Category: Children / Kids / Minors / Teens / Family
Anti-Pride Protests Are Turning Violent
Read more HERE: https://knock-la.com/anti-lgbtq-viole….
“An anti-LGBTQ+ protest was organized on Instagram after a Pride celebration was scheduled at Saticoy Elementary in North Hollywood. The Pride celebration included a book reading about different types of families. Shortly after the celebration was announced, someone broke into the school after-hours to steal a transgender teacher’s pride flag and burn it. The same teacher was also doxxed by right-wing activists.
Some news outlets have reported that the anti-LGBTQ+ event was planned by parents concerned with how sexual education is taught to young students. Knock LA attempted to interview some of these parents, but was met with silence or a negative response. Two young adult women on the anti-LGBTQ+ side said they were there because “it’s cool.”
“Glendale has had enough!” shouted one of the right-wing protest leaders over his PA. “Time to bust out the zip ties!” he told the police, continuing with “I’d like to zip tie the principal!””
Texas Governor Signs Ban On Trans Youth Healthcare
Please notice, the person pushing this bill is a fundamentalist religious bigot who has tried to force their religion into the laws while trying to ban any representation of the LGBTQ+ in society. Their religious views are built on hate, not loving those on the outside of accepted society. It is a self-serving view that pushes not the religion of the Christ mentioned in the bible, but the intense desire to maintain the society that they enjoyed and want to return too or force into being, while showing their bigotry by remaining superior to any others. I did not get the feeling in my time in the SDA church that superiority was the goal Jesus preached. I wouldn’t have needed to wash a few people’s feet, causing such a problem in my abused teen mind. Hugs
** Federal judge blocked parts of DeathSantis anti-trans healthcare ban. He claimed it was clear that gender identity was real. He made the statement several times. I have not read the entire article as I am trying to do many things here at home. Let’s hope all these treatment bans get blocked. Despite the fringe haters groups claims, medical science data over decades of use has shown puberty blockers are safe and reversible and their use prescribed as best care by the major credible organizations. **
The Texas Tribune reports:
Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Friday a bill that bars transgender kids from getting puberty blockers and hormone therapies, though the new law could face legal challenges before it takes effect on Sept. 1.
Senate Bill 14’s passage brings to the finish line a legislative priority for the Republican Party of Texas, which opposes any efforts to validate transgender identities. Trans kids, their parents and LGBTQ advocacy groups fiercely oppose the law, and some have vowed to stop it from going into effect.
Texas — home to one of the largest trans communities in the U.S. — is now one of 18 states that restrict transition-related care for trans minors. “Cruelty has always been the point,” said Emmett Schelling, executive director of the Transgender Education Network of Texas.
Read the full article.
The bill’s author, state Sen. Donna Campbell, first appeared here in 2014 when she introduced a bill to legalize anti-LGBTQ discrimination by businesses on the basis of “sincerely held religious beliefs.”
In February 2015, she appeared here when she joined a hate group in eating wedding cake to celebrate the 10th “banniversary” of Texas putting a ban on same-sex marriage into the state constitution.
They held that celebration nine months early because the US Supreme Court was about to rule on Obergefell.
My boss is right, The GOP is now run by the Klan.
Uh- “The GOP is now OPENLY run by the Klan“
What was once an honorable American political party was hijacked by theofascists.
The theofascists gained a major hold of the Republican Party when Ronald Reagan occupied the White House.
It’s been downhill for America — an increasing American takeover by the theofascists — since then.
probably the john birchers too
Always worth mentioning that one of the JBS’s founders was Fred Koch (father or Charles and David). Throughout 1963, the JBS put up signs in Dallas calling Kennedy a traitor.
I had a deep discussion with my 18yo granddaughter about her feeling on various LGBTQ issues. She’s cis hetero and absolutely loves the freedom her generation has to be whatever they want to be. She’s had gay friends, trans friends and non-binary friends. They exchange clothing with each other and love experimenting without rules.
My 17yo grandson…the same. He’s cis hetero also and his best friend is gay. He says they laugh at how stupid some people are in getting bent out of shape over gender expression and homosexuality. They just don’t care and accept people for what they say they are and are happy for them when they find love or new friends.
We live in Northern Colorado in a rather Republican area even though the state runs true blue. Our city is about 100,000 people surrounded by farming.
This is what keeps my hopes up when I hear the distressing news. This generation also likes the idea of contributing their voices in voting. My granddaughter and grandson will both be voting age in the next election. While they both said some of their friends are wishy washy on voting, most are excited to be able to finally vote. I don’t think we can compare the last generation to this one. Their experiences were very different and their political savvy amazes me. We have hope for the future!
I just retired from teaching high school after 38 years. I noticed around the late 1990’s that the students in general became kinder and more considerate of others. But if someone was bullied or mistreated, most of the students would be irate at the aggressor. They insisted that everyone be treated fairly.
