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Judge awards $4.5 million to Black gay man who wa…
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Rightwing troll Matt Walsh busted defending teen…
Media Matters revealed that on the program’s run from 2010 to 2011, broadcast on Delaware’s WZBH, Walsh asserted that “girls getting pregnant” at a “young age” is perfectly normal. He said that teen pregnancy isn’t a problem as long as the teens are married and stressed that it’s normal for 16-year-old girls to get pregnant because that’s when they’re “technically most fertile.”
“So to all of a sudden act like this phenomenon of girls getting pregnant at that — at a young age — that we consider young, 16 or 17, to act like it’s a new thing is ridiculous,” he said. “It’s always been that way. … Girls between the ages of like 17 and 24 is when they’re technically most fertile.”
“What I’m saying is that the problem is not, per se, teenage pregnancy — it’s unwed pregnancy,” he continued.
“At about 16, you’re an adult who is mature and can make decisions — you are that at 16. I don’t care what anybody says,” Walsh said. “And if you’re going to tell me it’s different, well, then how come for the first 10,000 years of human civilization, that’s the way it was? It’s just recently where all of a sudden we’re all ret****d until we’re 25?”
His co-hosts complained about the “whorish behavior of these same-aged girls” while another person on his show called them “sluts.”
The radio rant was a contradiction to the trans troll’s claim that affirming the gender identities of transgender minors is child abuse.
Walsh’s hypocrisy is compounded in a blog post the media watchdog unearthed from 2013, with his claim that adolescence is a fictional concept.
“Adolescence isn’t a product of brain chemistry — it’s a product of our expectations,” Walsh wrote. “If we expect 23 year-olds to act like they’re 13, then we will get just that. For thousands of years, 13 year-olds were expected to act like they’re 23, and those expectations were met.”
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GOP candidate attacked for lessons that say gay p…
Yet almost daily I read two or three stories of religious leaders of different faiths sexually abusing kids, who are taught that they must obey the orders of the Priest / Pastor / Imam / Rabbi and any other lay person religious leader or god will punish them in hell forever. But ya it is teachers admitting that same sex marriage and LGBTQ+ people exist that are grooming and sexually abusing kids. These religious people never complain about the sex abuse their own do but are always projecting their sins on others. Hugs
State Sen. Darren Bailey (R), who is challenging Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D), founded Full Armor Christian Academy in 2016, a preschool through 12th-grade school that says it teaches kids “the courage to act upon Christian values and beliefs.”
The school uses a curriculum developed by the far-right Bob Jones University that’s so extreme it teaches that gay people are the moral equivalent of child molesters and that most slaveholders treated slaves well.
The school, according to Pritzker’s new ad, says that Full Armor Christian Academy teaches that “women in the workforce have been harmful to America” and that “evolution isn’t real.”
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Putin says U.S. wants to push gender “perversions…
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It’s not surprising that Putin would make statements against same-sex marriage and transgender identity. He is renowned amongst global human-rights groups for his anti-LGBTQ policies.
What’s surprising is how many Republicans and right-wingers in the United States agree with him.
Under the administration of former U.S. President Donald Trump, Republicans have cited gay marriage as a threat to families, religion, and social order. Republicans have tried to ban any acknowledgment of LGBTQ identities from schools and have falsely claimed that LGBTQ people and allies are forcing “sex change operations” on transgender youth. In reality, such operations aren’t conducted on children.
In February, Steve Bannon, former advisor to Trump, said U.S. citizens should support “anti-woke” Putin because of Putin’s long history of anti-LGBTQ politics.
Bannon and his podcast guest, private military contractor Erik Prince, said Russian people “still know which bathroom to use,” know that there are only two genders, they don’t fly Pride flags and “they don’t have boys swimming in girls’ college swim meets,” an apparent reference to trans female swimming champion Lia Thomas.
In June 2013, Putin signed a law banning so-called “gay propaganda” in Russia. The law ostensibly seeks to “protect children” from any “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relationships,” according to the law’s text.
The law has mostly been used to silence LGBTQ activist organizations, events, websites and media, as well as to break up families and harass teachers. The law has been roundly condemned by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, the human-rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, as well as civil rights activists around the world.
