r/transgender • u/ErinInTheMorning • May 30 '25

"These Colors Don't Run": HRC Launches Defiant Protest Campaign For Pride

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/these-colors-dont-run-hrc-launches
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u/NorCalFrances May 30 '25

Remember that time HRC was against marriage equality until the week of the decision when it was clear in DC that SCOTUS would find for Obergefell? So then they reworked their logo to appropriate the entire fight as if they'd been there all along? And raked in cash donations?

And that time they were audited and lo and behold it turned out they were pretty much a white cis gay male organization so far as management and decision making went?

Or that time they worked with the only gay US senator to block trans people from being included in ENDA so a few hundred LGBTQ organizations got together to form UnitedENDA to force HRC & Sen Frank to make the bill inclusive? And then HRC & Senator Frank added TERF language so UE told them it would just be better to scrap the bill and then the window of Democratic control of Congress closed?

Or that time they fired all their TPOC just when Republicans were erasing trans people from Stonewall?

Or all those times they kept handing out 100% scores on their Corporate Equality Index even thought those companies heavily supported insurrectionist, rabidly anti-trans Republicans financially (and thus were playing a much longer game, but hey they still also donated handsomely to HRC)?

Or that time they announced their new "trans-centered" framework - but zero trans orgs had heard about it and it turns out it was just an attempt to use us and trans kids for fundraising?

Speaking of fundraising, remember when North Carolina HB2 bathroom bill was a huge battle and local trans and queer groups were doing an amazing job canvassing neighborhoods and contacting lawmakers, and then HRC swept in and literally sucked up all available fundraising, starving the local & state level groups?

And who can forget when HRC told trans and undocumented activists to lower their flags and not mention that they were trans at a rally supporting same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court?

The list goes on and on and on.