John
Stauber can't stop attacking transgendered persons. He's not alone.
As Diane Thomas, put it in the screenplay to ROMANCING THE STONE, "But
if there was one law of the west, bastards have brothers." Hence, The
Great Glenneth Greenwald.
Yeah,
I'm going to finish the article I'm working on for this, but it's 100%
true that a large majority of Americans have a "live-and-let-live" ethos
regarding adults. Activist groups need resistance, and they knew where
to drive the debate to ensure it:
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Replying to @ggreenwald
Children, that is what is happening. The indoctrination of children, putting a hand on a neutral scale.
It's worth asking why, fake-ass says in another Tweet.
It
is worth asking why. And it's because of you Glenneth Greenwald. You
hate trans people Don't play. Chelsea Manning rightly nailed you.
What happened to acount for a change from 2016 to now?
You
and your liars like Mother Tucker Carlson attacked trans people and did
so with lies. Over and over and over. You are the people who sewed
this hate. And people like Anya Parampil try to pose as 'left' but
they're too damn pathetic (and bigoted) to defend the ones being
attacked.
Day after day, FOX "NEWS" -- that includes Tucker -- attacked the trans community with lies and hate.
Gender reassignment surgeries were not taking place in the US ** on young children**.
Excuse
me, that's not true. The ones that were taking place at the end of the
20th century (and a bit earlier) were still taking place. But no one
wants to talk about that and FOX "NEWS" certainly doesn't want to.
The
gender surgery that was taking place -- at the same level -- was? I am
pregnant. I give birth. My partner and I see that our child is
intersex -- has both sexes. We make a decision on whether we will raise
the child as a boy or a girl. And the doctor does the needed surgery.
America has been dealing with that forever and a day.
That's not me saying that it should be happening. But it is a parent's decision and we've always recognized it as such.
But for this wave of hate to work, what had to happen was parental rights had to be ignored.
Supposedly,
conservatives believe in parental rights. But check out any of the
hate from "Moms For Liberty" (and Hate) and you'll see that they clearly
do not believe in that.
There
was not a rash increase of young children (ten and younger) having
gender operations. The ones that were taking place were the ones that
had been taking place for decades.
FOX "NEWS" and the other hate merchants then brought forward 'victims.'
Let's
take a moment to note that Caitlyn Jenner has no self-respect because
she's allowed this to go on while keeping her job at FOX "NEWS."
The victims brought forward?
Olie
what's his name. You know that idiot from the UK. He started out
having surgery to look Asian because he was obsessed with some Korean
pop group member. That was your first clue that Olie was nuts. One
year ago, at the age of 32, Oli declared himself "trans." Five months
later, he said, 'Woops." He did not have surgery.
Again,
he'd already had his own face turned to plastic in an idiotic and
obsessive zeal to look like Park Jimin. What he did was disgusting. He
is not a sane person.
But if FOX "NEWS" had to depend upon sanity, they'd never book any guests.
The other one that they like to bring on is at least American. Transitioned to a female and was unhappy and now regrets it.
That
story has nothing to do with children. The man was over 40 when he
went to the doctors. But he came forward, he insisted, because he
wanted to protect children.
Maybe protect yourself you insane idiot.
What
happened with this fool was he found out he couldn't be a teenage
girl. That's what he really wanted, to be a young girl. But he was a
military veteran in his late forties so his chance of being a teenage
girl was zero.
FOX "NEWS" loves to attack doctors -- there are all these doctors, they insist, just trying to flip someone's gender.
In
this case, FOX "NEWS" was attacking the VA. The man was an adult
veteran. He went through the VA. Leave it to 'patriotic' FOX "NEWS" to
attack VA doctors.
Do
some people regret their decision to transition with surgery? I'm sure
they do. Even sane people. As I've noted before, life is about
learning and we learn with regrets.
In
terms of children, I've stated here before, that it's up to the parents. I
can't parent your child for you nor do I wish to. I've stated that if
it were my child (mine are no longer children) and they came to me and
said they were transgender and wanted to have surgery that what I would
do is ask them to speak with a therapist first. Not to change their
mind. But to discuss what this would entail and to be able to have any
questions answered. Our bodies can be embarrassing when speaking to our
parents and we may not share all we need to or ask all we want to ask.
