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‘They use our Trans Community as their political sport’
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Or shall I say ‘Blood Sport’. Or ‘Death Sport’. After all, they demand our ‘Eradication’.
When and where do we start?
We’ve been here before – political and legal football.
Eisenhower used his Lavender Scare laws of 1953 to declare that Trans and LGBT Americans are a Security Risk and must be subject to Social Murder: denied education, housing, employment, their Constitutional Rights, their Civil Rights, their Human Rights.
Skip a decade, to the 1970s and a not quite lull.
Courts first mandated state MedicAid to provide Trans health care (including SRS and other surgeries) in the late 1970s. Then some states managed to deny Trans health care. Then more Court Orders requiring state compliance. Back and forth, denied health care at the whims of Republi-con and Christian Con-servative legislatures.
Ping-pong continues.
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For a time during the early 1970s, Bowie did dabble in forms of Gender exploration and expression – wearing feminine attire and make-up, in life and in performance.
I can’t say to what extent or to address the narrative post or that image from that era of Bowie’s career.
My knowledge comes personally – from hiding Bowie’s albums (among other things) from my snooping father looking for evidence of my own Trans behaviour during those years, when I was a teen and young adult living at home.
When I was in my early adult Transition in 1977, still living at home with my anti-Trans father, I quite well remember my father getting the Catholic newspaper after Sunday Mass, reading it, yelling at me, influenced by their anti-Trans commentary that they published.
One easy target of the Catholic Church, they published frequent stories coming out strong against the ABC TV show ‘Soap’ because one of the lead characters (Jody, played by Billy Crystal was a Trans woman in Transition. My father so opposed that show, my own Transition, and my watching it, that he broke the TV; no matter, I listened in my bedroom on my radio that had the TV audio band.
My father spent years yelling at me to ‘talk to a priest’; the priests who he demanded that I talk to were obviously anti-Trans, he knew, he wanted the priests to support his own antipathy about me. Well, I eventually did talk to a priest, but not getting the results that my father wanted, my father disputed the results. On a better note was what happened after I made full-time. I went to a Pastor from our former parish (1985). He was quite pleased about my successful Transition so much that he offered, and I accepted, to teach at his parish’s school. My father ruined that, he outed me to the parishioners one Sunday after Mass (November 1985); I resigned my teaching job and didn’t return to that parish.
Nowadays, Drumpfians whine that ‘Democrats are weaponising guh’mint’ against Crooked Drumpf, against themselves. They don’t know, don’t care, about any of the 80-some criminal charges against him, of his self-admitted guilt, they openly assert that they will refuse to acknowledge or accept any conviction, they boast that they will vote for Crooked Drumpf even if he’s convicted and in prison. Drumpfians gaslight themselves. Drumpfians think that Biden directs these criminal and civil cases, ignoring the fact that The People and grand juries independently brought these charges against Crooked Drumpf.
Drumpfians call these cases ‘Election Interference’ by Biden and the Democratic Party. They ignore Crooked Drumpf’s own, actual Election Interference since 2016, and his boast that he himself will go after his political opponents once he wins, they applaud him for it. Ya can’t make up their level of both stupidity and hypocrisy. Disconnected from Reality.
Crooked Drumpf will overthrow our Constitution, do anything that he wants to do. Drumpfians don’t give a rip, they don’t care. This is what they want.
Neither do the approximately one-third of the generic Bell Curve of the Trans and LGBT Community who vote Republi-con, vote for Crooked Drumpf. They are devoted and inculcated to Crooked Drumpf.
Little has effectively changed. We are pretty much where we were decades ago.
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Erin In The Morning
Trump Endorses Pastor Who Calls For LGBTQ+, Transgender Executions
On Monday, former President Donald Trump endorsed Mark Burns for South Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District. The pastor has previously called for the execution of LGBTQ “indoctrinators.”
ERIN REED
APR 03, 2024
Left: Gage Skidmore. Donald Trump [photograph], Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED, Right: Mark Burns on the Stew Peters Show.
On Monday, former President Donald Trump announced his endorsement of Pastor Mark Burns for South Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District. The pastor has previously exhibited extremist rhetoric towards LGBTQ+ and transgender individuals, calling for the arrest and execution of those he accuses of LGBTQ+ and transgender “indoctrination.” Trump’s endorsement threatens to swing a crowded Republican primary in Burns’ direction. Given the heavily Republican lean of the district, Burns would emerge as the clear favorite to win the congressional seat should he win his primary.
