We have been following litigation over the required use of pronouns in schools. As University of New Mexico joined those schools requiring the use of the chosen pronouns of students, challenges and cases have mounted. They include actions against both teachers and students for refusing to use pronouns due to their political or religious views. Some of these cases have ended in settlements in favor of the dissenting teachers or professors. Now a new case has been filed in Ohio where Vivian Geraghty, an English teacher at Jackson Memorial Middle School, alleged that she was forced to resign for refusing to comply with the school’s mandatory pronoun policy.
Geraghty is a “professing Christian who strives to live out her faith daily,” and told the school that she is morally prevented from recognizing any gender beyond the “two distinct, complementary sexes.” They allegedly told her that she had to put those objections to the side or leave her teaching position.
What is notable is that Geraghty said that she was willing to simply refrain from using any gender-based pronouns and use the student’s name. We have discussed that option in earlier posts. Indeed, this position led to a settlement in the Meriwether case.
In the complaint, Geraghty states “If a student asks to be addressed by a different name and pronouns, Ms. Geraghty would refrain from using any pronouns in the student’s presence and would address the student, for example, by last name.” She alleges that that compromise was rejected: “Defendants Carter and Myers told Ms. Geraghty that if she would not participate in the students’ social transition that she must resign effective immediately.”
The complaint is a bit different in closely tying her refusal to comply to her opposition to gender transitioning:
“55. Ms. Geraghty wants to protect children from making potentially irreversible and life-changing decisions that they may later regret. Ms. Geraghty believes that, because of the difficulty of assessing matters of gender identity and the long-term irreversible consequences of certain treatments for transgender identifying people, including puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy, and sex-reassignment surgery—children should not be encouraged to undertake social or medical transition because of their inability to assess long-term consequences.
56. Ms. Geraghty objects to personally participating in any child’s social transition because she believes that participating in this “active intervention” creates an unreasonable risk of harm to the child, in terms of the immediate impact, the potential irreversible impact of further treatment, and the likelihood that other mental health issues may be overlooked. “
Geraghty is bringing five causes of action for deprivation of free speech, free exercise, and and due process.
FIRST CAUSE OF ACTION Free Speech Retaliation (42 U.S.C. § 1983)
SECOND CAUSE OF ACTION Compelled Speech (42 U.S.C. § 1983)
THIRD CAUSE OF ACTION Free Exercise of Religion (42 U.S.C. § 1983)
FOURTH CAUSE OF ACTION Due Process of Law (42 U.S.C. § 1983)
FIFTH CAUSE OF ACTION Free Exercise of Religion (Ohio Const. Art. I § 7)
Here is the complaint: Geraghty v. Jackson Local School District Board
What’s the phrase? “I identify as…” If a Caucasian were to artificially darken their skin and say, “I identify as an African American,” what would happen? Say it with me now…”YOU ARE CULTURALLY APPROPRIATING!!” So, when an individual X gender uses artificial means to “identify as” another gender why is it not called what it is–gender appropriation. We’d do very well to properly DEFINE this phenomenon for what it is–gender appropriation–before debating the topic further. First things first.
This should not even be a question. If “gender” is merely an opinion, then everyone has an equal right to have an opinion about your gender. My opinion is that it is a function of your DNA. The First Amendment protects my right to express my opinion.
People are free to beleive nonsense.
I do not care what people beleive about gender.
In most all matters when your beleifs are at odds with reality the harm is to yourself.
The problem is when those beleifs translate to force – government.
You are free to beleive as you wish. You are not free to force your beleifs on others.
This is especially true of children.
Here’s my pronouns for them: “Frigging Freaks”.
You’ll note when someone brings up a child feeling like a cat or a tree and the opposition says nothing, you just smashed their beliefs, they can’t argue that a kid should use a litter box. I worked with a communist for several years, I never learned a thing arguing but when he went up against someone else I could see it clearly. They like to argue feelings, victims have feelings, attempting to argue that kids that want to be a plant should be outside laying in the dirt has no feelings. If you start making points, clear obviously correct statements they’ll shift the argument so they don’t have to acknowledge your correct points. A communist will never admit you were right, never. Thats when I stopped attempting to make them see the truth, they will not see the truth, they refuse. When you point out dems were the racist’s, the kkk, etc, they’ll tell you the parties switched. I said show me, tell me when, subject change. In the late 50’s, early 60’s, less than 10 people changed parties. This is where they’d change the subject.
