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Parents of second & third place girls file complaint against winner claiming she’s transgender
All these anti-trans bills that allowed the inspection of kid’s genitals if they are suspected of being trans. What is the justification for mislabeling them? They are better than their peers, they have natural gifts that make them better. This is why the trans women in women sports are stealing the right wins from women is so stupid. What now separating out the ones taller as unfair, separating out the stronger ones as unfair. See how idiotic this has become. All because of bigotry and hate. Hugs
Photo: ShutterstockParents of the girls who got second and third place in a sporting event filed complaints to have the first-place winner investigated for her gender. The first-place girl is cis.
David Spatafore of the Utah High School Activities Association (UHSAA) is in charge of enforcing the state’s new ban on transgender girls participating in school sports as their gender. While he wouldn’t reveal the sport she played or the school she attended in order to protect her privacy, he said that he was forced to investigate her gender after the parents of two losing student-athletes complained.
He said that he also received some other complaints about her, including one that said, “That female athlete doesn’t look feminine enough.”
“The school went back to kindergarten and she’d always been a female,” Spatafore said.
LGBTQ advocates have been warning for years that transgender sports bans could be used by the families of losing student-athletes to attack winners. Some states, like Idaho, require genital examinations in their sports bans. Such requirements would have subjected the student under investigation to an unnecessary and invasive examination.
Utah passed its transgender sports ban earlier this year and this case is one of the first to test the law. Spatafore said that school records are enough to satisfy the law’s requirements “because if all of the questions about eligibility were answered by the school or the feeder system schools, there was no reason to make it a personal situation with a family or that athlete.”
Spatafore said that UHSAA is trying to follow the new ban.
“Quite frankly, this is new ground for us,” he told the Deseret News. “I’m not going to say that we have it down pat, because I have no clue. I don’t think any of us in the office have a clue if we have it down pat. What we want to do is we just want to try to do our job.”
The state legislature passed H.B. 11, the transgender sports ban, earlier this year. In March, Gov. Spencer Cox (R) vetoed the bill, saying that it “will likely bankrupt the Utah High School Athletic Association and result in millions of dollars in legal fees for local school districts.” The legislature overrode his veto.
In June, the families of two transgender girls in the state filed a lawsuit challenging the sports ban, arguing that the bill was “based on unfounded stereotypes, fears, and misconceptions about girls who are transgender. It is not supported by medical or scientific evidence.”
Trolls swatted trans streamer in terrifying episode. She went into hiding but they found her again.
This is what the anti-trans rhetoric creates. A culture where harming LGBTQ+ is done for fun, again to make them shut up and go away. Decades of working for tolerance and acceptance are being wiped out by the open racism and bigotry of the republicans and the rabid right thugs. I watched the video she did on this and her treatment by the police was horrifying. She woke up with guns in her face, she was arrested, booked under her dead name, the police were horribly anti-trans and homophobic. Hugs
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Weeks after online trolls sent police to her door on false pretenses, popular transgender Twitch streamer and activist Clara Sorrenti was once again doxed.
Earlier this month, Sorrenti, who goes by the name Keffals on social media, was the victim of a tactic known as “swatting.” Police raided her London, Ontario home and arrested her after someone using her deadname reportedly sent violent threats to local city hall officials. She was released without charges and later cleared of all wrongdoing. London police chief Steve Williams said that he will review how officers treated Sorrenti, who says she was consistently addressed with her deadname, which is not her legal name.
After going public with the story, Sorrenti moved out of her apartment and into a hotel. But that location has also been compromised.
“The hotel I was staying at got doxed so I had to move hotels,” Sorrenti told Canada’s Global News. “Five different pizza companies sent pizzas to my hotel room in my (birth) name. Obviously, the pizza itself isn’t the problem. It’s the threat they send by telling me they know where I live and are willing to act on it in the real world.”
Sorrenti, who was a Communist Party candidate in Canada’s 2019 federal election and frequently posts about trans issues on her Twitch channel, has been the target of relentless anti-transgender harassment. In July, Twitch banned Sorrenti from the platform after a stream she was doing highlighting examples of the hateful abuse she receives was mass reported by trolls.
