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Post by aj2hall on Jul 24, 2023 1:53:28 GMT
More evidence of the Republican anti- LGBTQ, anti-drag agenda thehill.com/homenews/house/4104634-house-republicans-eliminate-funding-to-lgbtq-community-centers-after-tense-hearing/ Tensions boiled over Tuesday after Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) introduced an amendment to the annual funding bill covering the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development to eliminate $3.62 million in funding for three LGBTQ community centers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.
The amendment, which Cole said Tuesday would crack down on “problematic” spending, also prohibits federal funds from being used to fly LGBTQ Pride flags outside government buildings.
When the committee reconvened, Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) defended Cole’s amendment by claiming the LGBTQ community centers in question have programs in place supporting communism, drag shows and the administration of hormone replacement therapy to young people.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/21/house-gop-lgbtq-bigotry-discrimination/This week, they took the normally sleepy markup of the humdrum Transportation, Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill and turned it into a vehicle for overt bigotry against gay and lesbian Americans.
Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), championing the anti-gay amendment, didn’t conceal his ugly intent. He alleged without evidence that the programs “groom young children.” He likened the programs to the Ku Klux Klan and said the programs support communists.
www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/william-way-house-republicans-funding-lgbtq-organizations-boyle-houlahan-democrats-20230718.htmlBoyle’s application — known colloquially as an earmark project — would have given $1.8 million to Philadelphia’s William Way Community Center for facility expansion and to providing meals, job training, and other services to low income seniors, many of whom identify as LGBTQ.
Houlahan’s application was for $970,000 for the LGBT Center of Greater Reading to expand transitional housing to individuals, including members of the LGBTQ population. Both of the organizations had received similar funding in the past.
“Out of literally thousands of projects, the only three they went after were the three with LGBT or LGBTQ in the organization’s name,” Boyle said in an interview. “This is as clear-cut a case of ugly bigotry as I’ve ever seen. It’s just outrageous.”
Houlahan said in an interview that the decision was “cruel and “blatantly discriminatory.”
Of 3,800 projects submitted by members of Congress, Boyle said only three, all of which had “LGBTQ” in the organizations’ names, were stripped of funding. The third proposal, submitted by Rep. Ayanna Presley, would have designated $850,000 to an LGBT housing group to convert a former Boston Public School building into 74 units of affordable housing for seniors.
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Post by aj2hall on Jul 24, 2023 14:34:57 GMT
A PAC for DeSantis put out an anti- LGBTQ video. The video brags about DeSantis being more anti- LGBTQ than Trump. This is what the Republican Party has sunk to - bragging over who has done more to take away rights from a marginalized community. DeSantis' comment was a complete deflection. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECGtwu7h6qwwww.npr.org/2023/07/03/1185781096/desantis-trump-lgbtq-video"I just don't understand the mentality of somebody who gets up in the morning, thinking that he's gonna prove his worth by competing who can make life hardest for a hard-hit community that is already so vulnerable in America," Buttigieg said on CNN. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 25, 2023 4:19:14 GMT
I have often said check out those churches, pastors and priests for who is really grooming and assaulting kids.
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Post by Merge on Jul 25, 2023 14:05:15 GMT
I think it's good that they are finally saying the quiet part out loud, and showing everyone exactly who they are. People will have a choice in the next election to clearly align themselves with hate and bigotry, or not. Some people will avoid voting Republican. Others will make it very clear who they are and what they stand for, and the rest of us can behave accordingly.
