Escalating anti-LGBT+ hate and the terrorism it inspires

[NovaSaber]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1599282404702965760

I have to agree with this response:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1599315823025623040

Also:

Anti-LGBTQ org launches alert system to protest drag shows

The new system is headed by a Blaze TV contributor who calls drag queens and LGBTQ allies

www.lgbtqnation.com

 

[Rhinox]

I'd like to say this is some last gasp of hate, but we all know its not.
Spurred on by the likes of MTG and Boebert, with a fanatical right wing broadcasting setup, hate like this will continue to grow until something definitive is done.

 

[Pocket]

Attacking a power station that serves an entire county to shut down one thing? Good lord, they're stealing terrible ideas from Ride to Hell: Retribution now!

 

[abates]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1599521038760824833

Still, at least now the FBI are involved.

 

[KidTDragon]

I'm sure that the FBI will also see that she's completely innocent after they pray with her.

 

[Plutoniumboss]

That's the one benefit of these wackos becoming more audacious, local goon squads can't sweep it under the rug once the feds get involved.

 

[NovaSaber]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1599401718466629632

 

[NovaSaber]

Biden administration investigates school district after it was busted banning LGBTQ+ books

The superintendent was caught on tape saying that the books were getting banned because they're about LGBTQ+ people.

www.lgbtqnation.com

The U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into a Texas school district after a recording was leaked of its superintendent ordering librarians to remove LGBTQ+ books from shelves.

Leaked audio from a meeting between Granbury Independent School District superintendent Jeremy Glenn and a group of librarians revealed staunchly anti-LGBTQ+ motives behind the district’s attempt to remove books from school shelves.

A bomb threat was made at a Chicago school after right-wing media published an edited sex-ed video

Far-right group Project Veritas published an edited, undercover video implying students were being indoctrinated into queer sex.

www.lgbtqnation.com

The Francis W. Parker School in Chicago was evacuated last week after a bomb threat was emailed to administrators.

The threat came after far-right activist group Project Veritas published a highly edited, undercover video implying students at the elite K-12 school in Lincoln Park were being indoctrinated into queer sex.

Chicago police said the emailed threat warned that a bomb would be placed on school grounds. The school’s security team determined the message “originated from out of the country,” officials said.

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

The idea that people should be allowed to discriminate based on "sincerely held beliefs" is so stupid, because every horrible kind of discrimination stems from a sincerely held belief.

Do you think white supremacists in the 1950s did not sincerely believe that it would be wrong to share a dining space with a black person?

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

In 1930s Germany, 1970s Cambodia, and 1990s Rwanda, the butchers didn't start by saying that they were going to make people suffer. They started by saying that those people DESERVED to suffer. Once they convinced enough people of that, the actual suffering was inevitable.

The constant drumbeat of conservative propaganda about immigrants and LGBT people sounds very much like this, and you're lying if you say it doesn't.

 

[Thylacine 2000]

FB friend:In 1930s Germany, 1970s Cambodia, and 1990s Rwanda, the butchers didn't start by saying that they were going to make people suffer.

As early as 1922, Hitler was explicitly saying his goal was to totally annihilate the Jews, that if he ever took power he would build giant gallows in Munich and hang every Jew in the city until their bodies rotted out of the nooses, then repeat until there were none left alive in Germany. It's understandable to say things like "Sometimes it starts with code words," but it isn't always true.

 

[Nevermore]

And just lest we forget, Hitler also wrote batshit insane stuff like a seemingly endless list of animals that supposedly only mate with their own kind. He was kiiiiinda nuts, and it was all there in his writing.

 

[NovaSaber]

Oklahoma Could Force Trans People Under 26 Years Old To Detransition Medically

A new bill has been filed in Oklahoma that would ban gender affirming care under age 26. Republican states are moving towards banning transition entirely.

erininthemorn.substack.com

A terrifying new bill was released late Wednesday night in Oklahoma that would ban gender affirming care for a huge number people. Oklahoma SB129 would ban gender affirming care under the age of 26 years old. Gen Z would be entirely banned from gender affirming care under this bill. This prospect is terrifying because Gen Z has been the most open about transitioning and a bill like this would medically detransition a huge portion of Oklahoma’s transgender population. This comes after other states like New Hampshire and South Carolina saw bills filed to raise the age of transition to 21, and places like Florida utilized a sham medical board to ban gender affirming care under 18. Slowly, states are moving towards an outright ban on being transgender - it is for these reasons that people have begun calling the attacks on gender affirming care an attempt at genocide.