Pastor Mark Burns made headlines in 2022 for calling for the return of the House Un-American Activities Committee to arrest and execute LGBTQ+ and transgender allies and individuals whom he accuses of “grooming.” In a video released after his appearance on The Stew Peters Show, Burns stated, “The LGBT, transgender grooming of our children’s minds is a national security threat because it is ultimately designed to destabilize the republic we call the United States of America. That’s why, whenever I’m elected, I want to start holding people accountable for treason to the Constitution. I’m going to push to reenact HUAC… We need to hold people accountable for treason, start having some public hearings, and begin executing those who are found guilty of treasonous acts against the Constitution of the United States of America…”
You can watch clips of his statements from that 2022 interview here:
(https://youtu.be/39RHsfm-RH8)
Burns has run for Congress twice before, in 2018 and 2022. Although he campaigned as a Trump-inspired candidate in those years, he failed to secure an endorsement from the former president. This year, however, it appears he has finally received that endorsement. Donald Trump posted, “There are many great conservatives exploring a run for that seat, but Mark Burns has been with me from the very beginning of our movement to Make America Great Again,” adding, “Pastor Mark Burns is an America First fighter and has my complete and total endorsement.” That endorsement is significant in a crowded field of nine Republican candidates. Furthermore, the previous election did not even feature a Democrat on the ballot—the winner of the Republican primary will be the prohibitive favorite to win the congressional seat.
You can see the endorsement here:
Former President Donald Trump endorses Pastor Mark Burns on Truth Social.
It does not appear that Burns has changed his views towards LGBTQ+ and transgender individuals. The day before receiving the endorsement, he took to Twitter to call Transgender Day of Visibility “blasphemous” and “an insult to the millions of Christians who celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ,” reacting to Transgender Day of Visibility coinciding with Easter Sunday in 2024. Notably, Transgender Day of Visibility has always fallen on March 31, while Easter’s date varies. Just after receiving the endorsement, Burns appeared on the far-right Freeman Report, where he claimed that Democrats are “attacking real women in America” with transgender-inclusive policies.
Trump’s endorsement is the latest sign that the candidate is embracing extremist anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-transgender stances for the 2024 election. On March 30th, Trump decried a proclamation by Biden recognizing Transgender Day of Visibility, calling it “blasphemous” and demanding that he “issue an apology to the millions of Catholics and Christians across America who believe tomorrow is for one celebration only—the resurrection of Jesus Christ.” Trump has previously advocated for targeting gender transition support “at any age” and investigating hospitals and manufacturers of hormone therapy and puberty blockers. He has also previously called for national bans on trans youth care as well as a national trans sports ban.
When asked about the endorsement on the Freeman Report, Burns stated that Trump had called him and declared him “the congressman,” indicating that both Trump and Burns feel confident about the impact of the endorsement. The Republican primary election for the seat is scheduled for June 11, 2024. Should he win over 50% of the vote, Burns will represent the Republican Party in the race for a seat that has been held by a Republican since 1995.
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He’s literally accepting an endorsement from someone who has committed treason. By his logic, then……..
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Can we redo the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark but with the GOP irl? I want to see their fascist faces melt.
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LEGAL ISSUES
Court says state health-care plans can’t exclude gender-affirming surgery
Rachel Weiner
Updated April 29, 2024 at 1:10 p.m. EDT|Published April 29, 2024 at 12:28 p.m. EDT
Max Kadel and Julia McKeown are both plaintiffs in a lawsuit over public health-care coverage restrictions for gender-affirming care. (Lambda Legal)
A federal appellate court in Richmond became the first in the country to rule that state health-care plans must pay for gender-affirming surgeries, a major win for transgender rights amid a nationwide wave of anti-trans activism and legislation.
The decision came from a set of cases out of North Carolina and West Virginia, where state officials argued that their policies were based on cost concerns rather than bias. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit rejected that argument, saying the plans were discriminating against trans people in need of treatment.
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David Bowie Visited The U.S. For The First Time, In Drag, On This Day In 1971
Dave Melamed | Saturday, January 27th, 2024
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Among the many great David Bowie stories worth telling again and again is that of a unique moment that took place 53 years ago today. That, of course, would be Bowie’s first visit to the United States on January 27th, 1971, in support of his then-recently-released studio effort, The Man Who Sold The World. Pictured above is a press photo from that year, as the artist aimed to make a name for himself by confidently exploring his androgynous appearance.
The Man Who Sold The World marked the departure from Bowie’s folk-influenced sophomore LP, Space Oddity, and the 1970 release was not faring as well as expected in the U.K. Bowie’s record label urged the musician to go on a publicity tour through the U.S.—he wasn’t allowed to perform due to work permit restrictions—and Bowie overcame his fear of flying for the occasion.
The British version of The Man Who Sold The World featured Bowie in drag on the cover, as the androgynous image was something the musician consciously cultivated throughout this era of his career. Naturally, Bowie took the dress with him for the U.S. tour, and rock critics were certainly intrigued by his appearance. Rolling Stone even called him “ravishing, almost disconcertingly reminiscent of Lauren Bacall.”
Unfortunately, not everyone was as open-minded. Bowie recalled, “In Texas, one guy pulled a gun and called me a fag. But I thought the dress looked beautiful.”
Looking back on this anniversary, David Bowie seems particularly legendary for his total self-confidence in his androgynous image. Bowie’s life was lived as an artistic statement through various forms, including his own appearance. At a time when LGBTQ+ issues finally have a place in the public forum, Bowie naturally proved himself a visionary.
Though he wasn’t allowed to perform in the country, Bowie was able to make media appearances including this one in Philadelphia shortly after his arrival.
