Transgender people to be turned away from the polls in certain states for lack of proper ID
A long time ago, America was a proud and strong nation. Its people had a strong and courageous president. Its government was strong. Its people had the most innovative technology. It was a home of the greatest freedom and one of the greatest freedoms, freedom of speech.
On July 26, 2016, at a rally in Los Angeles, California, President Barack Obama spoke out on the need for civil rights and economic justice “for all” and not just for the rich. He stood before the cameras and proclaimed, “We are all Americans.” The speech was met with loud boos, chants, and cries of “No justice, no peace, no racist!”
In the months to follow, LGBT rights and civil rights organizations in the United States have watched in horror as the Obama administration and the nation’s law enforcement agencies have used the very same words of “all Americans” to target not just one minority group and its members in some cases, but a group of those very same minorities.
The LGBT community was targeted as recently as last summer, when President Obama spoke before the Democratic National Convention (DNC) and declared, “We must affirm and recommit ourselves to equality under the law for the LGBT community.”
The phrase “we must” was the key phrase that LGBT activists and advocates wanted LGBT people to hear in that speech — specifically, the need to affirm the LGBT population’s right to health care, housing, employment, education, and public accommodations, as well as their right to self-determination. There have been many statements and actions taken by the Obama administration and its law enforcement officers (ICE, DHS, etc.) that are blatantly inconsistent with and harmful to the LGBT community.
For example, on March 8, 2015, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson wrote a letter to all ICE field offices