Correct. Some kids identify as Superman, but no responsible parent will let them jump off of tall buildings.
If gender is an opinion, then the First Amendment says I have a right to hold and express my own opinion. Nor can the law compel me to participate in the fantasies of a self-loathing emotionally troubled person.
Heterosexual / pseudo-bisexual Autogynephiles and autoandrophiles have sexual paraphilias (fetishes) and 100% narcissists. Their fetish most likely comes from looking at shemale pornography during adolescents combined with their narcissism. They are more commonly known as transvestites. The other type of transgendered are homosexual transexuals. HSTS can easily pass as the opposite sex. They are also extremely rare, 0.0000746% of the population in the UK, and routinely preyed upon by transvestites. Currently there is a social contagion called transtrenders. They have been created by social media – TikTok being the main source as a communist Chinese psyop to target western youth as part of unconventional warfare, and predatory for-profit gender clinics – including planned parenthood who is the number one supplier of cross sex hormones, and LGBTQ subversives and their allies in schools and media. Each kid they can convince to transition is worth $1.5 million in lifetime surgeries, treatments and care. The UK recently shut down this predatory scam. There are numerous detransitioner videos on YouTube of mainly young women who were pushed in to transitioning due to the reckless policy of ‘affirmative only’ care. The psychologist have been bullied and cowed into going along lest they loose their license. It’s the same predatory, for profit ‘medicine’ that gave us COVID lockdowns and mandates. The exact same psyop run by psychopaths, sociopaths in charge of big pharma and big government, big media, etc….
“Currently there is a social contagion called transtrenders. They have been created by social media – TikTok being the main source as a communist Chinese psyop to target western youth as part of unconventional warfare, and predatory for-profit gender clinics – including planned parenthood who is the number one supplier of cross sex hormones, and LGBTQ subversives and their allies in schools and media.”
There is an interesting idea.
We already have a crisis with the lack of military aged male candidates due to obesity, drug use both legal and illegal or mental health issues.
Add in say 5 years of this identity stuff from now, what would the US military look like?
Yes, we see this all the time – science polluted by ideology.
Sexual reproduction in mammals and most animals requires two sexes – not bazillions.
Absent a male and a female reproduction does not occur. Absent almost the entiretly of the species being divided nearly evenly into males and females the species does not survive.
If sex is genetic – anything be male and female would be natural selected out of existance.
The alternative is that it is a choice – and if it is a choice, then we can discriminate against those who chose other than male or female.
I do not care what you choose to beleive. I do not care what assorted scientists try to claim to be a fact.
In the end reality wins.
If gender is an opinion, then the First Amendment says I have a right to hold and express my own opinion. Nor can the law compel me to participate in the fantasies of a self-loathing emotionally troubled person.
If I were the devil …
To the young, I would whisper that ‘The Bible is a myth.’ I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around. I would confide that what’s bad is good, and what’s good is ‘square.’ And the old, I would teach to pray, after me, ‘Our Father, which art in Washington…’
I’d soon have families that war with themselves, churches at war with themselves, and nations at war with themselves; until each in its turn was consumed. And with promises of higher ratings I’d have mesmerizing media fanning the flames. If I were the devil I would encourage schools to refine young intellects, but neglect to discipline emotions — just let those run wild, until before you knew it, you’d have to have drug sniffing dogs and metal detectors at every schoolhouse door.
-Paul Harvey
Professor Turley, The discussion on this post and other recent gender identity related posts has unfortunately been quite ugly at times. As well respected here, I think you could really elevate the discussion of gender identity issues by giving your opinions and providing the appropriate legal framework (for example, Bostock 2020 Gorsuch opinion that the prohibition of sex discrimination in employment includes gender identity and sexual orientation). Please consider. Thanks.
Gorsuch is wrong.
Anyone who thinks there are only 2 sexes has not passed high school biology. Passing high school biology should be a prerequisite for teaching students, in my humble opinion.
Which of the “two, complementary sexes” is a Güevedoce, for example? Intersexuality is a biological reality, not just a “social transition” for some students.
If a child is really intersex, they would be a rarity, as people who have studied Biology know. If a confused child takes on an identity at the urging of gender zealots, that child must be protected and not used for lucrative medical treatment.
Tatiana: who says a child with gender dysphoria is “confused”–people like you are the ones who are confused because you don’t understand or accept gender dysphoria.
Gigi – wait, so a young boy who thinks he’s a girl *isn’t* confused? If he thinks he’s a rabbit, is he confused? What if he thinks he’s a toaster? What if he thinks he doesn’t exist, or that he’s the only person who exists? What if he thinks 2+2=5?
Add whom do you propose can state, without a doubt and with endless empirical data, that there is such a valid condition as gender dysphoria as opposed to just confusion due to other mental issues. Forcing the world to accept your opinion places you very close to those na(x)is who thought they were oh so right about race and aryan superiority. You need to mature, perhaps 15-20 years worth, before you spout off about something so critical to young children’s lives.
Have you ever met a transsexual in real life, spoken to the person, or even seen an interview with a transsexual, or listened to an interview with psychiatrists or endocrinlologists who treat these people? Of course not. What, exactly, would you consider “empirical data” that would be sufficient to convince you, but even more importantly, how or why is it some of your business whether someone is a transsexual and chooses to dress and be identified consistently with the gender to which they identify? You think they are confused, but they’re not. I saw an excellent piece just last night by Chris Cuomo who interviewed a transsexual and his psychiatrist, who teaches at Yale.
“Have you ever met a transsexual in real life, spoken to the person, or even seen an interview with a transsexual”
Yes, lots of them, I have freinds who are trans.
That said – why does that matter ? Everything I would bar regarding transsexuals, I would bar period.
I do not want kids younger than puberty being sexualized in school. Not Trans, not gay, not straight.
I do not want hetero sexual males participating in women’s sports. Not even if you choose to wear dresses and take hormones.
“or listened to an interview with psychiatrists”
Psychiatry is still an infant science. We know very little more than we did when Freud found it.
Prison psychiatrists have been found to be LESS able to predict what prisoners will reoffend that random people on the street.
I respect psychiatrists and what they are trying to do, but that is not the same as investing them wit authority they do no have.
“endocrinlologists who treat these people? ”
How is an endocrinologist relevant ? They can tell us how hormones can change peoples bodies an mental state.
They can not tell us why that should be done.
Todate there is no objective test for homosexuality or transsexuality.
The only meanswe have for knowning someone is gay or trans is to ask them.
If I say that I am black does that change my race ?
Can I become tall and thin just by identifying as tall and thin ?
“Of course not. What, exactly, would you consider “empirical data” that would be sufficient to convince you,”
Convince me of what ? As an adult you are free to do as you please so long as you do not harm others and fully respect the same freedom in others. I may not compel you to call me king, you may not compel me how to identify you.
“but even more importantly, how or why is it some of your business whether someone is a transsexual and chooses to dress and be identified consistently with the gender to which they identify? ”
It is not until they make demands of others.
“You think they are confused,”
I do not care if they are confused.
“but they’re not.”
because you say so ?
“I saw an excellent piece just last night by Chris Cuomo who interviewed a transsexual and his psychiatrist, who teaches at Yale.”
Saying someone teaches in college is one strike against them.
Saying the teach at an ivy is two.
I don’t think anyone cares about transexuals since they can easily pass as the opposite sex, it’s the transvestites who are pretending they are transexuals that are dangerous and causing all of the wild demands to be called by pronouns that obviously don’t match their chosen gender and play on sports teams, and make the very misogynist claims that ‘trans women are women’ etc… A lot of those transvestites are dangerous to transexuals. Many transexuals happily work in the sex industry but are preyed upon by transvestites.
Gigi-to answer all your question in regards to me is “Yes”. I will be blunt: Without one doubt in my mind and in my opinion the person was mentally ill. Not a doubt in my mind.
Tell us when the US military decided people can just be whatever gender they choose…… I mean, after all, it’s the government who supports this shit, right?
No one has, because there is no such thing.
If gender is an opinion, then the First Amendment says I have a right to hold and express my own opinion. Nor can the law compel me to participate in the fantasies of a self-loathing emotionally troubled person.
Gender Dysphoria is a clinical diagnosis, not just a random opinion. Forcing accredited mental health professionals to accept your opinion is very close to those communists who thought they were oh so right about Lysenko’s cockamamie ideas.
