Category: Anger

Ohio activists quash an anti-trans resolution in major victory for trans rights

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/10/ohio-activists-quash-anti-trans-resolution-major-victory-trans-rights/

I would again like to point out this is not about protecting kids, it is entirely political.   Look how often they attack Biden and the administration on a local school board issue.  This is being used by the republicans to rile up their base with misinformation and to hurt a group of kids they don’t like.     Hugs

“The anti-trans group was stunned.”
 
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: A supporter holds a sign that says "Support Trans Youth"
: A supporter holds a sign that says “Support Trans Youth” in Washington Square Park on the 8th Annual Trans Day of Action on June 22, 2012 in New York City. Photo: Shutterstock
 

In a victory for trans Ohioans, the Ohio State Board of Education decided to delay voting on an anti-trans resolution that would ban trans girls from women’s sports teams, force teachers to out trans students to their parents, and ban classroom discussions on LGBTQ issues in kindergarten through third grade.

The resolution was introduced by board member Brandon Shea and rejects a proposed rule from the Biden administration to apply Title IX anti-discrimination protections to LGBTQ students nationwide.

It aligns with a lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s proposal put forth by Ohio’s Republican Attorney General Dave Yost (along with other state attorneys general) and states that sex is an “unchangeable fact” and that “there are observable, quantifiable, and immutable differences between males and females.”

“Denying the reality of biological sex destroys foundational truths upon which education rests and irreparably damages children,” it declares.

 

The resolution blasted the Biden administration for “federal overreach” and criticized its assertion that schools who fail to adhere to gender anti-discrimination policies could lose federal funding for free and reduced lunch programs.

Activists, teachers, parents, students, and the like showed up in droves to testify against the resolution – after many in favor of it also spoke.

“The mental, emotional and psychological toll will be huge if it is passed because it takes away protections from the students who need those protections the most,” said Rev. Andrew Burns of the King Avenue United Methodist Church. “And I would be one of the people who would have to clean up the mess left behind.”

After four hours of public comments, trans rights won the day, and the board decided to delay a vote on the measure.

 

 

In a 12-7 vote, the board decided to send the resolution to an executive committee. Some board members believe it will probably die there, according to Cleveland.com. A softer version of the proposal will also reportedly be considered by the committee.

But the decision is still a huge victory.

Activist Erin Reed tweeted, “I can’t overstate how big a victory we just won in Ohio for trans people was. We got a boardroom full of Republican school officials to vote AGAINST moms for Liberty anti trans policies. The activists speeches objectively swayed things. The anti-trans group was stunned.”

 

Reed continued to explain that the vote shows that being anti-trans is becoming an extreme position, also praising Jon Stewart for his recent skewering of Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge (R) for the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for youth.

“The same arguments were repeated multiple times in the testimony,” Reed continued. “Ultimately though the credit goes to the activists who showed up. It was a pleasure to watch this and help mobilize from the VERY beginning. The fight isn’t over in Ohio. It isn’t over anywhere. but we won one for the kids today.”

Now that you have read the article I want to point out several things.   First l want you to look at the trans man in the video above.   This is a man.     However republicans want to force this man to use women’s restrooms.    For those women that say they would be uncomfortable knowing a trans person was using the same bathroom as they were, tell me you as a woman wouldn’t be uncomfortable seeing this man entering the female bathroom with you.  This is the problem first with judging gender on looks, and second this is the end result of the republicans anti-trans agenda.   Second the anti-trans people tried to make sure that they spoke first and took as many spots as they could, knowing that many board meetings have a time limit and they hoped to run out the clock so the trans positive people could speak.   Also notice that the anti-trans activists used lies, myths, debunked talking points, to the point of claiming that trans people simply did not exist.    They throw so much false misleading and wrong information out that as one of the people said it would take longer than the meeting like refute them all.   It is called a Gish gallop.  But what was nice was a real geneticist who destroyed the anti-trans arguments with scientific medical facts, not that the anti-trans people would ever listen to facts.   Below is the unrolled tweets from the story.   Hugs

 

Happening now… The waiting room is overflowing in Ohio as people pack the building in order to speak out against a policy that will force teachers to misgender Ohio trans students and ban them from bathrooms statewide.

A full waiting room

I know the people fighting on the ground. People like @CamomileOgden who have devoted so much to ensuring this doesn't go through.

Give 'em hell.

Watch live here:

https://ohiochannel.org/live/state-board-of-education

Unfortunately Moms 4 Liberty has shown up to this meeting, unlike last time where all speakers were against this policy.

We've already had two speakers propose that people shouldn't be able to transition up to 25 years old because of "brain development."

And now there's a teacher saying that trans youth are a sign that "society is in decay"

I'm being told that the Moms4Liberty folks snagged the first 20 spots, and then later spots will be heavily opposed to the measure.

Its still a nonstop stream of people speaking in favor of the resolution. Soon the flavor of speakers will change. There seems to have been some shenanigans in how approved speakers were handled.

We are finally getting to the speakers in opposition to the policy.

Man sitting at a table with a microphone holding a paper.

"We already know how this policy works… the state practiced this policy for years and it killed LGBTQ+ people."

Oh cool cool cool, now they are saying that "[transgenderism] is moral decay in our public institutions that is growing like a cancer spread by globalists."

Reverend Andrew Burns of the United Methodist Church is speaking passionately against the measure.

This girl is AMAZING and is making an economic argument for rejecting this bill. She’s so good! I missed her name.

Getting word that there has been a disturbance outside of the hearing and mood is tense. Many speakers are now effectively speaking against this policy. I hope to clip some later.