David Bowie Interview 94WY Radio Philadelphia Feb 1971
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Bowie would go on to make many more appearances in the U.S., performing throughout the country numerous times over. From relative anonymity, David Bowie continually captured our hearts through his incredible career, and we’re certainly thankful for all of his music.
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Vatican Document Casts Gender Change and Fluidity as Threat to Human Dignity
The statement is likely to be embraced by conservatives and stir consternation among L.G.B.T.Q. advocates who fear it will be used as a cudgel against transgender people.
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Pope Francis at his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City last week.Credit…Ettore Ferrari/EPA, via Shutterstock
Jason Horowitz and Elisabetta Povoledo
Reporting from Rome
April 8, 2024
The Vatican on Monday issued a new document approved by Pope Francis stating that the church believes that gender fluidity and transition surgery, as well as surrogacy, amount to affronts to human dignity.
The sex a person is assigned at birth, the document argued, was an “irrevocable gift” from God and “any sex-change intervention, as a rule, risks threatening the unique dignity the person has received from the moment of conception.” People who desire “a personal self-determination, as gender theory prescribes,” risk succumbing “to the age-old temptation to make oneself God.”
Regarding surrogacy, the document unequivocally stated the Roman Catholic Church’s opposition, whether the woman carrying a baby “is coerced into it or chooses to subject herself to it freely.” Surrogacy makes the child “a mere means subservient to the arbitrary gain or desire of others,” the Vatican said in the document, which also opposed in vitro fertilization.
The document was intended as a broad statement of the church’s view on human dignity, including the exploitation of the poor, migrants, women and vulnerable people. The Vatican acknowledged that it was touching on difficult issues, but said that in a time of great tumult, it was essential, and it hoped beneficial, for the church to restate its teachings on the centrality of human dignity.
Even if the church’s teachings on culture war issues that Francis has largely avoided are not necessarily new, their consolidation now was likely to be embraced by conservatives for their hard line against liberal ideas on gender and surrogacy.
The document, five years in the making, immediately generated deep consternation among advocates for L.G.B.T.Q. rights in the church, who fear it will be used against transgender people. That was so, they said, even as the document warned of “unjust discrimination” in countries where transgender people are imprisoned or face aggression, violence and sometimes death.
“The Vatican is again supporting and propagating ideas that lead to real physical harm to transgender, nonbinary and other L.G.B.T.Q.+ people,” said Francis DeBernardo, the executive director of New Ways Ministry, a Maryland-based group that advocates for gay Catholics, adding that the Vatican’s defense of human dignity excluded “the segment of the human population who are transgender, nonbinary or gender nonconforming.”
He said it presented an outdated theology based on physical appearance alone and was blind to “the growing reality that a person’s gender includes the psychological, social and spiritual aspects naturally present in their lives.”
The document, he said, showed a “stunning lack of awareness of the actual lives of transgender and nonbinary people.” Its authors ignored the transgender people who shared their experiences with the church, Mr. DeBernardo said, “cavalierly,” and incorrectly, dismissing them as a purely Western phenomenon.
Though the document is a clear setback for L.G.B.T.Q. people and their supporters, the Vatican took pains to strike a balance between protecting personal human dignity and clearly stating church teaching, a tightrope Francis has tried to walk in his more than 11 years as pope.
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Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, the head of the Vatican’s office on doctrine, at a news conference Monday to present the document on human dignity.Credit…Gregorio Borgia/Associated Press
Francis has made it a hallmark of his papacy to meet with gay and transgender Catholics and has made it his mission to broadcast a message for a more open, and less judgmental, church. Just months ago, Francis upset more conservative corners of his church by explicitly allowing L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics to receive blessings from priests and by allowing transgender people to be baptized and act as godparents.
But he has refused to budge on the church rules and doctrine that many gay and transgender Catholics feel have alienated them, revealing the limits of his push for inclusivity.
More on the Roman Catholic Church
Gender Fluidity: The Vatican issued a new document approved by Pope Francis stating that the church believes that gender fluidity and transition surgery, as well as surrogacy, amount to affronts to human dignity.
Easter Message: Amid renewed concerns about his health, Francis delivered a major annual Easter address that touched on conflicts across the globe, with explicit appeals for peace in Israel, Gaza and Ukraine.
Common Ground: President Javier Milei of Argentina, who before taking office ridiculed Francis as an “imbecile” and accused him of violating the Ten Commandments, met with the pontiff for a conversation that the Vatican described as “cordial.”
“In terms of pastoral consequences,” Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, who leads the Vatican’s office on doctrine, said in a news conference Monday, “the principle of welcoming all is clear in the words of Pope Francis.”
Francis, he said, has repeatedly said that “all, all, all” must be welcomed. “Even those who don’t agree with what the church teaches and who make different choices from those that the church says in its doctrine, must be welcomed,” he said, including “those who think differently on these themes of sexuality.”
But Francis’ words were one thing, and church doctrine another, Cardinal Fernández made clear, drawing a distinction between the document, which he said was of high doctrinal importance, as opposed to the recent statement allowing blessings for same-sex Catholics. The church teaches that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.”
