So You Thought The Conservatives Are Only Going After Trans People

The right-wing makes no difference between trans people and lesbians and gays!

Megyn Kelly launches vile personal attacks on lesbian firefighters battling LA wildfires
Conservative media pundit Megyn Kelly has mocked the hierarchy of the Los Angeles Fire Department, taking swipes at lesbians in the department, as firefighters continue to battle the blazes that have devastated the area.

Pink News
By Sophie Perry
January 16, 2025

Kelly, a former Fox News host well-known for her controversial comments about LGBTQ+ people, criticised the department on her podcast, taking aim at the three women in charge and repeating claims that equality programmes were the reason firefighters have not been able to extinguish the 37.1 square miles of flames.

“I believe I speak for all females in Los Angeles when I say, we want a strong man to rescue us. That’s what we want,” Kelly said.

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Crowley, in particular, has faced criticism from right-wingers, who claim she is nothing more than a “DEI hire” despite her 22 years of service. Before becoming fire chief, she was a firefighter, paramedic, engineer, fire inspector, captain, battalion chief, assistant chief, deputy chief and chief deputy.

Kelly went on to say: “I’m not trying to be mean but they’re obese. These are overweight, out-of-shape women, and the last thing I want to see, if I’m in a burning building is a) a woman and b) an obese woman.

“Who takes comfort? I’m going to die but it’s in the presence of an obese lesbian.”

Now is that homophobic or what? And it even gets worst...

During a Fox News affiliated KTTV report on Thursday (9 January), a reporter was broadcasted live speaking to a man who blamed the disaster on the amount of gay people who live in the city.

Why is there a fire happening right now? You’re the news, you’re supposed to know,” he said. “I think it’s all the gay people in LA.”

Politico writes that,

If you listen to Elon Musk or Megyn Kelly, Los Angeles was doomed in its fight against historically-devastating wildfires because of one thing: DEI.

The acronym for diversity, equity and inclusion has become the go-to scapegoat on social media and among some GOP officials as proof that leaders of the deep-blue city — including Mayor Karen Bass, the first Black woman to run the city, and Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley, the first woman and openly gay person to run the department — let their progressive values distract them from public safety.

This I think is the first fire that has been so politicized... starting with Trump and working it way down to his cult followers.

You Know What Speaker Johnson Did To Us...

The Republican are myopic, they have blinders on, all the attempts of define "Male" and Female." The House is trying to pass a national bathroom ban...

House speaker sneaks in GOP’s transphobic bathroom rule

Daily Kos Staff

by Alix Breeden

January 09, 2025

House Speaker Mike Johnson quietly implemented the bathroom ban targeting transgender Rep. Sarah McBride, Democrat of Delaware, following his swearing in to the 119th Congress. 

To the delight of transphobic GOP Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, the policy mandates that single-sex facilities—including restrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms—be used solely based on a person’s sex assigned at birth. 

“The Chair announces to the House a new policy that will be implemented in the 119th Congress pursuant to clause 3 of rule I,” the Congressional Record states. “In all areas of the Capitol subject to the Speaker’s general control under clause 3 of rule I, all single-sex facilities—such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms—are reserved for individuals of that biological sex. This policy will be enforced by the Sergeant-at-Arms. It is important to note that each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol.”

But in their nearsightedness they ignore people like her...

I Wish It Was Different.

I scan the news each morning with the search word “Transgender” and in the past I got a wide variety of stories but sadly I only get one topic now. It is all about Trump.

 

"If Trump Does Half Of What He's Promised, I Will Lose Everything.": 21 Trans Americans And Their Families Share Their Fears For Trump's Second Term

"I know trans people who didn't survive Trump's last term."

by Ashley Holt

BuzzFeed

January 7, 2025

We recently asked people in the BuzzFeed Community who identify as transgender or who are the parents of someone who identifies as trans to tell us about their concerns heading into a second Trump presidency. The responses we received reflected both fear and helplessness. Here are a few of them:

1. "I fear we will all lose our healthcare."

"Testosterone is poison for me, so I don't expect to live through Trump's second term."

—Anonymous

2. "I'm graduating from high school this year, and I just want to know that I'm going to be safe in college no matter where I go."