These young people grew up in a time when our visibility, struggles, and victories as gay people became daily news. Almost everyone found out that they had LGBTQ family, friends, and acquaintances.
Now that Gen Z has reached voting age and tuned out well in the 2022 election, I am encouraged.
The kids are all right.
They’re on the right side but in the right sort of area for that. Kids growing up in corn country are brainwashed to hate and praise gun-toting jeebus, and there are far, far too many twentysomething men who are adherents to Andrew Tate and that brand of toxic masculinity.
We don’t know who will win yet.
Many of these open minded kids are from these farm and ranch families. Will some become their fearful parents, yes. But, not all of them. They go to school in the cities. They aren’t growing up in the cocoon their parents did. They refuse to hate who their parents say to hate. I refuse to give up hope. The pandemic had more of an influence on them than their parental upbringing.
kids brainwashed the same way in the trailer trash states of NC,and esp. SC,but its alll ok ’cause jaysus….
Sadly, that demo is irrelevant to current events because of two reasons: they don’t vote and they don’t donate Dark Money. Those who do both know precisely what’s coming up to vote in larger numbers over time… and they’re pre-empting their power. Right. This. Second.
And yesterday was National Donut Day!
CA School Board Bans Social Studies Textbook Over “Pedophile” Harvey Milk, Who Doesn’t Appear In Book
***Sorry no comment replies today. I got home from the pain doctor and I got trigger point shots in my back. I managed to do the dishes but I cannot manage to address comments today. It is a combination of pain and steroids along with all the other medical drugs I take surging through my system. Hopefully if I can sleep tonight I will be able to do that first thing tomorrow morning. But for now I will try to focus and post some of the news I have had in my tabs for the last few days. Ron ordered a pizza because he has been working in the heat to replace the damaged siding and I am wiped out and struggle to think. The steroids are making me hungry. I just lost 10 more pounds I hope I don’t gain them back. Hugs***
This again like the fundamentalist few parents demanding all mention of LGBTQ+ from yearbooks, libraries, any media in the classrooms, and eventually society. They admit this, they want only those things mentioned, taught, and acknowledged are their world view from the 1950s, and that includes all education about race, biology, and anything that disrupts their white in charge fundamentalist religious take on the world. They want the rest erased, it makes them feel icky and they don’t like those ideas pushing into their god thoughts. But these same people have no problem with highly gendered and sexually suggestive straight year book photos of the prom or the school cheerleader squads. They have no problem with mentions in yearbooks or books / movies in schools / libraries that show hetero norms, including the gender roles of cis straight males and females. Their offense is anything not portraying their preferred world view that comes from their biblical views, one man / one woman and only straight no weird sex allowed in all things. But only after the youth, adults are married and suddenly discover sex / sexual feelings on the magical moment of turning 18 years old. Sorry but gay and transgender youth / students exist. They are young people with the same right to see themselves represented in society as the fundies insist their own views / religion does. These gay / transgender students deserve to live openly as their straight cis fellow students do. The problem these fundamentalists face is the students agree that this is proper that their fellow students be accepted and have a safe and happy school experience. The very thing the fundamentalist to deny the LGBTQ+ students, their right to exist. This is simply pushing the fundamentalist religious views on everyone. Plus they are not only pushing their religious world view but they are actively denying the LGBTQ+ students their right to exist, to have school participation, and to see other people like themselves in the school curriculum / media. Below I will post some quotes from the linked sources, I recommend everyone go read them as they have information that Joe My God doesn’t include. Hugs
Milk, who was one of the first openly gay elected officials in the country, was assassinated while serving on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
The three board members were elected last year with the backing of the conservative Inland Empire Family PAC.
“I don’t want my 3rd grader studying an LGBTQ issue. I don’t want them going into gender ideology,” said board member Jennifer Wiersma.
The social studies curriculum was vetted by 47 Temecula Valley teachers who taught the material in 18 elementary schools as part of a pilot program this past year. The material, which is also approved by the California Department of Education, will replace outdated textbooks.
“It was piloted, we followed every policy, and procedures. The options were out there for parents. Thirteen-hundred family’s kids learned from this curriculum. We did not receive any complaints,” said Board Member Allison Barclay, who voted to approve the new curriculum.
https://abc7.com/temecula-valley-harvey-milk-school-board-curriculum/13330213/
An ugly scene played out at the Temecula Valley School Board meeting as they voted 3-2 to reject an elementary school social studies book that contained information about pioneering California gay rights figure Harvey Milk. The board’s president made a baseless accusation that Milk was a pedophile before voting to ban the book.
“My question is, why even mention a pedophile?” said Board President Dr. Joseph Komrosky.