That's why I would want them to see a therapist first. After that, if
they wanted it, that's what we would do. That's how I would handle it
and no outsider should be able to tell me otherwise. I also noted that
this belief means if you're transgender and your parent/s says/say "no,"
then that's what it is. You have to wait until your 18. I'm sorry for
those in that situation but unless you are an emancipated minor, your
parents are in charge.
If
my child came to me after a surgery, five or ten years later, and they
weren't happy, I'd state, "That's why I asked you if you were sure and
that's why you were sent to speak with Dr. ____ before you had the surgery. We all have to own our choices."
The same if they wanted to join the military before they were 18 or anything else.
I
do believe in parental rights and I'm shocked to discover that many do
not. Chris Hayes, by the way, did a great job of making this point on
MSNBC.
According to
Marjorie Taylor-Greene, Glenneth isn't a father. Remember when she
attacked the woman who had adopted a child as not being a mother? In a session of Congress, no less.
I
think Glenneth is a father, a really bad father, I feel so sorry for those
kids. They have one dad in the hospital who's dying and there's the
other dad, Glenneth, telling them he didn't want to be a father.
That's
not really something you share with a child. Especially not when
they're about to lose one parent -- aka the one that wanted them. I
don't care if you follow up with, "But now I'm just so glad we adopted
you!" All the kid registers in moments of stress is, "Dad said he
didn't want kids." It was a stupid thing to say to a child but Glenneth
is a very stupid man.
Guess
what? I can comment on that all I want. Glenneth still the father and
he can raise his kids as he sees fit -- short of harming them. I can't
dictate to him how to raise his kids. He can't dictate to me. But he
and the other transphobes want to destroy the lives of parents and
children and the rights of parents.
So
John Stauber took time off over the weekend from attacking leftists
(THE NATION, et al) and instead reposted a Tweet about America.
Can
I be really clear? I'm damn tired of outsiders wading into our issues
in this country. I'm not joking. Wasn't thrilled when MSNBC and CNN
both gave British men their own prime time shows to talk about our
politics and our lives. Really, police your own.
But
there was the RT freak (RT is RUSSIA TODAY) from Norway who loves
Vladimir Putin (who is a raging homophobe -- a point we don't usually
make because I don't honestly care and leave to Russia to police their
own). Norway idiot was appalled by a Pride Month parade . . . in the US. A child, with a parent,
was seeing the butt cheeks hanging out of a thong.
First
off, he's a correspondent for a non-American country and he's in Norway
(where he's a citizen). How is a Pride Parade in the US his
business?
As Joni long ago sang:
I picked the morning paper off the floor
It was full of other people's little wars
Wouldn't they like their peace
Don't we get bored
And we call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones
Artifice, brutality and innocence.
A
child has been scarred by seeing buttocks on either side of the back strip of a thong! Oh my goodness! However will the
country cope! Thank goodness for that brave but dangerously unbalanced
man from Norway!
First
off, is he not aware that there are nudists in the US? Is he not aware
that there are families who don't wear clothes in their homes? And who
take trips to nudist beaches? They'd see a lot more than butts. And,
guess what, that's the parent/s decision. That is how they raise their
child. And it is legal.
Second,
though the Christian illiterates seem opposed to all nudity, many of us
would rather our children see a nude body in a film than a ghastly
murder. Or war.
I never
let my kids play with war toys. I didn't go on TV declaring no children
should play with war toys. I left it up to other parents to make their
own child raising decisions.
Imagine that, knowing what was and wasn't your say. A strange concept today.
Third,
the parent/s took the child to the Pride Month Parade. I'm not sure I
ever did. I'd have to check with them. But I wouldn't have been
opposed to it. I have been at Pride with them -- Just remembered. They were
both under 12 and our friend had just come out and we went and marched
to show our support. So, yes, I did take them to Pride when they were
children. And that was my choice. And, Norway Busybody, that was San
Francisco so whatever you saw somewhere in the US didn't compare to what
we saw.