"For any of my trans siblings out there, please, please, please stay as safe as you possibly can. Now is the time to have a community that we can rely on. Make friends with other trans people. Talk to someone. Have hope. Please."

—Anonymous

3. "As a transgender person who just recently turned 18 and was forbidden by my parents to transition as a minor, I am terrified my transition will be cut off before it can even begin."

"I live in a deep blue state, and my heart goes out to my trans siblings in red states. However, despite how lucky I am to live where I do, I'm worried it will mean nothing if Trump wields his federal power to keep people from transitioning."

—Anonymous

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9. "I am seen as a woman by everyone, including my parents and even my conservative MAGA-supporting brother..."

"...yet, under some proposed laws, I could be criminalized for using women's facilities. Despite my appearance, complete with my vagina, I could be forced into spaces designated for men (including men's locker rooms and showers), placing me in unnecessary and dangerous situations.

I pose no threat to anyone, but these politicians are actively creating policies that endanger people like me. I can't help but wonder how they'll react when attractive, passing-transgender men, who look indistinguishable from cisgender men, are required to use women's facilities."

—Anonymous

This is one that I am concerned about my grand-nibling just enter the job market.

10. "I'm trans and just joining the job market."

"I'm already worried I won't be able to find a job in my field, never mind having to go back into the closet for it. I'm afraid people will be encouraged to discriminate against me and my trans friends because Trump has made it okay to hate others who don't do anything wrong or impact others' lives in any way. 

Let me use whatever bathroom I want! Do you really care what my genitals look like? Don't you think that's creepy? People who would have no trouble learning they/them pronouns and are just scared of the unknown are going to become full-blown transphobes because they are encouraged to hate instead of love."

—Anonymous

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21. And finally, "How dare some moron who wouldn't know to put Neosporin under his Band-Aid override what a trained medical professional, parents, and a child have decided is in their child's best interest?"

"More and more worse decisions are on the horizon for anyone not on the Bible-thumping Trump train."

—Anonymous

My concerns… I worry about my medicare coverage, will my hormones be cutoff? I worry if I have to go into a Long Term Care facility how will I be treated. I worry about a federal anti-trans law that will override the state laws. I worry about today’s children if they will be denied healthcare and puberty blockers and they will develop secondary male characteristic like their voice deepens.

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This is not new to any of us and there is more on the way…

• Ron Johnson reintroduces bill to ban transgender student athletes in school sports – Wisconsin Public Radio
• House passes ban on transgender students in girls sports – CBS News
• Speaker Mike Johnson maintains House transgender bathroom ban – NBC News

What one thing do all these laws have in common? It is simple that they only affect trans people who do not pass, those who can integrate into society are not effected by these laws. It is only people like me that will be harassed and also cis-women who happen to look masculine. 

Four more days of freedom. My motto for the next four years… "Ne permittas bastardus te deprimere"

“Don’t let the bastards get you down!”

And I have to wonder what the country be like after four years… will we have a fascist government?

Another Dangerous Wacko

Where do the Republicans dig these people up from… now a misogynist is being appointed to the Board of Directors for the University of West Florida!

How dare women go to college? DeSantis' new university trustee pick will fix it. | Opinion

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Scott Yenor, a political science professor at Boise State University, to sit on the board of trustees the University of West Florida, a public state university.

Palm Beach Post

By Frank Cerabino

January 15, 2025

All roads in Florida these days lead to blaming diversity, equity and inclusion for society’s ills.

It’s all about extending a hand up to we beleaguered white men, the real victims of discrimination, who have suffered mightily by failing to return Black people, women and LGBTQ+ folks back to the days of Ozzie and Harriet.

Thank you, Gov. Ron DeSantis, for feeling our pain. We white guys shall overcome DEI with your much-needed help.

Most recently, brother DeSantis reached out all the way to Idaho to find a white guy with the proper views on how women are ruining higher education and turning us men into what he calls “soy boys.”

And he is a humdinger… right along the line of Republican misogyny…

Yenor frequently mouths off from his perch at the Claremont Institute, a right-wing think tank in California, where he has written fondly of DeSantis for fighting “cancerous DEI programs” in public universities. 

“Florida’s university system was beginning to rot from DEI sickness. Governor DeSantis has targeted the blight and occupied the moral high ground in defense of the American university,” Yenor wrote in a Claremont Institute piece entitled “Making Woke-ism Die.”