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Post by elaine on Jul 25, 2023 18:30:31 GMT
I think it's good that they are finally saying the quiet part out loud, and showing everyone exactly who they are. People will have a choice in the next election to clearly align themselves with hate and bigotry, or not. Some people will avoid voting Republican. Others will make it very clear who they are and what they stand for, and the rest of us can behave accordingly. History will not judge them kindly. They are the people who spoke out against mixed marriage and Black rights. The overwhelming majority of people under 30 are. not. afraid/offended. if someone is LGBTQ+. These are the people who will run the country in 20 years, and all this frenetic hate law-passing by the GOP will be reversed. The real tragedy is the people who will be forced to suffer discrimination and institutionalized hate until that happens. History will label this openly white supremacist period of the GOP as what it is: they are on the wrong side of what is ethical, moral, and good in this. Some of them believe this crap, but I think a number of GOP politicians are willing to sell their souls and reputations for power, and they won’t be remembered favorably. Who wants their lasting legacy to be that they fought AGAINST human rights that the future leaders will grant without hesitation? |
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Post by aj2hall on Jul 27, 2023 15:35:10 GMT
Didn't need more reasons to hate this guy, but he really is an a&shat and a bigot. www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/07/18/virginia-transgender-student-model-policies-youngkin/www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/07/06/youngkin-lgbtq-resources-vdh/www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/27/youngkin-lgbtq-youth/On May 31, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) quietly authorized the removal of a resource page for LGBTQ+ youths on the Virginia Department of Health website following an inquiry from the conservative news outlet the Daily Wire. In defense of this decision, Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter stated this month that the resources promoted “sexualizing children” and allowed the government to facilitate anonymous conversations between children and adults without parental consent.
This statement is a gross distortion.
Of the 11 resources previously listed on the Virginia Department of Health website for LGBTQ+ youths, zero of them allowed adults to engage in inappropriate, anonymous conversations with children.
Removing these resources cannot be passed off as protecting children from danger. There is nothing inherently sexual or inappropriate about LGBTQ+ adults fostering spaces for LGBTQ+ children to express themselves and find community. For the Youngkin administration to insinuate that these chat spaces sexualize children perpetuates the harmful — and untrue — narrative that LGBTQ+ adults are predators.
This is not the first time the Youngkin administration has undermined the rights of LGBTQ+ children. Mr. Youngkin’s Department of Education recently finalized new policies prohibiting teachers from referring to students by their preferred name and gender pronouns unless the parents have requested them to do so in writing, limiting the participation of trans kids in school sports, and requiring trans students to use the bathrooms associated with their biological sex.
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Post by elaine on Jul 27, 2023 15:39:40 GMT
Didn't need more reasons to hate this guy, but he really is an a&shat and a bigot. www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/07/18/virginia-transgender-student-model-policies-youngkin/www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/07/06/youngkin-lgbtq-resources-vdh/www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/27/youngkin-lgbtq-youth/On May 31, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) quietly authorized the removal of a resource page for LGBTQ+ youths on the Virginia Department of Health website following an inquiry from the conservative news outlet the Daily Wire. In defense of this decision, Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter stated this month that the resources promoted “sexualizing children” and allowed the government to facilitate anonymous conversations between children and adults without parental consent.
This statement is a gross distortion.
Of the 11 resources previously listed on the Virginia Department of Health website for LGBTQ+ youths, zero of them allowed adults to engage in inappropriate, anonymous conversations with children.
Removing these resources cannot be passed off as protecting children from danger. There is nothing inherently sexual or inappropriate about LGBTQ+ adults fostering spaces for LGBTQ+ children to express themselves and find community. For the Youngkin administration to insinuate that these chat spaces sexualize children perpetuates the harmful — and untrue — narrative that LGBTQ+ adults are predators.
This is not the first time the Youngkin administration has undermined the rights of LGBTQ+ children. Mr. Youngkin’s Department of Education recently finalized new policies prohibiting teachers from referring to students by their preferred name and gender pronouns unless the parents have requested them to do so in writing, limiting the participation of trans kids in school sports, and requiring trans students to use the bathrooms associated with their biological sex.