FOX
"NEWS" has brought on what they always do -- liars and extremists --
because the only way that they get ratings is with hate. They preach
hate and they offer all these delusions. They don't offer facts.
Again, FOX "NEWS" 'expert' (liar) Jonathan Turley does the same thing at
his blog. He tells half-truths and uses the half to alarm. If it
bleeds, it leads used to be the saying for network TV and for local
'news.' FOX "NEWS" chases ratings by forever alarming people about some
supposed threat that just does not exist.
FOX "NEWS" has been lying to people for three straight years about transgender people.
That's not an accident.
This
was planned. The Matt Walshes and Ben whatevers (Shapiro? I always
get him confused with the former-POLITICO reporter -- if I don't like
you I tend to block out your name) schemed with others because they were
opposed to the advances that gays and lesbians had made. They knew
that the tide had turned for them on this. But they came up with
attacking transgender people. Attack them, try to repusle Middle
America, and then that would harm LGBTQ+ rights.
Which
is why it's so disgusting that Glenneth joins in these attacks -- but
he's always been a self-loathing gay man (and we'll be talking with his
first sexual partner in the roundtable for the krista & gina
round-robin -- expect a lot of funny stories -- Ava and I have already
spoken to him).
So
the point is to tear apart anything LGBTQ+ related. That's why they
went after BROS. It was the same pattern (and many of the same
people). Attack with lies. Pretend to be doing it for the kids.
Attack over and over and lie and smear.
They did that with Dylan Mulvaney as well.
It's the same pattern.
I
noted last Friday that we weren't noting a show anymore. The host
isn't aware that two of her panelists are part of this movement. I am
aware (and spent a lot of money buying up information on this faux
movement).
They are attacking the very foundation of democracy and should be called out for doing so.
Instead,
they're being presented as 'cuddly' conservatives. And I'm not here to
promote hate merchants. (For those late to the party, I do not call
conservatives "hate merchants." Some conservatives -- most -- are not
hate merchants. And "Christian illisterates" is not a comment on all
Christians -- it's a steal from 30 ROCK where the idiot wanted Liz to
write a 'reality' TV speech for her and couldn't write it herself
because she was, her terms, "a Christian illiterate.")
Instead,
you get pasty faced Uncle Fester thinking he looks
like a cool kid (not with that skin) by cozying up to Matt Walsh and
pretending that Walsh made a 'mockumentary.' Excuse me, Christopher
Guest defined that genre and you can be damn sure that he doesn't see
Walsh having done a mockumentary. Christopher is married to Jamie Lee
Curtis and their daughter Ruby is trans. So watch your filthy
mouth. Walsh didn't make a mockumentary. He made a hate film. That's
all it was.
These people are repulsive.
This
is well-funded movement to destroy the rights of the LGBTQ+ community.
And get real because if they're successful, they're next going to focus
solely on people of color.
You
either stand up to these people or you are working with them -- as John
Stauber, Jonathan Turley, Glenneth and so many others are. They could
be brave and speak out. But they're whack jobs who got frightened when
rain hit their window panes and they've been cowering in the bathroom --
is it a tornado!!! -- ever since.
Now in the above, we're talking about surgery.
There
are some children who go on blockers and other things. These are drugs
that have been used on children for some time. They are drugs approved
by the AMA. Not only did FOX "NEWS" promote hate and medical doubt, so
did THE NEW YORK TIMES, among others. And not just in 'opinion
columns' by uninformed idiots. They also did it in reporting which was
why so many employees spoke out.
Instead of supporting them, Glenneth attacked them and mocked them.
But
they knew better than Glenneth. Homophobia has long been ingrained
into NYT -- ANGELS OF AMERICA wasn't the first body of work to call NYT
out.
And as "If you're not sitting at the table, you're being served on the table."
There is no issue at all with blockers, etc. They have been medically tested.
Now
they worry Tulsi Gabbard -- the same way her rough complexion (are
those pock marks) worry the rest of us. Tulsi is afraid to let her
children take them.
