Episode 41: LGBT News Transcript
Ep 41 LGBT News Transcript
Host: wook77
Wook: I’m Wook77 with the news for Slashcast episode 41. The big news this month is that the US Supreme Court has heard arguments in two marriage equality cases. The first is the case about Proposition 8, the California law taking away the right to marry whomever a person chooses. Though there is hope that this will spread marriage equality to the rest of the US don’t your hopes up just yet because there are multiple ways that Prop 8 can be overturned. The first is that the Supreme Court decides that the defendants do not actually have the right to defend the law because they are not the official representation for the state of California, for those who don’t remember the Govenor and the California state Attorney General decided not to defend the proposition and instead the writers of the proposition stepped in. No legal expert of course, but from what I’ve been able to determine this means that it’s more of a procedural issue than anything else and does not translate to the other states that have marriage equality bans on the books. In addition because LGBT folks had the right to marry and Prop 8 took it away this unique position does not translate to the rest of the US because no other state had marriage equality before it was taken away; so another finding that finding that could keep this from enforcing marriage equality across the US. Best case scenario, of course, is that the US Supreme Court makes a sweeping statement on marriage equality, but I don’t really see that happening because I’m a bitter, pessimistic bitch, so hey, take that with a grain of salt.
The other case in front of the Supreme Court is the case addressing the inherent inequality enforced by DOMA, the Defence of Marriage Act for the national level, just in case you’re not obsessively following these cases this case is the one that President Obama and the US Attorney General decided to stop defending and the bigoted asshats in Congress decided to waste taxpayer dollars on it because, you know, feeding children is so much less important than stopping people getting married, so that’s what they wanted to spend their money on instead. In this case when one half of a lesbian couple married in Canada died her widow had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in inheritance taxes that heterosexual couples would not have to pay. This too could come down in a myriad of ways that do not force states to accept marriage equality so don’t get your hopes up simply because the US Supreme Court is hearing these cases, let’s remember that Scalia, Roberts and Thomas are a bunch of bigoted asshats who cloak their bullshit in a bunch of legalese.
What could be interesting, however, is that the fact that recently the Mexican Supreme Court decided that the ban on marriage equality is unconstitutional there in Oaxaca and referenced two US Supreme Court findings previously those of Loving v. State of Virginia, and Brown v. Board of Education.
Speaking of legal shenanigans it’s that time again: another Wook style rant. As quite a few people are aware I live in the crazy state of Arizona. I chose this state because, well, you don’t have to shovel sunshine. When the rest of the US is freezing their asses off I’m in the 70s, but I’m so fucking sick of having to apologise for living in a state because of the actions of one core outspoken and drunk-with-power assholes in the Phoenix area. For example SB 1070, otherwise known as the Show Me Your Papers law, you know the law that says it’s totally not invasive to ask for proof of US citizenship at basically any time. And of course it isn’t designed to affect primarily the Hispanic population here and was proposed by the dickface that thought speed cameras on the other hand, on the highway, were very intrusive and should be overturned and gotten rid of. And well, okay so SB 1070 is an awful law, but recently legislators decided it was time to step up their game and start insisting on people not only having to prove their US citizenship to be able to drive or do anything, but they’d have to show their birth certificates to use the bathroom. This bill, targeting transgender residents of Arizona, just left committee and it about to be debated on the floor. So to use the bathroom according to this law you would have to use the bathroom designated from your original birth certificate gender. So even if you were able to change the gender on your birth certificate it’s not good enough for these invasive motherfuckers, oh nooooo. So this is supposed to make people more uncomfortable in public restrooms, which: fuck that noise. At the risk of sounding like, you know, some of my best friends are, one of my best friends is transgender, he worked with me for over six years and no one, not a single motherfucking person other than myself and the director of HR ever knew. He’s had multiple surgeries and just because he was born with a uterus doesn’t mean that he looks like a woman, or that he is a woman. Somehow I’m thinking it’s more uncomfortable for a woman to be in the bathroom with him, than with a male to female transgender person who probably appears more feminine than a person with a lumberjack beard. That’s just my two cents however. I don’t know what’s worse: that this just made it out of committee at all, or that it did it even after activists demonstrated where these dickfaced asshole politicians could see their supposition is completely incorrect! I know that these politicians think that transgender people just want to play at being quote ‘the opposite sex’ end quote, but when they see that it’s just dressing up in women’s underwear that makes a male to female transgender person want to use the ladies room then I don’t even know what the fuck to do with these people other than maybe bash them upside the head until reason pours out of their brains. I think sometimes though that we’re so wrapped up in the fight for marriage equality that we forget that there are countless other rights that are just as important, like, say, the right to use the motherfucking bathroom without having to show your goddam birth certificate.
It’s all too common to forget there’s a B in LGBT, let alone the T too, it drives me nuts and to new heights of rants, so that’s my news, that’s my rant. If you agree, don’t agree, think I missed something, whatever, feel free to leave us a comment on our various social media sites.
