Jesus that’s depressing.

Of course there's a difference between passing legislation and actually living by the values behind said legislation, but there's an even bigger difference between that and actively promoting transphobic propaganda and trying to make discrimination legal/mandatory

True for sure, but it’s sad that we promote our country as so forward-thinking and advanced and modern yet we can’t even pass something that SHOULD be a nonissue >.> like trans rights or equal rights for all sexes, genders, and races.

Not really. There's a difference between America's President being anti-trans and a backwards-as-fuck Middle Eastern Islamic State making one right decision out of God knows how many bad ones.

Besides, it's just Trump and his cabinet(and I don't even think it's his whole cabinet), the rest of the country is fairly mixed on the issue. Remember, just because the Pakistani government enforces it doesn't mean the Pakistani people will follow it. Just like how when the President makes a dumb decision it doesn't mean the nation is behind him wholeheartedly. Trans people are still much better off here than ANYWHERE in the MIddle East. I understand the cause for worry upon the comparison of recent decisions, and I hate Trump's decision as much as you do, but I'm afraid what the post entails is a bit of a stretch.

Yeah

http://www.hrc.org/blog/2016-state-.....read-nationwid

it's "just Trump and his cabinet"

3 out of 55 bills passed doesn't really equal an entire nation moving backwards. And by the "Trump and his Cabinet" line I was only pertaining to the bill recently passed preventing trans people from serving in the military(which is what I was assuming the issue at hand was implying towards, but I guess you were implying a bigger scale here).

Btw, things like same-sex sexual activity has been officially accepted in the US since '96, while Pakistan still has yet to legalize same sex marriage and strive to make sexuality not such a taboo subject in the country.

The only reason they didn't pass was because of people like me writing to their congressmen and demanding that they vote no, and amoral corporations pressuring them because it affects their bottomline. And I guarantee the latter has the biggest affect. And read the rest of it. 202 anti-LGBTQ bills were filed in addition to that, despite your blind insistence that "same-sex sexual activity" is "officially" acceptable. Republicans have been and always will be regressive, xenophobic jackasses. Trump's bullshit tweet about the military wasn't a bill, and it had no effect on military policy. The bill Pence signed back in his home state, that did have a massive impact, essentially legalizing discrimination against LGBT individuals, and the party would love to make that policy national, despite the state-level legislation getting plenty of backlash. But I wouldn't expect someone deluded enough to identify as a libertarian to understand the way the world really works. Bye.