But it even gets crazier! Who does he blame for all of this “Woke”? Why women, who else they should home cleaning house and making babies!

Yenor goes as far as calling colleges and universities “the citadels of our gynecocracy” that further the “personal and political evils that flow from feminism.”

He describes highly educated women as “more medicated, meddlesome and quarrelsome than women need to be.” 

And that by not encouraging women to seek marriage, childbirth and homemaking, we are ruining our country and robbing educational opportunities that need to be available for our cherished men.

Gee for once we are not to be blamed! AP News writes,

A professor at Boise State University, Yenor has written extensively on what he sees as the dangers of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in higher education as well as the declines of traditional marriage and birth rates in the U.S. He’s also a former fellow at The Heritage Foundation, which proposed Project 2025 as a policy blueprint for a hard-right turn in American government and society.

We heard of Project 2025 before… and it is a road map to a White Christian Nation!

Speaking at the National Conservatism Conference in 2021, Yenor detailed what he sees as the “evils” of feminism, labeled “independent women” as “medicated, meddlesome and quarrelsome” and decried colleges and universities as “the citadels of our gynecocracy” — a form of government run by women.

“If we want a great nation, we should be preparing young women to become mothers,” Yenor said, “not finding every reason for young women to delay motherhood until they are established in a career or sufficiently independent.”

So now he is on the Board of Directors of a university.

“An education system shapes the culture. Our current education system, with its divisive DEI policies and ideological monoculture, has produced an ever-worse culture,” Yenor told the AP in an email, saying Florida’s education system is better off because of DeSantis’ policies.

Translation. We want to be able to discriminate and put the uppity Blacks in their place, force LGBTQ+ back in the closet, and put women back in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant.

In articles and speeches, Yenor has labeled DEI as a “grave and gathering danger to national unity and state governance,” called for eliminating certain disciplines like African Diaspora Studies and said even departments of History and English could be on the chopping block. He’s also advocated for sex-segregated education and called for banning state employees from collecting data on the basis of race or sex.

Welcome to the new reality! Where the Jim Crow laws are bac, Title VII and Title IX have been torn up and the Fourteenth Amendment is ignored.

Conservatism Is The Same Around The World

Conservatives around the world share two traits. The first is "Me, me. me" they just don't care about others and the second is that they need scapegoats to distract people from the real issues, like the ungodly rich sucking up all the money in the world. The richest 1% own nearly 43% of all global financial assets! They are the real villains.

Turkey’s president attacks ‘perverse’ LGBTQ+ community as he launches ‘Year of the Family’

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, launched the Year of the Family, by criticising the LGBTQ+ community for supposedly undermining traditional values.

Pink News

By Sophie Perry

January 14, 2025

The president, who has held office since 2014, is vehemently anti-LGBTQ+ and announced last week that 2025 had been designated the year of the family. The campaign seeks to promote marriage and bolster Turkey’s birth rate, which dropped from an average of 2.1 in 2014 to 1.51 in 2023.

As part of the programme, financial incentives will be offered, including newlywed couples being eligible for interest-free loans of 150,000 lira (approximately £3,500/$4,200), and parents will be given extra money based on the number of children they have.

Giving a speech in the capital, Ankara, Erdoğan said population growth had “reached alarming levels”, adding: “While our child and youth population is shrinking, for the first time in our history, the elderly population has surpassed 10 per cent and our average age is approaching 34.”

How can you bring children into this world when most people cannot afford to have food on the table? How can you bring children into the world when you can't afford housing?

“It is our common responsibility to protect our children and youth from harmful trends and perverse ideologies,” he said. “Neoliberal cultural trends are crossing borders and penetrating all corners of the world. They also lead to LGBT and other movements gaining ground.

“The target of gender-neutralisation policies, in which LGBT is used as a battering ram, is the family. Criticism of LGBT is immediately silenced, just like the legitimate criticisms of Zionism. Anyone who defends nature and the family is subject to heavy oppression.”

 Oh look... those evil trans and gay people corrupting our youth! Never mind the corruption in Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government! It is those evil gays that are causing all the problems.

