Sadly there are idiots like this grandfather everywhere but it appears the situation is being dealt with. Kelowna is in the heart of the “religious right” community but I think this guy is just an idiot.
Your speculation doesn’t make sense to me. Most lesbians are cis, most lesbian couples with kids are cis. At a track meet, you don’t often know who the parents of other kids are. And if he had known who the parents were, he may well have aimed a few t-slurs at them had one looked visibly trans. That is a lot that would have to happen, vs. the idea that the kid next to his in line got his attention by the way she looked (and possibly performed in competition) and he went off.
I wonder if he went there with an agenda, based on the parents or something someone said or reacted to what he saw, not that it makes it any different, but the former might go to SL’s point
So, a couple of years ago, Huntsville was designated as the preferred location to house the headquarters of the US Space Force.
But they haven’t moved forward in setting that up.
When the question came up at Defense Department Pride event, a USSF Lieutenant General seemed to hint at an explanation…
https://www.waaytv.com/news/space-force-official-hints-at-reason-for-delay-in-moving-space-command-hq-to-huntsville/article_c5f7c5a2-0c51-11ee-8670-cbe7ea589d48.html
I’m sure we’d be happy to host them here in California at Vandenberg. We have rocket launches all the time out here anyway so maybe that is the solution they will land on.
was at the Mets game tonight for Pride Night.
AMC Cancels ‘Anti-Transgender’ Documentary After Backlash (msn.com)
Adocumentary depicting the negative side-effects of gender-affirming surgeries was removed from AMC theaters after the Queer Trans Project protested the film.
A press release announcing No Way Back: The Reality of Gender-Affirming Care was published on June 13, claiming that the film was produced by “lifelong California Democrats and LGBT activists” and takes a “non-religious, non-political, and non-ideological look on the subject of gender-affirmative medical practices.”
The LGBTQ+ community has been thrust into the political spotlight, particularly the transgender community, and continues to be a national debate. Lawmakers have proposed anti-transgender legislation, while outlawing gender identity discussion in some schools, and boycotts have hit some companies that publicly support the LGBTQ+ community.
Christian television series The Chosen was also boycotted when viewers spotted a Pride flag on set, but now one organization in the LGBTQ+ community is working to prevent “anti-trans” messaging from being viewed in dozens of theaters across the nation.
The efforts of the Queer Trans Project resulted in AMC theaters pulling the documentary before its anticipated release on June 21.
According to the press release, the documentary examines the risks and side-effects of gender-affirming medication and surgeries and is described as “nuanced, compassionate, deeply researched and mild-mannered.”
The documentary follows five young people who discuss their medical experiences addressing gender dysphoria.
No Way Back was a Winner or the Official Selection of 10 international film festivals. These included Docs Without Borders in the U.S., the Berlin Indie Festival, and the Beyond Hollywood International Film Festival.
Despite its liberal claims, the film’s website featured a blurb from well-known conservative media personality Megyn Kelly, who has often spoken out against the transgender community.
The Queer Trans Project protested the film and urged its supporters to sign a petition and to contact AMC theater executive staff in protest of the “anti-trans” film in a series of Instagram posts.
On Saturday, the organization posted an Instagram photo announcing that its efforts were successful.
“We did it! Our community’s swift action is a testament to the power of advocacy and the importance of raising our voices against harmful content,” the post said. “Your collective efforts have made a significant impact, and the decision to pull No Way Back from AMC theaters is a step towards fostering a more inclusive and respectful environment. Thank you for your dedication and commitment to creating positive change.”
The title of that film certainly sounds like it has an anti-trans agenda.
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A quick google or two tells me it was produced by “Deplorable Films”
“A new label for the distribution of films that the illiberal ideologues in Hollywoke —and their comrades in DC— are afraid you might see”
Maybe it’s a totally cool documentary, by my initial hunch is that AMC and then Newsweek were successfully punked by some Trumpy trash.
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Anyway, whatever happened to Hedwig and the Angry Inch?
In reading the article, I followed a link to another article:
It reminds me of a guy I knew in college who never wore a seatbelt because he was told the only reason why he survived a car accident was because he’d not been wearing one at the time. Instead of focusing on improving safety, the reduction in morbidity and mortality due to seatbelt use, and it being a rarity to survive due to not wearing a seatbelt, he decided seatbelts were universally bad.
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I know a lot of transgender, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people. And I know one or two (depending on how you count) who detransitioned.
One medically transitioned from female to male as a young adult, and eventually decided that didn’t solve their problems, and had a lot of work done to undo some of the effects of the transition. But, and I think this is important, they didn’t regret having transitioned. They learned important things about themselves and about living as a man, and now identify as non-binary.
The other started to transition many years ago. But after trying to live as a woman for a year, decided that they would never “pass” as female, and that having people see them and think “ugly guy trying to pass as a woman” was worse than having people think “guy”. They still identify as female, and their wife and friends consider them to be female, but they never made any significant physical alterations to their body and present to strangers as a man.
Anyway, I’m generally a fan of letting people make their own decisions, with their doctor and their family, as to what medical treatment to get.
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On a related subject, I have a friend who would really like to have her tubes tied, but doesn’t want to risk surgery and some potential complications of anesthesia that she is susceptible to. She had to have abdominal surgery for something else, and she begged them to tie her tubes when they were in there, but it turned out that there were so many layers of approval she would have had to get (because gasp, she might change her mind about this, and God forbid a woman might be unable to fulfill her responsibility to have babies or have regrets about that) that it was impossible to get it done. Yes, she’s still bitter.
There’s an awful lot of gatekeeping about surgery that affects fertility, especially female fertility.
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Yup.
On their own dime, that is.
I tried for about 15 years, in 4 different states, to get my tubes tied and was consistently denied. Eventually, i gave up… but I’m still bitter.
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I never know what I am going to learn here. I didn’t think “having tubes tied” would be an issue.
My wife didn’t ask, so no direct experience. I got the vasectomy. Nobody blinked at that. But, that was some time ago.
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Same here as tubal ligation and vasectomies are covered in Canada under our medicare with no questions asked. Had no idea this was an issue in the US but not surprised when I think more about it.
I wonder whether the attitude causing tubal ligation to be difficult to get in the US is the result of residual thoughts of culture viewing women’s value as tied to their wombs, or if it’s more a function of concerns raised by folks averse to the threat of litigation from the few cases where surgery goes wrong or where the woman changes her mind and discovers her procedure can’t be reversed (whereas the risk of such things is lower with vasectomies).
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It’s far easier for men to get their tubes tied than for women to do so. That should answer your question.
(The risk of “they changed their mind” has got to be similar, and the risk of complications is tiny for both procedures.)
I doubt that’s true. Given that it’s so much more invasive a procedure for women I bet they are a lot more certain going in. Also men have more childbearing years than women, so it’s more likely that later in life they’ll marry someone younger who wants more kids and change their mind.
I hated my stepfather for not getting a vasectomy when he & my mom got married. He watched her get her tubes tied (6 week recovery at that point - no idea what it is now) while he remained in tact because the Catholic Church says it’s sinful. So he wouldn’t sin himself but he was only too happy to watch his wife commit the same exact sin while he reaped the benefits?!?!
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