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Running Without Sound – Gay Short Film

Coming to terms with who we are is hard enough to tell people, but for Sean he must come to terms with his exploration in a world that he cannot hear and a world that does not always hear him. A fascinating story of love, trust, and friendship.

I often wondered what my life would have been like if I had been a kid in the modern age where being gay was so much more accepting than it was for me in the 1970s with Anita Bryant spewing her hatred and lies about people like me.   Then I remember that today there are the Libs of TikTok and the red state governors / republican fundamentalist Christian legislators who are doing to LGBTQIA kids what was done to me back in the 1970s by Bryant.  Spewing lies and hate to make us hated as much as possible.  

But there is another part of my thoughts.  Like the boy in the short video I couldn’t find the spoken words to tell of my abuse and the signs I was showing people either they couldn’t hear or did not want to.  What if I had had the words to say as a four-year-old what was happening when I was asked to go next door, that even though the man was nice, kind even, it left my butt sore, and the hell spawn I lived with would make fun of me for it.  They knew, which makes me now believe the adoptive parents knew also.  Maybe they pimped me to him?  After all, someone had to tell me to go over there, to give me permission.  Yes the man was raping me.  But he was kind and nice to me.  Unlike at home.

Imagine as a 6 yr in first grade, in torn clothing who had bruises all over me who in class just put my head down on my desk and went to sleep because I knew there it was safe to do so because no one would hurt me.  To my little boy mind that was shattered when the teacher took me to what seemed to me a large room with some other adults.  Both male and female.  They asked me to remove my clothing.  I started to obey as I had learned not to disobey that demand … but when they told me to remove my underpants I started to cry, to sob.  I promised to be good, I promised not to sleep in school anymore, I begged them, I even said as I stood there after taking off all my clothing and they had me move in different ways while touching me to make me stand or show what they wanted to see, that I promised I wouldn’t tell as they asked me questions I dared not answer.  I kept repeating that, hoping they knew that I would cooperate and not tell so they would be nice when they used me.  They did not understand what I was saying when I said I promised not to tell.  I knew the punishment for telling, I did not know they were trying to help.  They scared me, because these were adults I did not know and the few times before with adults I did not know first what they did hurt really bad.    I simply did not have the words, I did not understand what they wanted, and I had no way to tell them what they wanted to know, yes I was being abused, I was being hit, I was being …  In a way that was somehow more traumatizing to me because in my 6 yr old mind I was about to be forced to please and give my body to these four or five adults … If I was lucky and they did not want to simply hit me to make me hurt even more. 

If only I could have heard them, and they could understand that which I had no voice to say.   I am really tired, I hate that just watching a short YouTube video can bring back such strong memories, making me feel those feelings, relive those events.    Hugs.  Scottie

Award Winning SHORT FILMS Don’t Judge | BATTI Hindi Heart Touching Short Movies | Content Ka Keeda

I had to use both the CC and the ones the move provided.  I would shut the CC off when it would write over / obscure the movie ones.  Starting to feel a bit better, kept supper down last night.   Hugs.  Scottie

Survey of over 90,000 trans people shows vast improvement in life satisfaction after transition

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/transgender-survey-transition-hrt-surgery-gender-affirming-rcna137563

This is from corporate mainstream media.  Let’s hope it ends the myth the anti-trans haters have been pushing, which has long been debunked.   Maybe now they will stop spreading lies and learn that they have been wrong, stop hating trans people, and accept them.   Oh well, I know, some people just can not accept change and new information / understanding.   For those wanting to watch the video and better see the graph please go to the link.   Best wishes.  Hugs.  Scottie

Most people are satisfied with life after transition.   More than 9 in 10 respondents were at least a little more satisfied with their life after transitioning.

The National Center for Transgender Equality released early insights from its 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey, the largest survey of trans people in U.S. history.

By Jo Yurcaba

A survey of more than 90,000 transgender people in the U.S. — the largest nationwide survey of the community ever — found that trans people continue to experience workplace and medical discrimination. However, the overwhelming majority of them still report more life satisfaction after having transitioned. 

The National Center for Transgender Equality, or NCTE, one of the country’s largest trans rights organizations, released its 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey Early Insights report Wednesday after a yearslong delay due, in part, to the pandemic. The survey, the most comprehensive look to date at life for transgender people in the U.S., comes as hundreds of bills in the last three years have attempted to roll back trans rights, most often by restricting trans people’s access to transition-related health care and trans students’ abilities to play school sports.

 

“There’s still a drought of information available to lawmakers, the media and advocates regarding our experiences and our needs,” NCTE Executive Director Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen said at a news conference Tuesday. “At best, we’re working in a vacuum of information. At worst, we’re combating dangerous misinformation being spread by anti-trans extremists. Without question, the misinformation and lack of understanding is underpinning these escalating legislative attacks against our community.”

