This happens regularly with bills introduced by #Tennessee's legislature full of #Republican dildos. Untold millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent losing the inevitable lawsuits. (These clowns have tried multiple times to pass a law that would make the Bible the official state book!)
"Don’t forget I’ll likely get voted into office on March 5," Lori Kauffman posted to her X account over the weekend. "Long term goals are to ban same sex marriage (never should have been legalized) and trans will be illegal. Yes illegal. I will also exile all Jews."
Greg Olear does an in-depth analysis of the plans Heritage Foundation in store for all of us, if Trump is elected — plans that are out in the open and public, so that if we vote for Trump, we're voting for these plans to be imposed on ourselves and the whole nation.
He notes that Mike Roberts, who heads Heritage Foundation, is an ultra-right Catholic who makes plain that he wants to dismantle democracy in favor of theocracy.
Roberts is closely connected to the Supreme Court kingmaker Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society, another ultra-right Catholic with the same goals. Roberts' game plan for America is to elevate the "traditional" family — one man and one woman — above all other family models and to treat LGBTQ people as if they do not exist, rolling back all rights to protect them against discrimination.
“'We don’t want that filth in our state,' an Oklahoma state senator said of LGBTQ students, who are being targeted by at least 50 Republican-supported bills in the legislature with full endorsement from the secretary of education.
Tom Woods, a Republican from far northeastern Oklahoma, made the comments two weeks after a nonbinary student who was being bullied at school died suddenly under mysterious circumstances."
"'We are a religious state and we are going to fight it to keep that filth out of the state of Oklahoma because we are a Christian state – we are a moral state,' Woods said."
#Oklahoma state senator Tom Woods responded to a question on Nex Benedict's death that he will "keep that filth out of the state".
And I'm not surprised at all - it is Oklahoma.
But it shows the end point of everything they've laid out, that it's now acceptable and safe to say what they always thought, without any consequences for it.
Anything that isn't cis-het is made up and must be outlawed. And if that means these 'apostates' are killed getting to it, so be it.
Jonathan Weiler on how the critical point for contextualizing what awaits us if Trump is elected is that the end of Roe did not represent the culmination of a decades-long political project, but only a beginning of a nationwide project of controlling reproductive rights and the sexual choices of citizens, with a religious minority in the driver's seat.
french wikipedia admins are now perma-banning #lgbtq contributors with years of experience who dared voicing some opposition to the "how shall we deadname trans people" poll.
this is ridiculous and revolting. how can an open-source project of this size lack a proper CoC and measures for its enforcement ?
Today in Labor History February 22, 2004: Education Secretary Rod Paige called the nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA), a terrorist organization. Meanwhile, the Bush administration was imprisoning citizens and non-citizens indefinitely without trial for being “terrorists” and implementing a massive surveillance program that continues to this day.
Time for us to live up to the moniker:
*Say "Gay" in the classroom
*Refuse to report your trans, nonbinary and GNC students
*Maintain a secret library of banned books
*Teach evolution
*Teach the scientific consensus that neither sex, nor gender, are binary
*Teach about the history of Palestinian oppression & the ongoing Genocide in Gaza
*Teach a people's and a working-class history
*Teach the history of marginalized and oppressed people
*Teach about U.S. imperialism and its myriad war crimes
"On Wednesday, the House Freedom Caucus published a letter threatening a government shutdown in which it outlines a number of policies that are needed to supposedly avert such a result. Listed among these policies are restrictions on gender affirming care, transgender participation in sports, DEI programs, and defunding Planned Parenthood."
"This comes after nearly a dozen riders targeting transgender people have been inserted into numerous government spending bills that could result in large scale government shutdowns if not handled by March 8th."
West Virginia and Georgia are eyeing laws that would allow criminal charges against school librarians for distributing books that contain "obscene matter." This material often includes books on gender identity and sexual orientation. @axios has created this @Flipboard Storyboard, which also includes information on proposed book bans in Oregon, Florida and Texas.
Justice #SamuelAlito on Tues renewed his criticisms of the #SupremeCourt’s landmark decision recognizing the right to #SameSexMarriage, saying that people who oppose homosexuality risk being unfairly “labeled as bigots & treated as such.”
Judd Legum, Tesnim Zekeria, Rebecca Crosby report what happened to Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old non-binary Oklahoman who was beaten so badly at their Ossawo high school that they died the following day.
"Owasso High School officials did not report the assault to the police or call an ambulance. Instead, the school suspended Nex for two weeks, according to Benedict."
"The attack occurred amid a concerted effort in Oklahoma, led by powerful state officials and far-right activists, to vilify and stigmatize trans and non-binary people.
Oklahoma’s top education official, Superintendent Ryan Walters (R), has instituted a number of policies targeting trans and LGBTQ+ students."
Conservatives are absolutely incensed that the funeral for Cecilia Gentili, a trans woman, activist, icon, and former sex worker, was held at St. Patrick's.
They've pressured the Archdiocese into holding a "Mass of Reparation" to get the cooties out of the cathedral. #trans#LGBTQ#religion#news
In one particularly shameless example, a Heritage Foundation writer repeatedly called Gentili a "dead prostitute."
Just a reminder that, following the Royal Society event in Jan, my article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain' has been made freely available until the end of Feb/LGBTQ+ History Month.
#PennedPossibilities 1 — Intro Day: What does your MC think they are destined for in this life?
Randall is a newsman, a dedicated journalist. He's destined to bring news stories to life, to shed light to the darkness in the world for others to see. He believes in nothing else. He's a very passionate man.
My new WIP, an original novel named #TheCityOfOpulence, will be a fun one. It's a #SFF / #cyberpunk story. My intended audience would be science fiction and cyberpunk lovers, of course. Those who enjoy #LGBTQ+ stories are on the list as well because the MC turns out to be pansexual within the story. Anyone with an open mind will enjoy this wild tale. Any #CyberpunkRED and #Cyberpunk2020 players too, of course.