I hate Youngkin with the heat of 1000 suns - I know that I have said that too many times, but he comes up with new lows too frequently for me. My school district’s superintendent sent out an email to all staff that she was confident that our district’s policies regarding support of LGBTQ+ students fell within state and federal anti discrimination laws, therefore we are not repealing or changing them as of now. |
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Post by Just T on Jul 27, 2023 15:41:36 GMT
The overwhelming majority of people under 30 are. not. afraid/offended. if someone is LGBTQ+. These are the people who will run the country in 20 years, and all this frenetic hate law-passing by the GOP will be reversed. The real tragedy is the people who will be forced to suffer discrimination and institutionalized hate until that happens. History will label this openly white supremacist period of the GOP as what it is: they are on the wrong side of what is ethical, moral, and good in this. Some of them believe this crap, but I think a number of GOP politicians are willing to sell their souls and reputations for power, and they won’t be remembered favorably. Who wants their lasting legacy to be that they fought AGAINST human rights that the future leaders will grant without hesitation? As the mom of a son and a daughter who are gay, I do have hope for their future as most of their friends are very socially conscious and vote that way. My other two kids are also very socially conscious, as are most of their friends. I do have hope for the future, but like you, I hate the discrimination and hate they will likely live through while all these old bigots and homophobes are running things. |
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Post by aj2hall on Jul 29, 2023 1:01:47 GMT
Transgender families and their kids don't have the luxury of waiting for these cases to make their way through the courts. www.npr.org/2023/07/26/1190271298/a-patchwork-of-transgender-healthcare-laws-push-families-across-state-linesWhen Utah passed a ban on gender-affirming care for people younger than 18, Kat and their family had to make a tough choice. Should they uproot their lives and leave the state?
Kat is 14 and transgender. The Utah law banned the medical care that Kat was considering.
Around 20 states have passed similar laws — meaning many families could face the same tough decision: whether to leave their homes and where to go. Often it's to a state like Minnesota, where elected officials have protected trans health care for patients and providers.
www.npr.org/2023/07/28/1190673042/trans-health-care-bans-gender-affirming-federal-supreme-court-kids-lawsuitsLOUISVILLE, Ky. – Of the 20 states restricting gender-affirming hormone therapy, nearly half are being challenged in federal court.
At the heart of these lawsuits is this question: Do bans on gender-affirming care violate the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment?
(A reminder: The Fourteenth Amendment says states can't deprive people of liberty without due process and can't deny people equal protection under the laws.)
Abigail Moncrieff is the co-director of Cleveland State University's Center for Health Law and Policy and says, "The problem with gender-affirming care is that it's never been challenged before."
"The question of, 'Do parents have a right to provide their children with gender-affirming care?' is a new question," she says.
Plaintiffs, including trans kids and their parents, claim the laws violate parents' due process right to direct their children's care. They also argue the laws illegally discriminate against trans kids.
Almost all the lawsuits are still in the early stages, with judges mainly deciding whether to block the bans while the cases play out in courtrooms.
But, so far, the rulings can be separated into two camps.
The first camp, including rulings from several district courts, says parents probably do have a right to get their kids gender-affirming hormone therapy.
Camp 2 -
That camp only has one member so far: The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Earlier this month, the 6th Circuit let Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming medical treatments temporarily take effect. That prompted a district court judge to reinstate similar restrictions in Kentucky.
Over time, Moncrieff says she thinks other courts will join the 6th Circuit in Camp Two and there's a good chance you'll see a circuit split, where appeals courts reach different conclusions about the laws' constitutionality.
But kids' health care is on the line, says Bobbie Glass, a Kentucky educator and trans woman.
Her home state's Republican-run legislature prohibited gender-affirming hormone therapy for minors in March. Contentious debates led up to that decision.
At one meeting, Republican state Rep. Jennifer Decker defended the government's intervention.
"I have great compassion for the children, parents and their families who are in this situation. However, ultimately, it is our obligation to protect children from irreparable harm," she said. "The state has a compelling interest in that proposition."
Months later, legal arguments about what qualifies as irreparable harm and compelling interests, in this context, are playing out in courtrooms.
"And now we have a predominantly conservative Supreme Court," Glass tells NPR. "And their judgment is going to be really tested in all of this."
She says it's a relief to see district court judges criticize what many experts say are states' baseless medical arguments for prohibiting care for trans kids.
"Maybe there is some hope that there's some sanity. Because what you have is flawed theology, toxic religion, running rampant over the Constitution," Glass says.
But the legal system is changing, Moncrieff says, so it isn't obvious how the courts might rule.
"The Constitution is resting on shifting sands and it's a little unclear how it's going to settle."
