“Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time.”

                                 Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter House 5

Well. Slap me silly and call me Billy for I, too, have become similarly unstuck it appears.

In my younger years I attended rallies, marched in marches, wrote articles and drew cartoons for various publications, and made sure my cartoon picket signs were clear in their message that Gay people are covered in the Declaration of the Independence and should not be denied the rights acknowledged in the Founding Document.

I was even wiling to face opprobrium and dismissal from employment to get public school students who were Gay openly protected in school district policies

The Declaration of Independence tells the world who we are and what we believe, the Constitution tells us how to live according to what is in it.

We went from being denied full citizenship to where our love for someone is recognized publicly, not a secret to be hidden in a closet and punished if discovered.

Some have grown comfortable with this very short moment in time.

With a conservative Supreme Court, certain conservative states have seen an opportunity to attack the rights off all minorities, including all the letters of the Gay Alphabet, by passing laws that will be challenged all the way to that Supreme Court or by going directly to it to file suit.

Texas, the inspiration for other red states, has already suppressed voting rights, has outlawed a woman’s right to choose while empowering private citizens to spy on each other for financial reward, and is dealing with an anti-Trans students playing school sports law.

The Texas Blitzkrieg against Gay Rights is moving on now that Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the Biden administration for protecting Gay people in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The lawsuit was filed in a federal court as a quicker way to get it to the Supreme Court and names of EEOC Commissioner Charlotte Burrows and Attorney General Merrick Garland as defendants.

Paxton claims that Biden’s EEOC guidance

“misstates the law, increasing the scope of liability for the State in its capacity as an employer.”

Applying the Declaration of Independence to American life seems to be too expensive for his taste.

And since the Biden guidelines apply to Transgender people, what would any objection be if toilets are not thrown.  Paxton claims without evidence that allowing Transgender people to use the restroom appropriate to their gender identity “puts many women and children at risk.”

Back in June 2020 the Supreme Court ruled that sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination is sex discrimination, and the Biden administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission used that ruling to clarify the guidelines accordingly and they covered the all-important concern of who can use which restrooms.

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The Texas Department of Agriculture has a policy that states,

“TDA has both unisex single-occupancy bathrooms and bathrooms that are designated by sex. It interprets ‘sex’ as referring to biological sex rather than gender identity. If any employee wanted to use the bathrooms designated for the opposite sex, TDA would reject such a request.”

Paxton included it in the case like one would include a settled law or precedent case because it says that sex means biological sex, rather than gender identity, that in the event any employee showed up for work dressed as a member of the opposite sex it would be considered a violation of standards, any employee wanting to use the bathrooms designated for the opposite sex would be denied permission, and ” and any request for preferred pronouns would not be allowed.

Policies are not law especially in areas outside their application.

So, we have had a few good years with rights.

While someone is still protecting those rights, the majority does not notice as they enjoy what some have always had, and some are finally enjoying what had been won for them, there are those who just assume once won, the rights were permanent while others are continuing to make sure we didn’t go back.

In my case, I moved from Massachusetts to California when things were just beginning in one state and were further along in the other. After working to help the Gay Community in California move further along, I ended up in Oklahoma which was by and large what Massachusetts had been long before what little progress had been made when I moved away. I fought old battles in a new place, sometimes merely repeating what had worked elsewhere and had paid off and saw the progress.

When I retired, another story for another day, I returned to Massachusetts where I could enjoy the rights that I had fought for in other places along with many rights not yet able to fit on the agendas of those other places. I was getting to live as I knew those other places would eventually get to, but growing older, it has been nice experiencing the end product.

I know people will not like it if we go back in time and many will be shocked if we do as it was not in their life experiences, but Texas is working very hard to recreate the past by having other states follow its example of taking away people’s rights.

Abortion. Voting. Transgender rights.

It’s not De je vu.

It’s real.

We are unstuck in time.

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