#The Big Guns

[batboyblog]

Justice Department Challenges Tennessee Law that Bans Critical, Medically Necessary Care for Transgender Youth

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

The Justice Department today filed a complaint challenging Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), a recently enacted law that denies necessary medical care to youth based solely on who they are. The complaint alleges that SB 1’s ban on providing certain medically necessary care to transgender minors violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. The department is also asking the court to issue an immediate order to prevent the law from going into effect on July 1, 2023.

SB 1 makes it unlawful to provide or offer to provide certain types of medical care for transgender minors with diagnosed gender dysphoria. SB 1’s blanket ban prohibits potential treatment options that have been recommended by major medical associations for consideration in limited circumstances in accordance with established and comprehensive guidelines and standards of care. By denying only transgender youth access to these forms of medically necessary care while allowing non-transgender minors access to the same or similar procedures, SB 1 discriminates against transgender youth. The department’s complaint alleges that SB 1 violates the Equal Protection Clause by discriminating on the basis of both sex and transgender status. Doctors, parents and anyone else who provides or offers to provide the prohibited care faces the possibility of civil suits for 30 years and other sanctions.

“No person should be denied access to necessary medical care just because of their transgender status,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “The right to consider your health and medically-approved treatment options with your family and doctors is a right that everyone should have, including transgender children, who are especially vulnerable to serious risks of depression, anxiety and suicide. The Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department will continue to aggressively challenge all forms of discrimination and unlawful barriers faced by the LGBTQI+ community.”

“SB1 violates the constitutional rights of some of Tennessee’s most vulnerable citizens,” said U.S. Attorney Henry Leventis for the Middle District of Tennessee. “Left unchallenged, it would prohibit transgender children from receiving health care that their medical providers and their parents have determined to be medically necessary. In doing so, the law seeks to substitute the judgment of trained medical professionals and parents with that of elected officials and codifies discrimination against children who already face far too many obstacles.”

Today’s filings are the latest action by the Justice Department to combat LGBTQI+ discrimination, including unlawful restrictions on medical care for transgender youth. On March 31, 2022, Assistant Attorney General Clarke issued a letter to all state attorneys general reminding them of federal constitutional and statutory provisions that protect transgender youth against discrimination. On April 29, 2022, the Justice Department intervened in a lawsuit challenging a law in Alabama (Senate Bill 184) that imposes a felony ban on medically necessary care for transgender minors. As a result of that litigation, the most significant provisions of Alabama’s Senate Bill 184 have been preliminarily halted from going into effect, and the United States continues to challenge its constitutionality.

Additional information about the Civil Rights Division’s work to uphold and protect the civil and constitutional rights of LGBTQI+ individuals is available on its website at www.justice.gov/crt/lgbtqi-working-group. Complaints about discriminatory practices may be reported to the Civil Rights Division through its internet reporting portal at civilrights.justice.gov.

#LGBT rights #LGBT #Trans #trans rights #tennessee #Joe Biden #Justice Department #The big guns

[knightofthenewrepublic]

#arcnae #arcane memes #arcane league of legends #vi #arcane vi #My memes #the big guns #uss missouri #battleship

[sasha-psychedelia]

The Provably Worst Gun for Home Defense

What is provably the WORST gun for home defense? A .22 single shot rifle is at least small and quick to point. A Barrett M82 is at least going to instantly stop whatever it hits. Even a good old fashioned musket is going to do good damage and won't hurt your ears. No, I wanted to know what the undisputable worst home defense gun in the world is; and I have found it.

This is the .950 JDJ Fat Mac. It is a 100 pound, 5 foot long rifle that shoots a one pound solid brass bullet at 2200 FPS. It is a non-NFA item only because the ATF gave it a sporting exemption as a joke as if anybody is going to hunt with this. This round would be overkill for hunting blue whales.