This trans man speaking is amazing. "I am a trans man. I WAS one of the students who would be affected by this policy."

"I'm here today for all the trans kids in Ohio who are not able to be here to speak up for themselves"

I'll get his name later when I clip.

man speaking at a table, trans flag colors

Amanda Erickson from Kaleidoscope Youth Center is AMAZING.

She's speaking on behalf of students who gave her quotes.

She says, "You are actively failing the students you have been elected and appointed to serve"

woman wearing trans flag colors speaking at a table

This geneticist is absolutely ripping the measure and teaching them about genetics and how there are hundreds of intersex conditions, and that "Sex is NOT binary"

Now a speaker is comparing trans acceptance to "Hitler youth"

🙄

Older lady speaking at a table

"gender confusion" is the most garbage transphobe dogwhistle.

We're not confused about our gender – YOU are.

Although early speakers were ALL in favor of the resolution, it has been a nonstop wall of those opposed.

This is great. People are speaking powerfully and persuasively.

Oh look who else it is! This woman also spoke in favor of the Ohio bill to detransition all trasn youth.

Her SON has transitioned and is now an adult, and is living away from her.

She's mad at that so she's trying to stop youth transition.

You can see the previous speaker when she spoke earlier this year.

Her son has repeatedly stated that he is trans and is an adult and does not support this.

The ever amazing Cam Ogden just spoke, I didn't get a screenshot of her, but she pointed out how so many lies have been spoken and debunking them would take all the time in the world, and how the board should take more time to address and research the truth. @CamomileOgden 💜

I will clip the 2 or 3 best moments a little bit later this evening and probably post them in separate posts as well as to my TikTok.

Young republican speaking out in favor by saying that Biden "changed title IX by executive order" (All he did was interpret gender, as title IX law does not provide such an interpretation)

But its particularly rich to see Republicans complaining of executive actions.

young man wearing a red tie

The mother of a trans former student:

"How can you say that trans students should be included when you say they don't even exist?"

woman wearing trans color and black shirt

Public testimony is over – they will proceed to vote this evening.

Please tell the Ohio Board of Education to protect trans kids, not force teachers to misgender them, and not to ban them from bathrooms of their gender.

@MirandaForEd
@Doc_CCollins

I feel good about Member Collins at least…

We are getting closer and closer to a vote that will determine the fate of so many trans students in Ohio…

School board members around a table.

Here we go…

They have moved to refer this motion back to committee (which would, for the time being, delay the motion for quite a while)

The vote on this motion has NOT happened yet. Lets hope this motion passes, if not then it will be outright voted on.

Sorry I want to be clear- they have MOVED to send it back to committee, but that motion must now be voted on. Its not a victory or defeat yet – lets see what happens with this vote.

"these kids exist… and there has been absolutely nothing said about what we can do for these kids."

– Member arguing to send this back to committee.

They are currently debating back and forth through parliamentary procedure and everything is kind of running into each other.

The Ohio Board of Education is completely trapped in a Roberts Rules loop.

We may get a vote from them in the next century.

THE OHIO BOARD OF EDUCATION HAS VOTED TO SEND THE PROPOSAL BACK TO COMMITTEE!

They have decided not, at this time, to force teachers to misgender their trans students and ban them from bathrooms.

Thank ALL the activists who did this.

Woman in yellow jacket sitting at a desk.

The vote to send back to committee was done 12-7.

I have clips coming of many moments today. Thank you all for following along.

Next stop – Virginia, where we must defeat a very similar proposal.

Originally tweeted by Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) on October 12, 2022.

Marjorie Taylor Greene defends the right to mock dead kids while her intern calls for blasphemy ban

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/10/marjorie-taylor-greene-defends-right-mock-dead-kids-intern-calls-blasphemy-ban/

The important part of this article is not what Marge Greene says about Alex Jones.   It is what her intern says about trashing the Bill of Rights and getting rid of the 1st amendment to create a theocracy.   He wants only Christians to be able to hold office, to have guns, and to be able to publish online.    Hugs

She defended Alex Jones while her intern called for “meaningful penalties for insulting, irreverent or contemptuous language about Our Lord.”
 
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Milo Yiannopoulos (l)/Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
Milo Yiannopoulos (l)/Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Photo: Screenshots
 

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is defending Infowars host Alex Jones in the wake of the nearly one billion dollar civil judgment against him for defamatory claims he made on his radio show about the parents of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, arguing that he is facing “political persecution.”

But while she argues that “freedom of speech” should allow Jones to avoid the consequences of defaming those kids’ parents – even as it inspired his followers to harass them and allegedly pee on the child victims’ graves – her most famous intern, Milo Yiannopoulos, is telling his followers on Telegram that the U.S. should ban blasphemy and “institute meaningful penalties for insulting, irreverent or contemptuous language about Our Lord.”

Yesterday a jury in Connecticut awarded $965 million to the parents of some of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting after Jones repeatedly claimed that the shooting was a hoax staged by actors.

One father of a six-year-old boy who was killed in the shooting said that Jones made his life a “living hell,” that his fans harassed him in the street, shot at his home and car, and made threats against him for years.

“As time went on, I truly realized how dangerous it was,” the father said during the civil trial. “My life has been threatened. I fear for my life, I fear for my safety.”

Greene was enraged that the jury would order Jones to pay damages in the defamation case.

“No matter what you think of Alex Jones all he did was speak words,” she tweeted yesterday after the verdict was announced. “He was not the one who pulled the trigger. Were his words wrong and did he apologize? Yes. That’s what freedom of speech is. Freedom to speak words. Political persecution must end.”

“I legitimately thought it might have been staged, and I stand by that, and I don’t apologize for it,” Jones said during the trial.

While Greene was arguing for such an expansive definition of free speech that includes immunity for deliberate defamation, someone from her office was saying that the U.S. should ban free speech when it comes to criticism of religion and God.

“Christian nationalism will succeed only if we are honest about the profound structural failures in the American system, and are prepared to do something about them,” Greene’s intern, Yiannopoulos – who identifies as ex-gay – wrote on the rightwing social media platform Telegram. “This will involve the commission of some pretty gigantic offenses against ‘American conservatism.’ For a start, we must be prepared to say that the Constitution and Bill of Rights are hopelessly broken, because of course they are.”

“You will know America is serious about saving itself, and that it has absorbed the scale of the undertaking, when you see a president adding his signature to revivified blasphemy laws, which will prevent the open promotion of sedition, institute meaningful penalties for insulting, irreverent or contemptuous language about Our Lord, and moreover restore to general society an understanding that words matter, they carry consequences, and they may not be capriciously and arbitrarily redefined by mentally unstable graffiti artists with PhDs,” he wrote.

“The wide disputational berth granted by the First Amendment and the destructive potentialities of the Second are privileges that can only be granted to Christians…. No other belief system produces individuals capable of responsibly wielding such daunting, awesome freedoms.”

“You cannot grant these powers to the citizenry without also requiring that every elected official and federal employee is a churchgoing Christian and that the nation explicitly identifies itself with Jesus Christ and governs in a manner informed by the Church,” he wrote.

“I ruined my knees in my 20s. Not through prayer, as if you had to ask. I think about this every day when I pray now, and I am disgusted by it.”

While Greene has not made such an extreme statement against freedom of speech for non-Christians, she, like Yiannopoulos, has vocally defended Christian nationalism, the idea that the U.S. should be a Christian nation and that the government should give Christianity a privileged position in politics.

“We need to be the party of nationalism and I’m a Christian, and I say it proudly, we should be Christian nationalists,” Greene said last month.

 

Trashin’ Alabama for Three Straight Minutes

Republicans Tried To Impeach Biden Every 45 Days Since He Took Office

In the first 21 months of the Biden administration, Republicans in the House have introduced articles of impeachment a record-breaking 14 times – with a third of those coming from Marjorie Taylor Greene. This averages out to one impeachment attempt every 45 days, and not one single time have Republicans been able to identify a single “crime” that Biden may have committed. Farron Cousins discusses this.

*This transcript was auto-generated. Please excuse any typos. President Biden has been President Biden for 21 months now, and during those 21 months, republicans in the House of Representatives have introduced 14 different impeachment resolutions against either Biden or members of his administration. But either way, we’re talking about 14 different articles of impeachment against Biden because even the underlings, it all leads back to Biden in these people’s minds, which means if we do the math, you know, estimate 30 days per month, 21 months, divide by 14, you end up with an even 45. So 45 days every 45 days since President Biden has been sworn in. And that’s not even accurate. I’ll get to that in a moment. But every 45 days on average, they have filed a new set of articles of impeachment, all of which of course have gone absolutely nowhere. Now, as I said, it’s not exactly accurate to say that all of these have been filed since his inauguration because, uh, the first one by Marjorie Taylor Green herself, she actually introduced that in committee at the time, uh, on January 3rd, like I think it was her first day in office, she put forward a resolution to impeach a guy that hadn’t even been sworn in yet. So it hasn’t been since January 20th, It was actually since January 3rd, because on her first day she’s like, I’m gonna do this and totally prove I’m not crazy to everybody. So here’s what has happened. Um, this is from Axios House Republicans mostly, but not all members of the right wing Freedom Caucus have introduced a staggering 14 impeachment resolution since January 3rd, 2021. Biden has been the target of nine two have been aimed at Attorney General Merrick Garland and one each against Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Anthony Lincoln and Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro, Me Orcas Marjorie Taylor Green has introduced five five of the 14. So we’re, we’re talking about a third of these articles of impeachment filed just by Marjorie Taylor Green. Marjorie Taylor Green, who by the way recently confirmed an attack from Adam Kininger saying that she will absolutely try to impeach President Biden every single week when Republicans take back the House of Representatives. And they’re not kidding. Like that’s the worst part about all of this. They’re not kidding. They’ve tried 14 times to impeach Biden or his administration officials in 21 months because they got nothing better to do because they think, Oh, we’re gonna pop him on this crime. Listen, if Biden Committed a crime, I would be right there with you saying let’s impeach him. And I actually have history, by the way, to back me up on that, because prior to Donald Trump’s first impeachment, prior to that, we had Democrats that were out there actually trying to impeach him for, for stupid things. As I said at the time, over at Ring of Fire, I said, No, I did videos saying this is stupid. I don’t support this because you do not have evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors. So that’s my evidence to say, Listen, I’m all for impeachment. If somebody has done something worth impeaching, I don’t care if it’s Republican, democrat, if it’s a good impeachment, if they, you got evidence of crimes, do it. If you don’t, shut the hell up and move on. And that’s unfortunately where we should be at with impeaching President Biden or any of these other administration officials. Y’all are coming at with absolute nonsense, just the dumbest things you could imagine. Um, what sh most recently, by the way, Marjorie Taylor Green Week and a half ago introduced new articles of impeachment, uh, against Biden for selling oil from the strategic petroleum reserve to foreign nations, which yes, for those paying attention, Donald Trump actually did that too. But she wants to impeach Biden for doing something he’s legally allowed to do. Yeah, we’re, we’re not exactly dealing with, you know, the brightest bunch out there. But don’t worry if Republicans win back the house, it’s about to get a hell of a lot stupider than it is right now. And that is saying a lot.