In the meantime, that uncertainty weighs on many transgender kids and their families. |
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Post by lucyg on Jul 31, 2023 4:42:04 GMT
What was in the tweet that DeSantis reposted in your post #2? DeSantis tweet is still up, but the Proud Elephant tweet has been deleted. aj2hall |
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Post by aj2hall on Jul 31, 2023 5:33:52 GMT
What was in the tweet that DeSantis reposted in your post #2? DeSantis tweet is still up, but the Proud Elephant tweet has been deleted. aj2hall It was an anti- Trump video showing how Trump was pro LGBTQ. It compared DeSantis' and Trump's actions on LGBTQ rights. You can see some clips of the video here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECGtwu7h6qw |
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Post by lucyg on Jul 31, 2023 6:13:35 GMT
What was in the tweet that DeSantis reposted in your post #2? DeSantis tweet is still up, but the Proud Elephant tweet has been deleted. aj2hall It was an anti- Trump video showing how Trump was pro LGBTQ. It compared DeSantis' and Trump's actions on LGBTQ rights. You can see some clips of the video here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECGtwu7h6qwThank you! |
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Post by jeremysgirl on Jul 31, 2023 10:51:15 GMT
The thing that scares me about this is that I'm afraid it's going to come down to a battle of physical health vs mental health and that of course, mental health is going to be the loser. I get the immediate implications to the transgender community but I also worry about the ripple effect when we are basically saying that mental health doesn't matter.
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Post by peabay on Jul 31, 2023 14:17:32 GMT
The thing that scares me about this is that I'm afraid it's going to come down to a battle of physical health vs mental health and that of course, mental health is going to be the loser. I get the immediate implications to the transgender community but I also worry about the ripple effect when we are basically saying that mental health doesn't matter. Except when someone shoots up a school - then it's not the guns, it's their "mental health." |
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Post by elaine on Aug 14, 2023 22:36:31 GMT
Didn't need more reasons to hate this guy, but he really is an a&shat and a bigot. www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/07/18/virginia-transgender-student-model-policies-youngkin/www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/07/06/youngkin-lgbtq-resources-vdh/www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/27/youngkin-lgbtq-youth/On May 31, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) quietly authorized the removal of a resource page for LGBTQ+ youths on the Virginia Department of Health website following an inquiry from the conservative news outlet the Daily Wire. In defense of this decision, Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter stated this month that the resources promoted “sexualizing children” and allowed the government to facilitate anonymous conversations between children and adults without parental consent.
This statement is a gross distortion.
Of the 11 resources previously listed on the Virginia Department of Health website for LGBTQ+ youths, zero of them allowed adults to engage in inappropriate, anonymous conversations with children.
Removing these resources cannot be passed off as protecting children from danger. There is nothing inherently sexual or inappropriate about LGBTQ+ adults fostering spaces for LGBTQ+ children to express themselves and find community. For the Youngkin administration to insinuate that these chat spaces sexualize children perpetuates the harmful — and untrue — narrative that LGBTQ+ adults are predators.
This is not the first time the Youngkin administration has undermined the rights of LGBTQ+ children. Mr. Youngkin’s Department of Education recently finalized new policies prohibiting teachers from referring to students by their preferred name and gender pronouns unless the parents have requested them to do so in writing, limiting the participation of trans kids in school sports, and requiring trans students to use the bathrooms associated with their biological sex.
I hate Youngkin with the heat of 1000 suns - I know that I have said that too many times, but he comes up with new lows too frequently for me. My school district’s superintendent sent out an email to all staff that she was confident that our district’s policies regarding support of LGBTQ+ students fell within state and federal anti discrimination laws, therefore we are not repealing or changing them as of now. Bumping this because we had our beginning of the year staff meeting at our VA elementary school today. Several times and on multiple slides there was discussion about supporting any students who come out to us. Youngkin and the extremist right wing may try to force teachers and school staff to act in ways that are not supportive of who students are as people, but my large district, at least, is refusing to spew their hate. |
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 19, 2023 4:55:07 GMT
I posted this on the book ban thread but it seems appropriate here, too. This has nothing to do with parents' rights. Its all about censoring teachers and further marginalizing the LGBTQ community. www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/us/georgia-teacher-fired-gender-book.htmlTeacher Is Fired for Reading Book on Gender Identity in Class
The teacher in Georgia was fired for reading to fifth graders “My Shadow Is Purple,” which is about a child who cannot relate to the colors blue and pink.