Sorrenti speculates that online trolls may have managed to find her using a photo she posted of her fiancée’s cat on their hotel bed following the swatting ordeal.
“The people who have been harassing me [must have] spent hours looking at the bedsheets, cross-referencing them with every hotel in my city until they found a match,” she said.
London Police Service is investigating both the swatting and doxing.
“We’re concerned,” deputy police chief Trish McIntyre said. “It’s harassment. Is it police’s responsibility to investigate those occurrences? One hundred percent. We’re aware of them, they’re under investigation.”
Republican Party official posts image of KKK hoods on social media
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/republican-party-official-posts-image-kkk-hoods-social-media/
Photo: ShutterstockThe Republican Party of Lawrence County, Alabama recently posted an image on its Facebook account containing white hoods associated with the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), a white supremacist terrorism organization.
The image — which showed the silhouette of a roaring elephant, the Republican Party mascot — was posted alongside a message thanking the former county party chairman for his “countless hours leading the local GOP to represent your conservative values.”
However, the white triangles between the elephant’s legs had eye holes added to them, giving them the image of the white hoods that KKK members wear during their rallies to stay anonymous while striking fear in the hearts of non-white people.
The image was an original piece of art created in 2020 by the left-leaning political publication Mother Jones for an article discussing racism in the Republican Party. The article’s headline was “The Republican Party Is Racist and Soulless. Just Ask This Veteran GOP Strategist.” Its tagline read, “Stuart Stevens says he now realizes the hatred and bigotry of Trumpism were always at the heart of the GOP.”
The Lawrence County Republican Party removed the image from its Facebook page and its chairwoman Shanon Terry said that the image was found during a Google search and was “immediately replaced” once the party realized that it contained KKK imagery.
“I would like to offer a deep and sincere apology for a picture that temporarily appeared on this page last night,” Terry wrote in a public apology. “A google search picture of a GOP elephant was used and later found to have hidden images that do not represent the views or beliefs of the Lawrence County Republican Party. As chairman, I take full responsibility for the error.”
In response to the party’s use of the image, Black Alabama state Rep. Anthony Daniels (D) published a tweet showing the party’s use of the image. Daniels wrote, “Shame on the Lawrence County Republican Party for this disgusting image.”
However, Terry said she would not be resigning as the county party’s chairperson over the incident.
“I regret the mistake that was made, and it was just that – an unintended mistake,” Terry wrote in a statement to WHNT. “The image posted by me on a political Facebook page was not done with any malicious or harmful intent…. My error was rushing to post a thank you note to the outgoing chairperson, in doing so I did not properly review a cut and paste image…. I do not support or agree with any hate group agenda and certainly would not try to further their cause.”
The Republican Party has long used racist anger against non-white people excite its mostly white voting base. This has included using language against “inner city crime,” “welfare cheats,” and “immigrants” as dog whistles against poorer and non-white people. The former President Donald Trump also encouraged such racist views by praising white supremacist organizations and associated groups who supported him.
The Lawrence County NAACP has announced that it will hold a press conference about the image on Friday.
Fox host outraged that school district pulled the Bible from shelves in book challenge
Please note she was offended that a few people could get a book she liked removed but feels it is fine if one person’s complaints get LGBTQ+ books removed. Please take note of the last paragraph, they now want to push their ideology of white supremacy and other hatreds in libraries and schools. Hugs
Photo: YouTube screenshotFox News hosts have expressed outrage over the Bible being removed from school library shelves in a Texas school district, claiming that the book should be allowed, even though it contains stories of incest and violence and promotes slavery, the subjugation of women, and the murder of LGBTQ people.
The Fox News panel also said that banning the Bible from schools furthers a Democratic plot, even though the school district’s home county traditionally votes Republican.
The Christian religious text was removed by the Keller Independent School District’s Book Challenge Committee this week because it was challenged for having “sexual content and violence” along with 40 other books, most of which featured Black and LGBTQ characters. The district’s school principals were told to keep the books off of library shelves until the district has completed its review of each book’s appropriateness for student readers.
Moms for Liberty activist wants LGBTQ students separated into special classes
Told you this was coming. It is all about driving public opinion that there is something wrong and bad about LGBTQ+ people / kids. They should be around normal good kids. Drive them back into hiding. Regress the country to the 1950s. This was not about teacher talking students into be gay or trans. It was about demonizing and attacking the gay and trans kids. Hugs
Crystal Alonso of Moms for LibertyPhoto: ScreenshotAn anti-LGBTQ Moms for Liberty activist told MSNBC that she believes LGBTQ students should have separate classes from straight and cisgender students in schools.
Field Report with Paola Ramos aired last week and discussed the rightward movement among Latino voters, especially in Florida. Ramos met with a group of Moms for Liberty activists.
Moms for Liberty gained notoriety during the pandemic as they attended and protested school board meetings to oppose mask mandates and LGBTQ inclusivity in schools. The group’s past exploits include offering bounties for people who turn in teachers who discuss “divisive topics,” attacking the Trevor Project for trying to prevent LGBTQ teen suicide, trying to get a book about seahorses banned for being too sexy, and saying that two girls briefly kissing at a school function is “lewd” and “traumatic.” The group lobbied in Florida for the Don’t Say Gay bill.
We went to vote today, and I am in serious pain
Yesterday Ron was not feeling well and went to take a nap all afternoon. I stepped up to help by making supper. I made videos of it that I will post later, someday. I took some grilled chicken Ron had seasoned and cooked on the grill and made a chicken chili out of it with my own mixture of seasoning. Everyone here loved it. But the effort was so painful I had to take extra medications and then went to bed with very little in my stomach. So long story short, we went for our walk this morning, something that all my doctors claim is helping my health / blood work, then got showered and went out to vote. *** yes we went to vote in the primary in our district in Florida.*** But there was a problem. After our walk my pain levels soared and my back gave out. I simply couldn’t stand more than a couple minutes. In the house I was using my canes. But I knew that I couldn’t stand for the length of time we had to do in the last time we went to vote, also I knew I couldn’t stand to mark the ballot. I was in so much pain Ron had to drive. So I did something I don’t like to do, I took my walker. Yes I hate to admit it, but I use a walker when the muscles in my back won’t support me or I cannot stand for any length of time.
Ron drove us to the voting place, which was unusual in that normally I drive, but my pain levels were too high for me to safely do so. Ron got out and brought my walker to me which really was not necessary I felt, I could walk to the trunk. Little did I know how soon my back would fail.
The difference between the lower income minority districts in Florida we used to go to early voting years ago and this new facility in a majority white area I have posted about before. I have told how I simply couldn’t stand in line and the obstructions to get mail in ballots it took to simply vote that year almost stopped Ron and I from being able to vote. But the difference between that to the early voting in our area now is stunning.
First plenty of parking and even if Ron had not found a handicap parking space right near the door, we still would have had lots of space to park. (Unlike the other place that had no parking that Ron had to drop me off and then go to park blocks away) Then as we walked up to the three set of entry doors a worker inside hit a switch that automatically opened the door for us seeing I was using my walker. After we entered, I thanked that person and without looking asked where I should go to vote. The signs and staff that were lined up should have given the hint. However, a staff member came forward and took Ron and I right to the voting room, but there was no line so if they had simply pointed, we would have found it. But the thing is my need for my walker triggered a lot of extra care. The worker took us to the door and a second worker took me right to the check in person only 20 feet across the room. She could have pointed but she walked with me there. There was no line at that time, and it was about 15 minutes after they opened. Then at the check-in I gave my information and had to sit on the seat of my walker, my back was so stressed I couldn’t stand even for that.
After I showed my driver’s license and signed the pad saying it was me, there was something new. The poll worker still had my driver’s license and asked me to mimic the signature on the license as best as I could on the pad with either my finger or the stylus. I never have been able to sign the tablet sign things either in the pharmacy or my doctor’s office that use them with my finger. It comes out squiggly lines. However the signature on my driver’s license is really good and readable. So she explained it and flipped the screen to me, I stood up and standing on shaky legs I tried to sign my name. I was a disaster, and I admit it. A bunch of hoops and loops with a few letters being readable. I apologized and said I would try again when this nice older white lady said without even turning the screen back to her that it was OK, the signatures matched. I thanked her.