Two dead, one injured in gay bar shooting by extremist

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/10/2-dead-1-injured-national-leaders-condemn-unprecedented-shooting-gay-bar/

This statement says it all, clearly and you have to ask why politicians and religious leaders are allowed to do this?  The local LGBTQ group called the attack “the result of a long and systematic campaign against them by state officials, churches, and extremist groups.”    “A heinous act of a radicalized individual can happen at any time, but it is a testament to the time and society who he chooses to target his attack,” the group wrote. “The fact that he has chosen LGBTI people is the result of a long and systematic campaign against them by state officials, churches, and extremist groups.”  Hugs

The local LGBTQ group called the attack “the result of a long and systematic campaign against them by state officials, churches, and extremist groups.”
 
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Slovakia, gay bar shooting, two dead
Photo: Shutterstock
 

Two people died and one was injured in a Wednesday night shooting at a gay bar called Teplaren in Slovakia’s capital city of Bratislava.

The suspected shooter was found dead the following morning. While police haven’t released details about the shooter’s identity or suspected motive, Slovakian media said that he had posted messages on Twitter using the phrases “hate crime,” “gay bar,” and aired anti-Semitic views, Express reported.

On Facebook, local LGBTQ Pride group Dúhový Pride Bratislava named the victims who died (two young people named Matus and Juraj) as well as the injured person (Radka). The group also expressed shock about the shooting, calling it “unprecedented in the history of our community.”

“A heinous act of a radicalized individual can happen at any time, but it is a testament to the time and society who he chooses to target his attack,” the group wrote. “The fact that he has chosen LGBTI people is the result of a long and systematic campaign against them by state officials, churches, and extremist groups.”

The group called on the government to take steps to condemn and make systemic reform to prevent such violence in the future. It has also organized a “march to condemn hatred against the LGBTI community” with four other allied organizations. Local police will provide security for the event.

In a public statement, Slovakian Prime Minister Eduard Heger said, “I strongly condemn yesterday’s attack in which two people died… It is unacceptable that anyone should fear for their life because of the way they live.”

 

Slovakia has anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people, allows queer citizens to serve in its military, allows people to change the gender on their government documents, and recognizes same-sex marriages that occur elsewhere in the European Union (EU). However, the nation has no hate crime laws, does not recognize same-sex marriages that occur within its borders, nor does it allow adoption or surrogate births for same-sex couples.

According to a 2019 study by the Pew Research Center, only 44 percent of Slovaks consider homosexuality to be acceptable in society. This places Slovakia well below the EU average in terms of social acceptance of LGBTQ people. These attitudes have been influenced by neighboring anti-LGBTQ nations like Poland as well as by the influential Slovakian Catholic church.

 
 

Animal rescue gets death threats after drag queen reads to dogs

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/10/animal-rescue-gets-death-threats-drag-queen-reads-dogs/

I hope this shows everyone how these anti-drag queen haters are not doing this to protect kids, they are doing this to enforce a mistaken idea of what gender roles they feel must be enforced regardless of how others do not agree.   We have progressed as a society enough to know that the stereotype of gender roles is not only stupid but based only on the idea that men should control women.   Seriously there are religious preachers getting furious that women might wear pants or other things considered men’s clothing.   Why?   Also these same preachers / people go crazy over men / boys wearing what they think are women’s clothing.   Yet that ignores that until the 20th century boys and girls both wore dresses until about 10 or 11 years old.   Until the boys started to go through puberty.   It was done for a lot of reasons, and it was seen as a boy growing up and becoming a man to graduate to knee length shorts.    I wonder how many boys would rather have kept the freedom and ease of wearing dresses.   I also think that these people stuck on what each gender should be allowed to wear forget history where men wore wigs and before that togas and other non-pants dress.    Frankly clothing has no sex / gender.   Clothing is just fabric and it is simply stupid to get upset by the idea that one piece of fabric can be worn only by one sex / gender.    The real discussion to have is in a civilized society how much modesty should be required by each sex / gender.   For example why are men allowed to go shirtless in society and women are not just because their breasts are bigger, well sometimes bigger.  I live in a Florida trailer park and there are retired large old men whose breasts are larger than a lot of women’s.  Really that is simply sexist and makes no sense.    If a woman wants to walk around topless why shouldn’t see be allowed to do so.   it is not her responsibility to control others, they have a duty to control themselves.   And don’t say that kids shouldn’t see her breasts.  Why?   They see men’s breasts all the time.    It is a social convention that needs to go bye bye.   Breasts exist, kids know people have them, they are not dirty or harmful, but we tell kids they shouldn’t ever see them.  Why.   See how some sexist old fashion out of date stereotypes of male and female dressing makes no sense?   This is nothing more than the Christian Taliban mentality.    Are women in the US going to be required to wear burkas?   Think of the dress code for Amish women and ask, does it make them a better person or does it simply make their daily lives harder. The fact is these thugs are attempting to use lies along with threats of violence to shut down a legal completely non-sexual event because they want to rule what is allowed in society and what is banned.    If you don’t do what these people want they will hurt you.    That is the message they are delivering.   Well is that a democracy?   Is that a civilized civil society for the 21st century?    This is what the right wing media and republican governors like DeathSantis are promoting and inspiring.  “You guys are total f**king scumbags … You sick f**ks secretly WANT to sexualize little kids because deep down you’re twisted and demented pedos who really really want to f**k kids,” one message said. “I seriously hope that the next workplace shooting occurs at our organization and snuffs out everyone who approved of this. Maybe then our children will be safe from predators like you.”  For reading stories to dogs by a man dressed in a costume.   Have they seen the outfits that clergy dress in?     Hugs

“I seriously hope that the next workplace shooting occurs at our organization and snuffs out everyone who approved of this,” one threat read.
 
