To be perfectly honest, I think we have invested too much energy into fighting conversion therapy. It was directed at gays and lesbians in the sixties and seventies. No one was sent by a court into conversion therapy, and that is not what is at issue here. They tried conversion therapy on alcoholics, too, and you see how successful that was. If we make trans identity illegal, that will be an alarm of a different sort, but conversion therapy will meet its own petered out fate. For the kids who have to go through it, “it gets better,” when you get your own life.
You're getting there but there's more to it than that. Having been around in the '60s and '70s, and come out as a lesbian in 1977, I knew women and men who were subjected to this as minors. Two women I knew back then were hospitalized by their parents for having affairs with girls their own age, i.e., high school students.
Let's take a closer look at what "trans identity" even means. It's a muddle. When the right wingers started railing against "trans," it seemed to refer mostly to people who didn't fit the gender stereotypes for XX and XY: gender stereotypes that were, and are, resolutely heterosexual, which many of us -- by birth or by choice or by some combination of the two (some people really are bisexually inclined, you all -- weren't, and aren't. But it also included people who aren't clearly either XX or XY (who absolutely do exist).
And let's take a closer look at "gender-affirming care." Who exactly is providing it? As far as I can tell, it's mainly members of the medical and psychological professions. Now as then, these professions focus on the individual. If the individual doesn't fit in to the larger society, it's the individual who needs to be adjusted. I was lucky enough to be part of a generation that realized the bigger problem was the society that considered us "deviant." We moved to big cities and, sometimes, rural communities, leaving the families, small (and not so small) towns, and churches that wouldn't make room for us. Much progress was made, but in the decades since we seem to have regressed, in this as in so many other things.
Aloha. From the COCONUT WIRELESS. ... The court could have waved this conversion litigation. Just not take up the case at all, but they did...That's where it shows the true color... Evangelical christian nationalist at work AGAIN. They're telling us how to live our lives.. The court is bought and paid for by them. The school, books, and how to raise your children.....
Trump signs unconstitutional executive order to ban mail-in voting.. What a PEDO PIG hypocrite.. He voted by mail. "I'm the president" was his response.. Right now. 31st of March.
President Donald Trump signed a new, unconstitutional anti-voting order Tuesday that severely restricts mail-in voting (this PEDO PIG KING voted by mail himself.. What the F**K) and directs the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to create a list of verified U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote in each state.
David Becker, the executive director of Center for Election Innovation & Research, told Democracy Docket that the order is unconstitutional on its face,” and that he expects it “will be blocked by multiple federal courts in a very, very short period of time and will have no legal effect whatsoever."
Eight million people did not take to the streets on Saturday because they believed the fight was lost. They came because they believe it can be won.
We have been here before. The suffragists were told women would never vote. The civil rights marchers were told segregation could never be dismantled. What made the difference, every time, was not the absence of fear but the refusal to be paralyzed by it.
Trump is counting on our exhaustion. He is counting on the rallies to fade, the outrage to cool, and the movement to splinter before November arrives. Our job is to prove him wrong — not just in the streets, but in courtrooms, in voting booths and in every conversation we have between now and Election Day.
That is why 8 million people took to the streets on Saturday. And that is why we must keep speaking out, louder and with greater resolve, until this fight is won... D.D.ORG
Not likely going to stop. He’ll pause for midterms at best but neither his criminality in the White House nor his criminality in life ever going to fully stop. They will just continue to ignore orders while no one holds them accountable 🤷♂️
To be perfectly honest, I think we have invested too much energy into fighting conversion therapy. It was directed at gays and lesbians in the sixties and seventies. No one was sent by a court into conversion therapy, and that is not what is at issue here. They tried conversion therapy on alcoholics, too, and you see how successful that was. If we make trans identity illegal, that will be an alarm of a different sort, but conversion therapy will meet its own petered out fate. For the kids who have to go through it, “it gets better,” when you get your own life.
You're getting there but there's more to it than that. Having been around in the '60s and '70s, and come out as a lesbian in 1977, I knew women and men who were subjected to this as minors. Two women I knew back then were hospitalized by their parents for having affairs with girls their own age, i.e., high school students.
Let's take a closer look at what "trans identity" even means. It's a muddle. When the right wingers started railing against "trans," it seemed to refer mostly to people who didn't fit the gender stereotypes for XX and XY: gender stereotypes that were, and are, resolutely heterosexual, which many of us -- by birth or by choice or by some combination of the two (some people really are bisexually inclined, you all -- weren't, and aren't. But it also included people who aren't clearly either XX or XY (who absolutely do exist).
And let's take a closer look at "gender-affirming care." Who exactly is providing it? As far as I can tell, it's mainly members of the medical and psychological professions. Now as then, these professions focus on the individual. If the individual doesn't fit in to the larger society, it's the individual who needs to be adjusted. I was lucky enough to be part of a generation that realized the bigger problem was the society that considered us "deviant." We moved to big cities and, sometimes, rural communities, leaving the families, small (and not so small) towns, and churches that wouldn't make room for us. Much progress was made, but in the decades since we seem to have regressed, in this as in so many other things.
Aloha. From the COCONUT WIRELESS. ... The court could have waved this conversion litigation. Just not take up the case at all, but they did...That's where it shows the true color... Evangelical christian nationalist at work AGAIN. They're telling us how to live our lives.. The court is bought and paid for by them. The school, books, and how to raise your children.....
Trump signs unconstitutional executive order to ban mail-in voting.. What a PEDO PIG hypocrite.. He voted by mail. "I'm the president" was his response.. Right now. 31st of March.
President Donald Trump signed a new, unconstitutional anti-voting order Tuesday that severely restricts mail-in voting (this PEDO PIG KING voted by mail himself.. What the F**K) and directs the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to create a list of verified U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote in each state.
David Becker, the executive director of Center for Election Innovation & Research, told Democracy Docket that the order is unconstitutional on its face,” and that he expects it “will be blocked by multiple federal courts in a very, very short period of time and will have no legal effect whatsoever."
Eight million people did not take to the streets on Saturday because they believed the fight was lost. They came because they believe it can be won.
We have been here before. The suffragists were told women would never vote. The civil rights marchers were told segregation could never be dismantled. What made the difference, every time, was not the absence of fear but the refusal to be paralyzed by it.
Trump is counting on our exhaustion. He is counting on the rallies to fade, the outrage to cool, and the movement to splinter before November arrives. Our job is to prove him wrong — not just in the streets, but in courtrooms, in voting booths and in every conversation we have between now and Election Day.
That is why 8 million people took to the streets on Saturday. And that is why we must keep speaking out, louder and with greater resolve, until this fight is won... D.D.ORG
Our national identity crisis continues apace.
Not likely going to stop. He’ll pause for midterms at best but neither his criminality in the White House nor his criminality in life ever going to fully stop. They will just continue to ignore orders while no one holds them accountable 🤷♂️