Category: Bigotry
Human Rights Groups Seek to Overturn Ban on Puberty Blockers | RE: The Cass Review
I have been following Ethel for years. In this very short for her video she points out more mistakes of the Cass Review, the preformed biases, and the sneaky way the outgoing government managed to implement a ban on puberty blockers without following the laws. I know a lot of TERFS and other anti-trans people love to claim the UK is seeing the truth and banning trans care, but that is not the truth. Just like in the US, there are groups including political groups using everything they can to make it harder, but now the rest of the country is fighting back hard and getting treatment reinstituted. Just like the book banners in the US are now being pushed back and books being put back on shelves, trans care for minors is happening in the UK. Hugs. Scottie
Buttigieg Defends Pride Flags: They Symbolize Love, Flag Flown By The Alitos Is “Insurrectionist Symbology”
What people don’t understand about these fundamentalist Christians is they don’t accept the rights and feelings of anyone else. They are the maximum in selfishness. They cry rivers about their feelings not being respected, such as Jordon Peterson claiming it hurt him to use a person’s preferred pronoun, but he couldn’t give a shit about the pain of the misgendered person he just insulted. The Alito’s are the same, their feelings are very important and must be respected. But not yours, not anyone who disagrees with them, those people are to be disregarded entirely. Hugs. Scottie
“I’m often reminded that the most important thing in my life – which is my marriage, and my family and the two beautiful children that my husband Chasten and I are raising – that that marriage only exists by the grace of the single vote on the United States Supreme Court. That expanded our rights and freedoms back in 2015 and made it possible for somebody like me to get married.
“And, you know, Supreme Court justices have an unbelievable amount of power and – by the nature in the structure, the Supreme Court – there’s no supervision over that power. They are entrusted with it literally for as long as they live. And part of that trust is we expect them to enter into those enormously consequential decisions that that shape our everyday lives with a sense of fairness.
“I also hope that most Americans can understand the difference between a flag that symbolizes you know, love and acceptance and signals to people who have sometimes feared for their safety that they’re going to be okay – and insurrectionists symbology, I’ll just leave it at that.” – Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg, on Martha-Ann Alito’s condemnation of “shameful” Pride flags.
The cult is raging.
Moms For Liberty Chapter Convinces Florida County School Board To Ban Kids Book About Banning Books
Why are we letting a few off the rails people ruin everything for the rest of us normal people. Can anyone tell me why these people are making decisions for everyone else kids when they don’t have children on those schools, that go to those libraries, or are in public office? See how they act behind the scenes to get a law past to “protect the children” so they can then exploit them to push their fundamentalist extreme agenda on everyone. I hate this. We need to find a way to fight back. Hugs. Scottie
The Guardian reports:
A book about book bans has been banned in a Florida school district. Ban This Book, a children’s book written by Alan Gratz, will no longer be available in the Indian River county school district since the school board voted to remove the book last month.
Gratz’s book, which came out in 2017, follows fourth-grader Amy Anne Ollinger as she tries to check out her favorite book. Ollinger is told by the librarian she cannot, because it was banned after a classmate’s parent thought it was inappropriate.
In a peculiar case of life imitating art, Jennifer Pippin, a parent in the coastal community, challenged the book. Pippin is also the chair of the local Moms for Liberty chapter, a far-right organization that has been behind many of the book bans that have swept across the US in recent years.
The Tallahassee Democrat reports:
Gratz, its author, called the Indian River County decision “incredibly ironic.” “They banned the book because it talks about the books that they have banned and because it talks about book banning,” he said in an interview. “It feels like they know exactly what they’re doing and they’re somewhat ashamed of what they’re doing and they don’t want a book on the shelves that calls them out.”
Board members Jacqueline Rosario and Gene Posca, who voted in the majority, were backed by Moms for Liberty during their campaigns, according to Treasure Coast Newspapers. The third “yes” vote came from Kevin McDonald, who was recently appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
“The title itself and the theme challenges our authority. And it even goes so far as to not only to mention books that are deemed inappropriate by school boards, including ours, it not only mentions them but it lists them,” McDonald said.
As you’ll see in the many tweets below, Ms. Pippin is as batshit crazy as you’d expect. She last appeared here in March 2023 when she successfully pressured the same school board to ban a book about a Holocaust survivor.
The laughable thing about all this is that they literally (see what I did there?) do not understand the IRONY of banning a book about banning books.
It’s true it’s ironic, to those of us on the outside. But according to the DeSantis appointee to the board, they felt the need to ban the book because it challenged their authority! So they have a completely political agenda, having nothing to do with religion or morality. One wonders if they will next ban the local newspaper that wrote about this incident.
And yet they shrug their shoulders if kids are mowed down with an assault rifle
Nope. They just blame liberals, gays, liberals, trans, liberals, Mexicans, liberals, atheists, liberals…
…..challenges our authority.
Yep. That’s it. That’s exactly it.
Fucking moronic 🤡
Example A in why books like these are necessary and appropriate for kids.
The idea of authority for its own sake deserves ridicule and disobedience.
Likewise, kids’ access to books and topics in school that make Christian nationalists and white supremacists uncomfortable, appropriate medical care including reproductive and gender-affirming care, and so on, and so forth, are not about parental rights. They’re about THE KIDS’ RIGHTS as people in their own right, whether or not their individual parents support them.
They all need to stop this nonsense and get part time jobs to pay for their Florida flood insurance.
In 10 years’ time, it’ll be a wonder if any child from the Florida education system can read or write.
Thats exactly what the 1% want. A permanent, uneducated underclass working slave labor wages
As Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza put it:
I don’t want an educated population. I want oxen.
