#anti-trans-rhetoric

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fromAdvocate.com
6 days ago

7 of Ryan Walters's most heinous anti-LGBTQ+ quotes

Here are some of the worst. '27 genders' "You're not going to come in here and teach that there's 27 genders," he said in July while announcing a test to be given to teachers who come to Oklahoma from liberal states to make sure they're not "woke." Most likely, no one believes there are 27 genders - or teaches that.
US politics
fromJezebel
1 week ago

Trump and MTG's Boyfriend Discuss How to Make Pride Flag a Terrorist Symbol

Trump was hosting an Oval Office press conference to answer questions about Charlie Kirk's death when Glenn brought up "trans shooters," why the "trans flag" was being seen "up and down 14th street" (one of Washington D.C.'s gayborhoods), and how "a lot of people were very threatened by this flag." Holding up an image of the LGBTQ+ Progress Pride flag, Glenn proudly bleated: "This is what would be the trans flag," and asked the president whether he would "[take it] down."
US politics
fromwww.npr.org
2 weeks ago

Why was Kirk killed? Evidence paints complicated picture of alleged assassin

Prosecutors in Utah appear to be preparing to argue that 22-year-old Tyler Robinson killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah last week because he disagreed with Kirk's anti-trans rhetoric. In their charging document, authorities cite text messages that Robinson allegedly exchanged with "his lover/roommate," a person they describe as "a biological male who was transitioning genders." The document also includes another text in which Robinson allegedly explains that he killed Kirk because he had "had enough of his hatred."
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fromAdvocate.com
2 weeks ago

In canceling Jimmy Kimmel, Trump's censorship regime guts free speech

ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live! is nothing short of a political execution carried out under the banner of corporate cowardice and wrapped in a sudden "gotcha" culture that has sinisterly sprung from the murder of Charlie Kirk. This slap at Kimmel is how censorship takes root. It's when a late-night comic delivers a stinging critique. The "informant society" that is howls, then Donald Trump's censorship flexes its arm, and a network folds.
US politics
LGBT
fromAdvocate.com
3 weeks ago

daily newsletter 9/11

Supreme Court left intact an injunction blocking South Carolina's law barring transgender students from using restrooms matching their gender identity, protecting a 15-year-old boy.
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