The Witch Hunt!

Here we go again! Outrageous accusations to grab headlines and rally their base... see we are doing something but it is the "liberal" courts that strike us down!

Trump admin investigating Central Mass. school district over student’s gender transition

MassLive

By Susannah Sudborough

 Sep. 17, 2026

The Trump administration announced Thursday that it is investigating allegations that Northborough-Southborough school officials facilitated a student’s “social” gender transition without the consent or knowledge of the teen’s parents.

The student’s parents, Joseph and Arlene Kutzko, claim their child, a former Algonquin Regional High School student, attended after-school counseling sessions supporting a gender transition, according to the Department of Education (DOE). The Kutzkos were not informed of the sessions and were under the impression the student, who is a minor, was receiving extra schooling for a math class.

The Kutzkos also claim that school staff began using a male name and pronouns to refer to the student without the parents’ knowledge, federal officials said.

The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education advises schools to refer to students by their chosen gender identity, and to make a plan with the student regarding when and how to inform their parents of the student’s gender identity. This policy has also been supported by federal courts.

But not by Trump & Company.

One question is when is a child old enough to make decisions on their own? Another is when is a child old enough to reject their parent's religion?

Investigation launched into Massachusetts schools over secret gender transition

Catholic Herald

Christine Rousselle

Sept. 17, 2026

The US Department of Education is investigating a school district in Massachusetts after the district allegedly enabled a child’s gender transition without notifying her parents.

“Today, the US Department of Education’s (the Department’s) Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO) launched an investigation into The Public Schools of Northborough and Southborough in Massachusetts to determine whether the school district violated the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) after reports that school officials allegedly facilitated the ‘gender transition’ of a minor student without parents’ knowledge or consent,” said a September 17 press release from the Department of Education.

“Parents have a right to know what is happening with their children at school, particularly when it concerns deeply personal matters involving their health and wellbeing,” said Frank Miller, Director of the Student Privacy Policy Office, in the press release.

Open and shut case according to them... right? Well lets jump back to the MassLive article.

At the beginning of last year, DCF removed the student from their parents’ home, WBUR reported. On Tuesday, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey told reporters at an unrelated event that DCF removed the child from their parents’ home after criminal charges were filed against the Kutzkos. Healey declined to comment on whether DCF was helping the child transition genders.

Federal officials said the school district’s actions may violate FERPA, a federal law that requires parent access and limited control over their children’s school records. Federal investigators are also investigating whether the district violated a federal law known as PPRA, which requires schools to obtain written consent from parents before looking into the student or their family regarding sensitive subjects, including mental health and sex behaviors and attitudes.

So to throw a monkey wrench into the mix... the parents are not the guardians of the child.

In January 2025, Joseph Kutzko was charged after prosecutors say he punched his then-15-year-old child in the shoulder, pulled his child’s hair and threatened to kill his child “for not singing in tune during a birthday celebration,” according to court records. He was arrested and pleaded not guilty in Westborough District Court.

Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation after prosecutors say she pressured her child to “tell the school that she was exaggerating and being stupid” the same month, according to court records.

In December 2025, a judge dismissed the charges against Joseph Kutzko under conditions, including that he attend an anger management class, stay away from his child and abide by a restraining order, court records indicate. Arlene Kutzko’s case was also dismissed after she agreed to stay away from her child and abide by a restraining order. The conditions for both parents expire in December.

We don't know if it was "Beat the gay" out of the child or not, but whatever the reason the fed seem to have a very weak case.

Just Like The 1930s

Did you know that in Germany in the 1930s they had a box to check off that said "Jew"? Now the Trump administration will have a box to check off... "Trans!"

A double-edged sword!

Back around 2010, when we were trying to pass the gender-inclusive non-discrimination bill and we replied that we had no idea of the number of trans people in Connecticut, we thought that lack of data was a bad thing. But now, that may seem like a good thing. Why? Because someone like Trump could misuse the data.