I would like to paint a picture for you. It's 2AM and you hear a window break in your living room. This is the worst day this could happen, as every single one of your guns was lost in a tragic boating accident this morning. All were lost except for one. You look across your room in dread at your anti-kaiju rifle. You know what you have to do, but you don't know if you have the strength to do it, both literally and figuratively.

Heaving the rifle into your arms, you load a .950 cartridge and begin to waddle towards the door. Your feet make a loud "thud" as you take each 6" step. You know the intruders hear you. You hope they do, for perhaps they will run and spare the world the suffering that is about to befall it.

You try to set the rifle down, but end up clipping your bedroom door and it is immediately knocked off its hinges by this battering ram in your hands. You attempt to round the corner, bonking the muzzle against the doorframe and adjacent wall across the hall at least 4 times.

To your horror, two invaders stand there at the end of the hall.

With a heavy heart, you raise the rifle to your shoulder while making inhuman grunting noises from the strain of attempting some semblance of a shooting position. The burglars simply stare in disbelief, unable to process the situation they are witnessing, as if in a dream.

You cannot aim the rifle, as the last time you fired the gun, it turned your $3000 Leopuld into a kaleidoscope. You simply hold it at an angle that appears correct and fire.

You are immediately knocked to the floor as if hit by a semi truck going 20 MPH. The shot connected with one of the criminals and it erased him from existence. Even the memories of him have been destroyed and you're wondering why you just shot into an empty hallway. The shot continues to travel through at least 4 houses, a car, and a 10 ton boulder before lodging itself 20 feet into a nearby hill, never to be seen again.

It is at this point, you realize you cannot hear.

The surviving burglar can't hear either but he's also on fire from the muzzle blast and is currently vacating your home. You don't care. Your shoulder is dislocated and there is a hole in your brand new AR500 refrigerator.

You're crying now.

The police arrive and, upon seeing the scene, start laughing. You start crying harder.

#196 #copypasta #sps69 #big guns

[datcravat]

pe ru so na

#MY ART #I SPENT FOREVER ON THIS #persona 3 #persona 3 reload #makoto yuki #okay so while it is super iconic I didn't want to draw someone with a gun to their head (love it in P3 love the symbolism #just dont want to explain it all to my mum or have non persona fans see it at my booth at comic con) #so I was forced to get creative #I hope this comes across #but I wanted to imply he just shot that bullet hole into the background that makes thanatos' eye #the bullet hole also sort of looks like a big glint of than's eye #those white parts on the white are than's hand curling around the MC #and I tried to make the colour scheme CYMK to symbolise how the MC is the wildcard #he is the blueprint and can make anything. #a lot of thought and effort went into this one. persona 3 baby!! hope you like it

[matchstique]

Comic redraw of a scene from Cass’s Apocalypse AU

Storyline and original comic panels by @somerandomdudelmao

Storyline and original comic panels by @somerandomdudelmao

#cass apocalypse au #rottmnt #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt casey jr #matchart #cass fanart tag #I wanted to draw mutant CJ so bad #I just #i just love his little frog face #pew pew #he gots a big rectangle that supposed to be a gun #but I don’t wanna draw a gun jfrehgvfjecrnrce

[dapperrokyuu]

Luka vs. Till is the funniest faceoff tho. Like, what is Till even gonna DO? Purebred pedigree dog vs. stray mystery mutt found in the garbage and literally 50% discounted, FJFJEKFKDKCJEJ-

#dee p thoughts #alien stage #alnst #vivinos #luka might as well just pull out a gun and shoot till at the get go #IVAN YOU HAD A CHANCE WHAT IS TILL GONNA DOOOOOO #i trust in ivans big escape brain hes totally planned this hell figure it outttttt

[bixels]

They're the same character.

