Half-prediction, half-wish: This will be the last "pride" month as we've been forced to endure the past few years. Yes, companies will still post their rainbows on June 1, but they'll take them down on June 2, and they'll be very, very careful about what they sponsor and who they "partner" with.
The Gentle Giant from Pennsylvania just literally and sincerely did the '"In Pride month?!?!" meme.
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On the last day of Pride Month, an extremist and unelected SCOTUS uses a made-up case to hand out a constitutional" right to discriminate against LGBTQ people.
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President Joe Biden's administration forced Social Security Administration (SSA) employees to complete a "mandatory" training that lectured employees on respecting their coworkers' "sexual orientation," and "gender identity," The Sentinel reported.
The LGBTQ+ training warned that using preferred pronouns is compulsory and threatened investigations for those deemed noncompliant, according to audio recordings obtained by the Sentinel.
The training, which you can read more about at the link, branded an employee as noncompliant with the LGBTQ Dictatorship for even remarking to a coworker that she thought claims of being transgender were "nonsense," and subject to investigation.
The training also informed employees they should go directly to the agency's Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity to report perceived incidents of discrimination or harassment related to their "sexual orientation" or "gender identity." Once reported, a "Harassment Prevention Officer" would open an investigation into the incident, the Sentinel reported.
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The Sentinel also revealed that SSA employees were instructed to include their pronouns in email signatures and use "gender-neutral language" when referring to other employees so as not to assume individuals' "gender identity" or "sexual orientation."
"Managers were instructed that employees are permitted 'safe access to their preferred restroom' and that office dress codes 'should not restrict an employee's clothing or appearance based on gender,'" the Sentinel added.
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The entire LGBTQQIAAP2S+ spectrum was represented, as the policy reportedly referenced the "Two Spirit" gender identity.
Abortion Mouse has issued two executive orders, one banning "so-called conversion therapy" and the other ordering insurers to cover "gender-affirming care" -- which, if you believe that such therapy changes the sex of the patient, converts gay people of one sex into "straight" people of the opposite sex.
Some conversion therapy is outlawed, the rest of conversion therapy is mandated!
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Arizona Gov. Hobbs issued two pro-LGBTQ executive orders on Tuesday, banning state support of so-called conversion therapy and allowing transgender state employees to receive gender-affirming health care under their insurance plan.
Michigan is making it a crime to refuse to use some mentally-ill bully's fake pronouns:
Greg Price
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Using somebody's wrong pronouns is about to become a felony in Michigan punishable by 5 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
This is in addition to using words that cause somebody to "feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened"
HB 4474 has already passed the state House of Reps
Rachel Levine is the Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Levine is the highest-ranking openly transgender official in the U.S. government.
While talking to a transgender activist, Ryan Cassata, Levine got all carried away and said, "Happy Pride! Happy Pride Month, and actually -- let's declare it a summer of Pride. Happy Summer of Pride." One month isn't enough time set aside to declare the LGBTQ community special and requiring recognition as such. No. What is really needed is a whole Summer of Pride. HHS will be celebrating Pride all summer.
This Woman of the Year also claimed that butchering children was necessary for their mental health:
During a discussion about sex-reassignment surgeries and hormone therapies for "youth and adults," Levine compared procedures that medically change the genders of minors to "suicide prevention care."
"We often say that gender-affirming care is health care, gender-affirming care is mental healthcare, and gender-affirming care is literally suicide prevention care," Levine said.
Never forget: "Rachel" filled Michigan's old folks homes with people infected with covid, while safely spiriting his own mother out of one and into private care.
"Academics:" Allowing children to decline to attend a "drag queen story hour" is a "dangerous" attack on "gay rights." Was David French one of the academics? Note that they're escalating: Before, the argument was that kids could go to drag queen story hour. Now the argument is that they must be regaled by men in women's fetish clothing.
A pair of academics affiliated with York University believe that allowing parents to opt out their children from drag storytime events is a "dangerous setback for 2SLGBTQ+ human rights education."
Writing in the Toronto Star, Beyhan Farhadi, a fellow at York's Institute for Research on Digital Literacies, and "community educator"/York M.Ed student Joy Henderson say the Toronto School Board's decision to allow opt-outs from the "family-friendly" activity "sends a message that [queer] rights are debatable."
What rights do "queers" assert that confers access to other people's children, exactly? ... According to her Twitter bio, Farhadi is a "queer anti-capitalist anti-racist" and "feminist killjoy." Her personal website notes she's an "advocate for a fully-funded anti-oppressive public education system" and is a member of the Critical Geographies of Education group (which "attend[s] to how co‐constitutive ordering systems, such as racism, sexism, and colonialism, shape and are shaped by schools"). Henderson, an "urban Queer Black Lakota," recently retweeted one of the most racist Twitter accounts on the platform and claimed she "still has to deal with white women asking [her] for service" while out shopping... Of course. They conformed perfectly to my stereotypes. These aren't universities. They're free-range asylums for the deeply mentally sick. In some good news: nearly half of all states have enacted laws limiting or banning "transgender" therapy for children.At least 20 states have either restricted or banned transgender procedures for minors, with many of them facing lawsuits and temporary blocks by courts as a result, while future litigation is possible in states considering adopting such laws.
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In a McLaughlin and Associates/Summit Ministries poll from October 2022, 65% of likely general election voters said that the transgender movement has "gone too far by encouraging underage minors to use drugs and surgery to transition to the opposite sex," compared to 21% who disagreed.
Another positive development: Liberals have the Sadz! that a town in Michigan with an entirely Muslim council just banned the "pride" flag from all city property!'A sense of betrayal': liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags
Many liberals celebrated when Hamtramck, Michigan, elected a Muslim-majority council in 2015 but a vote to exclude LGBTQ+ flags from city property has soured relations
Oh no! Sobsies! Snifflesies!
In 2015, many liberal residents in Hamtramck, Michigan, celebrated as their city attracted international attention for becoming the first in the United States to elect a Muslim-majority city council.
They viewed the power shift and diversity as a symbolic but meaningful rebuke of the Islamophobic rhetoric that was a central theme of then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign.
This week many of those same residents watched in dismay as a now fully Muslim and socially conservative city council passed legislation banning Pride flags from being flown on city property that had -- like many others being flown around the country -- been intended to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community.
Muslim residents packing city hall erupted in cheers after the council's unanimous vote, and on Hamtramck's social media pages, the taunting has been relentless: "Fagless City", read one post, emphasized with emojis of a bicep flexing.
In a tense monologue before the vote, Councilmember Mohammed Hassan shouted his justification at LGBTQ+ supporters: "I'm working for the people, what the majority of the people like."
While Hamtramck is still viewed as a bastion of multiculturalism, the difficulties of local governance and living among neighbors with different cultural values quickly set in following the 2015 election. Some leaders and residents are now bitter political enemies engaged in a series of often vicious battles over the city's direction, and the Pride flag controversy represents a crescendo in tension.
"There's a sense of betrayal," said the former Hamtramck mayor Karen Majewski, who is Polish American. "We supported you when you were threatened, and now our rights are threatened, and you're the one doing the threatening."
If you're not celebrating them, you're "threatening" them.