It’s one thing to try to help someone resolve an issue. This juggernaut pushing kids into mutilation is something else altogether. You need to hear what the people detransitioning are saying.
The vast majority of ‘gender confused’ children grow out of it. Those that persist are homosexuals. Of course there are also Autogynephiles and autoandrophiles who pretend to be the same as homosexual transexuals – they aren’t. Autogynephilia and autoandrophilia are sexual paraphernalias (fetishes). They are narcissists and they have an overwhelming sexual fetish to dress up as the opposite sex and masturbate in front of a mirror. Eventually they can no longer control their fetish and come out do the closet. Being narcissists they are abusive, manipulative and deceptive – just to name a few. They are embarrassed about their sexual fetish and lack of control over their sexual fetish. They allowed their fetish to get out of hand and ruin their lives. Once it’s full blown they would rather demand that people pretend their sexual fetish is something else so they aren’t the one ‘with the problem.’
A lot of LGBTQ is subversion, pederasty, pedophilia, narcissism, sadomasochism, and or have same sex for money, status, benefits, etc.. very few are true homosexuals – sexual inverts / homosexual transexuals. LGBTQ is a lifestyle. That’s science which is very different from the LGBTQ tactic that they are naturally ‘born this way’.
Then you must also believe that species dysphoria is also real. Do you think that if a child is a cat and acts like a cat and uses a litter box, should be encouraged or does the child need psychological intervention? Gender dysphoria should be treated psychologically rather than an 8 year old male, with the school’s cooperation change their sex. Sometimes dysphoria is really just confusion caused by by all of this noise in the air.
Gender Dysphoria is recognized in the DSM 5. It calls for psychological counseling—not a layman pressuring a child or telling the child he or she is really a she or he. Why does this phenomenon seem to be breaking out only in certain parts of the country and not all places. True gender dysphoria is quite rare.
What is species dysphoria?
Species dysphoria is the experience of dysphoria and dysmorphia involving the belief of one’s body being the wrong species. A person may not be happy with their body image and may hallucinate or think of themselves as an animal of some sort. Should a child be treated psychologically or should just go along and encourage a child that he really is a wolf and a school and teachers must accommodate this.
Not all behavior should just be accepted, and teachers and schools are not specialist psychologists who should be “counseling” children to come to the school’s transgender club to learn what they are.
The six biological karyotype sexes that do not result in death to the fetus are:
X – Roughly 1 in 2,000 to 1 in 5,000 people (Turner’s )
XX – Most common form of female
XXY – Roughly 1 in 500 to 1 in 1,000 people (Klinefelter)
XY – Most common form of male
XYY – Roughly 1 out of 1,000 people
XXXY – Roughly 1 in 18,000 to 1 in 50,000 births
When you consider that there are 7,000,000,000 alive on the planet, there are almost assuredly tens of millions of people who are not male or female.
Your logic is atrocious.
False. Women produce eggs, men produce swimmers, and all that is left are “sports” (no genitalia).
If gender is an opinion, then the First Amendment says I have a right to hold and express my own opinion. Nor can the law compel me to participate in the fantasies of a self-loathing emotionally troubled person.
Your input is irrelevant. We are, for the most part – and especially with normal children with either the XX or XY chromosomes – talking about psychological confusion, not biological rareties that are not, originally, of a psychological nature. You are just adding to the confusion of a discussion about “grooming” and manipulation of children for the sake of agendas that are not healthy to society in general.
Exactly. It’s a predatory industry combined with yet another communist Chinese psyop directed at the west as part of their unconventional warfare.
You’re playing a semantic game. In very rare cases (e.g., hermaphrodites or guevedoces), one person has characteristics of both sexes, but that person is still defined in terms of the two basic sexes. Whatever conclusion one reaches in relation to this type of semantic game, it has nothing at all to do with a person’s mind being out of sync with his or her body.
Correct.
If gender is an opinion, then the First Amendment says I have a right to hold and express my own opinion. Nor can the law compel me to participate in the fantasies of a self-loathing emotionally troubled person.
Anonymous, according to your viewpoint all the little boys who develop a penis due to Guevedoce should be immediately castrated because they have been raised as a girl. Sometimes people are born with two heads. This phenomenon does not make them a different species. The fact of the matter is that you have no concern for a child being harmed for life through the use of puberty blockers. On no you say! let them be harmed for life if it will further the cause. You say, sacrifices must be made at the idol. The great gender god likes the tender taste of the little children to justify his existence.
