The new non-binding rules Bloomberg Law first reported will encourage over 3,700 public companies listed on Nasdaq to elect one woman and one LGBTQI person or under-represented minority to their board of directors.
Nasdaq, with a collective market capitalization of over $19 trillion—only slightly less than the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), with a total listed market cap of $25.5 trillion is a major player in the world economy.
Under the rules, which were first proposed in December 2020, each Nasdaq-listed company (subject to certain exemptions) will be required to have, or explain why it does not have, at least one director who self-identifies as female and one director who is either an “Underrepresented Minority” or is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ+).
“Underrepresented Minority” is defined as “an individual who self-identifies as one or more of the following: Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Asian, Native American or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, or Two or More Races or Ethnicities.”
If a company does not meet Nasdaq’s applicable standard for board diversity, it will be required to disclose its failure to achieve this standard and the reasons why it was not able to do so. This disclosure must be made in advance of the company’s next shareholder meeting in a proxy statement or on the company’s website. Nasdaq has stated that it will not substantively evaluate companies’ explanations of their failure to meet the standard.
A long-term study in the Netherlands has found that Transgender people are twice as likely to die as their cisgender counterparts.
This begs the question - why did US republicans try to enact over 100 anti-trans bills this session? Most of the bills targeted transgender girls attempting to ban them from participating in interscholastic sports.
The answer will become apparent if you read the Lancet report and the summary as provided by the Swaddle below.
A Netherlands-based study spanning 50 years — from 1972 to 2018 — found that transgender persons faced twice the mortality risks of cis people. Throughout the 50 years, there had been no decrease in the trend, the study found.
The research, published last week in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, studied mortality trends among a cohort of around 4,568 trans people in The Netherlands who visited the gender identity clinic of the Amsterdam University Medical Centre, and who were undergoing gender-affirming hormone therapy.
There were no mortality risks associated with the hormone therapy; instead, factors like cardiovascular disease, suicide, lung cancer, and HIV influenced differing mortality outcomes among trans and cis people.
While previous studies had established the difference in mortality rate, what was unknown was how the trend changed over time. Data from the trans people was compared with that of cis people obtained from the Statistics Netherlands (CBS).
This group of endocrinologists did a retrospective cohort study of adult transgender people who visited the gender identity clinic of Amsterdam University Medical Centre in the Netherlands. Data of transgender people who received hormone treatment between 1972 and 2018 were linked to Statistics Netherlands. People were excluded if they used alternating testosterone and oestradiol treatment, if they started treatment younger than age 17 years, or if they had ever used puberty-blockers before gender-affirming hormone treatment. Standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) were calculated using general population mortality rates stratified by age, calendar period, and sex. Cause-specific mortality was also calculated.
This observational study showed an increased mortality risk in transgender people using hormone treatment, regardless of treatment type. This increased mortality risk did not decrease over time. The cause-specific mortality risk because of lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, HIV-related disease, and suicide gives no indication to a specific effect of hormone treatment, but indicates that monitoring, optimizing, and, if necessary, treating medical morbidities and lifestyle factors remain important in transgender health care.
Haters across the USA watched in horror as the North Carolina "HB 2" bathroom bill went down in flames with an exclamation point as a federal court recently ruled that state employees who were discriminated against could sue for damages.
Then came Texas with their attempted bathroom bills in 2017. They failed to get those awful bills enacted because everyone from law enforcement to endocrinologists came out in numbers to fight it.
This year the GOP tried and in some cases enacted laws to ban transgender girls from playing sports despite repeatedly acknowledging that there was no need for it. They would repeatedly attempt to validate their intentions arguing that they weren't hateful or bigoted, by saying "what if" a trans girl wanted to play and refining the target by saying it's only sports.
That argument falls apart when you look at the 50-year cohort study, Cardiovascular disease was found to be the number one cause of death for transgender women. That was followed by lung cancer, HIV-related disease, and suicide all of which are associated with physical inactivity calibrated by gender dysphoria induced by public shaming.