A woman attends a rally in support of trans youth in schools
A woman attends a rally in support of trans youth in schools on June 26, 2023, outside the Fayette County Public Schools central office in Lexington, Ky.Ryan C. Hermens / Lexington Herald-Leader via Getty Images file

The organization’s 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey had been the largest survey of trans people in the country, with nearly 28,000 respondents 18 and older, and it has been widely cited, including by Congress and the Supreme Court. Josie Caballero, the director of the survey, said the 2022 iteration more than tripled the number of respondents — with a total of 92,329 from every state and many U.S. territories — and was improved in a number of other ways. For example, it included 605 possible questions (though no respondent received all possible questions), up from 324 in the 2015 survey, and it included more than 8,000 respondents who were 16 and 17. However, study authors note that respondents who participated in the online survey were not drawn from a random sample and that though the sample is large, the findings might not be representative of all trans people.  

Of the 84,170 adult respondents, 38% identified as nonbinary, 35% identified as transgender women, 25% identified as transgender men and 2% identified as cross-dressers.

 

Continued discrimination and mistreatment

Among the key findings released Wednesday, the survey found that trans people continue to report experiencing discrimination and mistreatment because of their gender identities and/or expressions.

More than one-third of adult respondents, or 34%, were experiencing poverty at the time of the survey, and 18% were unemployed. More than 1 in 10, or 11%, of respondents who had ever held jobs said they had been fired or forced to resign or had lost jobs or been laid off because of their gender identities or expressions. And, in line with previous survey findings, 30% of respondents had experienced homelessness in their lifetimes. 

Of adult respondents who saw health care providers in the previous 12 months, 48% reported having had at least one negative experience because they were transgender, including being refused health care, having staff members use the incorrect pronouns for them or having providers use abusive language or be physically rough or abusive while treating them. Fear of mistreatment prevented 24% of respondents from seeing doctors when they needed it in the 12 months before the survey. 

Many respondents also reported past mistreatment in school. Of adult respondents, 80% who were out or perceived as trans in K-12 experienced one or more forms of mistreatment, including verbal harassment, physical attacks, online bullying or being denied use of the restrooms or locker rooms that matched their gender identities. Of the 8,159 respondents who were 16 and 17, 60% reported such mistreatment.

Higher life satisfaction after transition

Despite those negative experiences, the vast majority of adult respondents, 79%, who lived at least some of the time in different genders from the ones they were assigned at birth reported that they were “a lot more satisfied” with their lives. An additional 15% reported they were “a little more satisfied.”

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Please see the chart at the link above.  The written version I have included below.  
This bar chart shows how respondents who had transitioned genders described their satisfaction with life after transitioning. 79% were a lot more satisfied, 15% a little more, 3% neither more or less, 1% a little less and 2% a lot less satisfied.
 
Graphic: Joe Murphy / NBC News
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Respondents who received transition-related medical care reported similarly high rates of satisfaction. Of respondents who were currently receiving hormone treatment, 84% said receiving such treatment for their gender identities/transitions made them “a lot more satisfied” with their lives, and 14% said it made them “a little more satisfied.” Just 1% said hormone treatment made them neither more nor less satisfied, and less than 1% said hormone treatment made them a lot less satisfied.

Of respondents who underwent at least one form of gender-affirming surgery, 88% said it made them “a lot more satisfied,” and 9% said it made them a little more satisfied. Less than 2% total said surgery made them a little less or a lot less satisfied. 

“That might seem obvious to some of us that of course if you’re transgender and you need transition-related health care, of course your life is better off when you get that health care,” Heng-Lehtinen said Tuesday. “But it’s really important to have actually asked people and found out objectively what is their experience, because transition-related health care is otherwise so under attack in state legislatures around the country.”

Effects of anti-trans legislation

In the last three years, 23 states have restricted gender-affirming health care — including puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgeries — for minors and, in a few cases, adults, according to the Movement Advancement Project, an LGBTQ think tank. Half of states have banned trans student-athletes from playing school sports on the teams that align with their gender identities rather than their assigned sexes at birth, while 10 states have passed laws restricting what bathrooms trans people can use in schools, colleges and/or government-owned buildings.

Nearly half of respondents to the latest U.S. Transgender Survey said they had thought about moving to other states because their state governments considered or passed such laws that target transgender people, and 5% — about 4,600 people — said they had actually moved to other states because of such legislation. 

The top 10 states where trans respondents most often reported moving from were, in alphabetical order, Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

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Majority report having supportive families

The state of trans rights across the country does not necessarily reflect what trans people are experiencing at home with their families. Of adult respondents, 67% reported that their immediate families were either supportive or very supportive, while 22% reported they were neither supportive nor unsupportive and 12% reported they were either unsupportive or very unsupportive. 