In an echo of the tension between the substance of church law and Francis’ style of a papal inclusivity, Cardinal Fernández said on Monday that perhaps the “intrinsically disordered” language should be modified to better reflect that the church’s message that homosexual acts could not produce life.
“It’s a very strong expression and it requires explanation,” he said. “Maybe we could find an expression that is even clearer to understand what we want to say.”
Though receptive to gay and transgender followers, the pope has also consistently expressed concern about what he calls “ideological colonization,” the notion that wealthy nations arrogantly impose views — whether on gender or surrogacy — on people and religious traditions that do not necessarily agree with them. The document said “gender theory plays a central role” in that vision and that its “scientific coherence is the subject of considerable debate among by experts.”
Using “on the one hand” and “on the other hand,” language, the Vatican’s office on teaching and doctrine wrote that “it should be denounced as contrary to human dignity the fact that, in some places, not a few people are imprisoned, tortured, and even deprived of the good of life solely because of their sexual orientation.”
“At the same time,” it continued, “the church highlights the definite critical issues present in gender theory.”
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A same-sex blessing at St. Benedict’s Church in Munich in 2021. Pope Francis approved such blessings in 2023.Credit…Felix Hoerhager/DPA, via Associated Press
On Monday, Cardinal Fernández also struggled to reconcile the two seemingly dissonant views.
“I am shocked having read a text from some Catholics who said, ‘Bless this military government of our country that created these laws against homosexuals,’” Cardinal Fernández said on Monday. “I wanted to die reading that.”
But he went on to say that the Vatican document was itself not a call for decriminalization, but an affirmation of what the church believed. “We shall see the consequences,” he said, adding that the church would then see how to respond.
In his presentation, Cardinal Fernández described the long process of the drafting of a document on human dignity, “Infinite Dignity,” which began in March 2019, to take into account the “latest developments on the subject in academia and the ambivalent ways in which the concept is understood today.”
In 2023, Francis sent the document back with instructions to “highlight topics closely connected to the theme of dignity, such as poverty, the situation of migrants, violence against women, human trafficking, war, and other themes.” Francis signed off on the document on March 25.
The long road, Cardinal Fernández wrote, “reflects the gravity” of the process.
In the document, the Vatican embraced the “clear progress in understanding human dignity,” pointing to the “desire to eradicate racism, slavery, and the marginalization of women, children, the sick, and people with disabilities.”
But it said the church also sees “grave violations of that dignity,” including abortion, euthanasia, the death penalty, polygamy, torture, the exploitation of the poor and migrants, human trafficking and sex abuse, violence against women, capitalism’s inequality and terrorism.
The document expressed concern that eliminating sexual differences would undercut the family, and that a response “to what are at times understandable aspirations,” will become an absolute truth and ideology, and change how children are raised.
The document argued that changing sex put individualism before nature and that human dignity as a subject was often hijacked to “justify an arbitrary proliferation of new rights,” as if “the ability to express and realize every individual preference or subjective desire should be guaranteed.”
Cardinal Fernández on Monday said that a couple desperate to have a child should turn to adoption, rather than surrogacy or in vitro fertilization because those practices, he said, eroded human dignity writ large.
Individualistic thinking, the document argues, subjugates the universality of dignity to individual standards, concerned with “psycho-physical well-being” or “individual arbitrariness or social recognition.” By making dignity subjective, the Vatican argues, it becomes subject to “arbitrariness and power interests.”
Jason Horowitz is the Rome bureau chief for The Times, covering Italy, the Vatican, Greece and other parts of Southern Europe. More about Jason Horowitz
Elisabetta Povoledo is a reporter based in Rome, covering Italy, the Vatican and the culture of the region. She has been a journalist for 35 years. More about Elisabetta Povoledo
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Dr. Rick Allen
2 May 2024
WANT TO KNOW what Trump is planning for a second term?
Based on two extensive personal interviews with Trump and conversations with more than a dozen of his closest advisors, Trump’s conviction is that he was “too nice” in his first term (his own words) and that he would not make such a mistake again.
According to the documented discussions, Trump intends to establish “an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world.”
He shared these intentions in the interviews (and has made similar comments in rallies and other public settings):
****He plans to use the military to round up, put in camps, and deport more than 11 million people, rather than fix and accelerate the asylum process;
****He is willing to permit Republican-dominated states to monitor pregnancies and prosecute people who violate abortion bans, even in the case of incest, rape, or danger to the mother (which many Republican states are implementing);
****He will shape the laws by refusing to release funds appropriated by Congress (as he did in 2019 to try to get Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky to provide some “dirt” on Hunter Biden). In short, he intends to bypass Congress and just implement policies that HE wants;
****He would like to bring the Department of Justice under his own control, pardoning those convicted of attacking the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and ending the U.S. system of an independent judiciary. In short, he intends to bypass the judicial system.
****In a second Trump presidency, the U.S. will likely NOT come to the aid of a European or Asian ally that Trump thinks isn’t paying enough for its own defense, regardless of how important the ally might be or how important to European stability.
