How the 'Fiscal Showdown' Impacts Gay and Transgender Americans

Center for American Progress (leftist think tank) ^ | November 20, 2012 | Andrew Cray, Crosby Burns, and Erin Fitzgerald

[Salman]

Avoiding sequestration remains a critical policy goal for Congress. Doing so is important for all Americans, including gay and transgender Americans and their families. As this report details, many federal programs, both directly and indirectly, function to support and serve the gay and transgender population. If across-the-board budget cuts go into effect, this population will experience a host of negative outcomes, including the following:

• Sequestration would hurt gay and transgender workers and threaten their employment security because federal agencies would have fewer resources to investigate claims of employment discrimination.
  
  
• Sequestration would compromise gay and transgender health by reducing programmatic funding used to address the health care needs of gay and transgender Americans.
  
  
• Sequestration would remove critical resources from government agencies currently working to combat bullying and school violence against gay and transgender youth.
  
  
• Sequestration would limit the federal government’s ability to address the high rates of homelessness among gay and transgender youth.
  
  
• Sequestration would limit the government’s capacity to prevent discrimination in housing against gay and transgender renters, tenants, and potential homeowners.
  
  
• Sequestration would hamper the government’s efforts to prevent violent crime against gay and transgender people through enforcement of hate crimes legislation and other similar federal initiatives aimed at preventing violence in this community.

The bottom line: Gay and transgender Americans simply cannot afford to be caught in the middle of the fiscal showdown. Reductions to federal programs under sequestration would be particularly harmful to gay and transgender people of color, a population that already experiences significant health disparities and economic vulnerabilities due to their double minority status.

[Salman]

Attention America: Gotta bankrupt ourselves for this, or else we are mean spirited bigots.

[ronnie raygun]

Ya know that was my main concern too. I just spit up in my mouth AGAIN!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I tell you, this issue has been keeping me up many nights. I’m so stressed out over this I can’t sleep any more.

[Venturer]

We have to stop sequestration so it won’t harm the faggots.

Geez: What has America become?

[Psycho_Bunny]

As a representative of transgenders I have no problem saying the Feds shouldn’t be doing any of that in the first place.

Cut away!

[Misterioso]

Wow. How were you able to dig this one out? That’s keeping your ear to the ground! Keep us posted, Sal.

[traditional1]

Oh; gimme a break.

We are going bankrupt, and should worry about how it affects sex deviates lifestyles?

Only in the NEW Amerika would this bullshit even be discussed as "meaningful".

[relictele]

Gay and transgender Americans simply cannot afford to be caught in the middle of the fiscal showdown.

And yet in voting for leftists, supporting them financially, and spreading Marxist propaganda in education and the arts they have made a rod for their own back now that the financial ruin they engineered has come to pass.

[fwdude]

Of course, this is all bull.

This profligate administration will find a way to funnel pay-off money to the homos even if it has to disband the military.

[Dr. Sivana]

This profligate administration will find a way to funnel pay-off money to the homos even if it has to disband the military.

Or better yet, force the military to administer it so they can claim to be for "defense" spending.

[Gay State Conservative]

"Transgendered"?

That's a guy dressed up like a sheila!

[DH]

This is serious! It could lead to a K-Y jelly shortage and no medical care for gerbils.

Simply frightening I tell you!

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Gaus are 6 % of the population...over 65 are 12 %, Why is there no story like this about a more-affected demographic?

[shoff]

Let me get this straight (pun intended) if the country goes to sequestration the .25% reduction in spending increases will devastate the gay community. Like a union Twinkie they would rather see the country collapse rather than take a cut in their share of the government graft.

[jospehm20]

Homos suck.

[Happy Rain]

Changing the old Leftist rant, “world coming to an end—women and minorities hurt most” into “world coming to an end—sick and confused hurt most.”

Putting your pecker where nature says it don’t belong makes you special these days...oh, and playing female with swinging genitalia makes you extra “special.”

(hurl!)

[tomkat]

WTF CARES ? !

[Fzob]

Avoiding sequestration remains a critical policy goal for Congress

For a think tank, one would imaging they understand the definition of policy. One would also think they might understand that sequestration's affect on gays and transgendered rank up there with the affects of sequestrations affects on one armed banjo players.

[Vinnie]

The company quashed plans to open the new ‘Victors Secret’ stores.

[Chode]

the FDRQ think only about themselves and to hell with the country, typical RATS...