Of 16- and 17-year-old respondents, 44% reported that their families were either supportive or very supportive, while 28% reported that they were neither supportive nor unsupportive and 29% reported they were unsupportive or very unsupportive. 

“It’s important to see that many trans people do have supportive families, since we often hear and see otherwise,” Sandy James, one of the report’s authors, said at Tuesday’s news conference.

Heng-Lehtinen said the new data will revolutionize the field of transgender advocacy.

“I am confident that the results of the 2022 survey will not only serve as a crucial tool for education, research and policy, but it will catalyze a paradigm shift for the movement for transgender advocacy by empowering advocates with robust and current data regarding our needs and experiences,” he said.

 

Texas sues major porn distributor in bid to enforce content-warning law

Texas sues major porn distributor in bid to enforce content-warning law

The truth is the US has a big problem with the human body and seeing it.  It was not always this way.  The modesty at all costs movement is what is harmful and should have warnings.  The problem with porn is not that people see it, it is not even that minors see it.  It is the way the right and even some on the left fetishize it to be some grand high point of evil.   By doing that, going to such lengths to show kids we are hiding it from them we are making it seem so much more than it is.  It is nude people showing their bodies and doing mostly normal acts.  In most porn it is acting, and if people could see all the behind the scenes stuff it would take any joy out of it, just as watching a movie being made would ruin the fun of it.  What we need to do is be honest with minors about their bodies, the bodies of the sexes / genders, and human sexuality.  Treat it normally, don’t freak them out over seeing a booby or a butt.   Seeing a penis will not rot the mind of any kid, freaking out over them seeing it will.   Plus it helps cut down child abuse if a kid feels comfortable talking with another adult about what someone is doing to them or making them do.   So many survivors never told because they were too ashamed and felt it was taboo to talk about.  Look at a quote from the article below, do these people really believe this garbage? Harmful to brain development?  Never proven, no medical data.  I am sorry, I think they have confused fundamentalist religion with fun porn.  Besides be honest, does anyone watch the entire porn movie?  Really?   But they do sit through the entire sermon and give the preacher money.  You be the judge as to which one “is associated with low self-esteem and body image, eating disorders, impaired brain development, and other emotional and mental illnesses.”    I can not stand these constant attempts to push their extreme fundamentalist church doctrine idea of calling normal things obscene and pushing their hyper regressive ideology on every one else.   Look if they don’t want to see people nude, don’t want to see people having sex, then don’t watch it.  Just don’t go to those websites!  Why force everyone to live by your rules, to live just like you do.   People in lockstep marching together.  What a horrible place to live.   Hugs.  Scottie

It also orders such websites to post controversial health warnings that pornography “weakens brain function,” “is proven to harm human brain development” and “is associated with low self-esteem and body image, eating disorders, impaired brain development, and other emotional and mental illnesses.”

The lawsuit comes after the Fifth Circuit last year reversed a lower-court injunction blocking the law.

 / February 27, 2024
 
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks in Washington at a rally in support of then-President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, prior to the U.S. Capitol insurrection. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
 

Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton this week sued a major online porn distributor in an effort to enforce a new state law mandating age verification and purported health warnings on adult websites.

The lawsuit, filed in state court in Austin on Monday, accuses the adult-entertainment company Aylo of violating House Bill 1181, a new state content-warning law for websites. A Montreal-based company, Aylo runs a number of major online porn brands, including Pornhub.

Among other rules, HB 1181 requires that porn websites “use reasonable age verification methods” to “verify that an individual attempting to access the material is 18 years of age or older.” It also orders such websites to post controversial health warnings that pornography “weakens brain function,” “is proven to harm human brain development” and “is associated with low self-esteem and body image, eating disorders, impaired brain development, and other emotional and mental illnesses.”

According to the lawsuit, minors who visit Aylo’s pornographic websites are either “immediately presented with sexual material” or “are asked to complete the trivial step of clicking an ‘enter’ button.” As a result, the suit says, Aylo has completely failed to comply with HB 1181.

The suit seeks an injunction forcing Aylo to use age verification and display the required health warnings. Texas also wants hefty fines, including $1.6 million in civil penalties plus $10,000 per day dating back to Sept. 19, 2023 — the day when the Fifth Circuit first greenlit the law.

In a news release announcing the suit, the Texas attorney general’s office accused Aylo of not imposing “reasonable age verification measures to protect minors from being exposed to obscene materials.”

“Texas has a right to protect its children from the detrimental effects of pornographic content,” AG Paxton stated in the news release. “I look forward to holding any company accountable that violates our age verification laws intended to prevent minors from being exposed to harmful, obscene material on the internet.”

