Category: gender identities
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3 arrested as protesters clash over Pride curriculum outside Glendale school board meeting
Demonstrators clashed and fights erupted during a protest Tuesday evening outside a meeting of the Glendale Unified School District board, which was scheduled to vote on recognizing June as Pride Month. Rating: Transneutral, ABC, June 6, 2023 (PDF archive)
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‘State of Emergency’ Declared For LGBTQ+ People By Human Rights Campaign
For the first time in its 40-plus year history, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has issued a “state of emergency” in response to a record number of bills introduced across state legislatures this year that has already surpassed numbers from 2022. Rating: Transsupportive, Newsweek, June 6, 2023 (PDF archive) (Video archive)
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Judge Blocks Florida Bill That Bans Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
This action presents a constitutional challenge to a Florida statute and rules that (1) prohibit transgender minors from receiving specific kinds of widely accepted medical care and (2) prohibit doctors from providing it. The treatments at issue are GnRH agonists, colloquially known as “puberty blockers,” and cross-sex hormones. This order grants a preliminary injunction. Rating:…
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LGBTQ Americans Are In A State of Emergency, HRC Declares
LGBTQ+ Americans are facing “real, tangible and dangerous” threats, said Human Rights Campaign CEO Kelley Robinson. Rating: Transsupportive, Huffington Post, June 6, 2023 (PDF archive)
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The fight for trans* truths: Erin Reed and Matt Walsh
Somewhere off in the distance on a digital soap box Matt Walsh is yammering on about trans* women like they are leper sores on the feet of the hold virgin. His Catholic sensibilities are offended, he tells us, by the mere whiff of gender non-conformity. He cannot get an answer to a simple question, despite…
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Twitter officials censor ‘What is a Woman’ documentary over ‘transphobia’ & ‘misgendering’ charges, resign after Elon Musk overturns censorship and promotes it
Elon Musk promoted the ‘What is a Woman’ documentary on Twitter saying “Every parent should watch this,” after removing censorship on it Rating: Transphobic, Opindia, June 3, 2023 (PDF archive)
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I Am Not Proud to Be Transgender
Today — June 1 — marks the beginning of Pride Month 2023, a nebulous period both for those in the rainbow community as well as out. Medium, June 1, 2023 (PDF archive)
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Bloody roses — deconstructing the predatory trans* women myth
Simple question for you: how many women were convicted of sexual assault or other sex crimes in the UK since 2018? Try to Google the answer and you will the UK government’s Office of National Statistics has not publicly provided the sex of convicted sex offenders. It has for the victims, along with a range…
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Donald Trump Apparently Doesn’t Like The Term ‘Woke’ Now
The former president wants a better word for things he doesn’t like. Rating: Transsupportive, Huffington Post, June 1, 2023 (PDF archive)