“It is our common responsibility to protect our children and youth from harmful trends and perverse ideologies,” he said. “Neoliberal cultural trends are crossing borders and penetrating all corners of the world. They also lead to LGBT and other movements gaining ground.

Around the world the right-wing conservatives continue to push the lie that being LGBTQ+ is a choice and that we are "grooming."

Did Trump Pick A Racist To Run The Defense Department

Did you read about what he wrote about Black soldiers? And what he wrote about women in combat?

AP News wrote...

As the hearing continued, Hegseth was critical of policies he felt harmed the efficiency and "lethality" of the military, namely efforts aimed at racial and gender diversity.

"This is not a time for equity," he said, adding that he opposes quotas, which he claims hurt morale.

 

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“Turns out, all the ‘diversity’ recruiting messages made certain kids — white kids — feel like they’re not wanted,” he said in his book.

What did he mean about Black soldiers making White soldiers feel inferior?

“I’m straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles. It hasn’t made us more effective. Hasn’t made us more lethal. Has made fighting more complicated,” he said in a podcast hosted by Shawn Ryan on Nov. 7.

Women have a place in the military, he said, just not in special operations, artillery, infantry and armor units. 

Oregon Public Radio wrote that,

Hegseth made overtures to women and Black troops, an attempt to blunt some of the criticism of his previous comments that women should “straight up” not serve in combat and his suggestions that some Black troops may not be qualified.

 

At the same time, he implied that the Pentagon had lowered standards for women to fight without giving examples of those standards. “The standards need to be the same and they need to be high,” Hegseth said, adding that where those standards have been eroded to meet diversity quotas, that should be under review.

He was also questioned about the issue by Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, an Iraq veteran and a survivor of sexual assault. Hegseth reiterated an earlier promise to Ernst that he will to hire a senior official to prioritize those cases in the military.

Then we have what he said in his book about Black troops...

Hegseth struck a far different tone in his opening remarks than he did in his books

Comments in his books included inflammatory passages questioning the capabilities of Black troops -- like a passage in “War on Warriors” that “we can assume that 17 percent of all Black officers in the Air Force are promoted simply because of how they look,” and questioning the value of women serving in combat.

As Hegseth spoke, a protester calling him a misogynist was removed from the hearing.

Notice, he wasn't questioned about us, also the Republicans blocked the Democrats from seeing the FBI report on him. Why? What is in the report that they want to hide it?

Then in another AP News article this is the scariest part... I mean scary,

Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense, was flagged as a possible “Insider Threat” by a fellow service member due to a tattoo on his bicep that’s associated with white supremacist groups.

So do you think he is a racist and a misogynist?

*****

My theory is that Trump is laying the ground work for a another coup in four years... that he will pack the military with his loyalist.

Me, Me, Me, Me!

Why don’t they kiss his feet while they are at it.

It was never about the flag. It is about power, it is a loyalty test.

Speaker Johnson orders US Capitol flags raised to full height for Trump’s inauguration

AP News

By  MEG KINNARD

January 14, 2025

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday ordered that flags at the U.S. Capitol be raised to their full height on Inauguration Day, pausing a 30-day flag-lowering order following the death of former President Jimmy Carter.

The Republican leader’s decision means that President-elect Donald Trump will not take the oath of office for his second term under a half-staff flag, a prospect that he had previously complained about.

It mirrors actions taken in recent days by some Republican governors who have announced that flags in their states would be raised on Inauguration Day to mark Trump’s second term.

Are you a loyal follower of the god Trump? Do you believe?

North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds did so on Tuesday, noting in announcements that U.S. flags across their states would be relowered on Jan. 21 in honor of Carter. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a similar notice on Monday.

Yesterday I wrote on Facebook…

I just went grocery shopping and on the way and back I passed about a half a dozen flag poles all  but one was at half staff. I one that wasn't had a MAGA flag flying under the full staff American flag.

I tell you it is a loyalty test! The MAGA kowtow to him, live by every word he say.

Nobody would have thought anything the flags being at half staff but their guru has spoken and his wish is their command. Did you see the twerp that their leader wants for Sectary of Defense Hegseth, is said to have tattoos that are symbols of White supremacy and Christian nationalism.

And Senate see nothing wrong with him. Anything that their lord and master says… “Yes master, as you wish.”