****Trump would, the researcher has documented from the discussions, “gut the U.S. civil service and replace workers at all levels with his loyalists;
***Trump would, he said, deploy the National Guard to American cities as he sees fit, [whether requested by the state or not] ;
****He says he would close the White House pandemic-preparedness office [despite ongoing world threats of new disease];
****and he openly says he will staff his Administration with acolytes who back his obviously false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen.”
To that list, former political director of the AFL-CIO Michael Podhorzer added on social media that if Trump wins, “he could replace [Supreme Court justices Clarence] Thomas, [Samuel] Alito, and 40+ federal judges over 75 with young [even farther right wing] zealots.”
“I asked Trump,” the researcher said, “Don’t you see why many Americans see such talk of dictatorship as contrary to our most cherished principles?”
No, Trump said. “‘I think a lot of people like it.” [Even though the Constitution prohibits many of these same actions].
💥Full transcripts of the interviews have been fact-checked, including fact-checking Trump’s assertions. 💥
TRUMP’S OWN WORDS prove the truth of what careful observers have been saying about his plans based on their examination of MAGA Republicans’ speeches, interviews, Project 2025, and so on.
Basically, Trump plans to disregard and override Constitutional checks and balances and do whatever he pleases whenever he pleases, based on his own words and open discussion. His MAGA Congressional supporters are happy to help him do that, based on their own public comments.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Say goodbye to the Constitution.
If you think this is a good idea, you will vote for Trump and right-wing Republicans.
If you are a patriot who thinks the Constitution has value and checks and balances are important, you will not touch Trump or his plans with a ten-foot pole.
Fair warning. He’s told us all what he’s going to do.
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93% of Trans Teens Live in States That Have Proposed or Passed Anti-Trans Laws
Research shows that debates around anti-transgender laws negatively impact trans youth’s mental wellbeing.
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April 25, 2024
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Approximately 93 percent of transgender youth aged 13 to 17 live in states that have proposed or passed anti-trans laws, according to a new report by the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles.
“For the second straight year, hundreds of bills impacting transgender youth were introduced in state legislatures,” Elana Redfield, federal policy director at the Williams Institute and the lead author of the report, said in a statement. “The diverging legal landscape has created a deep divide in the rights and protections for transgender youth and their families across the country.”
An estimated 280,300 transgender youth live in states where laws have been enacted or proposed to restrict transgender youth’s access to gender-affirming medical care, participation in sports, restroom and other sex-segregated facilities use, or recognition of gender identity through pronoun usage. Additionally, according to the Williams Institute report, approximately 85 percent of transgender adolescents aged 13-17 in the South and 40 percent of those in the Midwest reside in states where at least one anti-transgender law has been enacted.
Even the consideration of such anti-trans laws can have a detrimental impact on transgender youth’s mental health; according to a 2023 poll conducted by The Trevor Project, 86 percent of transgender youth say that debates around anti-trans bills have negatively impacted their mental health. Additionally, as a result of debates regarding anti-trans policies, 45 percent of transgender youth polled reported experiencing cyberbullying, while nearly one in three expressed feeling unsafe seeking medical assistance when ill or injured.
“Right now, we are witnessing the highest number on record of anti-LGBTQ bills introduced this early in any legislative session. We must consider the negative toll of these ugly public debates on youth mental health and well-being,” Kasey Suffredini, Vice President of Advocacy and Government Affairs, said in a 2023 statement. “LGBTQ young people are watching, and internalizing the anti-LGBTQ messages they see in the media and from their elected officials. And so are those that would do our community harm.”
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Ohio Attorney General Asks Court to Restrict Judge’s Pause on Anti-Trans Law
According to the Williams Institute report, 113,900 transgender youth currently live in a state that bans gender-affirming care and 123,600 youth live in a state that had a gender-affirming care ban pending in 2024. According to the poll conducted by The Trevor Project, policies banning doctors from offering gender-affirming care to transgender and nonbinary youth make 74 percent of transgender and nonbinary youth feel angry, 59 percent feel stressed, 56 percent feel sad, 48 percent feel hopeless, 47 percent feel scared, 46 percent feel helpless, and 45 percent feel nervous.
“A growing body of research shows that efforts to support transgender youth are associated with better mental health,” Kerith Conron, Research Director at the Williams Institute and co-author of the report, said in a statement. “Restrictions on medically appropriate care and full participation at school exacerbate the stress experienced by these youth and their families.”
Amid the recent surge of anti-trans bills nationwide, just 19,500 trans adolescents reside in states — or the District of Columbia (D.C.) — where no anti-trans policies have been enacted or introduced, or where none were pending during the 2024 legislative session.
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NYT Brooks: “It Takes Courage to Ignore All the Evidence for Trans Care” [**SATIRE**]
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Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks has a new op-ed lauding the “courage” of the UK’s Hillary Cass for her new report recomnending banning pediatric gender care for trans kids.
Explains Brooks, “There were 103 studies showing positive outcomes but Cass dismissed 101 as ‘low quality.’ It takes real bravery to go for your predetermined outcome when a mountain of evidence is stacked against you.”
While dismissing positive studies, the Cass Report offered evidence-free assertions that hormones might “lock” kids into treatment and may have resulted from a social contagion.
