Berkeley professor Khiara Bridges clapped back at Missouri Senator Josh Hawley’s transphobic line of questioning during a hearing on the consequences of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade. Anthony Davis reacts.
And the hate continues and the attacks on trans people will increase. There is no reason for this other than othering and demonizing these people. I wish the public would see what the Republicans are doing and look how historically they have done it over and over through history. It has been done about gays, Catholics, Muslims, ethnic Irish people, blacks, the Mexicans, and anyone not straight white males that fit the majority has been treated to this hate and attempt to stir up hate against groups all for political advantage because they know their base followers are racist bigots and will endorse / vote for politicians that hate the same people they do. I am tired of the rising hate, it is time consuming and emotionally draining to see normal good people and children attacked because they are born different from the hateful majority. But as long as I can I will stand up for those that are not able to stand up to defend themselves. Hugs
Critics say the legislation could make it even more difficult for transgender people to access health care that’s recommended by major medical organizations.
Kevin McCarthy attends a House Republican Conference news confernce on Capitol Hill, in Washington, on Jan. 20, 2022.Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images file
By Reuters
U.S. Republicans in Congress are lining up behind legislation that critics say would roll back protections for transgender people, setting a playbook for action on a divisive social issue should they take control of Congress this fall.
Republicans in the House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would block federal funding to colleges where transgender women are allowed to participate in sports with cisgender women. A separate bill would allow transgender people to sue medical personnel who helped them transition as minors.
Another bill would block funding to schools that disobey state laws regarding “materials harmful to minors,” mimicking state laws that have been used to remove books discussing history around race and LGBTQ themes.
The bills have support from key Republicans in the House and Senate. Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has promoted the sports bill at a press conference and in a conservative newspaper. It is backed by 127 of 211 House Republicans.
**Editor note. There is a video here of the exchange between the professor that I can not post. To view it please go to the link of the article. Thanks, hugs. **
In the Senate, five Republicans have sponsored a version of the bill targeting medical providers, including Senators Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and Marco Rubio.
Republicans would be in a position to advance those bills next year if they win control of the House or the Senate in the Nov. 8 midterm elections, which analysts say is likely.
“I hope these are legislative initiatives that we can pass when we get the majority back,” said Rep. Jim Banks, who sponsored the medical providers bill and represents a district in Indiana, which banned transgender students from playing on girls’ sports teams at schools this May.
Fears of discrimination
Critics say the legislation proposed by House Republicans would reduce access to care needed by transgender people to transition. Transgender people are significantly more likely to attempt or commit suicide, often due to lack of access to gender-affirming medical care, according to the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group.
Banks called such criticism “outrageous” and said he did not see how his legislation would contribute to an unsafe environment for transgender people.
Violence against LGBTQ people has also increased fourfold between 2020 and 2021 in the United States, according to ACLED, a nonpartisan organization that tracks violence globally. The increase occurred during a three-year uptick in anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in state legislatures, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
“There has always been fringe voices who oppose LGBTQ equality, but now, unfortunately, that fringe has grown loud and is being given national platforms,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, president of GLAAD, a LGBTQ advocacy group.
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Sixty-four percent of Americans support protecting trans people from discrimination, according to a June poll from Pew Research Center; 10% oppose protections.
Eighteen Republican-led states have enacted bans on trans girls and women participating in publicly funded women’s sports, while more than a dozen have introduced legislation mimicking Florida’s law limiting classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
Advocates are pushing Democrats to do more to enshrine protections into law before the November elections, but they face uncertain prospects in the evenly divided Senate.
“If we lose the House or the Senate I think it’s really unlikely we’ll be able to prevent discrimination” at the federal level, said Fran Hutchins, executive director of Equality Federation.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is trying his best to provide cover for the right-wing’s horrible record in dismantling family and social services by pitching a “pro-family” social spending program. Too bad Rubio’s plan includes a child tax credit program that gives no benefits to parents earning less than $30,000, a parental leave program that forces parents to ‘borrow’ from their Social Security benefits at retirement, docking checks until you die, or docking checks for only five years of retirement. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.
“Late last month, Marco Rubio released what he described as a “pro-family framework following the Dobbs decision.” The actual content of the framework is recycled policies Rubio put out many years ago, but they perhaps deserve a second look, especially in light of Rubio’s new framing of them as pro-life benefits.
The Rubio framework has two main welfare benefits in it, the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and a parental leave program, which I will discuss in order below.”
President Biden and his administration are completely done with progressive activists demanding for more action on protecting abortion rights, demonizing activists for not endorsing the “mainstream” Democratic Party’s mission. Biden is effectively turning his back on EVERYONE who put in the work to get him elected on the local and state levels. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.
Read more HERE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politi… “Three days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, President Biden used a break between Group of Seven summit meetings at the luxury Schloss Elmau resort in Germany to get an update on the stunning and sudden loss of abortion rights for millions of Americans back home.
Huddling with top aides, including some who dialed in from the White House, Biden declared at the outset of the call that he wanted to endorse ending the Senate filibuster to codify Roe into law, a position he so far had refused to take, angering many Democrats in the process.”
In a recent analysis on world politics, Jordan Peterson suggested that maybe the reason Russia invaded Ukraine was because of the “deranged wokism” coming out of the United States. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.
“1/ So… Jordan Peterson thinks that not only is Russia attacking Ukraine because the US is ‘degenerate,’ but that they are justified in doing so. This is getting kind of scary, and not just because of the supervillain routine he’s doing in his vids lately.”
U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert voiced her confusion about Ilhan Omar’s being allowed to wear a hijab recently in a horribly thought-out argument advocating for no separation between church and state in the United States. Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola discuss on The Young Turks.
“Boebert: “If there really is this separation of church and state like they believe, then what is Ilhan doing with her hijab on? Why is she able to go in there with that?””
I know she is trying to make this a threatening action but I want to thank her for getting me interested in seeing the movie. Sounds far more interesting than I figured it would be and I personally would love to see a superhero move where to main male characters had a romance or were dating. Star lord and Thor would give a lot of material if they were dating in a movie about Thor courting a woman at the same time. Now that would blow the conservatives minds right off their shoulders. But these right wing people have to be made to understand that other people have needs and desires that form relationships different from the one man / one women with the man having illicit affairs when possible restricted conservative model of how relationships should be formed. I am so tired of her kind thinking only they should be shown or displayed in media and public. Others exist, and they want to see themselves represented in videos and media. Hugs
Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole:
WARNING! Thor: Love and Thunder just released in theaters on July 8, and this new movie from Marvel Studios includes blatant LGBTQ content.
One Million Moms needs your help to make sure as many people as possible are aware that Marvel Studios is pushing the LGBTQ agenda on families in their newest superhero movie. Parents should also know that Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is distributing Thor: Love and Thunder.
Rated PG-13, Thor: Love and Thunder includes many LGBTQ innuendos and an abundance of euphemisms, but a few scenes are not downplayed at all.
The alien character named Korg mentions having two dads, and he has hand sex with another member of his species.
The bisexual goddess, King Valkyrie, kisses another woman’s hand to show interest. An Asgardian kid insists on going by a gender-neutral name. And the gay romantic tension between Thor and Star-Lord is apparent but played off as a gag.
There have been numerous attempts by the entertainment industry to indoctrinate families with the LGBTQ agenda discretely and now more overtly.
1MM wants parents to be forewarned, so they are not caught off guard by this new Marvel film. Otherwise, Thor: Love and Thunder might surprise most conservative families.
Consequently, 1MM needs your help in getting the word out to as many people as possible. Marvel has decided to be politically correct instead of providing family-friendly programming. But Marvel should stick to entertaining, not pushing an agenda.
Please share this information with your friends and family to make sure they are aware of the gay content in Thor: Love and Thunder and are not blindsided by it. As moms, we all want to know that Marvel is attempting to desensitize our family by normalizing the LGBTQ lifestyle.
TAKE ACTION: Sign our petition to Marvel and Disney stating that your family will not watch Thor: Love and Thunder since its inclusion of an openly gay superhero and its LGBTQ content go against your beliefs and values.
“…this new movie from Marvel Studios includes blatant LGBTQ content.”
They are routinely horrified when a movie even acknowledges that LGBTQ people exist. Monica and the dozens of women who comprise One Million Moms are hateful bigots who find meaning in their lives by denigrating and oppressing others.
In case a million moms don’t know, PG-13 films are not for children. Uh, not for children under 13. And speaking as a former 13 year old, I knew I was gay by that age. I’d also certainly have figured which adults around me were gay two especially if they lived together and had children. LOL
She’s not OK with anything available to anyone, regardless of rating. She’s gone off on pasta sauce and salad dressing commercials airing on broadcast TV as being too explicitly heterosexual.
None of it has anything to do with accomplishing anything. It’s all about harvesting names for grifting. There is no organization named One Million Moms. It has no board, no president, no membership. They don’t raise money.
Monica Cole is just an employee of the American Family Association. They just harvest people’s information for use in grifting.
Gosh. I watched the trailer, and it seemed to me the movie is all about the straight lifestyle. Isn’t it about Thor’s ex-girlfriend and getting back together? I don’t understand why the straight people in Hollywood keep trying to shove their lifestyles down our throats.
I am so glad I took my 6 year old son to see the newest Thor movie where he could see a diverse set of characters who have the freedom to express their sexuality and attractions to people openly and without bias. Hopefully he will learn acceptance of people for who they are and will find more families like his own with 2 fathers that love each other. Thanks 1MM for the heads up on where I should be taking my son to see these expressions of love and attraction!!
And the gay romantic tension between Thor and Star-Lord is apparent but played off as a gag.
I saw the movie and enjoyed it… and this never happened.
Being offended by normal LGBTQ behavior is one thing… but being offended by things that never actually happened is sorta proof that you need professional help.
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