 

[Patch]

****.

 

[NovaSaber]

GOP lawmaker is disguising a trans healthcare ban as a conversion therapy ban. Will it work?

The bill says that giving a teen puberty blockers and hormone therapy is similar to electrocuting their genitals.

www.lgbtqnation.com

An Indiana state Republican has introduced a bill that, at first glance, seems to ban conversion therapy. But a closer look reveals that it’s actually just a bill seeking to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth. It’s also designed to trick Democratic lawmakers into supporting it.

Indiana state Rep. Lorissa Sweet (R) has introduced H.B. 1118, a bill that prohibits healthcare professionals from “subjecting a minor to certain activities that purposely attempt to change, reinforce, or affirm a minor’s perception of the minor’s own sexual attraction.”

However, Sweet’s bill never mentions the phrase “conversion therapy.” Also, her bill would ban any attempt to “change, reinforce, or affirm a minor’s gender identity when the identity is inconsistent with the minor’s biological sex.” In other words, the bill would ban gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth.

Sweet’s intention becomes clearer in two of the bill’s latter sections. One section bans a variety of gender-affirming surgeries that aren’t typically performed on minors. Another section specifically lists puberty blockers and hormone therapy among its prohibited actions.

Here’s where the bill tries to trick Democrats into voting for it. Its prohibitions on gender-affirming medications are listed alongside other brutal practices that neither any medical provider nor legislator would ever find acceptable. These include electrocuting a person’s genitals, wrapping their hands in heat coils, giving them an ice bath, and injecting them with vomit-inducing drugs.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

LGBTQ+ Legislative Tracking 2023

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Unbridled genocidal fascism, you say.

 

[Anonymous X]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1615042393287364618

The Scottish parliament passed a law giving additional rights to trans people late last year, and the UK government has overturned it – the first time a law has been overridden since the Scottish parliament was formed in 1999.

 

[NovaSaber]

Republican lawmakers block LGBTQ+ “conversion therapy” ban for second time

“It’s disappointing that the very first move the GOP is going to make this legislative session is to green-light abusive practices against children.”

www.lgbtqnation.com

Republicans in Wisconsin voted Thursday to once again block a statewide ban on so-called LGBTQ+ “conversion therapy.”

Under Gov. Tony Evers (D), the state’s Marriage and Family Therapy, Professional Counseling, and Social Work Examining Board, an examining board in the Department of Safety and Public Standards (DSPS) which oversees licensing for mental health professionals, adopted rules banning the widely discredited practice of attempting to change LGBTQ+ patients’ sexuality or gender identity in 2020.

In 2021, Republicans on the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules temporarily suspended the ban. Republicans in both the state Senate and Assembly both took up a bill blocking the DSPS rule, but that bill died in committee at the end of the 2021–22 legislative session, and the committee’s ban lapsed. The ban on “conversion therapy” went back into effect on December 1.

On Thursday, the six Republicans on the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules voted to once again temporarily suspend the ban. The committee’s four Democrats opposed the move.

 

[NovaSaber]

Megachurch forces all members to sign statement opposing LGBTQ+ rights

The church's senior pastor used anti-LGBTQ+ disinformation to explain why all church members must sign or resign.

www.lgbtqnation.com

First Baptist Church — a megachurch in Jacksonville, Florida — is forcing its members to sign a “Biblical Sexuality Agreement,” an anti-LGBTQ+ statement that denies the existence of trans people, opposes same-sex marriage, and calls same-sex intercourse ungodly.

And these bastards won't even lose their tax-exempt status.

 

[NovaSaber]

Arkansas moves forward on criminalizing drag shows

The measure endangers trans people, too.

www.lgbtqnation.com

A bill in Arkansas that reclassifies “drag performance” as adult-oriented entertainment has been approved by Republicans in the state Senate and will now move to the House for consideration.

SB 43, introduced by Republican state Sen. Gary Stubblefield, would outlaw drag performances on public property or “where a minor can view” them. The full Senate passed the measure along party lines, 29 to 6.

Language in the bill is sweeping.

Under the measure, a “drag performance” is defined as one in which an individual exhibits a gender identity that is different from their sex assigned at birth “using clothing, makeup, or other accessories that are traditionally worn by members of and are meant to exaggerate the gender identity of the performer’s opposite sex.”