In addition, Cass found only 10 detransitions out of 3,499 medical records, nonetheless Brooks notes, “Cass chose to side with the 0.3% of cisgender kids even if it meant enduring the mental pain and anguish of knowing her recommendations would deny care to the other 3,989 trans kids.”
27 different US medical organizations have endorsed pediatric gender care as safe and effective. Nonetheless explains Brooks, “ Here is one woman, who is willing to take on the entire medical establishment all by herself, with nothing more but her own biases and prejudices.”
Commenting on recent reports surfacing that Cass had consulted with the DeSantis administration in Florida, which partnered with the Catholic Medical Association to develop a similar report designed to find care dangerous and ineffective, the column closed “It’s not easy to reach across the pond to find the very best minds in trans-denialism.
“This is one gutsy broad.”
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Arizona’s revived abortion law is a stark reminder that marriage equality is no longer safe
With anti-marriage equality laws still on the books in dozens of states, a Supreme Court decision to overturn Obergefell would be catastrophic.
Commentary by John Gallagher (he/him) Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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When the Arizona Supreme Court reinstituted an anti-abortion law passed in 1864, the response was shock.
How could a law from before Arizona was even a state suddenly control the lives of women? The short answer: Because the court was controlled by Republicans with an agenda made possible by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022.
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The longer answer is that lots of laws are on the books collecting dust even though they have been invalidated by the courts or superseded by other laws. No one got around to repealing them. They are a bit like old wallpaper that someone just slaps paneling over and forgets about over time.
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Unfortunately, the Arizona case is a reminder that it’s not just abortion laws that can suddenly come back to life. A majority of states have anti-marriage equality laws on the books from 20+ years ago when the right was using ballot initiatives to take away LGBTQ+ rights.
The good news is that these laws are moot since the Supreme Court legalized marriage equality with Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015. The bad news is that the current Supreme Court has made it clear with its abortion ruling that precedents don’t matter much. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have been explicit in saying that they think Obergefell was wrongly decided, broadly hinting they would like to take another crack at the issue.
The passage of the federal Respect for Marriage Act does offer some protection. It repeals the noxious Defense of Marriage Act, Bill Clinton’s attempt to innoculate himself against attacks from the right, and requires states to recognize any marriage performed in another state.
What it doesn’t do, however, is require a state to allow marriage equality within its own borders. In short, it sets up the potential for a version of the current abortion nightmare playing out across the nation. Conservative states effectively outlaw the procedure, forcing women to travel to states where it is allowed – if they have the resources to do so.
If you think that, given the chance, a broad swath of Republicans leading Southern states are not interested in returning to the pre-Obergefell days, you would be sorely mistaken. And all of those states have something on the books that would allow them to do so.
It’s not just conservative states. California, which prompted the first Supreme Court ruling in favor of marriage equality, still has its anti-marriage constitutional amendment, even if it’s not enforceable. This year, voters will finally have a chance to supersede it by voting on an amendment that would enshrine marriage equality as a constitutional right.
Getting rid of moot laws is a difficult exercise. It takes up time that politicians think is better spent on more pressing issues. Frankly, the odds of the laws ever coming back to haunt you are fairly slim. But as Arizona proves, the odds aren’t zero either. Fingers crossed, all those anti-marriage laws and state constitutional bans will just keep moldering and never be a problem. Yet with the current Supreme Court, you can never say never.
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Apr 15, 2024, 05:33 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law proceed, reversing lower courts.
The justices’ order Monday allows the state to put in a place a 2023 law that subjects physicians to up to 10 years in prison if they provide hormones, puberty blockers or other gender-affirming care to people under age 18. Under the court’s order, the two transgender teens who sued to challenge the law still will be able to obtain care.
The court’s three liberal justices would have kept the law on hold.
A federal judge in Idaho had blocked the law in its entirety after determining that it was necessary to do so to protect the teens, who are identified under pseudonyms in court papers.
Opponents of the law have said it will likely increase suicide rates among teens. The law’s backers have said it is necessary to “protect children” from medical or surgical treatments for gender dysphoria, though there’s little indication that gender-affirming surgeries are being performed on transgender youth in Idaho.
Gender-affirming care for youth is supported by every major medical organization, including the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychiatric Association.
Medical professionals define gender dysphoria as severe psychological distress experienced by those whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth.
The action comes as the justices also may soon consider whether to take up bans in Kentucky and Tennessee that an appeals court allowed to be enforced in the midst of legal fights.
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The states that have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors are Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.
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(https://www.facebook.com/share/p/TvPnNAnoiQQipUyj/)
Dr. Rick Allen, Author
21 Mar 2024
The question has to be asked, right? Have we gone nuts?
As a younger voter who can see the facts and think more logically than older folks captured by emotion, politics, and repeated misinformation, YOU and other young logical thinkers like you have a chance to finally get America back on track with your important vote.
Take a look at this information (check it out yourself if you doubt it), and then think about how important your vote will be in this election.
BEFORE VOTING……SERIOUSLY think about this for a moment:
Would you….SHOULD you… hire a person with this background for an important job? Is it logical to do so?