Aylo declined to comment on the lawsuit.

The lawsuit comes amid a broader push in Texas and other Republican-controlled states to restrict content that lawmakers deem obscene. During the state legislative session last year, Texas also passed restrictions on drag shows and books it calls “sexually explicit.”

Last year, a coalition of porn-industry insiders — including a free-speech group focused on pornography — won an injunction blocking the law.

Their original suit, filed in federal court in Austin, described HB 1181 as part of a “long tradition of unconstitutional — and ultimately failed — governmental attempts to regulate and censor free speech on the internet.” Rather than imposing new content restrictions, “Texas could easily spread its ideological, anti-pornography message through public service announcements and the like,” the suit argued.

U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra, a Reagan appointee, ultimately found those arguments persuasive. Among other factors, he determined that rules requiring health warnings in 14-point font were overly burdensome and ambiguous, as “text size on webpages is typically measured by pixels, not points.”

In his ruling from August, Ezra also cited Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — a longstanding standard that protects online publishers from liability for content produced by third-parties. Without explaining its reasoning, the conservative Fifth Circuit overruled that injunction, including with a one-page administrative stay in September. Those orders paved the way for Texas to enforce the law, including with this latest suit.

Texas Sues Pornhub For Failing To Post Warnings On Site That Porn Causes “Impaired Brain Development”

 

Rebecca Gardner 5 days ago

That Porn Religion Causes “Impaired Brain Development”

Fixed it for ya! You’re welcome.

mikeiver  Rebecca Gardner4 days ago

Clearly the man speaks from personal experience and exhibits the signs of “impaired brain development” to this day. He doesn’t even have the brain power to keep both eyes open at the same time.

vap 5 days ago

I’m willing to wager that most people that go to that site have better ethics and brain functions than Ken Paxton.

Joeydoeyboboey 5 days ago

I must have started off with a 2000 IQ because I’ve watched lots of porn over the years and I’m STILL smarter than these asshats.

coozledad  Joeydoeyboboey5 days ago

I’m thinking the biggest threat posed by porn is it could interfere with the ability to write dialog.

RoverSerton  coozledad5 days ago

But, it improves the ability to type with one hand!

ConnieHinesDorothyProvine  RoverSerton 4 days ago

Thanks to porn, we have an answer to the age-old question “What is the sound of one hand clapping?”

Pollos Hermanos ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ5 days ago

I’d love for Pornhub to completely cut off all IP addresses in Texas.

A lot of those rubes can’t figure out a VPN.

Jack Frost  Pollos Hermanos ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ5 days ago

Already happened in SIX states.

Pornhub has added North Carolina and Montana to its block list as both states implemented age-verification laws on Jan. 1. A similar ban was imposed in Arkansas in August, joining Mississippi, Virginia, and Utah.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/…

NPSTL  Jack Frost4 days ago

Not popular with voters, I imagine. The porn using voters might not complain in public, but they will be furious.

Mark  Pollos Hermanos ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ4 days ago

Now hold on there, bubba louie!
I live in texas…and how am I supposed to spend my golden years with no porn??? Paxton is just doing shit so the christians will vote for him.

Uncle Mark – fermented for ‘24 5 days ago edited

Perhaps they should hire PornHub to do road maintenance.

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Paula 5 days ago

There is a study that proved that watching porn causes impaired brain development?

amy cuscuriae  Paula5 days ago edited

Who needs a peer reviewed scientific study when the church tells you it is so?

Bad Tom  amy cuscuriae4 days ago

Or the legislature simply passes a law declaring it so?

Reality.Bites  Paula5 days ago edited

No. Ethics boards frown on experiments involving showing porn to children

Hank: NO MORE WoW!!!  Paula5 days ago

Just ask Florida’s Surgeon General Ladapo, and I sure he will find a study!!! He is SUCH a “knowledgeable” Doctor!!! /s

Jean-Marc Canada – ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ5 days ago

More BS pseudoscience clap-trap from a state with no cognitive functionality. Just ban it in Texas and be done with…though I suspect a lot of those cowpokes will start livin’ up to that name if you do.

D’Joie 5 days ago

They forgot “hairy palms” and “blindness”.

ConnieHinesDorothyProvine  Chrissy4 days ago

Mike Johnson will have to monitor this.

ArgieBargie5 days ago

“Impaired Brain Development”

More pseudoscience pushed by people who belive in Bronze Age fairy tales.

