"In 2025, as the Trump administration echoes those people [determined to preserve a government that discriminates], celebrations of Juneteenth are being cut back or even canceled. Corporate sponsors and local governments, as well as the national government, are pulling back their support for festivals and Juneteenth events."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-18-2025-wednesday

As Black commentator Danielle Moodie rightly insists, "All of us" includes trans people, who are now directly in the line of fire from Republicans and the Supreme Court dominated by a rabidly anti-LGBTQ right-wing Catholic bloc:

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https://daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/no-kings-no-rights-the-unspoken-crisis

"The Supreme Court's decision to uphold a ban on gender-affirming care, coupled with the Trump administration's zeroing out of funding for a suicide prevention hotline specifically for the LGBTQ+ community, paints a grim picture. This coordinated attack on the most marginalized, particularly the transgender community, is not an isolated incident. It is a calculated strategy that, as history painfully demonstrates, inevitably expands to engulf other groups."

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"The historical thread of dehumanization runs deep, connecting past injustices to present-day crises. The same mindset that justified the subjugation of indigenous populations, the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade, and the brutalities of Jim Crow, now fuels discriminatory policies against marginalized communities. ...

For a multi-racial democracy to truly thrive, the freedom of one must guarantee the freedom of all."

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"Of course, the impact of this [Supreme Court Skrmetti] decision isn’t limited to Tennessee."

~ Joyce Vance

Just as Juneteenth speaks to ALL of us, what the Supreme Court and Republicans are doing to trans people involves ALL of us.

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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/scotus-denies-gender-affirming-care

"Of course, Juneteenth has everything to do with us."

~ Robert P. Jones

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https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/what-to-the-white-american-is-the

"That stance [articulated by the Supreme's right-wing Catholic bloc, that trans people can never constitute a protected class] could ripple out beyond this case, particularly if the other conservatives share it. Alito does explicitly in his concurrence."

~ Kate Riga

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-trans-youth-skrmetti-tennessee

"We are all better off in a world where people can become who they are, even if who they become surprises their parents, friends, teachers, employers, and political representatives. We are better off in a world where human flourishing takes many forms, and where people are allowed to find the form and shape and life that fits them."

~ Noah Berlatsky

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https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/it-is-good-that-trans-people-exist

"We are all better off when we recognize that other people’s expectations and assumptions and rigid categories don’t define us, and that only we can define ourselves. ...

Fascists hate trans people because they hate diversity, they hate possibility, they hate joy, and they hate human flourishing. Fascists want to put everyone in a box—or I should say a cell—and shoot anyone in the head who dares to edge out of it."

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"The court, controlled by career politicians in robes who were hand-selected for their loyalty to the rightwing and their willingness to be wildly intellectually dishonest in pursuit of Republican policy objectives, has ended the right to abortion, desiccated the Voting Rights Act, made state gun regulations nearly impossible and declared the president functionally immune to criminal law."

~ Moira Donegan

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/19/us-supreme-court-gender-equality

"Many of us waited, with a mixture and terror and disgust, to see what cruelties the court would deliver for us in 2025.

The justices decided to start by attacking vulnerable children. ...

It is not hard to imagine Skrmetti, along with Dobbs, being the opening salvos in a broader legal assault on the status of women and queer people –"

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"one that removes our rights one by one, making us more and more vulnerable, and sanctioning more and more of our derision, degradation and unfreedom."

If you sit by in silence while rights are stripped from ANY group, if you tell yourself, "Well, they're a minority and this doesn't affect me," you invite the same thing for yourself: you open the door to having your own rights stripped away.

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