Does the above post imply that children born XXY are a different species than homo sapiens?
That is just biologically incorrect on so many levels.
I think there are only 2 sexes and I have passed high school biology. So your premise is disproved . . . and I am skeptical your opinion is “humble” as you claim.
Did your high school biology class teach you that every child is born either XX or XY?
ATS can read about all the variants of XX and XY. Then he can read about hormones and mitochondria, and other things he knows little if anything about. Finally, he has to grapple with the things we have yet to discover.
Put them all together, and each human being is unique. That means in this country we have about 330,000,000 unique individuals with unique gender expressions. But if or when ATS develops some common sense, despite the outliers that exist, he will finally learn that the two sexes fit over a wide spectrum.
They are not “additive.” Women produce eggs. Men produce swimmers. Hermaphrodites may produce both, but their viable existence in human beings is unproven. Then there are a handful of true genetic abberations besides the above – all of which are genetic dead-ends.
If gender is an opinion, then the First Amendment says I have a right to hold and express my own opinion. Nor can the law compel me to participate in the fantasies of a self-loathing emotionally troubled person.
Biology teaches that there are females who produce eggs; males who produce swimmers; and some biological abberations
If gender is an opinion, then the First Amendment says I have a right to hold and express my own opinion. Nor can the law compel me to participate in the fantasies of a self-loathing emotionally troubled person.
Barring pathology, there are two sexes. If you are suggesting that because of the fact that .00011% of the U.SA. population is clinically Güevedoce, it is unfair for teachers to refer to non-Güevedoce students by their biological sex, I have only one comment and one question:
Comment: Life is not fair. Deal with it
Question: What planet were you born on?
The purpose of the post was to attack the fallacious assumption informed by the teachers religion rather than science that there are two sexes. This is incorrect on its face.
False.
If gender is an opinion, then the First Amendment says I have a right to hold and express my own opinion. Nor can the law compel me to participate in the fantasies of a self-loathing emotionally troubled person.
You’re missing the point. The general public has no requirement to humor the mentally ill.
@ anonymous. We are not talking about Güevedoce. Gender “dysphoria” and Guevedoce and transgender persons are not the same. Guevedoce is a physical medical condition, not just someone who feels a different gender than what they are.
Are you for real? Man, woman and a miniscule number of hermaphrodite. That’s it. The rest is make believe.
Correct. If gender is an opinion, then the First Amendment says I have a right to hold and express my own opinion. Nor can the law compel me to participate in the fantasies of a self-loathing emotionally troubled person.
There is no such thing as “trans.” Merely self-loathing people who fixate fantasize that “all their unhappiness would be gone if only they were a different gender.”
They are born XY but, because of an abnormal lack of testosterone during fetal development, LOOK like female externally and produce a penis at puberty. They do NOT choose to be what they are. They are, in fact, males from the beginning and end up as such. True intersex individuals are very rare and they do not CHOOSE to be what they are from being coached. Your biology is full of shit. There are only two true genders — period!! BTW, I have a master’s degree in biology.
Yeah Anonymous anyone who passed Biology knows that intersex is an outlier and rare. And that intersex human genetics is still a combination of XY chromosomes. That includes any of the other rare sex abnormalities. I’m sorry, but people who are delusional should not be taken seriously and need professional psychiatric help. NOT help from a social worker or psychologist.
Wrong. You’re conflating wishful thinking with logical reasoning. My guess is you never passed high school biology.
No one denies that there are manifest abnormalities in nature, but that’s what they are… abnormalities. Extremely low percentage abnormalities at that. There are probably zero “Güevedoce” examples born in the USA, unless you’d care to cite some specific example we’re all unaware of. Bringing up a rare occurrence (“phenomenon”) in one or two third-world nations is a pretty silly way to base your argument. I think it’s safe to say that very few high school biology classes bother to even mention what you’re talking about, so no… you’re wrong to say “anyone who thinks there are only 2 sexes has not passed high school biology.” You’re just being ridiculous. It’s much more accurate and relevant to make reference to “two, complementary sexes” since that is the obvious normal condition for 99.9% of the planet. Those who are abnormal should be treated compassionately, but by no means should we treat abnormality as if it is more prevalent than it is or that it is any way to be confused with normal.