Rally featuring Rep. Andy Biggs co-sponsored by Proud Boys, other white supremacist group

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2024/02/20/andy-biggs-spoke-at-event-sponsored-by-extremist-group-the-proud-boys/72665908007

The republicans are the party of racists.   Not all republicans are racists but all racists are republicans.  And the racist authoritarians have become the majority of the elected party members are flat out open white supremacists.   They why is hard to understand why?   It can not be where they are from because they are all over the country, so it must be from constantly being told brown people from other countries are somehow less than US white people.  Or they are paid to be that way by the donations they get from hate groups and people like Putin / Russia.  Either way, they are not pro-US, they are not patriots, they are bigot racists who deny that this country has always been multicultural and multiethnic.   Hugs.  Scottie

Laura Gersony
Arizona Republic
 

U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs over the weekend appeared at a rally that was co-sponsored by several extremist organizations, including the state’s chapter of the Proud Boys, and a student group that has promoted anti-Jewish materials.

Held in front of Arizona’s state Capitol, the 11th annual Second Amendment Rally featured not only a roster of gun rights advocates, but also several players from the state’s right-wing fringe.

One of the event’s “foundational sponsors” was the College Republicans United, a student group with chapters in Arizona that embraces white supremacy. CRU’s website promotes texts that helped fuel the rise of anti-Jewish sentiment in the early 20th century, including Henry Ford’s “The International Jew” and “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,” a fabricated text that claims to document a Jewish plan to dominate the world.

CRU also has ties to white supremacist Nick Fuentes. On Saturday, the group’s table displayed a flag emblazoned with Fuentes’ logo.

One of its members created the event’s pamphlets, according to a copy obtained by The Arizona Republic.

Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., turns as he speaks with Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., ahead of the 13th round of voting for speaker in the House chamber as the House meets for the fourth day to elect a speaker and convene the 118th Congress in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.

Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., turns as he speaks with Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., ahead of the 13th round of voting for speaker in the House chamber as the House meets for the fourth day to elect a speaker and convene the 118th Congress in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.
 

Arizona’s chapter of the Proud Boys, the right-wing group known for promoting political violence, also was a sponsor of Saturday’s rally.

The event appearance was not out of character for Biggs, R-Ariz., one of the furthest right members of Congress who has long been associated with right-wing extremism, including the push to undermine the 2020 presidential election. Biggs, along with Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., were among 26 Republicans who refused to sign a pledge disavowing “white nationalism and white supremacy.” He previously spoke at the Second Amendment rally last year.

“Let me tell you what the hard left — the Marxist Democrats in Congress — want to do. They want to take away your gun rights,” Biggs said at the event.

“Anti-gun zealots are unleashing a full-frontal assault on our God-given, constitutionally protected Second Amendment rights,” he wrote on social media afterwards. “I don’t accept these attacks and neither should you.”

Biggs represents much of Phoenix’s Southeast Valley in Congress. His office did not respond to a request for comment.

Among more mainstream conservative organizations, the far-right groups’ brands are political kryptonite. Earlier this year saw a firestorm when several county Republican committees said they were duped into planning a CRU event that involved Fuentes. The county GOP groups walked back their participation, or denied they were involved, once the connection became known.

But the far-right groups were emboldened by former President Donald Trump, who has hosted Fuentes for a meal at his private Mar-a-Lago estate and name-dropped the Proud Boys in a Sept. 29, 2020, debate with now-President Joe Biden in which he told the extremist group to “stand back and stand by.”

State Reps. Quang Nguyen, R-Prescott Valley, and Leo Biasiucci, R-Lake Havasu City, and Turning Point USA contributor Paige Roux also were on the program for Saturday’s event.

Conservative state Rep. Austin Smith, R-Wittmann, was listed as a speaker in event promotional materials, but his name was taken off the event website in the weeks leading up to the rally. Smith, who has previously called CRU a “cancer,” confirmed he was not in attendance, but said he “had no clue” the student group was involved and could not attend the event because of other obligations.

Laura Gersony covers national politics for the Arizona Republic. Reach her atlgersony@gannett.com or 480-372-0389.

GOP Rep Headlines Rally With Proud Boys And Nazis
Biggs is one of the “Gaetz Eight.”

 

NarutoMania16 hours ago

The (R) next to their names needs to be replaced, either with the letter (N) for Nazi, or just a simple swastika will do.

Refugay  NarutoMania16 hours ago

R is for Racist.

 

Canadian Doctor Shot By IDF Describes Gaza’s Devastated Medical System | Dr Tarek Loubani | TMR

Please watch this video.   It is so important to understand just what Israel is doing to hospitals, medical providers, and how they just don’t see any Palestinian or their supporters as humans, as people.  To the Israelis, they are all something to be wiped out, to be terrorized to nonexistence.  Hugs.  Scottie

Emma speaks with Dr. Tarek Loubani, associate professor at the University of Western Ontario and leader of the Glia Project, to discuss what is happening on the ground now that hospitals in Gaza are mostly non-operational.

Let’s talk about Oklahoma vaguely….