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dog with rainbow flag
Photo: Shutterstock
 

A dog shelter is receiving death threats because it had a drag queen read books to dogs.

On September 24, the Hard Knocks Rescue & Training facility of Huntsville, Alabama had a drag queen named Miss Majesty Divine read to the dogs in its care.

Chaya Raichik, who goes by LibsofTikTok on social media, posted an article that sought to generate outrage about the event. Video of the live-streamed event — which had only one child in its in-person crowd — showed the drag queen reading Walter the Farting Dog: Banned from the Beach and making innuendo comments about men liking “meat” and “big bones.”

After Raichik published her article, the dog shelter began receiving violent threats. Her posts, which regularly accuse LGBTQ people of “grooming” children for sexual abuse, have inspired death threats against drag performers, educators, and healthcare providers.

James Miller, the drag performer who read to the dogs, has since been put on paid leave from his job as a teacher in the Huntsville School District after Raichik’s post. He has said the jokes he made weren’t any worse than the innuendo that has appeared in children’s cartoons.

“You guys are total f**king scumbags … You sick f**ks secretly WANT to sexualize little kids because deep down you’re twisted and demented pedos who really really want to f**k kids,” one message said. “I seriously hope that the next workplace shooting occurs at our organization and snuffs out everyone who approved of this. Maybe then our children will be safe from predators like you.”

The shelter also began getting bad reviews on its Google and Facebook pages.

In a video responding to the threats, the shelter owners said, “We’re not backing down on what we do…. We know this is a risk, but it is the right side of things to be on.”

They also said they had reported the threats to the police and FBI but would continue to operate as they usually do.

“We are being very careful about security,” they continued. “We understand that this is a scary situation. It’s a scary situation. For us. It’s a scary situation for our volunteers, and it’s probably going to make a lot of our clients uncomfortable as well.”

They also noted that Miss Majesty Divine had helped them fundraise and host story hour events at their shelter in the past. The books read during the event focus on “inclusion, acceptance, being authentic, being comfortable in your own skin,” they added.

“Our mission is to focus on the outcast dogs, the underdogs, the dogs that nobody wants to work with,” they said. “The people that we kind of gravitate to and pull into our circle are the people who have always felt pushed out.”

One of the owners also said that they knew what it was like to feel marginalized because they grew up with a gay father during the 1980s.

“To have had a place to go and activities that we could have gone to together as a family that also encompassed other things that we liked, would have been life-changing for me,” one owner said.

The shelter also said it wants to begin a program to help at-risk LGBTQ youth work with dogs so they can both “heal together.”

“We would rather be excluded for those we include that included for those we exclude,”  the nonprofit’s CEO Lisa Maasen said.

At Least 20 Cultists Now Spreading “Litter Boxes” Lies

At Least 20 Cultists Now Spreading “Litter Boxes” Lies

Again this is a made up myth, a lie repeated to attack trans kids and to mock allowing trans gender kids to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with.   This is done so these republicans don’t get called bigots.   An attack by proxy.   The truth is their base, the people in their party understand what it is about and glory in the hate.   That is what these kind of people do.  Trans people and trans kids do not harm them.   The majority of major medical associations support affirmative gender care for trans

kids which includes full medical work ups, mental health exams, social transitioning, puberty blockers when needed, hormone therapy when needed, and finally when old enough and sure of the gender intensity sexual reassignment.   That cannot be argued by the anti-haters that want to use the fringe skeptic doctors and fake studies to pretend the hate they spread is correct.   Just like vaccine deniers and Covid hoax fringe claimants.    The truth is the major medical organizations have looked at the issue and have formed best practices, and until they change their minds the haters can stay silent with their lies.    Hugs

NBC News reports:

At a luncheon for Republican women in Mesa County, Colorado, last week, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., warned that educators “are putting litter boxes in schools for people who identify as cats.” The week before, on Sept. 29, Minnesota GOP gubernatorial nominee Scott Jensen asked during a campaign stop, “Why do we have litter boxes in some of the school districts so kids can pee in them, because they identify as a furry?”

At least 20 conservative candidates and elected officials have claimed this year that K-12 schools are placing litter boxes on campus or making other accommodations for students who identify as cats, according to an NBC News review of public statements. In Colorado, GOP gubernatorial nominee Heidi Ganahl insisted in several recent interviews that students were dressing and identifying as cats, disrupting class, and the state’s schools were tolerating it.

Read the full article.

Lestat  4 hours ago

How pathetic. The litter is there for terrified students who are locked in during a school murder spree. And now it’s spun into a filthy lie to use against another vulnerable group.

MartyP  4 hours ago

Cat litter can be used to soak up vomit. Not uncommon to have it around for many things at a school. We never had cats growing up, but always had some kitty litter to soak up oil or other car fluids in the garage (Dad was a mechanic).

Ty • 2 hours ago

How would GED Boebert know – its not like she is familiar with anything school related

Philly Mike 🐸 Ty • 2 hours ago

She has an honorary Phd in being a loud broad with a Glock and isn’t that really what matters.

