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Employers prepare for possible abortion bans
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An inside look at CPAC’s European debut
Why is the US PAC in an authoritarian anti-democracy country? Notice the reporters says they are there rallying against the progressive excesses of the west, and that they are for God, homeland, and family and the conservatives want to do what he did there in the US. What he did was roll back social understanding and acceptance of differences and to take a hardline on immigration. He also talked about the need to control the media and to limit what they can report on. Free societies don’t restrict reporting nor what can be spoken about. The US is losing the being a free country and in red states like Florida becoming an authoritarian state where the government dictates what people can see, hear, learn, and do in all aspects of their lives. Also Orban wants to not challenge Putin as he supports how Putin has removed LGBTQ+ from Russia and returned the country to God, the homeland, and family. Just certain families of course. This is one of the biggest Republican organizations, is this Ameria first? Is this making America great? Hugs
WILLY AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
Republican Senator gets BOOED ON STAGE at graduation
Please note as Brian says this is the University in a very deep red state, and even they acknowledge not every human is born strictly male or female and they refute the Republican speaker who claims it is a scientific truth that people are either male or female. I include a screenshot of the statement from the university below.
Federal judge stops Alabama from throwing trans-supportive doctors in jail
Photo: ShutterstockA Trump-appointed federal judge has blocked portions of Alabama’s so-called “Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act,” a law that punishes adults who help transgender children access gender-affirming healthcare.
The law, which went into effect on May 8, was immediately challenged by families with trans kids, gender-affirming medical professionals, and the U.S. Justice Department. The law threatened prosecution against trans-supportive adults and 10 years in prison for trans-affirming medical professionals.
Related: Gay Alabama lawmaker’s righteous rant goes viral as Republicans criminalize trans-friendly doctors
Last Friday, Judge Liles C. Burke of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama temporarily blocked parts of the law that made it a felony to prescribe hormones and puberty blockers to trans youth, saying that the law is likely to cause irreparable harm if it goes into effect while the lawsuits works their way through the court system.
Burke’s decision said parents have a fundamental right to provide their children with medically-accepted treatments. Hormones and puberty blockers are used to treat various medical conditions in non-trans youth. But since Alabama’s law only sought to punish the drugs’ use by transgender youth, the lawsuit alleged that this part of the law was driven by unconstitutional sex-based discrimination.
Burke allowed other parts of the law to stand, including one requiring school teachers and nurses to out trans students to their parents and another forbidding doctors from performing gender-affirming surgical procedures on trans youth.
“Doctors had testified that such operations were not being performed on children in Alabama before the law had been enacted,” The New York Times noted.
Alabama lawmakers said that the transphobic law is meant to protect kids from “irreversible” and “experimental” medical treatments “aggressively push[ed]” by doctors and “ideological interest groups,” state lawyers said in court documents. But Burke said Alabama failed to provide “credible evidence to show that transitioning medications are ‘experimental,’” adding that hormones and puberty blockers are “well-established, evidence-based treatments for gender dysphoria in minors.”
“Parents, pediatricians and psychologists — not the state or this court — are best qualified to determine whether transitioning medications are in a child’s best interest on a case-by-case basis,” Burke wrote in his decision.
When signing the bill into law, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) said, “I believe very strongly that if the Good Lord made you a boy, you are a boy, and if he made you a girl, you are a girl. We should especially protect our children from these radical, life-altering drugs and surgeries when they are at such a vulnerable stage in life.”
However, her religion-based opinion goes against the best practices of trans-related pediatrics outlined by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, and the American Psychological Association. The organizations find that gender-affirming medical care is medically necessary and reduces suicide and depression among trans youth.
Comedian John Oliver mentioned the state’s law on the Sunday night installment of his cable news program Last Week Tonight.
In the program, Oliver interviewed 15-year-old transgender girl Harleigh Walker, who said, “If I did stop my gender-affirming care, my physical outside wouldn’t reflect who I was inside, and that would, like, completely destroy me mentally and physically.”
Oliver said, “If you can look at Harleigh, or any child, and comfortably say, ‘Take away their care that gives them peace and a sense of self,’ you are a bad person.”
During a hearing in front of the Alabama legislature last year, Dr. Morissa Ladinsky explained that surgery and hormonal therapy for trans youth both involve “lengthy informed consent [and] lengthy mental health oversight.”
Oliver quipped, “Of course, doctors are going to be thoughtful and rigorous when caring for their patients because, unlike the Alabama Legislature, they actually care about kids’ well-being,”
“To trans children in Alabama right now… you are important,” Oliver added. “Your lives are important. I cannot imagine trying to build self-esteem in childhood as your own government attempts to undermine your very existence, but you should know: You are profoundly valuable and you are irreplaceable.”
As of May, 15 Republican-led states have either passed bans on medical care for trans youth or are considering similar laws. Some of the bans have equated gender-affirming care with child abuse and threatened to arrest parents of trans youth, de-transitioning their kids and placing them in state care. Others attack doctors and threaten them with jail time for providing gender-affirming care to trans youth.