The battle over books has been an ongoing conflict in Republican-controlled states. California Gov. Gavin Newsom interjected himself into the fray last summer in a series of commercials that aired in Florida. Now, he’s taking that message directly to educators in the state through a letter directed to superintendents and school administrators. The warning — which was also penned by California State Superintendent Tony Thurmond and Attorney General Rob Bonta — urged them to not take part in the removal of instructional materials.
“Access to books — including books that reflect the diverse experiences and perspectives of Californians, and especially those that may challenge us to grapple with uncomfortable truths — is a profound freedom we all must protect and cultivate,” the letter read in part.
The letter has garnered the support of some parents including Los Angeles Unified School District mom Jenna Schwartz, who helped create a group called Parents Supporting Teachers.
” I think that our governor and the AG are looking at what’s happening in these red states and we can see the future,” said Schwartz. “We know what happens when you dilute education for children. They become uneducated adults. We can’t let that happen here.”
The letter cites more than 1400 book bans across the country as one of the reasons the state issued this warning to any district contemplating limiting issues that can be taught in schools. Newsom was also sharply critical of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis after he signed into law legislation known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — which restricts instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity for students until eighth grade.
“Talking about families is not a sexual conversation,” said Schwartz. “Talking about two moms or two dads — or a diverse family, none of that is sexual.”
The issue of sexual orientation has become a flashpoint at Saticoy Elementary School, where a pride flag was recently burned. The school is also dealing with the fallout of a scheduled assembly where administrators planned to read a book that mentions same-sex couples.
Los Angeles’s ABC affiliate reports:
“You’re not qualified! You’re not qualified!’ shouted one audience member at the board. The frustration was over the 3-2 vote opposing the adoption of new social studies curriculum for Temecula Valley Unified School District elementary schools.
The decision could leave 11,397 students without a textbook next year. “We’ve never experienced this before. I’ve never heard of a top performing district or any district say you know what we are going to withhold these materials,” said Edgar Diaz, the president of the Temecula Valley Educator Association.
School board members, Dr. Joseph Komrosky, Jennifer Wiersma and Danny Gonzalez opposed the inclusion of gay rights activist Harvey Milk in the supplemental material used by teachers, even though Milk is not in the 4th grade textbook himself.
Los Angeles’s CBS affiliate reports:
The board’s president made a baseless accusation that Milk was a pedophile before voting to ban the book. “My question is, why even mention a pedophile?” said Board President Dr. Joseph Komrosky. Temecula’s emotionally charged meeting resembles many others from here in Southern California and across the country as communities demand school boards to limit discussions of race and sexual orientation.
Komrosky [screenshot above] has appeared on Fox News to boast about banning “critical race theory” in his school district. His 2022 campaign for the school board was promoted by foul homocon radio host Carl DeMaio, who praised Komrosky for “his goal is to keep radical social theories and leftist propaganda away from our children.”
Watch the clip.
Komrosky, Gonzalez, and Wiersma where all heavily promoted by the Inland Empire Family PAC to run against incumbents in order “to stop the indoctrination of our children by placing candidates on school boards who will fight for Christian and Conservative values.
Those “values” include nixing teachings of inclusion and tolerance”.
It was a right wing set up job to get rid of incumbents who were not anti everything enough.
https://patch.com/californi…
From that page:
Dr. Joseph Komrosky holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Claremont Graduate University and is a tenured college professor teaching logic full-time at Mount San Antonio College. He also teaches critical thinking part-time at the California State University of San Marcos.
“… teaches critical thinking …”??? WTF?
Did we need any more proof that holding an advanced degree doesn’t make you a decent human being?
Someone posted this on JMG the other day:
Demented Republican Interrogates 14-Year-Old Trans Kid
Moms For Liberty Harasses Florida High School Into Reprinting Yearbook Without Pages On LGBTQ Students
Personal note ** I hope to be back up to the half speed I have been managing lately in a few days. I had a really bad end of the week, health wise. Ron said Thursday evening my right side back muscles were swollen up higher than his fist compared to the left. I saw the cardiologist, he changed my medication and said I needed an echocardiogram along with a medical heart stress test. He is worried about the shortness of breath and breathing problems, along with something he thinks is going on with my heart. But the change in medications will allow me to get my allergy treatments, and the blood tests came back showing really serious allergies. I will share those another time. Hugs
Please note the open bigotry and privilege. Also note these are a very small group of bigoted religious parents. Let the kids be kids doesn’t apply to the gay or other LGBTQ+ kids. These people find anything offensive that is not just as they are, feel, or want things. They want all their kids to celebrate their school years, but not the gay, trans, or the other LGBTQ+ kids to have that privilege. Notice these kids are teenagers, the woman is complaining that seeing LGBTQ+ other students and information was sexualizing a 14-year-old. Trust me, by 14 a kid knows their gender, their sexuality, and even how to masturbate. This strange idea that kids don’t have feelings, desire, or even that touching themselves feels good until the magic moment they turn 18 when suddenly all those things happen and become real. That is incredibly stupid, that schools even through the senior year can not mention anything dealing with gender or sexual orientation unless it is straight heterosexual 1950s gender stereotypical norms. Hello every teen has a smart phone, and access to smart TV’s, game consoles that browse the internet, along with computers. Get freaken real people. This really is about not letting the LGBTQ+ people be normalized, that is why these groups want to remove the media with gay or trans characters or have LGBTQ+ information. Yet they do want the anti-gay stuff pushed hard. These bans make it so there can be no programs stopping bullying, no safe places for kids that are not cis or straight to feel welcome. It is driving the LGBTQ+ people in the US to the same place the Jewish people were in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Hugs
The Orlando Sentinel reports:
Seminole County Public Schools is offering to reprint this year’s Lyman High School yearbook and remove two pages for parents upset about LGBTQ+ content, prompting criticism that the district isn’t standing up to bigotry. The pages highlight the school’s LGBTQ+ community and provide definitions of terms such as genderfluid and pansexual. A few parents and students found those pages “inappropriate,” and now the district is offering refunds or reprinted yearbooks with the pages in question removed.