It should come as no surprise that Alan Gratz, whose book on book banning Pippin wants banned, has won a National Jewish Book Award. So like Anne Frank and Holocaust survivors, he has “forsaken God.”
Had her two kids out of wedlock, yet considers herself a defender of virtue and family values.
So predictable.
“Do as I say, not as I do” – the conservative motto.
And then they had a little BBQ.
The title itself and the theme challenges our authority.
Politicians should not dictate school curricula or library content! Period!
Where TF are the so-called “Libertarians” on this?
Coincidentally, the seemingly well meaning Germans NAZIs started off by banning books too …
Peak anti-Jewish insanity wasn’t bad enough, that now they are claiming that Ann Frank’s diary is a Jewish plot and a threat the Christian children?
Let’s talk about Dems moving to stop Project 2025….
How Can We Combat Preachers Like Greg Locke and “Christian” Hate?
Israel CONFESSES Genocidal Intent
FRC: Here’s Five Ways To Attack LGBTQs During Pride
These people just can’t quit can they. Nothing is enough for them until they remove the LGBTQ+ from society. They demand a white straight cis Christian country. Hugs. Plus they revel in their stupidity and lack of knowledge on the subject. Scottie
Posted to the Family Research Council’s website:
1. A large percentage of these men and women have been sexually abused and are operating out of a place of deep wounding. They’re living “in spiritual darkness.” Some may be at war with God, and others are genuinely struggling with their identity, but by and large, they’ve all been hurt.
2. These are ones who didn’t start out life saying, “I’m going to hate God.” They had horrible things happen to them, and they need to understand that “every single life out there can be redeemed.” But your voice and your life can show other people how they can be redeemed and restored through Jesus. Because Jesus does it.
3. Speaking the truth in love is important, but our lives also need to reflect the evidence of it. When we try to tell somebody, ‘Hey, that’s not God’s plan for your life.’ And if you’re not living something that’s obviously better, they’re going to be like, ‘Yeah, whatever.’
4. Too many Christians seem to have a “let’s-get-in-the-bunker-now approach.” It’s time for the grown-ups to enter the room and remind everyone: Christians aren’t supposed to be in the bunker. “We need to get out. And how do we get out? Well, we take the gospel literally to the streets.”
5. This is a movement that, by and large, is at “war with God.” In other words, this is a tough crowd. And we need to endure being spit on and sworn at and yelled at. Don’t be afraid to be mocked. Do you not think your Lord was mocked?
There’s more if you can bear the brainwashing.
I am not at war with an imaginary being, just his followers.
“but by and large, they’ve all been hurt (LGBT people.)”
Well he got that part right, and the ones doing the hurting are organized religion of which he is a part.
Exposing the Dangers of Anti-Trans Fascism | RE: The Cass Review & Labour’s Downfall
Judge Strikes Down FL Ban On Trans Youth Healthcare
I am watching a video by Ethel of Essence of Thought debunking the Cass report and showing how the fear of trans people assaulting women were actively created to cause as much hate and anger at trans women as possible despite there being no evidence it is real or happening. The people who fought to get the message in the media admitted in writing that they had no evidence such violence or attacks had happened or were happening, but they thought it was a wonder why to stop the acceptance of trans people. That is their goal, make trans people the villain’s before they can be accepted like gay people are. Again they admitted this in writing, they felt they needed to move against trans people / kids because they lost the fight against gay people because they started to late they thought. Hugs. Scottie
The New York Times reports:
Key parts of a Florida law that bans gender transition care for minors and imposes hurdles on adults seeking transition care are unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. Judge Robert L. Hinkle of Federal District Court in Tallahassee sided with advocacy groups and three families who had said that the law stripped them of parents’ rights to make medical decisions for their transgender children.
In a 105-page order, Judge Hinkle said that “gender identity is real” and that a “widely accepted standard of care” includes puberty blockers and hormone treatments that Florida unlawfully banned. “The state of Florida can regulate as needed but cannot flatly deny transgender individuals safe and effective medical treatment — treatment with medications routinely provided to others with the state’s full approval so long as the purpose is not to support the patient’s transgender identity,” Judge Hinkle wrote.
Read the full article.
Judge Robert Hinkle, a Clinton appointee, first appeared here in 2014 when he ruled that Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.
A small victory for our trans community, but we need to get to a place where trans rights aren’t up to the whims of legislatures, the courts, and the whims of despotic southern governors.
Rights should not be ZIP code dependent.
Not all south. NH is about to pass a shitload of anti-trans legislation, trying to get people to get to MA or elsewhere if they can.
And Eastern Washington would gladly join in the tomfoolery if they could get away with it. We always joke that the Cascade Curtain keeps out the riff raff.
You will soon have the haters screech about the Judge condoning “gender confusion”.
Hey, you so-called experts. Trans folks are not “confused”. They know exactly who they are and what they need to do. If you truly care you’d STFU and get out of the way.
I know. Bashing Trans people is good for building up your brand within the Republican party and the Christian Right.
It’s amazing how some cis people can claim to know more about trans people and gender identity than trans people themselves. I mean, the sheer arrogance of it!
Hell, with what we go through, we transgender people often know ourselves better than most cisgender people will ever know themselves.
The only thing the screechers care about is imposing their hate on everyone else. It is not and never has been about doing what is in a child’s best interest.
Thanks, again, Judge Hinkle!
This is a good thing, until SQOTUS says otherwise
Preaching to the choirpreachers here, but this is a far better way to do restrooms:
Or, a bit more seriously:
