I want to thank Barry for sending me the link to this video. Best wishes friend. Scottie.
The video is about the politically driven fight to end trans care in Texas for minors and adults. And how it is affecting four trans families and others. In it you will hear false claims made about chopping off little boys penises which is not happening, but no mention of breast augmentation and nose jobs for teenage girls. You will hear claims made that are misinformation, lies, and myths. The goal is to create a straight cis fundamentalist Christian republican society ruled by men, and to do this they use the claims of saving the children to rile up the base and muddy the water to get more votes. They don’t care who they hurt in the process, they wouldn’t even allow current minors on puberty blockers and hormones to be weaned off or to continue treatment. This is not about the health of children as Texas did not accept summer food assistance for poor people, they did not do anything about school shootings and gun control, they did not increase child health care at all they only removed the medically accepted best practices for gender nonconforming kids. Hugs. Scottie
When Texas lawmakers introduce a record number of anti-trans bills, transgender kids and their families from across the state converge on the Capitol to fight back.
Another great video destroying anti-trans propaganda, myths, and misinformation. He talks slow, is methodical, and uses sources he displays and has in his description box to make his points. Often he will go through the studies that the anti-trans people use to show they either did not say what is claimed, are way out of date, used the wrong methods, or simply were created to be used for anti-trans propaganda. He shows not only the bad studies and debunks them, but the real modern medically reviewed and approved studies showing that very few detransition and those that do mostly do so because of negative treatment from society, peers, and family. People who live all their childhood knowing and claiming they are a different gender are not suddenly going to stop saying it at 18 or 21. If they are going to suffer all that mistreatment and hate growing up, they are what they are telling you. Hugs. Scottie
Frank Turek and Sean McDowell make ridiculous pseudoscientific claims about LGBTQ people. Here I debunk them with actual scientific research.
Subscribe using my link for 30% off unlimited access or try it this month for less than $1. Claims I debunk: Abuse and trauma cause non-heterosexuality and gender non-conformity, not affirming queer people is the best way to help them, being gender nonconforming is a social media contagion, rapid onset gender dysphoria is real, gender dysphoria can and should only be treated with therapy or prayer, gender dysphoria is similar to and should be treated in the same way as anorexia, 80% of gender dysphoric youths grow out of it by age 18, medical intervention for gender dysphoria does not help mental health outcomes, and trans s rates skyrocket 10 years after transition.
This is interesting. I even found the news report that went with it very interesting. In the video the Mom’s for Liberty claims they were not banning or burning books, but then she goes on to say these books should be available for people under 18 in libraries. When she was asked about how in her push for her parents rights, she was effectively removing the rights of parents who endorse their child reading those types of books. She replied that they had that right to read it to their kids but not give it to hers. Fair but by removing them from a library how would a poor parent working many hours to survive get the book or a kid questioning their feelings know where to find it or how to get it. Again kids who are different, who are gay or gender nonconforming know that at a young age. They know they are different, they know they feel differently than their classmates. I am gay, knew that very young. In elementary classes some of my classmates had crushes on their female teachers, I had one on my male teacher. It is something straight cis people don’t seem to understand because the world is set up for the way they feel, so they are accepted, they are comfortable. Some people want so badly to keep that straight cis only world and avoid losing their comfort and status so badly they would force large segments of the population to deny their authentic self and live in misery by living a lie. That is incredible selfish and regressive minded. One great thing is the second video after the first shows how conservatives and fundamentalists are losing reelection to school boards and offices controlling education that they won only a few years ago driven to control how everyone lives including how children learn. One other thing was that she said a book used the N word, which she said in its integrity, and she felt that it was wrong for a 7 year old to read or hear that word. OK but that word is thrown at little black kids for the smallest ages. I posted of a four year old black girl called that. The right wing hate media uses the word constantly. So why not explain to kids what the word means and its harmful history to explain why it is not used today as the Mom’s for Liberty just did. Hugs. Scottie
The American Library Association released its annual list of the top 10 most targeted books of 2023 on Monday, the majority of which were challenges because of their LGBTQ content.
“Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe topped the list for the third year in a row. The graphic memoir, which chronicles the author’s experience with sexuality and gender from childhood to adulthood, was challenged for its LGBTQ content and for claims that it is sexually explicit.
“Gender Queer,” by Maia Kobabe
Courtesy of Oni Press
“At ALA, we are fighting for the freedom to choose what you want to read,” said ALA President Emily Drabinski in the announcement. “Shining a light on the harmful workings of these pressure groups is one of the actions we must take to protect our right to read.”
In 2023, the ALA recorded 4,240 unique titles that have been targeted for removal or restriction in libraries and schools. It’s a record-breaking 65% increase from 2022, the highest totals recorded by the ALA since it began collecting data more than 20 years ago.
MORE: What’s in some of the most challenged books in America?
Jennie Pu, ALA member and Hoboken Public Library Director, told ABC News that “this list affirms the pattern that we’re seeing, that it’s a small group of people who don’t want their stories to be told and the retargeting of historically underrepresented and marginalized voices.”
Hoboken’s library system was declared a book sanctuary in 2023.
Across the country, classroom and library content has been at the center of contentious debates between educators, librarians, parents and politicians. Conservative-led legislative efforts to restrict what discussions and content could be had in classrooms regarding race, gender, sex, and sexual orientation has ignited a debate about the materials students and their families have access to.
Advocates of such legislation say these policies ensure that “inappropriate” content is weeded out of classrooms to protect children from “indoctrination,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott have said.
Politicized groups or individuals have been at the center of large swaths of book challenges nationwide, sometimes demanding the censorship of multiple titles — often dozens or hundreds at a time. This helped drive the surge in book challenges, according to the ALA.
The other most-targeted titles, in order of the number of challenges, are:
“All Boys Aren’t Blue,” by George M. Johnson
Courtesy of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2. “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” by George M. Johnson, for LGBTQ content and claims of sexually explicit content.
3. “This Book is Gay,” by Juno Dawson, for LGBTQ content, sex education, and claims of sexually explicit content.
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower…Show more
Courtesy of Simon & Schuster
4. “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” by Stephen Chbosky, for LGBTQ content, rape, drugs, profanity and claims of sexually explicit content.
5. “Flamer,” by Mike Curato, for LGBTQ content and claims of sexually explicit content.
MORE: Book bans and anti-LGBTQ laws: how queer authors are responding
“The Bluest Eye,” by Toni Morrison
Courtesy of Vintage International
6. “The Bluest Eye,” by Toni Morrison, for themes about rape, incest, DEI content and claims of sexually explicit content.
7. “Tricks,” by Ellen Hopkins, for LGBTQ content, themes concerning drugs, rape, and claims of sexually explicit content, tied with “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” by Jesse Andrews for claims of sexually explicit content.
9. “Let’s Talk About It,” by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, for LGBTQ content, sex education, and claims of sexually explicit content.
10. “Sold,” by Patricia McCormick, for claims of sexually explicit content and themes concerning rape.
The ALA compiles its data from reports filed with its Office for Intellectual Freedom by library professionals and news reports. However, the organization says the data is only a “snapshot” of book censorship attempts because it’s not likely that all attempts are reported to the ALA or covered by the press.
The latest report marks the start of the organization’s National Library Week.
Amazing story about a librarian hit by MAGA rage in Idaho: Activists demanded 400 books removed. *None* were in her library. She was then hounded from her job by threats.
On the pod, head of American Library Association goes deep on what libraries face👇 https://t.co/qSJP0DVx5X
Children are irredeemably broken from the minute they are born unless their parents subject them to a public dunking and give money to a man wearing a dress.
Conservatives have been seething since the Stonewall riots of 1969 and especially since 1973 when homosexuality was removed from the list of psychiatric disorders in the DSM. They’ve been plotting their revenge ever since and it’s now reaching a climax. Time to take up arms again and hit the streets, if that’s what it takes.
I still think this is their dying gasp. The nutters might try to force everyone to return to ‘church’, but that’s just not going to happen. They’re dangerous, so be prepared. Let them shoot each other in the streets though. IMO
I agree. the USA has always had these swings between religion and irreligiosity. right now the pendulum is swinging toward irreligiosity and the nutcases are scared, because they know they will eventually lose. and they also refuse to accept their extremism is why they are losing.
I remember back when I was growing up and the only books allowed in the Library were the ones that talked about how wrong being gay was. Lots of books though talking about how you could change to straight easy peazy. Really FUCKED ME UP as a kid.
The same was true for me when I checked out a book called “growing up straight.” It fucked me up, that is, until I checked out another book called “Society and the healthy homosexual.” It sent me straight, so to speak.
My memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant,” was recently banned by my high school. I had booked an all-school assembly with the librarian for Nov. She loved the book so much she wanted to do a second event at the rival high school. A week after I gave my approval, she wrote me and said she couldn’t move forward with either event and that I need to talk to the assistant superintendent if I had any further questions. Moms for Liberty is active and they are threatening to recall politicians, so it’s easier to upset the writer than the moms. My book was just named a notable book from the State of MI and an honor book from Stonewall, yet I still can’t go back to my own high school.
I remember growing up and my parents would not allow me to read “The Exorcist.” Guess what I was reading when I went to bed. “Your mother sows socks that smell.”
If you are unsure of the difference between sex and gender, or if you are question many of the hate myths about trans people, or possibly thinking trans people are new and never been accepted then please watch this video.
The host is easy to listen too, shows his sources, and uses facts, yes those pesky facts that refute all the anti-trans misinformation spread desperately through the right wing media. The video covers how anti-trans groups formed fake medical groups to claim science said that trans was a sickness or such, but the video show that real professionals in medical science disagree and show that being trans and gender nonconforming is a normal difference some people have.
Finally the hosts shows how the anti-trans movement push was started around 2008 when conservatives and fundamentalist religious groups were losing the war against gay people and gay marriage. They were seeing gay people normalized on TV and moved to prevent that from happening for trans people. Plus the video shows how this is about state control over everyone’s body. He shows how the idea of strict gender roles formed when men felt marginalized and wanted to create a society that was male oriented and was based on male superiority. For men to be superior, that meant they needed females to be inferior. So strict gender roles were created and enforced. This only has been the way for the last few centuries, not forever. Hugs. Scottie
Does Gender Even Matter?
There’s a full blown panic sweeping America, and it’s all about gender, and especially people who don’t conform to traditional categories. But what is it about people’s gender choices that makes others so worried? Was this an inevitable facet of modern life, or is something more complicated going on? Let’s find out in this Wisecrack video on Gender Theory: Why Now?
The woman behind the libs of TikTok is a rather unintelligent fundamentalist religious person who revels in her new fame and the attention she receives. But as the people fight back against her and her demands to remove all the LGBTQ+ from society and schools along with the bad press coming from people acting on her hate screeds she has lost her shine, fame, and attention she craves. So on to the next target that again has nothing to do with children and all to do with consenting adults. Trying to control the sex lives of others is nothing new for these people. Anything they don’t like or do, then no one should be allowed to do it. What a mockery of the land of the free. Hugs. Scottie
TW: mention of b_mb threats, violence in schools, bullying (incl. incidents that lead to loss of life), homophobia, transphobia and doxxing
This is government by gang thuggery, or to call it what it is, terrorism. And driven by religion. This was again pushed as evil and child abuse by Libs of TikTok who as I recently have posted she is very proud of the violence she promotes. She also is a rather stupid person who is overjoyed at the all the notoriety and attention she receives for stirring up hate and fear. This is the attempt by the religious minority to take over the country, force the majority to live by their biblical doctrines / views, and rolling back all the civil rights gained by women, black people, and the LGBTQ+. The US has never been and shouldn’t ever be a theocracy. This country must not let bigotry and hate causing fear and targeting people for harm become a legitimate way to govern. But again the haters win because the show was canceled denying the kids and parents who wanted it to lose out. The haters are denying the freedom of others to enjoy themselves freely to enforce a religious view of morality on everyone. We have to stop letting these events be canceled and the haters win. If there was a bomb let the haters get blamed then found, charged, go to court, and … Hugs. Scottie
A scheduled “Drag Queen Story Hour” at a Pennsylvania library that had drawn opposition was canceled Saturday after a suspicious package was found in the building and two blocks were evacuated after threats were reported, authorities said.
Police evacuated the Lancaster Public Library after the package was found. A state police bomb squad later cleared the library, but police said “additional reported threats” were still being investigated. Residents of the block and another block nearby were told to evacuate, an order lifted several hours later.
A city spokesperson later said that a dog had alerted on the package and that the contents were later found to be “benign” but “subsequently, we received additional written threats via email.”
Lissa Holland, the library’s executive director, said she felt “really sad, very disappointed and angry, that leaders of this county turned this into saving the children from the library and we are having to cancel this event because of safety threats.”
Though the library did not make the decision to cancel Saturday’s event, Holland said it was the right call during a brief interview under the overhang outside the Starbucks at 101 N. Queen St..
“Absolutely. It’s safety first, for everybody involved, For our storyteller, for the staff — and most important for the children that were going to be here and the families. I am saddened to the core” that the event had to be canceled, Holland said.
Police just pushed media an additional block pack after clearing the apparent suspicious package at the library. They say there are “additional reported threats” to the already cancelled drag story event. https://t.co/SNeLejHKdPpic.twitter.com/wKJJbwF323
In addition to the protests that received permits locally, this particular drag queen story event received considerable attention on Twitter in the leadup to today’s incidents. https://t.co/enBb9S10Fl
Right now: Protesters opposed to the drag event cancelled over an apparent series of incidents including a “suspicious package” and multiple “threats” according to Lancaster Police continue to demonstrate outside the police perimeter. pic.twitter.com/owRnPUbvtT
Earlier: A street preacher calling the drag story hour reader a "drag whore" was confronted.
"You are hateful," an individual said after tossing their mango dragonfruit lemonade on him. "This is not a Christian nation!" pic.twitter.com/lqdSEdP9mP
"I'm not saying anything about the bombs, but I'm saying praise God it was cancelled," the street preacher remarked when asked about the event being cancelled.
"I didn't even know it was cancelled, so hallelujah, it was canceled!"
This is what those terrorists are demonizing. I don’t why we didn’t start protesting at churches every time a pedo was found, lost opportunity to show where the real threat to children was coming from.
I figure it’s a play on “People of Walmart” and other similar things – the pictures and profiles being posted are of the people the profile is against, not something they identify with.
Makato is right. Her account started as something else and her career basically shifted because of the attention that was focused on her. There are several of these accounts on Twitter and what they do is collect other peoples posts from any social media–Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, et cetera–and post it in their timeline. They have names like Whatever Posting Ls or something similar. LisbonTikTok (I like that typo and I’m keeping it) started posting stuff from TikTok.
Do you hate some group but don’t want to be bothered searching the Internet for things to hate and laugh at? Do you want reinforcement of your own biases? They’ve got you covered.
That, then. How is this not a domestic terror threat? She got our leading childrens’ hospital shut down with her terrorism. Kids missed pedi chemo treatments.
She would claim this is a free speech thing and point out that she never actually tells people to do the terrible things they do. It’s a cop out of course because she gets her viewers enraged over BS. It would be like me saying, “Mr X is a terrible danger to society and someone should do something about him” and then when said person gets attacked and blames me I can say “I didn’t tell anyone to attack you!”
Enough, enough, enough! This is no way to maintain a society, permitting the sickest among us to call the shots by threats of violence. There must be stronger penalties for those bullies, those who terrify others with their threats, those who shut down the normal activities of society, those who cost thousands-to-millions of dollars for law enforcement and lost business. We must not allow them to make us all live in fear.