***Involved in 4,000 lawsuits BEFORE applying for the job (that’s not a misprint).
***Declared 3 bankruptcies.
***Founder of 3 businesses declared fraudulent (a fraudulent college; a fraudulent charity; fraudulent valuation of business value and fined millions of dollars in each case).
*** Caught on tape (his own words) saying he “grabs women by the pussy.”
***Found responsible by a jury of 8 men and 4 women of defaming a woman, and continued to do so AFTER the finding, and fined millions of dollars for doing so.
***Accused by 18 different women of varying inappropriate behavior, including allegations of sexual harassment or sexual assault.
***Four (4) different 4-STAR ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ GENERALS, hand-picked BY the person in question, after serving with him….. say he is unfit.
***Got caught calling U.S. Service members “suckers” for going into military service (confirmed by one of the Generals above).
***Got caught calling USA Prisoners of War “losers,” again confirmed by a General
***On national TV, disrespected a Gold Star mother and father (USA son killed in the line of duty) because they were Muslim
***After being told the truth by his own staff (several times) THAT HE DID ACTUALLY LOSE an election by over 7 million votes, he continued to lie about it for years and years, despite overwhelming (VERIFIED) evidence that he DID LOSE.
***This person overspent his budget by nearly $8 TRILLION the last time he held the job, third biggest debt in USA history, after promising to balance the budget. (The other two? Also from his political party).
***This person also promised to “build a wall” (for free) along a 1,954 mile border, and how many miles did he get built in 4 years? Less than 100 miles of a new wall (not a misprint). And “repaired” a few hundred miles. Oops. Oh, and nearly 1,500,000 crossed the border in the meantime. And USA taxpayers paid every dime (over $10 BILLION).
***Meanwhile, this guy continues to lie about high crime rates by border crossers….the actual research says that is not at all true!!! Bet you didn’t know that.
SHOULD YOU REALLY BE SUPPORTING A REALLY POOR RECORD LIKE THAT BY HIRING THIS GUY? Pretty obvious that is a very questionable decision, isn’t it?
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Dr. Rick Allen, Author
26 Mar 2024
IF YOU ARE A PATRIOT, YOU WILL HEED THESE WORDS FROM THOSE WHO WORKED CLOSELY, FACE-TO-FACE, WITH DONALD TRUMP and THOSE WHO SAW HIS IMPACT………..
GIVE THESE OBSERVATIONS SOME VERY SERIOUS THOUGHT BEFORE YOU VOTE.
First, this reminder: Trump himself said when he ran for office in 2016 that he was “going to surround myself with only the best and most serious people.”
FROM 4 STAR ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Marine GENERAL James Mattis, hired by Trump as Secretary of Defense: ” [Trump] has no moral compass; a misguided form of nationalism; beyond stupid to felony stupid” and that’s when I resigned.
FROM 4 STAR ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Army GENERAL Mark Milley, served as Trump’s Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: “We don’t take an oath to an individual, we take an oath to the Constitution. [Trump] is a wannabe dictator.”
FROM 4 STAR ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Marine GENERAL John Kelly, hired by Trump to be his personal Chief of Staff: “[Trump] is a deeply dishonest person who has no idea what America stands for. The most flawed person I’ve ever met.”
FROM 4 STAR ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Army GENERAL H.R. McMaster, hired by Trump as his National Security Advisor: “[Trump’s] failure to condemn white supremacy “gives space to these groups that foment hatred and intolerance.”
FROM Dan Coats, hired by Trump as his Director of National Intelligence (two photos, sorry): “He doesn’t know the difference between the truth and a lie.”
FROM 4 STAR ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Navy Admiral William McCraven, Commander, US Special Operations, Seal Commander who took out Osama bin Laden and coordinated the capture of Sadaam Hussein: Trump’s comments “may be the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime.”
FROM 4 STAR ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ARMY GENERAL Barry McCaffrey. He received three Purple Heart medals for injuries sustained during his service in the Vietnam War, two Silver Stars, and two Distinguished Service Crosses—the second-highest United States Army award for valor. He was inducted into United States Army Ranger Hall of Fame at the United States Army Infantry Center :
[Trump] “is a serious threat to USA national security.”
CIA Director Gina Haspel, Trump’s CIA choice: Haspel said Trump’s post-election behavior was ‘insanity’ and he was ‘acting out like a 6-year-old with a tantrum.”
These statements are all in the public domain and can be easily verified.
IF THESE PROVEN LEADERS, HIGHLY QUALIFIED, HIGHLY DECORATED, COMBAT PROVEN WARRIORS ARE SAYING THESE THINGS ABOUT Trump, DOES IT REALLY MAKE SENSE TO BE VOTING FOR HIM, OR THOSE WHO SUPPORT HIM? Seems pretty illogical, right?
If you truly want to “drain the swamp,” given these consistent comments from American heroes, it might be smart to aim at the right (far right?) target.
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Dr. Rick Allen, Author
9 Apr 2024
Well, that didn’t take long.
INVESTORS ALREADY LOST $3.5 BILLION on shares of Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT)……in about two weeks!
