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after five House Democrats held a press conference to introduce House Resolution 1209 on June 28, a windfall of national media and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights organizations celebrated it as a bill that would create federal anti-discrimination laws for transgender people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposal, dubbed \u2018The Transgender Bill of Rights,\u2019 would codify the Supreme Court\u2019s 2020 Bostock v. Clayton County decision that protects employees against discrimination for being gay or transgender,\u201d wrote The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The LGBTQ Allyship tweeted, \u201cthe legislation would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to explicitly include gender identity and sex characteristics as protected characteristics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While a bill could accomplish that, H. Res 1209 cannot because it is a simple resolution, which is not binding and symbolic.<\/p>\n<p>Examples of simple resolutions used by Congress to promote a particular viewpoint are the 1971 resolution Senate passed in support of withdrawing American troops from Vietnam and the resolution Democrats passed in 2007 expressing their disapproval of President George Bush\u2019s decision to increase U.S. troops in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, drafters of the \u201ctransgender bill of rights\u201d have hailed it as a legislative fix to what they called an attack by Republicans on gay rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcross the country, radical right-wing Republicans have introduced hundreds of bills attacking the LGBTQ+ community\u2014particularly transgender and nonbinary youth\u2014to score political points,\u201d said Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) in a press release announcing the proposed resolution.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution is co-sponsored by more than 75 Democrats and endorsed by more than 35 LGBTQ organizations. One of them is Athlete Ally, a nonprofit organization that promotes the participation of men who identify as women in women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n<p>Under it, Democrats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Analysis House Democrats introduced a symbolic \u201ctransgender bill of rights\u201d last month that has been erroneously hailed as a package of major civil rights reforms. Shortly after five House Democrats held a press conference to introduce House Resolution 1209 on June 28, a windfall of national media and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1584818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}