Putin has also largely ignored an ongoing and years-long crackdown against LGBTQ people living in the semi-autonomous Russian region of Chechnya.
In the crackdown, which began in December 2016, police and military officials arrest suspected queer people under claims of drug dealing or terrorism. The officials then use electrocution, beatings, extreme cold, starvation, dehydration, isolation, forced nudity and homophobic insults to get arrestees to reveal more suspected homosexuals, according to the Russian LGBT Network. An estimated 33 people have died in the crackdown and hundreds have fled the region since it began.
The Russian military has been accused of torturing and bombing civilians since it first invaded Ukraine in February. Both are war crimes forbidden by the Geneva Conventions.
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Jon Stewart delivers masterful takedown of Arkans…
This is a great read, informative with out being highly medical intense. He fact checks her lies and myths the right loves to spew, showing how she is just making things up. He uses a real example that shows how she is being cruel to a segment of kids just due to dislike. He asks how she with no medical training thinks she is more qualified than the major medical organizations that support gender affirmative care including using puberty blockers that are safe and reversible. By the end of the interview she was so angry at him. It was grand. Nice to see a politician held to the truth in real time. Now if he could talk to those claiming that kids are furries using litter boxes in school. Hugs
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/08/jon-stewart-apple-arkansas-leslie-rutledge/
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Medical Groups Ask Justice Department to Investig…
The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association and the Children’s Hospital Association urged the department “to investigate the organizations, individuals, and entities coordinating, provoking, and carrying out bomb threats and threats of personal violence against children’s hospitals and physicians across the U.S.”
Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts, Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee (VUMC), and Akron Children’s Hospital in Ohio have all recently received social media threats after far-right influencers condemned gender-affirming programs offered by the hospitals and spread misinformation on their practices. This has brought both scrutiny — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, formally called for an investigation into Vanderbilt’s practices — and threats of violence — a local woman was charged with making a fake bomb threat to the Boston Children’s Hospital.
“Whether it’s newborns receiving intensive care, children getting cancer treatments or families accessing compassionate care for their transgender adolescents, all patients seeking treatment deserve to get the care they need without fear for their personal safety,” American Academy of Pediatrics president Moira Szilagyi said in a news release. “We cannot stand by as threats of violence against our members and their patients proliferate with little consequence.”
Dr. Morissa Ladinsky, professor of pediatrics at the University of Alabama who provides gender-affirming care to trans youth in Alabama and surrounding states, said that in her view, much of the vitriol around care for trans youth is fueled by the misperception that surgeries are a standard part of the care.
“Nowhere is it within the standard of care to perform genital surgery for gender affirmation for gender dysphoria on children or minors. That doesn’t happen,” she said. The only surgery for trans youth that can take place under accepted medical guidelines is top surgery for transmasculine minors, which is still rare — and not provided at her clinic.
“It’s my hope that no physician has to undergo threats of fear and intimidation in provision of standard-of-care medicine,” Ladinsky said.
https://www.them.us/story/trans-youth-hospitals-justice-department
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Conservatives Are Obsessed With This Lie About St…
The tactic of repeating a completely baseless lie until it becomes widely accepted as truth has become perhaps the most emblematic rhetorical strategy of the GOP. Of course, there was the notion of the “stolen election,” which was largely driven by Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Fox News has also been primarily responsible for spreading baseless and/or misleading claims about trans people, at one point airing 170 segments regarding trans people in the span of just three weeks.
While we’re at it, it’s worth noting that furries don’t necessarily actually identify as animals. Much like cosplay, it’s mostly a hobby enjoyed by people who like to wear costumes around each other and/or draw themselves as anthropomorphized characters. But none of that matters to conservatives; what matters is drumming up as much fake moral outrage as possible to ignite their base, even if that comes at the cost of sparking a second Satanic Panic, this time about clumping clay.
https://www.them.us/story/conservatives-obsessed-furries-lie-lgbtq-students
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Right-Wing Media Spent the Week Vilifying a Vermo…
Notice at the end of the article the trans teen wrote to one of the media outlets and asked for an apology and told them what really happened. The fact is mentioned at the end of the article that the maga right feel entitled to act on their homophobia and harm LGBTQ+ people due to trumps encouragement and right wing governors like DeathSantis targeting the entire LGBTQ+ especially trans kids. Hugs
Hot on their heels were far-right digital tabloids like the Christian Broadcast Network, The Epoch Times, and the Daily Wire, which published multiple articles apiece about the story, misgendering the trans student. The Daily Signal, an outlet owned by the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, mimicked the shape and tone of investigative journalism by interviewing several of the cis players and their parents about the trans teen’s alleged voyeurism.