Mike P • 2 hours ago

Why can’t the media call out these Republicans as the FUCKING LIARS they are.

KarenAtFOH Mike P • 2 hours ago

Can’t have a proper horserace if one side is wrong.

Todd20036 • 4 hours ago

Trans people will be the first ones marched into the camps. Followed by gay men

worstcultever • 4 hours ago

After all this time – why on earth isn’t there some prominent, loud, rapid response entity to debunk the fuck out of this shit before it literally drowns us to death in mass mental illness?

What happened to that Jersey girl (e.g.) who was briefly tweeting for the WH and slew all kinds of crapola in single deft snarky strokes?

Why, why, WHY do we allow this poison to go unanswered?????!!!!!

The_Wretched worstcultever • 3 hours ago • edited

Clearchannel and sinclair own everything. Professor Senator Warren has monopoly break up plans. All of them are needed to restore democracy.

Lestat worstcultever • 4 hours ago

That ship sailed with the death of mass media. There was a time when Walter Cronkite could go on television and, for better or worse, be believed by the vast majority of people. Now we are utterly beholden to the rumor mill and the “social media” profiteers who depend on it.

Random Observer Lestat • 2 hours ago

This. Decentralization of “truth” means that you get a bunch of cheap hacks, rather than a few experts.. In one way, it was an unintended consequence of cutting the cord..

Kevin Perez • 4 hours ago

There is no way to publicly humiliate these losers because their echo chambers have become so large that they never see the rest of us pointing and laughing at them.

April Smith • 4 hours ago

Since EVERYONE carries a phone (with a camera) you would think we’d have “proof” of all these furry litterboxes at schools by now.

SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad • 4 hours ago • edited

The right has for years (Tea Party anyone?) interrupted town halls and other candidate and representative events. We need to put them into defensive put up or shut up mode.

“Miss Politician, can you, within 24 hours provide concrete proof of these litter boxes for students who identify as cats. The school address, classroom, etc. If you cannot, do you agree to resign from office, as we cannot trust you to make intelligent decisions for your constituents if you promote such a laughable claim with zero evidence.”

Paula • 4 hours ago

At school, I will occasionally see see student, usually a girl, wearing those slip on cat ears. They are just being silly teenagers, there’s nothing to it. I guess they will be banning those now.

SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad kaydenpat • 4 hours ago

And as we laugh at the lies and the media reports, no one is talking about negotiating drug prices, yesterday’s stock market surge, DeSantis being sued, Trump’s deposition in the defamation case, etc. etc.

Its a very intentional strategy.

Bruce_in_Mpls • 4 hours ago

Isn’t it time we started banning musicals?

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Bob from CT • 4 hours ago

In this day and age when everyone can take photos and record videos on
their phones why isn’t there visual evidence of at least one school
litter box? You’d think some disgruntled custodian who has to dispose of
the waste and refill the box with clean litter would have already been a
special guest on Tucker.

DmR • 4 hours ago

Where are the photos of kids going doo-doo in the litter box? I’m sure one of those kids woulda taken one and posted it on F-book!

Ed B • 4 hours ago

Cat litter is also good for keeping in your trunk in case of snow. For traction.

But I digress…

Anti-LGBTQ activists protest after being enraged at Disney-themed drag event

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/10/anti-lgbtq-activists-protest-enraged-disney-themed-drag-event/

The right has tried hard to equate drag shows with sexual orgies.   They have convinced a lot of people that drag shows are the same as strip shows.   Drag shows are not trans gender events either.   Drag shows, doing drag is simply dress up role playing.   It is no different than Halloween.    The right loves to demonize anything they dislike or cannot understand.   One last point.    Dragging your kids to a hate protest where you are screaming and saying nasty things about a group of people is indoctrination and grooming them to hate.   If these parents don’t want their children to go to drag show events then don’t take them there, but don’t try to deny parents who do want their kids to see them and enjoy them their parental rights to grant their permission.   You raise your kids, don’t try to force others to live by your hatreds.   These people want to force everyone to have their views of things, their idea of right and wrong, they don’t care that others disagree with them.   They don’t care about the many parents and others that know these events are just good fun, but they want to rule over others and force everyone to live by their views.    Hugs

Some protestors carried signs that read “No drag shows inviting our kids” about the family-friendly event.
 
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Anti-LGBTQ parents, community activists, and school board candidates protest the Boo Bash.
Anti-LGBTQ parents, community activists, and school board candidates protest the Boo Bash. Photo: Screenshot
 

A group of around 60 people gathered in Encinitas, California earlier this week to protest a family-friendly queer Halloween event.

TransFamily Support Services’ Boo Bash first made waves late last month when a flyer for the event appeared on the Encinitas Union School District’s community events platform, Peachjar. The flyer describes Boo Bash as “the queerest free Halloween party for youth and families,” and promises games, trick-or-treating, a costume contest, and a family-friendly drag show.

Parents reportedly took issue with the event, specifically the drag show and some of Boo Bash’s sponsors, which include Fabulous Hillcrest, Rich’s San Diego, SD Loyals, North County LGBTQ Center, and San Diego Pride. An earlier version of the flyer also listed Align Surgical Associates, which provides gender-affirming care, as a sponsor.

“A lot of people are just generally not comfortable with the idea of pushing drag queen shows on little kids but separate and apart from that I think the biggest concern with this event are the sponsors,” said Paul Jonna, an attorney who says he was contacted by concerned parents. “We submitted a public records request to find out more about their involvement, their communication with these sponsors and sort of this event.”