What Beau is referring to is an N.B or transgender teen who was brutally assaulted in a girls’ bathroom.    Notice that the attacks on trans and non-binary people in bathrooms got much worse at the urging of right wing hate preachers / politicians.  Notice it is the rhetoric is always that trans people will hurt your daughters, but the facts show that is wrong.  It is the trans people being hurt by cis people.  For needing to use a toilet.   I did not post the quote but in the first article it mentions Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction, is facing intense scrutiny over his ties to Chaya Raichik, the figure behind the far-right Libs of TikTok hate account, and for their outspoken stance against transgender rights.   Hugs.  Scottie

The grandmother, Sue Benedict, told The Independent that her child had been the subject of months of intensifying bullying that began earlier in 2023 after Oklahoma’s Republican-led government banned transgender students from using school bathrooms that align with their gender identity.Benedict told their grandmother that they and another trans student had fought the other students in the bathroom, according to the Independent. The teen told her they’d hit their head on the floor.  “Nex did not see themselves as male or female,” Sue Benedict said. “Nex saw themselves right down the middle. I was still learning about it, Nex was teaching me that.”  https://news.yahoo.com/oklahoma-transgender-student-dies-allegedly-125629309.html

Nex Dagny Benedict killed Oklahoma non binary student beaten classmates bathroom Owasso High School
Nex Dagny Benedict killed Oklahoma non binary student beaten classmates bathroom Owasso High School
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What is nonbinary?

A nonbinary person experiences their gender identity and/or gender expression outside of the binary categories of “man” and “woman.” Other words may be used by nonbinary people to describe their gender more specifically, including agender, bigender, demigender and pangender.

Some nonbinary people call themselves transgender and consider themselves part of the transgender community, while others do not.

“Nonbinary is an umbrella term that encompasses many different ways to understand one’s gender,” according to GLAAD.

What is transgender?

Transgender describes a person whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.

A person can be transgender without having gone through a transition — the process in which a person brings their gender expression and/or their body into alignment with their gender identity. A transition can include a social transition, legal transition and medical transition.

What is cisgender?

Cisgender refers to a person who is not transgender, and whose gender identity aligns with the sex they were assigned at birth.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/02/20/what-is-nonbinary-transgender-cisgender-gender-term-etiquette/72669303007/

 

Dr. Thaer Ahmad, emergency room physician and assistant program director of the Advocate Christ Emergency Medicine Residency Program, discusses his recent experience volunteering at the Al Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip.

Total Chaos: What A Palestinian American Doctor Saw In Gaza

Thaer Ahmad then walks through his assessment of the already shaky state of the healthcare system in pre-October 7th Gaza, as well as his relationship to the healthcare system, as a first-generation Palestinian-American doctor, before tackling the extensive effort it took to get into Gaza as a healthcare worker. Next, Dr. Ahmad explores the extreme changes in quality of life in Southern Gaza from his previous experiences providing healthcare, parsing through the impact of mass displacement into Rafah alongside the dwindling number of functioning hospitals in the region creating a system of severely overworked, underfunded, and under-resourced healthcare workers.
Dr. Ahmad explores the extreme changes in quality of life in Southern Gaza from his previous experiences providing healthcare, parsing through the impact of mass displacement into Rafah alongside the dwindling number of functioning hospitals in the region creating a system of severely overworked, underfunded, and under-resourced healthcare workers. After looking at the impact of the mass starvation and water scarcity on health, Thaer explores the constant siege on hospitals, even in the south of Gaza, and the clear goal of extending the ethnic cleansing until Gaza is gone, also expanding on the massive impact of the violent occupation on children in Gaza.

Evangelicals Sneak Film Crew Into Texas High School

Evangelicals Sneak Film Crew Into Texas High School

Evangelical trump loving Jesus touting Christians who need to lie and sneak around the rules protecting children to get what they want.  Because protecting kids only matters when they can use to deny LGBTQIA people exist and that kids are born that way.  That it is OK to be LGBTQIA.  No when it comes to pushing their version of Jesus they believe the laws / rules don’t apply to them.   Every thing should be allowed them to push their Jesus on your kids, on all kids.  So they lie, cheat, pretend they are not doing what they are or that they just did not know the rules.  All in the name of Jesus.   Hugs.  Scottie.

February 18, 2024 Christianists, Education

 

Dallas’s ABC affiliate reports:

As they stood together near Keller ISD’s Central High School on Friday, a group of parents shared their anger and frustration. “I’m livid,” said Laney Hawes, a parent whose child attends Central HS. “Our rights and our kids rights have been violated.” Their anger stems from what the district confirmed happened last Friday, February 9.

Sandi Walker, a school board trustee brought an Evangelical-based film crew into the high school to conduct interviews with her. Multiple students and parents told WFAA children were filmed and interviewed by the production crew without their consent. Trustee Micah Young was also involved in the filming.

