United States Court of Appeals for DC ordered the #Pentagon not to take action against any #transgender servicemembers while a judge's order blocking #Trump / #Hegseth's ban is appealed.
“The purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal”
#law #military #bigotry #discrimination
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69800554/01208724672/nicolas-talbott-v-usa/
I thought they were trying to save money 
Under #Trump, the #Consumer #FinancialProtection Bureau #CFPB has dropped nearly a dozen enforcement cases brought during the #Biden admin, ending lawsuits against #banks & #lenders for a variety of financial practices that the #watchdog agency no longer considers #illegal.
But on Wed, the bureau went a step further: It is seeking to GIVE BACK $105k that a #mortgage lender paid to settle #racial #discrimination claims….
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/business/cfpb-repay-mortgage-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=6A5655B4-A7D4-4098-AED1-2847DA87EEB0
Source: @AssociatedPress
From the article: "NEW YORK (AP) — A group of federal employees targeted for dismissal because of their involvement in diversity, equity and inclusion activities has filed a class action complaint against the Trump administration.
"The complaint alleges that the ongoing mass firings unlawfully target federal employees based on their perceived political views, infringe on their First Amendment rights and violate anti-discrimination laws by disproportionally affecting workers who are not white men."
#USPolitics #FederalEmployees #DEI
#Discrimination #Racism
https://apnews.com/article/dei-federal-workers-race-gender-lgbtq-35e5d028ac007380d48d1b8cef76f810
Me at ER for cardiac issues
Dr: “Could you be pregnant?”
Me: “No I had a hysterectomy”
Dr: “You look too young for that? Are you sure?”
Me: “I’m confident”
Dr: “I think you might be confused. Maybe it was your appendix.”
Proceeds to order pregnancy test
I’ve had this interaction more times than I can count
Healthcare workers think I’m “too young” to have had a hysterectomy and automatically assume I’m confusing my womb with another organ.
They ask endless questions, only to end up doing a pregnancy test anyways
Perhaps there are patients who confuse their uterus for their appendix, but I would imagine that’s exceedingly rare
The battle I went through to get my hysterectomy was long and arduous. It involved many physicians lecturing me about how I would never be able to have children
Asking insensitive questions like:
“Don’t you want to be a Mom?”
“You might want biological children, many women do”
“What happens if you meet your dream man and he leaves you for being barren?”
You don’t have to endure this type of insulting and misogynistic third degree to get your appendix or gallbladder removed.
They inform you of the surgical risks, you consent, the end.
There’s simply no plausible way to confuse the removal of a WOMB with an appendix
Despite these obvious facts, I’ve had countless doctors assume I’m wrong. That I couldn’t possibly have lost my uterus and it must have been something less important.
I’ve even had “patient CLAIMS hysterectomy”’written in my chart.
Why someone would lie about something so easy to prove or disprove is beyond me.
The end result is always a delay in care while we argue and then wait for an unnecessary pregnancy test which always comes back negative.
Surely we can do better?
I understand that doctors must have a degree of skepticism, and that the price of missing a pregnancy can be incredibly high.
I’m not opposed to them running a pregnancy test if that’s what they feel they need to do.
I am opposed to the delays and gaslighting
It was traumatic to lose my uterus at a young age. The healthcare workers who inundated me with misogynistic questions & put a hypothetical man before me and my health? They didn’t make it any easier.
I feel that trauma all over again whenever I’m questioned about pregnancy
I wish we could endeavour to either TRUST our patient, or just run the pregnancy test without all the unnecessary and (often) rude comments.
I don’t object to the test, I object to the way I’m treated leading up to the test.
Patients know their body best. We know the difference between a womb and an appendix. We know when we’re being talked down to and mistreated.
It causes trauma. Makes us less likely to trust the provider and far less likely to seek care in the future
Please treat your patients with the dignity they deserve. Don’t judge them on how they look, the chronic illness or disability they have or their gender or sexual orientation. Listen to them. Work with them. Let them be a partner in their care.
We can do better together /end
After the hysterectomy I also had a post op complication that was ignored by the ER three times. I had a life threatening internal bleed, but was sent home without tests because they thought I was “exaggerating”.
We MUST listen to patients. I only survived because my accidental advocate stepped up
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/my-most-dangerous-er-experience-and
#Trump is asking #SCOTUS to allow it to terminate about $600M in Dept of #Education grants.
The admin previously tried to terminate the grants, but a district judge blocked the move & ordered that the admin immediately reinstate the funds. Trump is now asking the #SupremeCourt to reverse the lower court's decision.
This is the admin’s 7th SCOTUS emergency application in 2 months.