These laws have all been challenged in court leaving them all in suspension until a verdict can be reached. There is a reason why courts have done that. It was fully explained by the Republican sponsors who submitted them. There were no cases of transgender students excelling in sports in their states, as explained by the bill's sponsors over and over again, leaving a single explanation.
Deprive transgender girls to the right to play sports and the morbidity rate for transgender adults stays the same. It wasn't about fairness as the sponsors of the boilerplate bill portended. It has always been about a majority beating down a minority. And in this case, it's white supremacists proactively killing the next generation of transgender people.
Twenty-seven-year-old transgender woman Nuray Nuriyev was murdered on August 22 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The newlywed was found stabbed and burned Friday in the town of Puta, apparently just days after being married.
Ministry of Internal Affairs, Police Colonel Ehsan Zakhidov, said on Wednesday, August 25, that an arrest had been made. “A criminal case was immediately opened. In the course of the investigation, it was established that the killed is a resident of Aghdam region, 27-year-old Nuray Nuriyev, ”Ehsan Zakhidov told reporters.
Mirshahid Mehdiyev, a resident of the Agjabedi region, was detained as a suspect in the murder.
The speed with which the suspect was apprehended was at least partly due to a protest at the Ombudsman's office in which protesters demanded a meeting with the Ombudsman Sabina Aliyeva.
The protesters said they were holding a rally for a 27-year-old #trans woman who they say was murdered and whose body was burned on 22 August in the Puta settlement of #Baku’s #Garadagh district. pic.twitter.com/TTPFDbVpt
— Azerbaijani Community of Georgia 🇦🇿🇬🇪 (@AzerCommunity) August 27, 2021
The LGBT+ community protested her murder bringing attention to the brutality of the act.
Rep. Harold Dutton, D-Houston, the chair of the House Public Education Committee, has refused to vote a bill prioritized by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. Dutton says the Senate is holding up a bill to fund legislative staff. Photo: Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas TribuneCredit:
SB 2 didn't get a committee vote Tuesday evening in the House when Chairman Harold Dutton (D) abruptly ended the last-minute meeting.
House Public Education Committee Chairman Harold Dutton allowed a vote that, by 7-5 and along party lines, propelled Senate Bill 3, making "improvements" to the state’s “ban” on teaching of critical race theory.
However, Dutton didn't allow a vote to be taken on SB 2 and took the heat for it not happening. He adjourned the meeting despite threats that the legislative staff would likely not be paid as Abbott had vetoed that measure as a bargaining tool.
In an interview late Tuesday, Dutton said he could see from the Public Education Committee’s discussion of SB 2 that members were frustrated by a lack of data and what they see as undue pressure from the Senate. A lengthy discussion of an amendment by Huberty (R), which would have delayed the bill’s implementation for a year, and would have requested the University Interscholastic League to conduct a study, only muddied things further, Dutton said.
“I started to see that my members were going to get all cut up on it,” he said of the bill.
“We have gotten to the point now where the Senate has adopted certain principles and practices that I don’t think bode well for this Legislature,” he said.
“What’s happened is we have allowed them to do certain things and they disrespect the House in certain fashions. It has gotten worse to the point where today, what I am told, is that if we don’t pass these two bills — the [critical race theory] bill and the transgender bill — the Senate is not going to consider trying to fix the funding in Article X,” which is the Legislature’s funding, which Abbott line-item vetoed in June.
“So, I want to see if he has his big boy pants on,” Dutton concluded. “This meeting is adjourned.”
LGBT+ marchers ejected Alexander Bramham to chants of "Trans lives matter"
A man wearing a t-shirt with the hate group "LGB Alliance" logo on it was ejected from the Alternate Manchester Pride parade on Aug 29, 2021.
The LGBT+ marchers who ejected Alexander Bramham to chants of "Trans lives matter" were proceeding peacefully until then. Bramham chooses that day because it is a peaceful alternative to the commercialized parade held later and is attended overwhelmingly by the trans, queer, and non-binary community. He must have drawn their ire by doing something extraordinary hateful.