Wow how clueless can some people be in following their god and right wing ideology? Seriously, does he realize that when women couldn’t vote, he was not covered by the civil rights laws and he wouldn’t be allowed to serve in such a high government position by the white people who think he shouldn’t be able to vote or speak up in public. Yes just as he looks down on women as inferior to him a man, the majority of whites then, and some now also, believe he as a black man is inferior to any white person. I don’t understand bigotry, no matter who it is against. See bigotry is counter to reason, it is irrational. Yet it is hard to use reason to combat it is difficult because bigotry is built on emotion. But this guy is out there as a bigot, hater, and just abusive to anyone who disagrees with him. Again how is this acceptable? What ever happened to decorum and civility from elected officials? Seriously what happened to being able to look up to elected federal and state legislators as the best of the public? Seriously when did being an internet troll be one of the qualifications for political office? When was being a vicious bully an admired trait? But this guy is both? Hugs. Scottie
“The only thing worse than a woman who doesn’t know her place, is a man who doesn’t know his,” he wrote on Facebook in December 2017.
In a newly unearthed video, North Carolina’s GOP nominee for governor says America was better then because Republicans “fought for real social change.”
On Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson won the GOP primary to become his party’s nominee for North Carolina governor, presumably with the help of female voters.
But just four years ago, Robinson invoked a bizarre hypothetical in which he said he’d “absolutely” like to return to the days when the 19th Amendment didn’t exist ― when women didn’t have the right to vote.
“I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote,” Robinson said in a newly resurfaced video of his remarks at a March 2020 event hosted by the Republican Women of Pitt County.
During this event, Robinson, who was running for lieutenant governor at the time, recalled someone recently asking conservative activist Candace Owens to pick which version of America would make America “great again,” one where “Black people were swinging from cheap trees” or one where women weren’t allowed to vote.
Robinson said he would definitely return to the days in America when women were denied the right to vote “because in those days we had people who fought for real social change, and they were called Republicans.”
This room full of women was quiet as he spoke, though a faint “That’s right” could be heard when Robinson later said Republicans ended Jim Crow laws. (In fact, lawmakers in both parties in Congress and President Lyndon Johnson ended Jim Crow laws by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.)
You catch watch the full clip of Robinson’s remarks here:
Requests for comment from Robinson’s campaign and from his government office were not returned.
In still more Facebook posts, the GOP gubernatorial nominee strangely equated feminism with sexism and racism.
“If blacks should stand up against racism, and women should stand up against sexism….shouldn’t men stand up against feminism?” he posted on Sept. 20, 2016.
That same day, he also wrote, “I am REALLY sick of feminism and feminist. They are just as bad, if not worse, than racist.”
Robinson will go up against Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein in November. North Carolina is a crucial swing state in the 2024 presidential election. Former President Donald Trump won North Carolina in 2020, but barely ― and that was before he tried to steal the election, incited an insurrection and was facing 91 felony charges.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who endorsed one of Robinson’s challengers in the GOP primary, said Wednesday that it’s up to the voters in his state to decide in November if they want him to be the governor.
Asked if he agrees with Robinson’s inflammatory rhetoric, Tillis told HuffPost, “Not at all.”
“Now that we’re past the primary … he just needs to go to the people in North Carolina, explain that and get their vote,” he said.
Back when women were property, “colored” folk like you were not allowed to eat at restaurants with white folk, were segregated in public venues(sitting in the shitty section at theaters and such), schools, hospitals, and even the men weren’t allowed to vote even though they had the right. Go back a little further and all black people were owned by white people in the slave states with absolutely no rights at all. And you, sir, are a fucking idiot. Go slap yourself silly.
For Republican women all that matters apparently is the “R” after his name. Of course why any woman would suppport the Republican Party is the obvious next question.
A lot of Republican women have been beaten, raped and otherwise abused into submission by the men in their lives; fathers, husbands, pastors, etc. to the point where they are brainwashed to vote how the men in their lives tell them to. A while back, I read an article about some fundie douchebag pastor preaching to a group of men how they really shouldn’t allow their wives to vote, but if their wives insist on voting, their husbands should make sure that their wives vote “correctly,” so their votes do not “cancel out” the husbands’ votes.
