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Judith Butler Knows What Makes Transphobes Tickhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/judith-butler-knows-what-makes-transphobes-tick/ar-BB1l92Nq?ocid=windirect&cvid=d9cd8ecce25943eabf6b6ea6310feb95&ei=25Story by Wren Sanders (April 2024)
To be trans in the United States today is to live with a preternaturally high tolerance for the absurd. It was just a few years ago that conservative lawmakers in Ohio were faced with the mortal and economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and chose to turn the state's legislative focus to the "issue" of five transgender girls, out of some 400,000 high school athletes, competing in youth sports. Hundreds of anti-trans bills later, it seems abundantly clear, if not painfully obvious, that there must be something deeper than rank transphobia fueling the right-wing fixation with our bodies and lives. But what, exactly? Is it personal insecurity? Simple fear of difference?
The philosopher Judith Butler has spent the last several years searching for the roots of this gender panic. In their latest book, Who's Afraid of Gender? (out now from Farrar, Straus and Giroux), the famed critical theorist frames the scourge of anti-trans legislation here in the U.S. as just one tentacle of a global neo-fascist crusade. The "anti-gender ideology movement," as Butler calls it, exists everywhere from Bolsanaro's Brazil to Putin's Russia to the TERFs of the United Kingdom and beyond. And though it may take slightly unique forms, the movement is united in its posing of "gender" not so much as an identity, but as a conceptual container — a "phantasm," as they put it — for the perceived erosion of traditional (read: white, cis, and patriarchal) models of family and society...
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Last post by big kim - Today at 12:01:09 PM
Love them espeially the corned beef pasys which have vanished from north west Lancashire
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I've found the Grove patches to be superior to the Mylan ones, as they're smaller and stay fitted longer. Regarding the peak/trough thing, your offered data points kind of reinforce my thought that I "burn" through the medication faster than most.
I have a refill on the way right now and I'm really hoping they're not Mylan. They don't allow me to specify.
Allie, I get it. Upping your dose is a powerful feeling. I found it thrilling.
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Last post by big kim - Today at 11:58:45 AM
Mushroom soup, roast pork,roast potatoes, brocoli carrots & apple cider gravy
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Last post by davina61 - Today at 11:56:20 AM
I make my own with a Keema filling !!
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Again and again, as in your last post, I can see why your family is so supportive. They don't want to lose you because you're top tier. I pity your brother, I truly do.
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NCAA can't cave to anti-transgender hysteria and fear like NAIA didhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/marriage/ncaa-can-t-cave-to-anti-transgender-hysteria-and-fear-like-naia-did/ar-AA1nEGSk?ocid=windirect&cvid=cb14ccacdb7c4754a7dd880daafbeb42&ei=39Opinion by Nancy Armour (25 April 2024)
The NCAA must have the courage, and common sense, the NAIA lacked.
The NCAA's Board of Governors meets later Thursday and is under heavy pressure to ban transgender women, as the NAIA did earlier this month. But to do so would give in to the fear mongering and misinformation that would have you believe transgender women are overrunning women's sports, snapping up trophies and scholarships and relegating cisgender women to the sidelines like they were before the passage of Title IX.
Though the NCAA doesn't publish the number of openly transgender athletes, it's believed to be between 30 and 40, said Anna Baeth, the director of research at Athlete Ally, which works to create safe and supportive environments for LGBTQ+ athletes. That's out of the more than 523,000 NCAA athletes who competed in Divisions I, II and III in 2022-23, the most recent data available.
Do the math, and that works out to less than 0.008%.
"We are talking a very, very small number of athletes," Baeth said.
But demonizing transgender people, transgender women athletes in particular, has become the new favored blood sport of the right wing.
No proof. No facts. Just ignorance and hate.
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Heck, yeah, I love 'em.
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Last post by Devlyn - Today at 10:20:37 AM
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GOP governor signs law allowing anti-LGBTQ+ foster parents to take in LGBTQ+ youthhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gop-governor-signs-law-allowing-anti-lgbtq-foster-parents-to-take-in-lgbtq-youth/ar-AA1nEUZe?ocid=windirect&cvid=cb14ccacdb7c4754a7dd880daafbeb42&ei=35Story by Molly Sprayregen (25 April 2024)
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) has signed a law explicitly allowing anti-LGBTQ+ foster and adoptive parents to take in LGBTQ+ youth with no provision to take into account the young person's wishes on the matter.
S.B. 1738, called the Tennessee Foster and Adoptive Parent Protection Act, states that the Department of Children's Services (DCS) cannot require a current or prospective foster or adoptive parent "to affirm, accept, or support any government policy regarding sexual orientation or gender identity that conflicts with the parent's sincerely held religious or moral beliefs."
The legislation emphasizes that the state cannot take a parent's beliefs about LGBTQ+ identities into account when deciding on the placement of the child because "such beliefs do not create a presumption that any particular placement is contrary to the best interest of the child."
For the past ten years, DCS has had a policy requiring children to be cared for in a way that "promotes dignity and respect for all children/youth and families inclusive of their gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation," as explained by the Tennessee Lookout.
Molly Quinn, executive director of OutMemphis, an organization that works with homeless LGBTQ+ youth, said it's "really sad" that the needs of the "high volume of LGBTQ+ kids in foster care" are no longer being met.