#mlp #sunset shimmer #splatoon #captain 3 #resting bitch face ✅ #big funny hat ✅ #long hair with gradient ✅ #shadows over half lidded eyes ✅ #big heavy cloak/cape ✅ #stoic and quiet yet awkward personality ✅ #badass with a gun ✅ #years of fighting experience ✅ #gay ✅ #the only big difference is sunset isn't a girlfail loser like my captain 3 #sunset wouldn't humiliate herself in front of thea #my art #fanart

[a-titty-ninja]

「✪ ω ✪」 by Sue スーエ | Twitter

๑ Permission to reprint was given by the artist ✔.

#original art #オリジナル #original #cowgirl #guns #big #boots #hat #navel #tattoo #thigh highs #artist:sue #pixiv art #mypost #mypost:original art

[chrisgeneering624]

😍😍😍😍 🧍‍♂️

#the goat #the top dog #the big cheese #the numero uno #the boss #the man #front bill #the big boy #the big guns #the muscle #bashful #rollercoaster

[micahmaeve]

#if you put your pain in the ass pilot with another pain in the ass pilot does that solve your problems or make one big problem? #goose and slider are about to find out #top gun #icemav #slider #goose #iceman #maverick #top gun maverick #pete maverick mitchell #tom kazansky #tom crusie #val kilmer #nick bradshaw #ron kerner

[lowpolyanimals]

Big Squirrel from Squirrel Stapler

#big squirrel #squirrel #squirrel stapler #thank you for your submission! #please don't let me type squirrel one more time #tw #gun

[varilien]

you know me, in the way that matters most.

#trigun #trigun anime #trigun fanart #vash #vash the stampede #wolfwood #nicholas d. wolfwood #vashwood #I JUST!!! i love the way 98 goes about invoking its overarching Themes And Questions #how the story began with ''who is vash the stampede?'' when it was a very literal #there are 60.000.000.000 outlaws w big guns on this planet and any one of them could be him #which slowly became ''but who IS he. behind the legend. behind the personas. Who Is He really?'' #and then wolfwood asks. and ''i've only known you as the stampede'' #but that's not true. it's not the only way he's known him. it was always more than that. #anyways do u guys ever make something that's So Important to u u are RELUCTANT TO SHARE IT LMAO #i've been holding this one very very tightly for MONTHS dhfkjghdfk

[disposablepapercup]

kind hands.

#fmab #fullmetal alchemist #edward elric #riza hawkeye #riza fma #ed fma #fmab ep 5 #my second favorite scene in the entire series #riza is so kind n hot u cant deny #screenshot redraw #something something symbolism the military jacket is too big for ed #ignore the shit holster i havent figured out how to draw guns #my art #fanart

[cavalierclavier]

tfw you’re breaking out a science experiment with a broken snooze button and you keep sassing one another between the senseless violence

#the mechanisms #the mechs #the mechanisms fanart #once upon a time in space #jonny d'ville #nastya rasputina #briar rose #ouatis #comic #my art #there are supposed to be rose reds in the big room but i forgot :P #i considered adding bloodstains to imply them but it felt too cluttered lol #anyways hell is drawing rooms and guns and jonny's eye marks consistently #i'd say it was good practice though

[iztea]

eyepatch.......

#ok hear me out #beast type beat au where he wears an eyepatch instead #and he's the villain #or antagonist #and he has a riffle/shotgun/big gun #dazai #bsd #fanart #art #bsd fanart #bungou stray dogs #dazai osamu #beast dazai #bsd au #dazai fanart #my art #iztea draws #eyepatch #techwear

[deep-space-lines]

I am inflicting, or perhaps bestowing, upon you: Garrus as various unnecessarily sexualized references that come up if you look up refs of women with guns :)

(( @milkywayes i know we’ve like almost never interacted but the silly comment i left on your post would Not leave my brain. I need to show u what you inspired ))

#you’re welcome or i’m sorry #look at that high waisted man! he has feminine hips #top 10 birthday gifts for your alien boyfriend who you aren’t even sure celebrates birthdays: big gun. #turians look all big and intimidating until you draw one and have to figure out how to make them not look like they’re going OWO #why did i put so much effort into this #mass effect #my art #mass effect art #mass effect fanart #artists on tumblr #garrus vakarian #he’s so hard to draw but so much FUN to draw. this man is shaped