US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers
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#3The GoP is almost comically obsessed with policing people's genitals.
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#4Well, that's one way to ensure international sporting events won't be hosted in the United States.
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#6> The 24 February state department cable obtained by the Guardian instructs visa officers to apply Immigration and Nationality Act section 212(a)(6)(C)(i) – the “permanent fraud bar” – against trans applicants. Unlike regular visa denials, this section triggers lifetime exclusion from the United States with limited waiver possibilities.
It's becoming clear that the current Republican goal regarding transgender people is to establish that being openly transgender is a form of fraud (that is: establishing that trans people stating their gender is an act of deliberate deception), so that they have some basis to prosecute them arbitrarily. Bringing up athletes is just misdirection.
Re: US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers
#7> The 24 February state department cable obtained by the Guardian instructs visa officers to apply Immigration and Nationality Act section 212(a)(6)(C)(i) – the “permanent fraud bar” – against trans applicants. Unlike regular visa denials, this section triggers lifetime exclusion from the United States with limited waiver possibilities. It's becoming clear that the current Republican goal regarding transgender people…
So not only will we lose out on hosting international sporting events, but we can kiss goodbye international conferences as well? Plus, hey, let's kick tourism in the nuts while we're at it?
This seems anti-business. Have the GOP thought this through? Oh, wait...
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#9> The 24 February state department cable obtained by the Guardian instructs visa officers to apply Immigration and Nationality Act section 212(a)(6)(C)(i) – the “permanent fraud bar” – against trans applicants. Unlike regular visa denials, this section triggers lifetime exclusion from the United States with limited waiver possibilities. It's becoming clear that the current Republican goal regarding transgender people…
Anyone who thinks this will stop with trans people is fooling themselves. Bullies are never satisfied with a little cruelty. They will go after other "others" once they've crushed this "other".
First, they came for the trans people...
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