Transcribed by: angelbabe_cj
Host: wook77
Wook: I’m Wook77 with the news for Slashcast episode 41. The big news this month is that the US Supreme Court has heard arguments in two marriage equality cases. The first is the case about Proposition 8, the California law taking away the right to marry whomever a person chooses. Though there is hope that this will spread marriage equality to the rest of the US don’t your hopes up just yet because there are multiple ways that Prop 8 can be overturned. The first is that the Supreme Court decides that the defendants do not actually have the right to defend the law because they are not the official representation for the state of California, for those who don’t remember the Govenor and the California state Attorney General decided not to defend the proposition and instead the writers of the proposition stepped in. No legal expert of course, but from what I’ve been able to determine this means that it’s more of a procedural issue than anything else and does not translate to the other states that have marriage equality bans on the books. In addition because LGBT folks had the right to marry and Prop 8 took it away this unique position does not translate to the rest of the US because no other state had marriage equality before it was taken away; so another finding that finding that could keep this from enforcing marriage equality across the US. Best case scenario, of course, is that the US Supreme Court makes a sweeping statement on marriage equality, but I don’t really see that happening because I’m a bitter, pessimistic bitch, so hey, take that with a grain of salt.
The other case in front of the Supreme Court is the case addressing the inherent inequality enforced by DOMA, the Defence of Marriage Act for the national level, just in case you’re not obsessively following these cases this case is the one that President Obama and the US Attorney General decided to stop defending and the bigoted asshats in Congress decided to waste taxpayer dollars on it because, you know, feeding children is so much less important than stopping people getting married, so that’s what they wanted to spend their money on instead. In this case when one half of a lesbian couple married in Canada died her widow had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in inheritance taxes that heterosexual couples would not have to pay. This too could come down in a myriad of ways that do not force states to accept marriage equality so don’t get your hopes up simply because the US Supreme Court is hearing these cases, let’s remember that Scalia, Roberts and Thomas are a bunch of bigoted asshats who cloak their bullshit in a bunch of legalese.
What could be interesting, however, is that the fact that recently the Mexican Supreme Court decided that the ban on marriage equality is unconstitutional there in Oaxaca and referenced two US Supreme Court findings previously those of Loving v. State of Virginia, and Brown v. Board of Education.
Speaking of legal shenanigans it’s that time again: another Wook style rant. As quite a few people are aware I live in the crazy state of Arizona. I chose this state because, well, you don’t have to shovel sunshine. When the rest of the US is freezing their asses off I’m in the 70s, but I’m so fucking sick of having to apologise for living in a state because of the actions of one core outspoken and drunk-with-power assholes in the Phoenix area. For example SB 1070, otherwise known as the Show Me Your Papers law, you know the law that says it’s totally not invasive to ask for proof of US citizenship at basically any time. And of course it isn’t designed to affect primarily the Hispanic population here and was proposed by the dickface that thought speed cameras on the other hand, on the highway, were very intrusive and should be overturned and gotten rid of. And well, okay so SB 1070 is an awful law, but recently legislators decided it was time to step up their game and start insisting on people not only having to prove their US citizenship to be able to drive or do anything, but they’d have to show their birth certificates to use the bathroom. This bill, targeting transgender residents of Arizona, just left committee and it about to be debated on the floor. So to use the bathroom according to this law you would have to use the bathroom designated from your original birth certificate gender. So even if you were able to change the gender on your birth certificate it’s not good enough for these invasive motherfuckers, oh nooooo. So this is supposed to make people more uncomfortable in public restrooms, which: fuck that noise. At the risk of sounding like, you know, some of my best friends are, one of my best friends is transgender, he worked with me for over six years and no one, not a single motherfucking person other than myself and the director of HR ever knew. He’s had multiple surgeries and just because he was born with a uterus doesn’t mean that he looks like a woman, or that he is a woman. Somehow I’m thinking it’s more uncomfortable for a woman to be in the bathroom with him, than with a male to female transgender person who probably appears more feminine than a person with a lumberjack beard. That’s just my two cents however. I don’t know what’s worse: that this just made it out of committee at all, or that it did it even after activists demonstrated where these dickfaced asshole politicians could see their supposition is completely incorrect! I know that these politicians think that transgender people just want to play at being quote ‘the opposite sex’ end quote, but when they see that it’s just dressing up in women’s underwear that makes a male to female transgender person want to use the ladies room then I don’t even know what the fuck to do with these people other than maybe bash them upside the head until reason pours out of their brains. I think sometimes though that we’re so wrapped up in the fight for marriage equality that we forget that there are countless other rights that are just as important, like, say, the right to use the motherfucking bathroom without having to show your goddam birth certificate.
It’s all too common to forget there’s a B in LGBT, let alone the T too, it drives me nuts and to new heights of rants, so that’s my news, that’s my rant. If you agree, don’t agree, think I missed something, whatever, feel free to leave us a comment on our various social media sites.
Transcribed by: angelbabe_cj