Jessica Tillmann, chapter chair of the Seminole County Moms for Liberty, said she is concerned about the definitions in the yearbook because she thinks they are teaching children about sex outside the state-approved standards that parents can choose to opt their children out of. “They shouldn’t have any sexual definitions in a yearbook,” she said. “This is a yearbook that goes to every student as young as 14.”
Click Orlando reports:
Sharmon Craft [screenshot above] was among the parents who believe the page is inappropriate. “This gender ideology crap has parents in an uproar because it’s disgusting and wrong for an adult to sexualize a minor,” Craft said on Facebook.
“The district superintendent is ordering the school to give full refunds or have the books reprinted without the glossary of perverse sexual attractions and pronouns.” District officials said they have received four complaints from parents so far.
Danielle Pomeranz, the high school’s former yearbook advisor, argued against the decision. “We think that it’s important that our book remains inclusive and represents all of the students at Lyman High School,” Pomeranz said.
STFU. If you’re such a snowflake, tear the two pages out yourself. I’m sick of a couple of people dictating to the rest of the schools.
100% correct!! Why do they kowtow to idiots??
manufactured drama to needlessly excite others as they push their astro-turf nonsense.
And yet schools and other places kowtow to these idiots with their reactionary agenda. It makes me sick!
14 year olds know that gay people exist.
14 year olds often already know if they are gay or straight or even fluid, I sure did.
I always knew I wasn’t like the other boys. 14 was when I figured out what that difference was.
I wasn’t out in public until I was 24, but I was out to myself at 14.
14 was my age the first time I was able to look my reflection in the eyes and say, “I am a homosexual” out loud. It was strange to hear myself say it, but it felt so true and freeing.
Same age here, but for me it was as I was cumming while thinking of the guys in the locker room at school
I almost find it funny that these Moms for Liberty morons think that their children are innocent and pure and know nothing about sex. Do they not know the kids have access to the internet and have cell phones? Those women live in a Christian bubble.
Don’t tell them. ‘Christian’ parents have a tendency to install crappy blocking software on their kids’ phones that ostensibly block porn, but actually block anything a crazy religious parent might object to, like age-appropriate information that teens absolutely should have access to.
14 year olds with phones know a lot of things.
Hence the enthusiasm for purging all mention of them everywhere. As homophobe lawyer Matt Staver said recently, if Christian kids get to know gays, they’ll get the outrageous idea they’re not monsters in human form.
Indeed:
I was a transgender child.
This is the terrifying person the maga right conservatives want to erase and claim is a threat to society. This is a really informative video by a young man who describes the steps it took to get what he needed to be the person he really was. This person’s lived experience put to lie all the myths the anti-trans people claim are happening, like mass pushing kids to be trans, no medical checks, and just rushing kids to sex changes. It amazes me that in 2023 we still have throwbacks to dark ages in understandings of biology and social development. Notice this boy knew his gender was wrong most of his early childhood and even at 9 years old he knew he was not a girl but should grow up to be a guy, but it became a serious issue for him at 12 years old. Puberty time. This is the same period of time the maga religious right wants to claim kids don’t know anything about gender or sexual attraction. And even though this boy did not have teachers telling him about pronouns or gender expression, he still realized he was not his assigned sex / gender. He talks about gender conversion, gender dysphoria, and the misinformation about trans kids / people. His story is interesting. It also is very informative and destroys a lot of the trans haters talking points, even to the point of no harm and many benefits of letting kids socially transition. Well worth watching. Hugs
What are Pansexual and Demisexual?
Let kids be kids … as long as those kids are straight and cis.
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Seriously informative on the bullshit of the republicans. Hugs
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