Parents, community activists, and school board candidates gathered Tuesday evening outside the Encinitas Union School District’s headquarters to protest the event.

“It is very clear what the agenda is,” said Joleene Burts, who home schools her children. “It is not a family-friendly event and the district is lying to our children and these are our children.”

According to a September statement from the school district, Boo Bash is a “non-district event” and all digital flyers distributed through Peachjar feature a disclaimer noting that “distribution of this flyer does not imply endorsement by the Encinitas Union School District.”

But TransFamily Support Services director Kathie Moehlig told San Diego’s NBC7 that the flyer would not have been delivered to Encinitas parents via Peachjar if the district had not approved it. The frequently asked questions section of the platform’s website clearly states that flyers submitted to Peachjar by community organizations are “routed to the appropriate school district(s) for approval.”

On Tuesday, the district released a statement claiming the flyer had been removed from the platform three weeks ago because it did not meet approval criteria.

Moehling said that the flyer remains on the Peachjar sites of four other schools. She also dismisses the idea that Boo Bash’s Disney-themed drag show is inappropriate for kids.

“These drag queens are going to be performing a Disney villain show and they are going to be dressed appropriately to Disney villain themes, just as you would see any other entertainer wear who is doing entertainment for young children,” she said.

Despite the protest, Moehling said that Boo Bash will take place as scheduled on October 29.

“We’re not going to back down from doing what we know is right and appropriate to support these youth and their families, just because some people think they can use it as their mega piece to get talking points and get attention,” she told KGTV in September.

 
 

GOP Senate candidate Adam Laxalt said Democrats want to “indoctrinate kids” into being transgender

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/10/gop-senate-candidate-said-democrats-want-indoctrinate-kids-transgender/

This guy has a long history of hating the LGBTQ+ community.   He hates gays and trans people for some reason and doesn’t even bother to understand what being trans is.  Worse he doesn’t understand that what these don’t say gay bills do is not stop gender indoctrination from happening in schools, but it makes sure that only cis gender is accepted, and that only straight orientation is seen.   The object of these bills is to deny gays, lesbians, and trans people / kids exist.   By not letting it be talked about or married same sex teacher show their spouse they are telling the kids that it is bad to be gay, lesbian, or trans and it is bad to be in a same sex marriage.   By removing the books about gay, lesbian, and trans kids from libraries the kids are denied seeing people in stories that feel and are like themselves.   It is an attempt to wipe the LGBTQ+ from society.   But it won’t make kids stop being gay or having gender identities different from the born gender assignment.   Kids were born gay long before positive stories about gay people were written or positive gay characters in movies.   Same with gender identities.   These things are inborn, you are born with sexual orientation and gender understanding, they are not something you can get from others, it is not a disease, it is not caused by sexual abuse or reading about it in a book.    Hugs

“Why in the world are they fighting so hard for the ability to indoctrinate kids?” Adam Laxalt said of LGBTQ opponents of the Don’t Say Gay law.
 
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Adam Laxalt
Adam LaxaltPhoto: Gage Skidmore
 

Republican Senate candidate Adam Laxalt of Nevada is getting attention online for comments he made earlier this year about how LGBTQ people want to “indoctrinate” young children with “transgenderism in kindergarten” during a discussion of child sex abuse.

Laxalt appeared on the Breitbart News podcast on March 31 and the host brought up the conservative accusation that Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is “soft on child predators.” Laxalt responded by bringing up Florida’s Don’t Say Gay bill, which banned discussions of gender identity and sexual orientation in younger grades and restricted such discussions in older grades.

“I mean, why in the world are they fighting so hard for the ability to indoctrinate kids from age, kindergarten to third grade?” Laxalt asked. “Why are they fighting – I should say – against this bill if it were not because they want to be able to indoctrinate kids at these ages?”

He said that there “can’t be virtually any parents that would actually support the indoctrination, by strangers, of their children in schools,” referring to learning about diverse groups of people.

“And so, you know, kudos to DeSantis for signing this bill,” Laxalt concluded. “And then for going on offense.”

The Las Vegas Review-Journal asked Laxalt’s campaign about his comments and a campaign spokesperson said he was referring to “transgenderism in kindergarten.”

The spokesperson said that Laxalt’s opponent, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), “should be explaining to Nevada parents why she has cozied up to fringe elements of her own party who push transgenderism in kindergarten.”

“Cortez Masto sides with the most vile elements of the radical left as they continue poisoning our education system,” the spokesperson said.

“We will not hide like the millions of those who came before us, who would be arrested for being gay, beaten and killed or given electroshock therapy,” Gender Justice executive director Sy Bernabei said in response to Laxalt’s positions. “No matter how much you try to break us, invalidate us and terrorize us, we will prevail.”

Laxalt has a long history of opposing LGBTQ equality. In 2018, HRC Nevada pointed out that Laxalt had an “obsession with attacking the LGBTQ community.”

This obsession included a 2014 statement against marriage equality and opposition to LGBTQ people serving openly in the military. In a 2010 op-ed, he wrote, “Senior officers and non-commissioned officers will have to, under the color of Military Law, proactively endorse and eventually foster homosexuality.”

RealClearPolitics shows Laxalt and Cortez Masto neck-and-neck in the election, with Laxalt averaging a 1.7-point lead in recent polling.

 

GOP Senate candidate demands schools notify parents if their kids identify as chipmunks

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/10/gop-senate-candidate-demands-schools-notify-parents-kids-identify-chipmunks/

The republicans know it is false, but they believe if they keep saying it the people will believe it.   