Federal Investigators Were Preparing Two Texas Housing Discrimination Cases — Until Trump Took Over
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The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey, only to suddenly reverse course under Trump.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-hud-texas-housing-discrimination-cases-dallas-houston?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
"After a recent change by the Trump administration, the federal government no longer explicitly prohibits contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms and drinking fountains.
The segregation clause is one of several identified in a public memo issued by the General Services Administration last month, affecting all civil federal agencies."
So this is the kind of comment I regularly get on benign videos about #disability from #maga people.
All I said was that Social Security shouldn't be touched, and that I was disabled, and sad at the state of the #usa.
They don't realize #scoopz automatically deletes hateful comments.
I am the only one who ever sees them, and I am making a video compilation of stupidity so it's FREE CONTENT for me later.
I am going to get views from their stupidity.
“Plaintiffs face a violation of their constitutional rights, which constitutes irreparable harm. Indeed, the cruel irony is that thousands of #transgender servicemembers have sacrificed — some risking their lives — to ensure for others the very #EqualProtection rights the #Military Ban seeks to deny them,” Reyes wrote, adding that “avoiding constitutional violations is always in the #PublicInterest.”
Reyes…wrote that such pronouncements that #transgender people are not honorable, truthful or disciplined are “pure conjecture.” The EO & #DOD policy “provide nothing to support Defendants’ view that transgender #military service is inconsistent with #military readiness,” she wrote.
Judge blocks #Trump’s order banning #transgender troops from #military service, ruling that the plan violated the #Constitution’s #EqualProtection clause.
#law #LGBTQIA #discrimination #bigotry
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/us/transgender-troops-military-injunction.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=7D65BF46-0567-4212-A6FC-8EEBBE6BA217
If the #DOJ wins, as many experts predict it will, the entire executive branch would come under #Trump’s direct control, allowing him even greater power over federal policy, & leaving virtually no barriers to his #MassFirings of civil servants in favor of political stooges.
The #DOJ is aiming to get these cases to #SCOTUS, where it’s betting that enough of the right-wing justices will agree to overturn the high court’s own #precedent on #independent agencies — encapsulated primarily in a 1936 case called Humphrey’s Executor — & axe the removal protections that keep leadership at such entities as the #NLRB or #MSPB insulated from political will or vindictiveness.
“I think that that would be within the President’s constitutional authority under the removal power…there would be separate questions about whether that would violate other provisions of the #Constitution,” McArthur said.
Judge Justin Walker, a #Trump appointee on the panel, swooped in to try to salvage the moment, saying to the #DOJ atty that he didn’t think “you would have to go there,”pointing to the protections of the #14thAmendment.
The startling admission came in response to a federal judge’s hypothetical.
“Could the President decide that he wasn’t going to appoint or allow to remain in office any female heads of agencies or any heads over 40 years old?” Judge Karen Henderson, a Reagan appointee on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, asked Dpty Asst AG Eric McArthur Tues in proceedings over the fired board members of two #independent agencies.
WTAF????
The #Trump #DOJ asserted in court Tuesday that, under their theories, the President’s removal power is so all-encompassing that he could fire all #female agency heads, as well as those over 40 years old.
#law #discrimination #sexism #ageism #MaleSupremacy
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doj-trump-fire-women-over-40-agency
Researchers at Kaiser Permanente developed algorithm to reduce #bias in #multiplesclerosis treatment decisions, ensuring more equitable access to highly effective therapies. A study tracking over 6,000 #MS patients in Southern California found that after #algorithm was implemented, the use of highly effective therapies increased by 90 percent among Hispanic patients, 87 percent among Black patients, and 80 percent among white patients. #healthcare #bias #discrimination https://multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com/news-posts/2025/03/07/algorithm-help-reduce-racial-ethnic-inequality-ms-treatment/
Parents Sue Trump Administration for Allegedly Sabotaging Education Department’s Civil Rights Division
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The class-action lawsuit claims that decimating the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will leave it unable to address issues of discrimination at school — violating the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-civil-rights-lawsuit-trump-parents?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The world needs more disabled journalists and writers.
We bring a unique perspective that is needed during these increasingly tumultuous times.
Heartbroken to see a disabled student lose their funding for accommodations because the school deemed them “too disabled” to have a feasible career in journalism.
This is systemic ableism. People think they can tell us what we can or can’t do.
He was described as an excellent writer, and he deserved the chance to get his degree and fulfill his dream.
It’s also a perfect example of the catch 22 many disabled people find themselves in. Often denied or judged for needing benefits and told to “get a job!”, while subsequently being told that we’re too disabled to merit giving a job.