After we left I asked Ron if he had the same thing and he said yes but that the poll worker did turn the screen around and look to verify his. So this is the perfect way to stop someone from voting that the poll worker from whatever party doesn’t want to vote. No matter what they do the signature won’t match! Remember the republican anti-democratic party wants to prevent any non-white republican voters from being able to vote and has put a lot of money into training poll workers how to block “those voters”.
The nice poll worker printed my ballot and gave me the ballot, added a cover for it, and a pen, and said “Thank you for voting”. I had already thanked her for being a poll worker as we need as many people willing to do the hard unpaid work of democracy as possible. I stood up and asked if there was a place for me to sit to vote? Normally there are several long tables for disabled voters to sit to do their ballot. The lady told me yes, go all the way to the back of the room. What the Fuck! But I started that way and as I got close another poll worker came up to me and took me to the TWO spots at a small table set aside for those that need to sit to vote in a retirement area of Florida with a senior population. A poorer senior population. The last time I voted there they had three long tables set up for people that needed to sit to fill out the ballot.
This poll worker directed me to the place and made sure I had what I needed to vote. She was also responsible for directing people to the four scanning machines for the ballots, telling them how to insert them, checking to make sure they were read, and then directing them to the door to drop off their ballot sleeve and pen. I think she / that position deserved at least another person to help her.
Ron had chosen the standing voting place as close to the place I was sitting so he could watch when I was done and move with me. We both had the voting list I had done up. Ron told me later he was really concerned because he noticed how shaky I was at the sign in and then going to the table and sitting down. He was not going to leave his voting spot until I got up.
I carefully filled out my ballot, struggled to my feet using my walker, and started to the line marked to turn in your ballot. Ron stepped up behind me. Again the poll worker that had taken me to the small sit down table stepped up and took me to a reader and explained how to insert it, making the others like Ron wait. Then as I did mine she told the other people of which there was only Ron and one other person what to do.
One last example of how different it is in this polling place. When you exit the room they have it set up that you leave a back door and walk around the side of the building back to the parking lot. The poll worker lady taking the sheeves and pens had already taken Ron’s and seeing he was helping me told him, move the strap rope barricading the hallway back to the front so he, meaning me, won’t have to try to walk around, which Ron thanked her and did. We walked out the short distance we came in rather than around the outside of the building.
So we voted in the Florida primaries. Ron thanked me for all the effort I made to vet the candidates, and I thanked him for taking me there and helping me through it. For two old farts who have been together going on 33 years we do OK. But I worry at the traps for those not old white people in voting in Florida. This year DeathSantis has made it even harder for minorities to vote while he and his party claim illegal voting is rampant. Not only has he with the force of government put a strangle hold on minority voting but with his new election police he has chilled any minority voting of those who are not sure they should vote. That should be checked at the polls as it was done for me. But now DeathSantis announces that his election police found 30 felons that voted that shouldn’t have and they will prosecute them. But remember after the 2020 election the state of Florida said there was no illegal voting they could find. What is the goal here? To prevent as much minority voting as possible! Why? Because minorities tend not to vote for the party that claims only white straight Christian cis males have all the rights. It is voter suppression taken to the next level.
OK Now for me and why I have not been online answering comments or posting. Yes when we got home, I sat at my desk and put both computers back online. So much news, so many things I felt I should post. I wanted to get right to it. But my pain levels had a different idea. I went to lay down. I have gotten up at various times during the day and tried to focus on the news and blogging, but the best I could do was to watch videos. I would watch some, go back and lay down. Repeat. Take pain medication. Repeat. I got up and watched a few videos, James made a great supper, and I am writing this post after taking even more pain medication. If I take too much longer to do this Ron may drag me out of my chair to the bedroom to lay down again and go to bed for the night. He got really upset seeing how shaky it was for me to stand at the voting place. He wouldn’t even stop at the local publix to get our flu shots but insisted on taking me home.