Here’s what the auditor found: “The Company lacks the financial resources it needs to sustain operations for a reasonable period of time, which is considered to be one year from the date of the issuance of the financial statements.”
“As a result, these factors raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.”
Shares of the money-losing holding company plummeted 38% from their high notched on March 27, erasing $3.5 billion in wealth, says an Investor’s Business Daily analysis of data from S&P Global Market Intelligence and MarketSurge.
The S&P 500 in that time is only down 1%.
(Matt Krantz, Investor’s Business Daily)
Note: Uh, there seems to be a clear pattern here, right ‼️❓❓❓❓
💥Three bankruptcies,
🔥🔥additional three findings of business fraud….a fake college, a fraudulent charity, bank fraud inflating the value of his holdings to get bigger bank loans,
🔥🔥🔥4,000 lawsuits BEFORE he got into politics.
AND PEOPLE WANT TO ELECT THIS GUY PRESIDENT? Are they not paying attention?
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(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68801392)
Germany eases gender change rules
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12 Apr 2024
Jessica Parker,
Berlin correspondent
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Adults in Germany will now be able to declare a change to male, female or diverse
The German parliament has passed a law making it easier for citizens and residents to legally change gender.
It’s also introducing hefty fines – in specific circumstances – for disclosing someone’s prior registered name or gender without consent.
Previously, changing your registered gender required a doctor’s certificate and the approval of a family court.
Now over-18s can change to male, female or diverse, a third gender option that already exists under German law.
Three months on from a request for such a change, applicants will then have to appear at a registry office in person.
You can also request that no details regarding your gender are registered at all.
The intentional and harmful disclosure of someone’s prior name or legal gender could attract a fine of up to €10,000.
However, there are exceptions – for example if it’s a legal requirement due to court proceedings or police investigations.
First names will need to represent the new legal gender – so a male entry requires a recognised male first name while a female entry requires a recognised female first name.
Fourteen- to 18-year-olds will need the consent of parents or legal guardians, while under-14s will need their parents or legal guardians to make the declaration.
No further change or reversion can be made within 12 months of an application being granted.
The law allows for those operating spaces – such as women’s gyms and changing rooms – to still decide who has access to them.
Applications from male to female or to diverse, made less than two months prior to a national defence emergency, will be put on hold.
The new rules will come into effect on 1 November having been promised in the “traffic light” coalition agreement.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz said: “We show respect to trans, intersex and non-binary people – without taking anything away from others. This is how we continue to drive the modernisation of our country. This includes recognising realities of life and making them possible by law.”
Nyke Slawik, from the Greens – who is transgender – said it was a “first step” towards a society which allows self-determination for trans people.
Conservatives and the far-right AfD were among those to speak out against the plans with warnings the legislation could be misused.
Concerns were also voiced about the impact on young people. “Minors, without proper consultation, could choose a path they might regret later on,” said the CDU’s Mareike Wulf.
The Self-Determination Act was passed with 374 ayes to 251 no’s and 11 abstentions.
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Crooked Drumpf skimmed from the ‘9 / 11’ relief fund.
‘Pure Evil’: Report On Trump Administration Draining Fund For FDNY’s 9/11 Responders Draws Outrage
Lisette Voytko
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Sep 11, 2020, 08:53am EDT
Updated Sep 12, 2020, 12:00pm EDT
TOPLINE A New York Daily News scoop published Thursday revealed that the Trump administration has siphoned around $4 million from the New York City Fire Department’s fund for its September 11 first responders, drawing outrage on the 19th anniversary of the attacks, but the U.S. Treasury says the money was diverted because of “delinquent debt” owed by New York City to the federal government.
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The funds are part of the FDNY World Trade Center Health Program, which was established by the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, a bill passed by Congress that provides healthcare to first responders who have suffered a range of illnesses from exposure to dust and smoke at Ground Zero.
“TRUMP DOESN’T ONLY HATE VETERANS, HE HATES FIRST RESPONDER HEROES,” tweeted actress Debra Messing in reaction to the Daily News report.
Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland school shooting victim Jamie Guttenberg, said he was “F—KING P—-ED” about the report, because his brother died of cancer from 9/11.
“From the administration whose identity is built on claims of honoring first responders,” Julie Cohen, director of the RBG documentary, wrote on Twitter.
“This doesn’t surprise me at all,” Army veteran and advocate Paul Rieckoff wrote on Twitter. “Trump did NOTHING to push for the extension of #Zadroga last year.”
“We are also working with Congressman King and others to examine any potential authorities to provide relief in this case to support our nation’s 9/11 heroes,” the Treasury spokesperson. told Forbes, but could not provide any examples of how they would do it, and did not have a timeline.
CRUCIAL QUOTE
“Here we have sick World Trade Center-exposed firefighters and EMS workers, at a time when the city is having difficult financial circumstances due to COVID-19, and we’re not getting the money we need to be able to treat these heroes,” FDNY Chief Medical Officer David Prezant told the Daily News.
CHIEF CRITIC
“Pure evil,” tweeted Dr. Dena Grayson, a medical expert who specializes in ebola and other viruses.
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