These laws are part of a larger nationwide push by Republicans to pass laws targeting LGBTQ youth. Other such laws have attempted to ban trans youth from playing sports or to ban any LGBTQ content from classrooms. These bills’ supporters have said that anyone who opposes the laws are pedophilic “groomers”, language which encourages violence against LGBTQ people and allies.
Recently, LGBTQ lawmakers in 19 states announced their efforts to establish their states as safe harbors for trans kids and families persecuted by laws criminalizing gender-affirming healthcare. These lawmakers will introduce legislation that explicitly protects trans youth’s access to gender-affirming medical care.
Ivey also recently signed a transphobic “bathroom bill” requiring students to use changing and restroom facilities matching the gender listed on their original birth certificates, as well as a “Don’t Say Gay” bill limiting discussion of LGBTQ topics in state classrooms.
Bannon Claims Buffalo Mass Shooter Is “A Gay Guy”
“He’s an Azov, he’s a gay guy, he’s got all these insignias. He comes across – he says he’s a left-wing authoritarian, an eco authoritarian. It’s in the manifesto, which they won’t release. I don’t know, just release it, it’s not gonna warp people’s mind. People can make decisions, parents got to be on top of stuff. Why are the parents that – is this kid going to church? Is he in church?” – Steve Bannon, inventing things that nobody else who have actually read the shooter’s manifesto have reported.
“Let’s just put a lot of crazy shit out there that the left and media will spend time responding to so they don’t focus as much on the fact that we 100% enabled, encouraged, and applauded the mass murderer terrorist.”
Steverino crewman • an hour ago
Distraction and deflection. With a heapin’ helpin’ of projection.
By the end of the week, on the rightwing media, Payton Gendron will be a Native American vegan lesbian senior member of the Biden administration.
HeyYouKidsGetOffMyLawn Yves R. Mektin • 2 hours ago
and a member of both BLM and Antifa.
Octoberfurst Yves R. Mektin • 2 hours ago
Don’t forget he’s also Antifa! He did it just to make the Right look bad because, as we all know, the Right has no problem with people of color!
What does that have to do with anything.
I am so tired of the daily batshittery, pull whatever out of your ass, “news.”
Smear the Queer…
Find someone whose done a horrendous act and smear them as being gay soas to smear the gay community as harbingers of evil. Ties in well with his anti-woke and his don’t say gay support.
Anything to distract from the fact that he is a white supremacist who openly stated in his manifesto that he was motivated by white supremacy.
Fat, drunk and stupid.
“It’s in the manifesto, which they won’t release.”
If they won’t release it, how do you know it’s in it. I’ve seen other people on the right claiming he’s a Bernie supporter. They’re desperate to shift the blame.
Hear that, folks? He wasn’t motivated by the stuff you’ve been hearing on my radio show like he said. It was really something about the environment all along, or some kind of fаggot shit like that. Yeah…that’s it.
Now that we’ve settled that, back to how the Jews are using the blacks to overwhelm and replace the poor, embattled white race.
DeSantis Claims State Will Assume Control Of Disney’s Special Government District, Not The Local Counties
The Orlando Sentinel reports:
The state will likely assume control of Disney World’s Reedy Creek Improvement District, rather than local governments absorbing it, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday. DeSantis said he is working on a proposal that likely will be considered by the Legislature after the November elections.
Reedy Creek, which encompasses Disney World and neighboring properties, is set to dissolve on June 1, 2023. The governor’s office hasn’t released a written plan detailing how the dissolution of Disney World’s private government will unfold.
At an event in Sanford, DeSantis also insisted Central Florida taxpayers will not be forced to absorb the district’s nearly $1 billion in debt. Under state law, the district’s assets and liabilities would be transferred to the “local general purpose government” when it’s abolished.
Read the full article. In other words, every Floridian will eat that billion dollars, not just the residents of Orange and Osceola counties.
Jean-Marc Canada – ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ • 41 minutes ago
Can you spell G-O-V-E-R-N-M-E-N-T-A-L O-V-E-R-R-E-A-C-H
Make no mistake, if the law they passed was fine and dandy, this part would’ve been initially included. Fucking idiots.
Florida residents are going to pay for DeSantis’ asshole moves for decades to come, just like we’re all paying for Trump’s.
I guess Floridians can either smarten up and organize or let this showboating asshole take you down the tubes with him.
Rebecca Gardner • 22 minutes ago
This shitshow is a portent of America’s immediate future.
Why anyone would choose to do business in Florida after this is a mystery.
Gay Class President Censored By Florida High School
“Florida high school senior Zander Moricz was called into his principal’s office last week. As class president his whole high school career — and his school’s first openly LGBTQ student to hold the title — this was a fairly routine request. But once he entered the administrator’s office, he said, he immediately knew “this wasn’t a typical meeting.” ***