I would ask those on the left for the actual “science”.
Is being Gay or Trans genetic ?
Is it hormonal – and if so is the cause genetic or environmental ?
Or is it a choice ?
The differences are important.
If there is a genetic basis we can establish the actual frequency.
Regardless, we generally do not allow discrimination for factors outside of a persons control.
If it is hormonal, we can fix it.
I have always found it odd that the left thinks it is OK to take a genetic male, block puberty, and give them female hormones to transform their body to match their mind, when it would be easier and less dangerous to boost their genetically matching hormones to bring their mind into alignment with their body.
Adults are free to make whatever choices they want. But choices come with consequences, and we are permitted to discriminate against peoples choices.
Regardless kids are not free to choose whatever they please.
Correct. Neither chemical castration nor physical mutilation are “cures” for any physical malady.
If gender is an opinion, then the First Amendment says I have a right to hold and express my own opinion. Nor can the law compel me to participate in the fantasies of a self-loathing emotionally troubled person.
That isn’t a new gender.
Gender is a binary between male and female.
Just as asexuality is due to low libido and not a sexual orientation.
Guevedoces are delayed in developing male genitalia due to a genetic condition – primarily seen in Dominican Republic. They have XY chromosome – they are male! BTW your chromosomes are I-D-I-O-T
Your comment is rather condescending. Anyway, transgender is a choice, intersexuality is not.
Transgender is a fantasy. If gender is an opinion, then the First Amendment says I have a right to hold and express my own opinion. Nor can the law compel me to participate in the fantasies of a self-loathing emotionally troubled person.
Intersexuality is a developmental abnormality, not evidence in support of transgenderism being anything other than a choice to make oneself appear as the opposite sex & the intersexed still exhibit biological traits that primarily conform to one biological sex or the other. They are also typically sterile. What you’re doing is no different than claiming someone born without arms or legs means that cutting off ones arms and legs is the product of a natural biological drive. It’s not even close.
There are two locations on the planet where the body’s development is corrupted by environmental conditions. And those environmental conditions are external, not between the ears.
A girl wanting to play “daddy” or a boy wanting to dress like “mommy” does not change their biologic sex. Nor should it be equated to genetic defects or corruption due to environmental factors. Perhaps some college level biology should be in your future.
If gender is an opinion, then the First Amendment says I have a right to hold and express my own opinion. Nor can the law compel me to participate in the fantasies of a self-loathing emotionally troubled person.
Fighting back is the only way to eliminate this sociological dysfunction of wokism. The Adults in the Room need to stand up, push back and take what ever steps are legal to end this whirlpool to cultural destruction.
Alma Carman: yes, Alma, it’s people like you who are sufficiently superior to everyone else to qualify as “Adults in the Room”, charged with “standing up, pushing back” and saving our culture from “destruction” by the “sociological dysfunction of wokism”. This is exactly the rhetoric you hear on Fox, that has indoctrinated gullible people like you into believing that mainstream media lies, either overly or by omission, and therefore, cannot be trusted. They pander to your ignorance about things like gender dsyphoria and teaching the history of slavery in America–pandering to the fear that little white kids are being taught that they should feel shame that their race was responsible for enslaving black people–as if enslaving others isn’t wrong. Therefore, you know better than those ignorant ‘libs, Dems and the Left”. Interesting that mainstream media does not preach against alt-right media or claim that they stir culture wars, or support the Big Lie or speak against the endless rhetoric against Biden and Democrats. Without even an investigation of Hunter Biden, they claim there’s a “Biden Crime Family”, guilty of all sorts of crime, which people like you believe, even without evidence. Of course, attacking Biden is OK because it’s payback.
Poor widdle Trumpy Bear was cheated out of his vainglorious “landslide victory” by widespread voter fraud, and the 2 impeachments were unfair, too. Never mind the damage Trump did to America–all of the Americans who died unnecessarily of COVID due to his lies, his trade war with China, his botched handling of our economy, the insults to our NATO and EU allies, all of which Biden has taken care of while your alt-right media claim he is senile and demented, which you believe because Hannity and Tucker harp on this theme constantly. That I live in a country with so many people who believe these things is truly concerning.