But buried in all these articles was the fact that the team was being investigated not for “speaking out,” but for harassment and bullying themselves. Perhaps these outlets could have gleaned that information if any of them, including WCAX, had obtained comment from the trans student or her family.
On Monday, October 3, the trans student’s mother gave an interview to the independent Vermont news site Seven Days, saying the actual incident as her daughter described it was actually one of sudden and unabashed bullying from the rest of the team. While changing one day after school, she said, three cis team members began “yelling at her [daughter] to get out and to stop looking at them.” The trans teen says she complied and entered a stall, but when she poked her head out to ask if jerseys were to be worn that day, another round of shouting from her teammates ensued.
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After leaving the locker room, the team’s coach then told the player that she had overheard everything and would be reporting the incident to school officials; according to the player’s mother, she received a phone call from the school’s administration two days later confirming that an investigation into the alleged bullying had been started, and that no players were allowed in the locker room alone until it was completed. In a statement to Seven Days, district Superintendent Layne Millington confirmed aspects of the mother’s account and stated that the locker room lockout was implemented “to ensure student safety while the investigation is conducted, and the shutdown applies equally to the entire team.”
Millington also said that the district’s original goal was to keep the locker room open with adult supervision, but “false and escalating rhetoric on social media” meant the school could not find enough volunteers to supervise the team. Over the weekend, Millington continued, the district was forced to take its website down after it was hacked and defaced with “hate speech, symbols and photographs targeting transgender individuals.”
Meanwhile, the student at the epicenter of all this has now faced a deluge of bullying from other students, whose parents are calling her a “voyeur,” “pervert,” and “freak” online and at home, per Seven Days. All of this from a single piece of slanted reporting that fulfilled right-wing media’s pipe dream of a trans locker room scandal
https://www.them.us/story/trans-teen-vermont-locker-room-right-wing-media
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Oklahoma State Hospital No Longer Allowed to Offe…
These are the same people who feel it is OK to force a 10 year old raped girl to carry a fetus to full term birthing a baby that may kill her and will create life long medical issues for her as her body is not ready for such abuse. But a 17 year old who wants a breast reduction is a horrible crime? Why because straight men wont get to play with those kids breasts? A 14 year old can not get puberty blockers which are proven safe and fully reversible and recommended by all major medical associations but that same 14 year can be forced to have a baby even if they are raped. My Dogs That Love Gravy do these people every hear themselves? Hugs
Oklahoma has few LGBTQ+ elected officials who are in a position to push back against the Republican anti-trans party line. In July, Adam Graham, the first openly gay mayor of a small city called The Village inside Oklahoma City, tendered his resignation, citing safety concerns after being threatened on the street and having his tires slashed.
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“[T]he bullies in the Oklahoma Legislature are more invested in their reelection campaigns than they are in protecting Oklahoma’s most vulnerable,” wrote staffers at LGBTQ+ advocacy group Freedom Oklahomaafter SB 3 passed through the state legislature last week. “We will hold these legislators accountable and we will show trans kids that they are loved, celebrated, and they belong here, with us.”
Stitt’s ongoing commitment to anti-trans policies joins that of an increasing number of Republican governors, following the playbook of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who’s found favor in far-right circles and in right-wing press in the leadup to this year’s elections for lashing out at the “woke left,” or as it’s more commonly known, bullying LGBTQ+ kids from the statehouse. But these strategies aren’t guaranteed to win: One recent poll shows Stitt leading his Democratic rival Joy Hofmeister by only one point.
https://www.them.us/story/kevin-stitt-oklahoma-state-hospital-trans-care
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