Wait.
Tulsi
doesn't have children. So why the hell is that _____ even in this
conversation? Is she on marriage two or marriage three? I know she's
close to being out of child bearing years so, if she wants children,
maybe focus on that and not how other parents choose to raise their own
children.
Again, Tulsi
Gabbard does not have children. Maybe that's why she's so bitter and
feels the need to butt into parents' business?
Just days before communities across the country prepared to celebrate Pride, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL)
signed a sweeping slate of hate into law, capping off the most
anti-LGBTQ session in state history with new laws restricting health
care for transgender young people and adults, students' rights to use
the bathroom at school, drag shows and more. After months of vitriol and
callous attacks on transgender young people, many parents fear raising
their children in a state governed by extremists. With hate and
misinformation rising across the country, it is time we recognize that
Florida is simply the frontline in a national battle.
Far
too many parents are now being forced to choose between remaining in
the place they have long called home or packing up, selling their homes,
and relocating to another state to keep their families safe. The
extremism that defined our legislative session is not limited to
Florida. It is a national tragedy. Politicians pushing attacks on
transgender people have now spread their approach to other states, and to the nation's capital.
As
a parent and an advocate for LGBTQ people in Florida for years, I know
that targeting kids and marginalized groups to score points with
far-right voters isn't a new strategy. For many families, however, this
year feels different.
Parents
and their children have endured months of sleepless nights and
traumatic political hearings. In the face of these unprecedented
attacks, families in Florida have risen to the challenge with remarkable
resilience. They've shown up with hope and conviction every time
they're called upon to drive long hours or walk through hostile protests
to share heartbreaking testimony at the statehouse. The tearful father
who "didn't plan to speak" at a legislative hearing, only to deliver a
powerful rebuke of the transphobia being spewed from GOP lawmakers. The
mother who courageously shared what the state forcibly outing her young
child would do to their family.
Throughout
the session, the advocates I work with have poured themselves into
organizing to ensure as many families as possible can feel seen,
supported, and safe. We've even taken the extraordinary step of issuing
a travel advisory helping families nationwide weigh risks for their families if they travel or relocate to Florida.
Despite
this outcry, politicians continued to drive legislation blocking
parents and health care providers from connecting young people with
gender-affirming care approved by every major medical association. And
make no mistake, the denial of care is not limited to young people:
adults are effectively being forcibly detransitioned by our state
government. The GOP majority has rubber-stamped every bill DeSantis
prioritized. They passed bills barring children from using bathrooms at
school, turning every school day into a source of anxiety, discomfort,
and shame. They censored teachers and forced them to mislead their
students about what has happened in this country. They even threatened
to break up families and shatter custody agreements.
Florida
advocates and families are still reeling from these attacks. We'll
catch our breath, and we'll keep fighting, but we need more allies to
step up and join us if we're going to turn the tide nationwide. As
DeSantis takes his platform on a cross country tour, we should be aware
of the very real threat his tactics pose to everyone in this country.
It is a real threat, a very real threat.
Crazy
people are all over the world. Tulsi might, for example, feel at home
in Iraq right now as two cults are getting attention.
RUDAW notes:
Iraq’s judiciary announced on Sunday that members of a group of Sadrist
followers were sentenced to prison for spreading rumors claiming the
Shiite cleric is a long-foretold messianic figure.
In April, a group called “People of the Cause” started spreading rumors
that the long-awaited Imam al-Mahdi will appear at the Kufa mosque, at a
time which coincided with the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s religious
retreat at that mosque. The claims by the group that Sadr was the
promised one enraged him, prompting him to announce the freezing of his
Sadrist Movement for a year.
On Sunday, Iraq’s judiciary announced in a statement that Baghdad’s
al-Karkh court sentenced 51 of the members of the group to one year in
prison, and the leader of the group to two years.
According to the statement from the judicial council, the leader of the
group recruited a large number of youth and released many statements as
well as speeches to convince his followers that he was the Angel Jibrail
(Gabriel) who came down from the heavens, and that he had been tasked
with announcing the appearance of the long-awaited Mahdi.