Trump admin’s proposed US Census rules could mean ‘forced outing’ for trans Americans

The Trump administration is proposing sweeping changes to the rules governing the 2030 US Census, including a requirement that could make questions about biological sex mandatory for respondents, a change critics say could effectively force transgender people to disclose their trans status to the federal government.

The Pink News

by Sian Thompson

Sept 17, 2026

The proposal, published by the Census Bureau on September 10, would prohibit questions about race, ethnicity and sexual orientation from appearing on the short-form decennial census. At the same time, it would allow questions about biological sex, date of birth and household relationships to be included for the purpose of verifying the population count. The proposed rule is part of a much broader overhaul of the decennial census.

News outlet The Needle argued the practical impact would leave trans people with limited options: disclose sex assigned at birth, lie, or refuse to take part. It wrote: “By requiring trans people to identify themselves by their sex assigned at birth, and with a looming threat of prosecution for noncompliance, the Trump Administration is compelling every trans person to out themselves to the Federal Government.”

The Needle also claimed: “This is an attempt to weaponise the Census to make a list of every trans person in the United States.”

Leave it to Trump to make the census racist! I don't know about you, but I will go with what is on my birth certificate. But we are not the only ones Trump is attacking!

Democrats say citizenship question could derail census test and deter immigrants from participating

AP News

By  MIKE SCHNEIDER

February 19, 2026

U.S. Census Bureau plans to use a questionnaire with a citizenship question as part of its practice test for the 2030 census could jeopardize the once-a-decade head count and scare away immigrants from participating, congressional Democrats warned Thursday.

Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform urged the Census Bureau to drop plans to use the American Community Survey form, which includes the citizenship question, and instead use a traditional census questionnaire that omits it. The on-the-ground tests in Huntsville, Alabama, and Spartanburg, S.C., start next month.

“The Trump Administration is risking millions of taxpayer dollars to pursue policies which could fatally compromise the 2030 count before it even begins,” they wrote in a letter to acting Census Bureau Director George Cook and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, whose department oversees the statistical agency.

Okay, the Constitution says a census shall "be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons..." and "...within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct." Nowhere does it say only "citizens" shall be counted. But the Republicans are trying to weave their transphobia and xenophobia into the count. NPR from last year wrote;

A Trump administration official on Friday signaled a potential rollback of the racial and ethnic categories approved for the 2030 census and other future federal government forms.

Supporters of those categories fear that any last-minute modifications to the U.S. government's standards for data about race and ethnicity could hurt the accuracy of census data and other future statistics used for redrawing voting districts, enforcing civil rights protections and guiding policymaking.

Legislators run on data. How many (they want to know the voting block this will affect... vote both for and against), how much, etc.

The "Project 2025" policy agenda released by The Heritage Foundation, the conservative, D.C.-based think tank, called for a Republican administration to "thoroughly review any changes" to census race and ethnicity questions because of "concerns among conservatives that the data under Biden Administration proposals could be skewed to bolster progressive political agendas."

"...could be skewed to bolster progressive political agendas." Um... like, yeah, we will actually see the size of the minority populations. But if the questions are asked, will it raise the fear in minority populations of being tracked, like in Germany in the 1930s?

You see... "How many?" Without being counted, we will never know. But if it is asked, minorities might not be counted. Either way, the Republicans win.

Of All Things To Pick On!

At a campaign rally in Olathe, Kansas, on Monday, what did the Vice President speak about?

The war? No...

The soaring price of home heating oil? No...

The skyrocketing national debt? No...

The cost of food? No...

So what did he speak about? Well, Roll Call said he said at the campaign rally;

Adam Hamilton sent his church's donations to sessions with titles, and I'm quoting here, "kink, consent and communication," whatever the hell that means. To sessions whose titles, those are some of the good ones. There are, there are titles that I could not even repeat on this stage or my lovely wife back home would kill me. [Laughter]But maybe worst of all, by sponsoring this festival, Adam Hamilton proudly supported a drag group called Our Ladies of Perpetual Indulgence, which you may remember was the devil worshiping group that was saying special blessings before LA Dodgers games and insulting Christian and every Christian in this room in the process.