Evangelische Omroep (EO), a Netherlands-based Evangelical broadcast television network previously produced the documentary: ‘God, Jesus, Trump.’ Elliot Mullaney, a freshman at Central High School said he witnessed the filming take place during his lunch hour.

Read the full article. The tweets below tell a fuller story so give them a minute to fully load. According to the video report, the film crew took advantage of the school’s principal being absent that day.

 

liondon#traitortrash19 hours ago

Grooming for Jesus.

Cait Sidhe  liondon#traitortrash7 hours ago

I think their version, at least in the US, is spelled “Jeebus”.

Reality.Bites 19 hours ago

I have seen prisons that looked more welcoming

Bungee  Reality.Bites19 hours ago

This was mine.

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We didn’t even have windows.
 
Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊  Bungee19 hours ago

All it’s missing is the razor wire topped chain link fences.

coozledad 19 hours ago

Could just as easily have let gunmen into the school. Heads need to roll and careers need to be ended.

Highmore  coozledad19 hours ago

Ugh, side doors, right?

robindaybird  coozledad19 hours ago

or a kidnapping – I can see an abusive POS who lost custody of their kid trying this stunt now

TnCTampa  coozledad19 hours ago

it wont… some bullshit explanation will be given. Jesus thoughts and prayers and all that

You Again?  coozledad17 hours ago

You can tell the Evangelicals are lying (how surprising!) because if they had no intention filming staff and students, why even bring a film crew to the school?

What else would they be filming?

GrandmascienCe  coozledad12 hours ago

I hope that mom stays as pissed off as she is now until something gets done.

Paula 19 hours ago

So much for school security.

Joe in NM  Paula19 hours ago

“the calls were coming from inside the house” or something.

Stuart 19 hours ago

It’s amazing how readily “Christian” evangelists practice deceit and outright lying when it suits them. It’s almost like they aren’t really religious at all.

ECarpenter  Stuart18 hours ago edited

Christianity, like all religions, was based on deceit and lies – they call them “revelations” and “gospels” – and of course they’ve always lied and manipulated people to maintain their hold, once they were in control. So no change, business as usual.

 

Lewisville educator on leave after Libs of TikTok post shows him in dress for spirit day

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2024/02/16/lewisville-educator-on-leave-after-libs-of-tiktok-post-shows-him-in-dress-for-spirit-day

I have first seen this on Joe My God.  But it is on other news sites.  This shows not only the bigotry and hate of these right wing hate groups, but how they use their influence to hurt and harm anyone they target, anyone they think doesn’t push their bigotry, hate, and regressive views.  It is terrifying because they know what they are doing, and they know the result.  They really want to push society to be regressive, to be 1950 along with wiping the people they hate from society, from public view.  And they are clearly willing to use violence and threats of great harm to accomplish this.   Total intolerance to other views than what they accept.  They are a very dangerous threat to democracy and the idea of live and let live, to the idea of tolerance and acceptance.  To them, they need to dictate, their way only, even as we have seen in Florida they do not practice what they demand as one of their leaders got caught enjoying having sex with others of the same sex and having relations out of marriage.  Things they claim should be stopped and not be allowed to be talked about in public or in books in schools.   As Joe mentions below, this woman and her group ignore the abuse of children by clergy to only attack public schools.  The goal is to inspire hate, abuse, threats, and also gain attention for herself.   All because of returning to a time when no one but straight cis mostly white people were allowed to be promoted in society and the rest were hidden along with vilified.   It literally is terrorism via the internet to get her supporter thugs to attack the targets she selects.  There are many more important comments at the Joe My God site, but I am far too tired to keep posting.    Hugs.  Scottie

Students have rallied behind the staff member after viral video from anti-LGBTQ account with vast following.

A Lewisville ISD staff member has been placed on administrative leave after a prominent...
A Lewisville ISD staff member has been placed on administrative leave after a prominent right-wing social media account posted a video of him at school wearing a pink dress with matching boots and hat.(KXAS-TV )

By Valeria Olivares

4:29 PM on Feb 16, 2024 CST — Updated at 5:31 PM on Feb 16, 2024 CST

A Lewisville ISD staff member has been placed on administrative leave after a prominent right-wing social media account posted a video of him at school wearing a pink dress with matching boots and hat.

“This is an actual teacher in @LewisvilleISD,” the post reads. “How is this acceptable?!”

Students have defended the Hebron High School educator with a petition noting he was dressed up for spirit day.

District officials placed the man on leave Thursday after catching wind of the video, which had more than 4.3 million views by Friday afternoon on X, formerly known as Twitter.

 
“It would be natural for our families to have questions about this situation, but because this is a personnel matter currently under review, there is no additional information the district can share,” principal Amy Boughton said in a campus-wide email.