That reminded me of a story an ex-Mormon friend told me, about how before she went in to vote for the first time as a college freshman in 1992, her father handed her and her mother a list of candidates (all Republican) and said “This is how I expect you to vote, I’ll be watching.” Her father stood in the voting booth next to her, giving her the side eye the entire time she was casting her ballot. Even though she wanted to vote for Clinton, she voted for George Bush I instead, because dad was also an abusive asshole, and she feared what he might do if she didn’t vote as she was told. If the poll workers saw what her Dad was doing, they didn’t do anything. It was probably quite common in the shitty Mormon town she was raised in. And I doubt things have changed.
Back when women were property, “colored” folk like you were not allowed to eat at restaurants with white folk, were segregated in public venues(sitting in the shitty section at theaters and such), schools, hospitals, and even the men weren’t allowed to vote even though they had the right. Go back a little further and all black people were owned by white people in the slave states with absolutely no rights at all. And you, sir, are a fucking idiot. Go slap yourself silly.
Due to not feeling well and the number of videos, even though they are short so are in foreign languages so I had to use the CC for those, so it took almost a week and a half to watch these and post them. So I did not include because it caused me to trigger, like the ones where parents beat their gender nonconforming children, to make them be the gender they were assigned at birth. That is like trying to beat the gay out of a kid, you can scare them into hiding it but you can’t make it go way or change it. I simply wanted to give those that don’t understand trans kids or trans people a way to see what it is these people are dealing with. Maybe it will change some people from being haters to being trans supporters. It only take a few people to believe in a LGBTQIA persons worth to make a huge difference in their lives, maybe even save a life. I hope people will take their time and watch the videos as I did, a few at a time over how ever long you wish. If you watch only one, please watch the first one where a trans hater learns that the trans neighbor she like was trans, and well she learned and grew. Hugs. Scottie
Get Off My Turf! is a short film about a transgender woman who finds out that her neighbour is transphobic. The film delves into some of the modern depictions of transphobia and explores friendship, solidarity and conflict between two very different women.
SYNOPSIS: Clara is a girl who cannot show herself as she is. There is something that can control her, and forces her to live under a name and appearance that are not real. “I’m not him” will show the harsh reality to which transgender children like Clara are exposed, as well as the strength they have to move forward.
“A trans boy struggles with dysphoria and anxiety as he contemplates a night out with friends.”
So for my theater class, our final was to create a short film. I decided to do a film about a female to male transgender teen. I apologize for the binder, it’s really bad. I didn’t own a real binder. Ignore that please. I hope you enjoy it.
This short documentary about transgender ftm boys was created to bring more awareness to the transgender community. We don’t personally know any mtf transgender girls so please no controversy over the subject. We own all rights to this film except the music, the quote, and the statistic. This is the first film that we’ve produced and we plan on creating more shorts. We hope you enjoy it!! *** The music on this one got louder than the voices, so I turned the sound off and used the CC. Hugs. Scottie ***
A trans themed short film, created by an all trans cast production team. On remote northern Iceland two strangers connect and realize they have a lot more in common than previously assumed.
Young and Trans. Watch this powerful short film challenging the stigma of what it means to be trans today. Let’s come together for a brighter future.
We have been filming transgender boy Kai since he was 9 years old. In this film, Kai is 14 and reflects on coming out and taking hormone blockers. We also hear from Alex, 18 who is also trans and has started taking testosterone. Kai meets with Tayler, 19 and they both visit the Museum of Transology, where founder E-J Scott gives them a tour.
This is 5 years of a 10 year project, filming Kai, as part of a wave of trans youth, who have been given the best opportunity in life, never having to go through ‘the wrong puberty’.
My Genderation is an ongoing film project focusing on trans lives and trans experiences. All our content is created by trans people, about trans people, for a much wider audience. Currently run by Fox Fisher and Owl Fisher.
Come As You Are follows Theo, a transgender female in a conservative household. This film is dedicated to the God of love, regardless of who you are or where you come from
Featuring young trans actors in trans roles, ‘Listen’ honestly and frankly depicts some of the myriad struggles experienced daily by trans children and teenagers, giving a much needed voice to this often maligned section of the community.
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