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Category: villains

  • Ty Bodden: Gender Villain

    Republican Representative in the legislature of the U.S. state of Wisconsin who in 2023 proposed legislation requiring that transgender people be housed with inmates of the gender they were assigned at birth rather than their current gender identity.

  • Anti-trans prison housing bill raises alarms

    Rating: Transsupportive, The Capital Times, November 7, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Anti-trans prison housing bill raises alarms Rylee Jenich spent 10 years incarcerated in various Wisconsin men’s prisons. For the last six of those years, Jenich — a trans-feminine person who uses they/them pronouns — publicly identified as…

  • Gender Awards for October 2023

    Thanks to all of you who voted in the GenderMenace.net Gender Awards poll for October 2023. We have tallied your votes and would like to announce the winners! Gender Hero Winner Ryan Clancy Gender Villain Loser Mike Johnson and Kelly Johnson Gender Waffler Loser Tricia Cotham This Month’s Poll To see the GenderMenace.net Gender Award…

  • Annette Bening warns anti-trans lawmakers: “You do not want to make this momma mad”

    Rating: Transsupportive, LGBTQ Nation, October 31, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Annette Bening warns anti-trans lawmakers: “You do not want to make this momma mad” Over the weekend, Annette Bening received GLSEN’s Advocate Award at the LGBTQ+ organization’s annual Rise Up L.A. benefit. The four-time Oscar nominee lived up…

  • Sean Hannity: Gender Villain

    Fox News commentator who downplayed U.S. House of Representative Speaker Mike Johnson’s history of extreme anti-LGBTQ activism and defended Johnson’s efforts to ban classroom discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity.

  • Freedom Guard: Gender Villain

    Organization founded by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson, who served as president and chief counsel in 2015, that provided transphobic and homophobic “model bylaws for churches”.

  • Onward Christian Counseling Services: Gender Villain

    Organization whose owner and CEO is Kelly Johnson, wife of U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson, and whose website posted documents there comparing homosexuality to bestiality and incest until Ms. Johnson removed them.

  • Kelly Johnson: Gender Villain

    Wife of newly elected U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson, a relatively unknown congressmember from Louisiana, and owner and CEO of Onward Christian Counseling Services, a Christian counseling services website she took offline because it included documents comparing homosexuality to bestiality and incest.

  • Speaker Mike Johnson’s Wife Removes Website Equating Homosexuality to Bestiality and Incest

    Rating: Transsupportive, Advocate, October 31, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Speaker Mike Johnson’s Wife Removes Website Equating Homosexuality to Bestiality and Incest IMAGES: FACEBOOK @SPEAKERJOHNSON; SHUTTERSTOCK Following scrutiny, Kelly Johnson, wife of newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson, has taken down her Christian counseling website that contained documents comparing…

  • Tricia Cotham: Gender Waffler

    Democrat representative in state legislature of the U.S. state of North Carolina who defected to Republican party, permitting two-thirds super-majority of Republicans for anti-LGBTQ legislation in that state.