The staff member could not be reached for comment.

The district received complaints after Libs of TikTok, which has more than 2.8 million followers and is known for spreading anti-LGBTQ sentiment, posted the video on Valentine’s Day.

The post questioned whether it is acceptable for an educator to be “cosplaying as a woman and dress in drag at school.”

“It is our standard procedure to place a staff member on leave when we review concerns shared with the campus,” Lewisville spokesperson Amanda Brim said.

The video was also widely shared across other platforms.

Libs of TikTok posted images in replies to the initial video that appeared to be several years old. Other X users flooded Lewisville ISD’s account with the video and other photos.

More than 1,500 people have signed an online petition to bring the teacher off of administrative leave, adding that he was dressed up for spirit day.

“He does not deserve to be defamed and lose his job,” the petition reads. “He has been an inspiration to many students, and has created a space where everyone can feel valued and safe.”

 

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The DMN Education Lab is a community-funded journalism initiative, with support from Bobby and Lottye Lyle, Communities Foundation of Texas, The Dallas Foundation, Dallas Regional Chamber, Deedie Rose, Garrett and Cecilia Boone, The Meadows Foundation, The Murrell Foundation, Solutions Journalism Network, Southern Methodist University, Sydney Smith Hicks and the University of Texas at Dallas. The Dallas Morning News retains full editorial control of the Education Lab’s journalism.

Teacher Placed On Leave After Attack By Libs Of TikTok
Read the full article. Chaya Raichik and her army of cultists are harassing the school district superintendent and the school’s principal.

As most of you know, in 2022 and 2023, I tagged Raichik in literally hundreds of news items about pedophile pastors, priests, and Christian school officials.
She never once responded, but as you can see below, she spends a lot of time responding to others.

Of note, Spirit Day is an annual event launched in 2010 in response to a rash of student suicides related to anti-LGBTQ bullying.

 

ArgieBargiea day ago

People in Texas should be more concerned about Youth Pastors than men in dresses.

Jim  ArgieBargie9 hours ago

Mind, *pastors* USUALLY wear dresses – their uniform .

Kruhn a day ago edited

I love how that hag uses innuendo in attacking this poor teacher. “I heard he loved dressing in women’s clothing…” That is truly the digital lynch mob.

MarkOH  JTa day ago

Ugh. Don’t these losers have ANY THING better to do? Get a real job lady, or a hobby. STOP harassing people!

NPSTL  MarkOHa day ago

This is her profitable grift.

TK-Fla  JTa day ago

She and her cult following need to be sued out of existence. This crazy uptight bitch needs to be destroyed.

Jonathan  TK-Fla21 hours ago

Her father was a prominent Orthodox Jewish Rabbi in LA.

She’ s vile trash. Reminds me of an uglier version of Ben Shapiro in drag.

Lefty a day ago edited

What a bunch of hateful MFers. Kids love it when teachers get involved in things like this.

My 3rd graders loved it when I dressed in a ballgown for spirit day, or as Glinda for Halloween.

Lefty  Leftya day ago
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NorthBayBrian  Leftya day ago edited

You look fabulous and so fun, Lefty! And indeed, kids understand and appreciate play, and adults who can gleefully partake in it, unless of course those poor kids have already been brainwashed and mentally abused into being righty little monsters.

Lefty  NorthBayBriana day ago

Thanks! Fortunately I taught in a “woke” district, and the parents did not care if I was gay. They just wanted their children to learn and have some fun.

NorthBayBrian  Leftya day ago

Still, good for you for showing those kiddos you can be a sane, responsible adult and still be fun…and gay. Man, what I’d have given to have a Lefty teacher when I was in 3rd grade!

Lefty  NorthBayBriana day ago

I did have several students visit when they were juniors/seniors in high school. They were out and proud, and they cited me as one of the reasons they felt comfortable living their authentic lives. Got a bit misty eyed…

NorthBayBrian  Leftya day ago

You’re a good man, sir. And those are some lucky kids.

perversatile  NorthBayBrian a day ago

Ditto- Just like this guy

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This is how to Uncle

Duh-David  Leftya day ago

Transvestites do it for sexual gratification. Teachers do it to entertain and encourage their students. Those without empathy can’t separate the two.

Flora DeMann a day ago

Looks like those kids are not bothered at all.

NorthBayBrian  Paulaa day ago

I spent my years 6-8ish living in Plano. It was a bucolic place back then. Small, largely underdeveloped, easy. I have no idea what the politix were, cuz 6 years old. All I know is my best friend, Tommy, and I could leave on our bikes at 8 am (with peanut butter and bacon sammiches in our backpacks) and not come home until dinner and no one worried or had any reason to do so. Damn, how things have changed in (cough) 48 years.