Ok going to proofread this and then go to bed as Ron is getting really insistent on it, and hopefully in the morning I can start on the 8 days of comments I have not replied to. Hugs and love to all. Scottie
I just got it done; we are ready to vote in the primary tomorrow.
On top of everything else early voting in Florida started on Saturday Aug 13th. I got my sample ballot on that same day. And it included a couple races I checked and don’t seem to be on the ballot I downloaded Monday from the county web site. Since DeathSantis took over and started his republican maga cult kingdom the election system has taken an awfully bad hit. I used to get my sample ballot with plenty of time to research each candidate and then Ron and I would talk about them and decide which ones we would support. This time with Ron having doctors appointments more often than I do, and with all the things going on, getting the ballot late while the state cut the early voting to only one week from Aug 13 to Aug 20 along with my being ill, I have been scrambling to research the primary candidates while Ron and I have limited time to talk it over. We have to go vote tomorrow morning, it is the only time we have, because James and Ron are leaving to go up to Ron’s brother’s 50th anniversary and Ron doesn’t want me to go to vote on voting day with the huge lines alone. As it is last time, I did not take my walker and had a very hard time standing in line and voting even though it was a short time in line compared to other places in Florida and they really helped me getting me a sit-down voting spot. I will say that the difference in treatment from voting in a majority white district is huge compared to voting in an oppressed minority district.
With everything going on I worked to post some stuff and then researched the candidates. WOW what a revelation for the local races, especially for school boards where most of the candidates were off the wall bizarre maga parents with the goal of first stopping the woke takeover of the teachers who are grooming the students which is making them trans / gay. This is the primaries, not the general. These lower races are not partisan, so the primaries are open to both parties to vote. Looking these candidates up scared me their views and realizing they were likely to win.
I also noted that the highest state offices had democrats that were to the right of center or center candidates. Yes we have a few who are normal democratic liberal candidates which in Florida is about as progressive as we can get. I like some of those. I like the ones that were former public defenders, worked for equality issues, and other things that helped the lower income people / workers. I will be voting for them. But too many of them were republican lite in the democratic primary. Again for those that keep saying the democrats must go to the center or even to the right to get that right leaning vote, the republicans don’t want to vote for republican lite when they can have the full republican candidate. It is the losing position.
Now to address my comments. I was sick for a week. I also get very tired after eating and so have to go to bed for a nap. The doctor explained what was happening. Because I am unable to move much, lowering my calorie intake is a good thing. For me that means eating only twice a day with small portions. But because my blood sugar is low before I eat, I take my insulin and eat, my blood sugar goes down further for a while causing me to get very tired before it bounces back up. He said if I have the time and it is not interfering with my life just go sleep, it helps my pain levels also. If I want it fixed, he will draw up a program for me next visit. So for now, this means after eating lunch (which is my first meal) I go to take a nap and rest my back. I get up and work, then after eating supper I go to bed for the night. Remember If you took my life in a 24 hour period, I will spend more of it in bed than up most day. That is not true all the time, sometimes I get up in the middle of the night and go to the computers because my pain won’t let me sleep.
The point of my telling you the above is I have not answered comments or been to other blogs since I got sick last Thursday. I thought throwing up on the car door and all over the parking lot was because I drank a lot of water and had stop and roll then stop again traffic for 30 minutes. Seems I had a bug, and I really hope I did not give it to anyone else. I will start on the comments next beginning with the oldest I can get to. Tomorrow we are going to vote, then I will be going with Ron to help him do the shopping because remember he just had a large metal wire sliver that got into his heal removed first at home then the rest taken out in the walk-in convenient care, plus he had the three-day heavy metal tests on his back he just got removed this afternoon. I just think he would love to have company in the great fight for food. The point of all this is it is going to take a few days for me to catch up. If I miss your comment because it disappeared before I could get to it or I somehow overlooked it in my rush to get caught up, comment again. Thanks for understanding things are a bit rushed and overwhelming right now. Hugs and lots of loves. Scottie
