By Shaylee Ragar and Acacia Squires
Zephyr, who is transgender, has been blocked from speaking since last week. That's when she told supporters of a bill to ban gender-affirming care that when they bowed their heads in prayer, she hoped they would see "blood on [their] hands." She says she was alluding to studies that show that transgender health care can reduce suicidality in youth....
LGBT People Are Being Targeted by Anti-LGBT Propaganda and Foreign Agents Laws (click here)
Following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia liberalized some of its anti-LGBT laws. Most notably, homosexual relationships were decriminalized in 1993. Transgender Russians have also been allowed to change their legal gender on identity documents since 1997, although there are many obstacles to the process and invasive surgical requirements remain in place. Despite these liberalization trends during the immediate post-Soviet period, in recent years, Russian authorities have routinely denied permits for Pride parades, intimidated and arrested LGBT activists and condoned anti-LGBT statements by government officials. ILGA-Europe, the European section of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, rates Russia as the least protective country in Europe for LGBT citizens, ranking it 49th out of the 49 European countries rated in its annual survey.
In June 2013, the Russian duma in Moscow passed a new law banning the “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships”to minors. The new federal law is closely related to several regional laws that were already on the books, all of which seek to penalize “propaganda” of homosexuality, generally with the intent of “protecting” minors. The city of Sochi, which is the site of the upcoming Winter Olympics, has one of those regional laws in place. And while the regional laws are not uniform, like the new federal law, they all tend to advance vague definitions of propaganda that lend themselves to the targeting and ongoing persecution of the country’s LGBT community. The language of this new law focuses on “non-traditional” sexual relationships, to contrast with “traditional values” or “traditional family” language that Russia is promoting at the UN to oppose positive statements supporting the human rights of LGBT people....
The level of human rights violation and anti-Americanism is palpable in the Republican Party. All these issues are intended to divide the country. It is nonsense. In the USA there are individual rights and gender identity is one of them. The LGBTQ community is a great community in this country. That community helped contain AIDS in the USA and promotes well being.
This entire attack on freedom and liberty is nonsense. The Montana House is practicing nothing but bigotry and Ms. Zephyr should sue them for harassment in federal court. What she and any other member of the LGBTQ community has to say is vital for healthy, happy children in families that may be confused or misguided. Ms. Zephyr is saving lives of our young people and she should have a prominent position as a person of compassion focused on "RIGHTS and PRIVACY" we all should have.
August 4, 2022
August 4, 2022
By Natalie Allison and Lamar Johnson
...Touching on his signature issues, (click here) the far-right leader railed against immigration, globalism and gender fluidity as he declared that the “West is at war with itself,” describing an ideological “battle for Western civilization” he said would be fought in Washington and Brussels.
“The globalists can all go to hell,” Orbán said to enthusiastic applause. “I have come to Texas.”...
“The globalists can all go to hell,” Orbán said to enthusiastic applause. “I have come to Texas.”...