I don;’t watch Fox, I am a retired small business owner and a degreed historian. I see what is happening through the lens of historical events and your short-sighted understanding of this, as evidenced by your knee-jerk referral to me as someone indoctrinated by Fox because my observations are not to your liking, just amplifies my understanding that wokism. progressivism and all the other isms utilized by a counter-culture are leading us where many other cultures have gone to their peril and demise. You should ready some works of great historians (not Howard Zinn) and familiarize yourself with history in general before taking a stand that illustrates your ignorance of your own ignorance.
Where did you pick up the word “wokism”, anyway, and who says that refraining from being judgmental about people who are LGBTQ is “counter-culture”, contrary to the mainstream for which you purport to speak, when you say that they are “leading us”, as if you speak for “us”–the majority. You don’t. If anyone is ignorant, it’s you.
“Where did you pick up the word “wokism”,”
Were did you pick up the word “fascism” ?
Why is it that you fixate on where things came from ?
Regardless, you rant about fox – yet we know know that the only media that did not improperly censor the humter biden story in 2020 was right wing media.
Not a big fox fan, but they are not participants in this idiocy of attempting to censor the country.
If you actually want real democracy, that means you have to trust the voter to sort out truth on their own.
This country used to be proud of the fat that we had free speech, that we did not have propaganda like the USSR.
Today that is obviously not so.
I hate to say this but Fox appears to be one of the last bastions of free speech in this country.
And those like you on the left have been shown to be hypcritical anti-democracy.
“anyway, and who says that refraining from being judgmental about people who are LGBTQ is “counter-culture”,”
Who is being judgemental about LGBTQ ? The current culture war is not about anyone’s right to be. It is about trying to erase women, indocrinate children, and to no give a schiff about the safety of children.
“when you say that they are “leading us”, as if you speak for “us”–the majority. You don’t. If anyone is ignorant, it’s you.”
Gigi – I am not sure there is a single consequential issue in which you not only do not speak for the majority, but that you actually speak only for a tiny minority.
Jeez, you came up with the typical lib response to a comment regarding the common sense pushback against the craziness of the gender stupidity. It’s White people’s fault, it’s Fox News fault. The only thing you forgot was to blame climate change.
“common sense” isn’t either.
Wait! Don’t give ’em ideas.
I call people what they want to be called. It’s respectful. Except trump. He doesn’t deserve capitalization and fat Nixon is descriptive accurate.
So, you are going to entertain a person calling themselves a “cat?”
To include the litter box, you might be required to clean?
If so, have at it. Fully drink the kool-aid and engage in the insanity. I wish you well in your delusion.
Do not try to force it upon me.
No one’s forcing anything on you. They’re just saying what they like to be called.
Sidebar: Cat is short for Catherine
Anonymous, you do understand that you are promoting a call to violence. When Trump said he would not attend the inauguration the good folks at Twitter said that he was promoting violence. If this was true than your disrespect is no different than Trumps disrespect and it must consequently be considered as a call to violent action. Fat nixon aren’t you cute. Do you also fat shame all the people you know who are over weight? Such a fine display of character. Thanks
Fat. Nixon. Fat. Nixon. Fat. Nixon.
As a citizen of Ohio, I say go for it! While I realize these issues are unsettled and controversial, a school board that won’t accept reasonable compromise is due a trip to the courthouse.
Anonymous, you should be careful. You might call someone They when the want to be called You All. You might find yourself open to litigation.
Svelaz wrote a post earlier today in which he stated that puberty blockers are reversible. Europe for the most part has stopped the use of puberty blockers because of research that has found that puberty blockers do indeed have long lasting detrimental https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306453016307922. People on the left want us to follow the science except when they don’t want us to follow the science.
TiT,
Have you been following any of the testimony presented on the hill at the anti-LGBQ+ violence hearing?
It is a farce.
Gays Against Groomers has some excellent commentary on the topic.
UpstateFarmer, I have been following the LGBTQ violence hearing. I especially liked the part where the Lesbian Tweeted that Supreme Court Justices should be accosted where ever they go. Accost” means physically approaching or, when in close proximity to an individual, speaking to that individual in such a manner as would cause a reasonable person to fear imminent bodily harm or fear endangerment that the commission of a criminal act upon his or her person, or upon property in his or her immediate possession. You must understand that I am holding back my crocodile tears for the LBGTQ community who want to perpetuate violence on those who they do not agree with.