A teacher in an Atlanta suburb has been fired for reading a book to fifth-grade students that explores gender roles and identity through the eyes of a child who describes their shadow as purple, her lawyer said on Friday.
The Cobb County Board of Education voted 4-3 on Thursday to approve the recommendation by the superintendent, Chris Ragsdale, to terminate the contract of the teacher, Katherine Rinderle, according to a recording of the meeting.
In February, she purchased “My Shadow Is Purple,” by the Australian author Scott Stuart, at a district-approved book fair, and read it to her class on March 8.
The book centers on a gender nonbinary theme in which a child describes the color of their shadow as different from their mother’s pink shadow and father’s blue shadow.
In an interview on Friday, Ms. Rinderle said the students discussed the book, in which the child enjoys toys and sports commonly associated with either boys or girls. Then they were encouraged to write poems describing their own “shadows.”
In June, Mr. Ragsdale said in a letter to Ms. Rinderle that the district intended to terminate her employment for “insubordination, willful neglect of duties and any other good and sufficient cause,” a copy of the letter said.
It said the “controversial” topic of gender identity and fluidity was “not an appropriate” topic for 10- and 11-year-old students.
The decision reflected several laws signed last year by Gov. Kemp.
One law, the Parents’ Bill of Rights, “provides greater transparency to parents and legal guardians regarding what their student is being taught in school and protects the fundamental right of moms and dads across this state to direct the education of their child.”
Another law is meant to prevent “divisive concepts and ideologies from invading the classroom.”
Mr. Goodmark said the laws “have operated to censor teachers in the classroom.” |
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Post by samantha25 on Aug 19, 2023 5:08:59 GMT
But why? What is being taught in schools that is controversial and not appropriate? Why is the talking points just sweeping generalizations? What are these books teaching? Just ignorant, abhorrent, hypocritical, and many other adjectives, people.
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Post by mollycoddle on Aug 19, 2023 11:30:29 GMT
These folks have no bottom. They are awful human beings. This political divide isn’t going away; it’s getting worse.
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Post by Merge on Aug 19, 2023 12:08:29 GMT
I posted this on the book ban thread but it seems appropriate here, too. This has nothing to do with parents' rights. Its all about censoring teachers and further marginalizing the LGBTQ community. www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/us/georgia-teacher-fired-gender-book.htmlTeacher Is Fired for Reading Book on Gender Identity in Class
The teacher in Georgia was fired for reading to fifth graders “My Shadow Is Purple,” which is about a child who cannot relate to the colors blue and pink.
A teacher in an Atlanta suburb has been fired for reading a book to fifth-grade students that explores gender roles and identity through the eyes of a child who describes their shadow as purple, her lawyer said on Friday.
The Cobb County Board of Education voted 4-3 on Thursday to approve the recommendation by the superintendent, Chris Ragsdale, to terminate the contract of the teacher, Katherine Rinderle, according to a recording of the meeting.
In February, she purchased “My Shadow Is Purple,” by the Australian author Scott Stuart, at a district-approved book fair, and read it to her class on March 8.
The book centers on a gender nonbinary theme in which a child describes the color of their shadow as different from their mother’s pink shadow and father’s blue shadow.
In an interview on Friday, Ms. Rinderle said the students discussed the book, in which the child enjoys toys and sports commonly associated with either boys or girls. Then they were encouraged to write poems describing their own “shadows.”
In June, Mr. Ragsdale said in a letter to Ms. Rinderle that the district intended to terminate her employment for “insubordination, willful neglect of duties and any other good and sufficient cause,” a copy of the letter said.
It said the “controversial” topic of gender identity and fluidity was “not an appropriate” topic for 10- and 11-year-old students.
The decision reflected several laws signed last year by Gov. Kemp.
One law, the Parents’ Bill of Rights, “provides greater transparency to parents and legal guardians regarding what their student is being taught in school and protects the fundamental right of moms and dads across this state to direct the education of their child.”
Another law is meant to prevent “divisive concepts and ideologies from invading the classroom.”
