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Biden Slams Republicans for Using L.G.B.T.Q. Identity as "Political Football"
| UN peacekeeper | 12/06/25 |
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Date: December 6th, 2025 11:38 AM Author: UN peacekeeper (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5806982&forum_id=2"#49488386) |
Date: December 6th, 2025 12:17 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, i've often seen this talking point from Dems: why oh why are the Republicans creating a political issue about trans people? as if the Dems didn't create the issue out of whole cloth.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/06/joe-biden-transgender-rights-republicans
Joe Biden slams Republicans for turning transgender rights into ‘political football’ The former president gave a speech expressing support for LGBTQ+ rights at an LGBTQ+ leaders conference on Friday
Joe Biden has criticized Republicans for turning transgender rights into a “political football” in a speech that the former US president delivered at an LGBTQ+ event.
Speaking at the International LGBTQ+ Leaders Conference in Washington on Friday, Biden urged LGBTQ+ people to “get up and fight back” against Donald Trump’s second presidential administration.
“Folks, Donald Trump and his Republicans are trying to derail and distort our fight for equality,” Biden said, as the Democrat accepted a lifetime achievement award for his contributions to the community. “They’re trying to turn it into something scary, something sinister.
“There is nothing more American than the notion of equality. Nothing, nothing, nothing.”
Biden, who as president signed the Respect for Marriage Act, which requires states to recognize same-sex marriages from other states, said Republicans had “weaponized people’s basic identity and turned it into a political football”.
“They’re trying to turn it into something scary, something sinister,” Biden said. “But folks, it’s not really about anything that’s all that complicated. At its core, it’s about giving every American an opportunity to be treated with the basic decency, dignity and respect they all deserve.”
Biden’s support for same-sex marriage came relatively late in life. In the 1990s, while in the Senate, Biden voted in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act. But in 2012, as vice-president, he famously expressed support for same-sex unions before Barack Obama, then the president, had done so.
“I got myself in a bit of trouble – good trouble,” Biden said on Friday.
In his speech, Biden said: “There are young people sitting alone as I speak, scrolling through social media, wondering whether they will ever truly be accepted for who they are.
“You are heard, and you belong,” he added.
The speech marked a rare public appearance for Biden, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer in May. |
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Date: December 6th, 2025 12:49 PM Author: Civil Attorney Libs overreached badly on this issue but these days I really only hear MAGAs talking about it. They seem obsessed with trannies. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5806982&forum_id=2"#49488541) |