‘They would have torn me apart, it was terrifying’ - said Alexander Bramham, a gay man from the Manchester LGB Alliance in an interview afterward.
Placing a "victim" in a compromising position surrounded by a crowd of LGBT+ people is the modus operandi of the #TERF movement. By all accounts, this TERF puppet was in no danger.
"Media outlets note: the 'LGB Alliance' does not represent lesbian, gay or bisexual people in any shape or form." wrote Owen Jones on Twitter.
A man wearing a t-shirt with the anti-trans rights LGB Alliance is made to leave Manchester Pride to chants of "Trans lives matter".
Media outlets note: the 'LGB Alliance' does not represent lesbian, gay or bisexual people in any shape or form.pic.twitter.com/vGfwbQKbrS
The LGB Alliance were recently at the centre of a social media storm, finding themselves in breach of Twitter’s Hateful Conduct Policy after posting “Adding the + to LGB gives the green light to paraphilias like bestiality – and more – to all be part of one big happy ‘rainbow family’. Wake up policy makers."
“LGB people refuse to be used in your artificial and dangerous argument that we must all be lumped together. #NoToHomophobia.”
NOTE!
The LGBT+ acronym is used to describe all people who fall under the queer umbrella, including the intersex, asexual and aromantic communities.
LGB Alliance openly attacking the LGBTQ+ community, saying we are "dominated by gender identity extremism" - this is inflammatory hateful rhetoric against all LGBTQ+ people, and should be reported to @ChtyCommission
LGB Alliance openly attacking the LGBTQ+ community, saying we are "dominated by gender identity extremism" - this is inflammatory hateful rhetoric against all LGBTQ+ people, and should be reported to @ChtyCommission 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ pic.twitter.com/FK6rLUwd6O
— David Paisley - Man at Bus Stop (@DavidPaisley) August 30, 2021
LGB Alliance supporter saying their opposition to a conversion therapy ban is ok because "they didn't make it compulsory" and "if you don't want to undergo conversion therapy, don't do it". pic.twitter.com/qmhz6xovdV
— David Paisley - Man at Bus Stop (@DavidPaisley) August 30, 2021
Important point to note if you complain:
Charities cannot demean or denigrate the rights of others.
If LGB Alliance want to campaign against the LGBTQ+ community, and oppose trans rights, they cannot do so as a charity. pic.twitter.com/qI9UktVUgt
— David Paisley - Man at Bus Stop (@DavidPaisley) August 30, 2021
A bust honoring Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) founder Marsha P.(pay it no mind) Johnson was installed Tuesday in Christopher Park, across from the Stonewall Inn.
The bust shows a stoic Marsha is inscribed with a quote attributed to her: "History isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable," the plaque reads, "It happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities."
The temporary bust which was installed on what would have been her 76th birthday is a reminder to city officials that they have failed to create a monument to Johnson and fellow transgender activist Sylvia Rivera after promising to do so two years ago.
The statue is the first transgender person to be memorialized in an NYC park and was done without city permission or funding, something that Marsha undoubtedly would have approved of.
Happy birthday, Marsha!," wrote organizer Eli Erlick. "Early this morning, a group of friends and I put up this bust of Marsha P Johnson in Christopher Park. It’s the city’s first statue of a trans person and - shockingly - only the 8th statue of a historical woman out of 800 monuments in NYC parks!"
Happy birthday, Marsha! Early this morning, a group of friends and I put up this bust of Marsha P Johnson in Christopher Park. It’s the city’s first statue of a trans person and - shockingly - only the 8th statue of a historical woman out of 800 monuments in NYC parks! pic.twitter.com/OljjrFD5Zs
"If you’re in town, you can put flowers in the crown openings, take pictures with her, & celebrate Marsha’s revolutionary activism. With @twwinkerbell's amazing sculpting skills, I hope this bust can bring a smile to every passerby," wrote Erlick.