Mr. Goodmark said the laws “have operated to censor teachers in the classroom.”The book's perfectly innocent theme is that it's OK to for girls to like to play sports, or for boys to cook or dance or other things traditionally associated with girls. It has nothing to do with sexuality. I don't understand why this would be considered inappropriate except by those with the most rigid fundamentalist views, which are generally not mainstream in the US. People have gone mad. |
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Post by elaine on Aug 19, 2023 13:18:20 GMT
These folks have no bottom. They are awful human beings. This political divide isn’t going away; it’s getting worse. To quote Hillary: “Deplorables” |
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Post by epeanymous on Aug 19, 2023 13:26:22 GMT
One, I don't think everyone necessarily has appreciated how much the attacks on trans people have been just the same old attack on gay people with the intention of sweeping everyone LGBTQ+ into the attack. Two, I don't think everyone necessarily has appreciated how much the attacks on LGBTQ+ people are also attacks on women who don't conform to a 1950s stereotypical wife and mother.
I think it's doable to share a society where people have differing ideas about how much to tax people or where to locate a new highway or what the best way to fund that new highway would be. Things feel pretty fragile, however, when you have a very vocal plurality that wants to simply deny the basic humanity of other people.
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Post by Merge on Aug 19, 2023 14:03:51 GMT
One, I don't think everyone necessarily has appreciated how much the attacks on trans people have been just the same old attack on gay people with the intention of sweeping everyone LGBTQ+ into the attack. Two, I don't think everyone necessarily has appreciated how much the attacks on LGBTQ+ people are also attacks on women who don't conform to a 1950s stereotypical wife and mother. I think it's doable to share a society where people have differing ideas about how much to tax people or where to locate a new highway or what the best way to fund that new highway would be. Things feel pretty fragile, however, when you have a very vocal plurality that wants to simply deny the basic humanity of other people. Or their right to even exist in the public sphere. I don’t see how we go on from that. |
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Post by elaine on Aug 19, 2023 16:35:33 GMT
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Post by mollycoddle on Aug 19, 2023 17:17:15 GMT
These folks have no bottom. They are awful human beings. This political divide isn’t going away; it’s getting worse. To quote Hillary: “Deplorables” Just one more thing that she was right about. |
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Post by Merge on Aug 20, 2023 0:26:09 GMT
Yes. Another disappointment in Texas from this administration. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 20, 2023 0:33:33 GMT
Didn't need more reasons to hate this guy, but he really is an a&shat and a bigot. www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/07/18/virginia-transgender-student-model-policies-youngkin/www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/07/06/youngkin-lgbtq-resources-vdh/www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/27/youngkin-lgbtq-youth/On May 31, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) quietly authorized the removal of a resource page for LGBTQ+ youths on the Virginia Department of Health website following an inquiry from the conservative news outlet the Daily Wire. In defense of this decision, Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter stated this month that the resources promoted “sexualizing children” and allowed the government to facilitate anonymous conversations between children and adults without parental consent.
This statement is a gross distortion.
Of the 11 resources previously listed on the Virginia Department of Health website for LGBTQ+ youths, zero of them allowed adults to engage in inappropriate, anonymous conversations with children.
Removing these resources cannot be passed off as protecting children from danger. There is nothing inherently sexual or inappropriate about LGBTQ+ adults fostering spaces for LGBTQ+ children to express themselves and find community. For the Youngkin administration to insinuate that these chat spaces sexualize children perpetuates the harmful — and untrue — narrative that LGBTQ+ adults are predators.
This is not the first time the Youngkin administration has undermined the rights of LGBTQ+ children. Mr. Youngkin’s Department of Education recently finalized new policies prohibiting teachers from referring to students by their preferred name and gender pronouns unless the parents have requested them to do so in writing, limiting the participation of trans kids in school sports, and requiring trans students to use the bathrooms associated with their biological sex.
Keep in mind Youngkin is Rupert Murdoch's new presidential candidate of choice... elaine |
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Post by elaine on Aug 20, 2023 11:53:02 GMT
😢 May her memory be a blessing.
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Post by Merge on Aug 20, 2023 18:25:17 GMT
The GOP anti-LGBTQ rhetoric is stochastic terrorism and directly results in murders like this. |
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