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”   Joseph Goebbels

The republican candidates know their base won’t bother to fact check, they won’t hear it is a lie because right wing media won’t tell them the truth, and they want to believe it because it is in reality an attack on trans people with using the word trans.  They make up stuff show that they are anti-trans.   Think of the lies they are telling.  Kids pooping and peeing in classrooms?  Rogan said that a teacher was using a litter box in the front of the classroom?    Let’s think this through, a teacher whips out his junk in front of kids and still has a job?  Can’t say gay or discuss gender but showing your genitals is okay?   If these people would just think about what they are saying, they would see how stupid it is.    Hugs

JD Vance said it’s “crazy” that 7-year-olds are identifying as chipmunks in school and going by “Fido” and he’s “entitled to know” about it as a parent.
 
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J. D. Vance speaking with attendees at the 2021 Southwest Regional Conference hosted by Turning Point USA at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, Arizona.
J. D. Vance speaking at a Turning Point USA in Phoenix, Arizona. Photo: Gage Skidmore
 

Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance appears to agree that it’s “crazy” that schools are putting out litter boxes for students to defecate in and that kids are being allowed to act like chipmunks in schools.

Vance is just the latest Republican to publicly say that he believes in one of the most bizarre urban legends to gain popularity this year: that students who call themselves furries are demanding that schools provide them litterboxes and let them act like animals in schools.

Vance was on The Bill Cunningham Show – a Christian talk radio show – this past Wednesday when the host brought up student-furries.

“There are some students identifying as cats and they bring kitty litter with them to school,” Cunningham said. “Some identify as dogs and they have to be called Fido and ‘little pussycats’ instead of human beings.”

“One of the worst things is, if they do not use the proper preferred nouns and pronouns of other students, K through the 12th grade, schools will be required to socially transition using child-selected names and pronouns in school,” he continued.

“Minor kids like yours J.D. Vance will not be notified if your child wants to socially transition to a different gender or to an animal species,” he said. “Should you be entitled to know if your seven-year-old identifies as a chipmunk?”

Instead of telling Cunningham that his question was ridiculous, Vance took it seriously: “Uh, I think I’m very much entitled to know that. What a crazy point we’ve reached in this country, Willie, where schools are doing this stuff without the approval of parents.”

Vance then said that he supported Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ (R) Don’t Say Gay law, saying that it bans books that “are sexually explicit material that propagandizes and encourages children to take different identities and to engage in sexually explicit acts.”

The Don’t Say Gay law did not ban pornography in schools, it banned discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity in younger grades and severely restricted such discussions in older grades. And despite outlandish statements about schools handing out pornography to children, conservatives haven’t been able to point to any examples of schools actually stocking porn for students to use.

Vance is facing Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) this November in the general election. The seat is open after Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) announced that he would not be seeking reelection this year. RealClearPolitics’s average of recent polls shows that the two candidates are neck-and-neck in the race with Vance averages a 0.8% lead.

Vance is just the latest Republican to say that they believe in the bizarre myth of student-furries running amuck in schools. The myth has disrupted schools across the country and forced them to respond to angry parents who believe that this is happening, all while no one is able to provide any proof that this supposedly widespread phenomenon is actually happening.

Just this week, popular conservative radio host Joe Rogan told former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii that he knows someone who knows someone who said that a school had a student who is a furry and that they had to put a litter box in the restroom for her.

“So this girl goes into the litter room or to the girl’s room and urinates or whatever — I don’t know if she poops in it, that’s pretty gross,” he said.

“That’s the worst thing in the world about owning cats, you gotta clean that box of piss every day,” Rogan continued.  “Imagine how f**king crazy that is. You’re a human and you prefer a litter box? You want to piss into a pile of sand rather than use a bathroom, flush a toilet, wipe yourself, like a normal person. Like, you’re so crazy with what you think an animal is that not only have you said this, but you’ve conned the school into putting this f**king litter box in a girl’s room. That’s just bananas.”

An early example of the stories about students identifying as house pets and demanding litter boxes was Michigan activist Lisa Hansen. Because Hansen opposed federal regulations allowing trans students to use school restrooms matching their gender identities, she claimed that students who identify as cats were allowed to use litter boxes in one school’s unisex restroom.

A Michigan school superintendent was forced to write an email to parents debunking such a lie. An Oregon public school district superintendent was also forced to send a similar email after one social media user claimed that furries were wearing leashes and being petted by other students at local schools.

Nevertheless, the lie has been repeated by right-wingers, including by Nebraska Sen. Bruce Bostelman (R).

During a televised debate, Bostelman claimed that student “furries” were allowed to interact with teachers by meowing and barking. He also said that one student who was denied a litter box later defecated on a classroom floor. Bostelman later admitted that the story wasn’t true.

It has been spread online by anti-LGBTQ activists like Chaya Raichik of LibsofTikTok, when she pushed a lie that a second-grade Texas schoolteacher encouraged students to become furries. The Austin school district disavowed the claim as misinformation.

Similarly, Christian hate pastor Aaron Thompson and anti-LGBTQ televangelist Andrew Wommack both said that schools allow students to identify as animals and demand litter boxes in classrooms. Michigan Republican Party Co-Chair Meshawn Maddock also repeated the lie, as did Heidi Ganahl, the Republican candidate for governor of Colorado. She claimed that student “furries” are identifying as cats in over 30 different schools in the state.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has claimed that a father in Michigan told her that his son got into trouble when he stepped on the tail of a student who identified as a furry.

Reuters published a fact check in July that said there is “no evidence of them disrupting classrooms or schools developing a policy of including them as a formal identity.”