JD Vance 00:28:00-00:28:33 (33 sec)

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We gotta be clear about what this group is. This is an anti-Christian hate group. Its whole purpose is to mock the Christian religion. It mocks nuns. It insults the crops. It desecrates the Eucharist and thinks every person of faith in the United States of America is a joke. So let's review. Democrat Pastor Adam Hamilton thinks it's a sin to be white and a sin to raise cattle and eat meat, but he's okay with supporting groups that spit on God-fearing Americans and mock everything that we hold dear.

JD Vance 00:28:33-00:29:11 (38 sec)

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Ladies and gentlemen, that is not Christianity. That is left-wing radicalism dressed in the skin suit of our religion. Let's send it packing in November. But more than that, it is the kind of hatred that we rejected in 2024, hatred that asks to split our country up by race, by gender, that tries to separate neighbor against neighbor based on their skin color, based on their background, based on their ethnicity.

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. (That is their real name.) Who?

How many of you have heard of them? They are part of our history! During the time when Reagan was demonizing us over HIV/AIDS as a "gay disease." And, as usual, the Republicans lie! They lie to stir up anger! The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) registered organization that raises funds and provides support for people and communities affected by HIV/AIDS, among other causes.

But the VP doesn't say that. Instead, he calls them a "drag" group.

According to their website...

Since our first appearance in San Francisco on Easter Sunday, 1979, the Sisters have devoted ourselves to community service, ministry and outreach to those on the edges, and to promoting human rights, respect for diversity and spiritual enlightenment. We use humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency, and guilt that chain the human spirit.

Instead of talking about the topics the voters want to hear about, he talks about something no one knows about so he can lie, stir up anger against the LGBTQ+ community, and avoid talking about how he is going to end the war.

The Advocate magazine reported,

JD Vance conjures the devil in false attack on LGBTQ+ charity during Kansas speech

The vice president misnamed the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, distorted the group’s work, and twisted Democratic Senate candidate Adam Hamilton’s sermons at a campaign rally.

Christopher Wiggins

Sep 16, 2026

Vice President JD Vance reached for satanic panic Monday while campaigning in Kansas, falsely describing the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence as devil worshipers and mangling the group’s name in the process.

Vance appeared at a MAGA Inc.-organized rally at Webco Manufacturing in Olathe to support Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, who faces the Rev. Adam Hamilton, a prominent United Methodist pastor and Democrat, in November. State Senate President Ty Masterson, the Republican nominee for governor, also attended, according to the Kansas Reflector.

Vance attacked Hamilton because Resurrection, the church Hamilton founded, was among dozens of sponsors of Kansas City PrideFest.

These people know what the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence really are; a fundraiser for those living with AIDS. But instead, they lie.

"If he was talking about the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, our name isn’t the only thing the vice president got wrong," Roma said. "I do not recognize or accept his inflammatory misrepresentation of who we are and what we do. The Sisters are a global human rights fundraising organization. We do not mock nuns, we are nuns. You will find Sisters around the world serving meals to the hungry, providing warmth and comfort to the unhoused, or counseling the most marginalized and often ostracized members of society. From our early work as pioneers in HIV/AIDS education and prevention, to our continued ministry of service and compassion, the Sisters are committed to upholding our vows to expiate stigmatic guilt and promulgate universal joy."

They lie for votes. They lie to rally anger in their base to vote. They don't care about anyone who gets hurt in the process. It is all about power.

Sorry Charlie!

Well, a school district in Virginia has seen the light! That is, after a lawsuit.

King George School Board votes to permit non-curricular organizations at middle school level

Fredericksburg Free Press

By Adele Uphaus | Sep 11, 2026

The King George County School Board approved updates to its policy governing student organizations and a regulation governing non-curriculum-related student organizations following a closed session that began at 8 a.m. Friday.

The updated policy allows secondary school students to organize and conduct meetings of non-curriculum-related groups — a change to language the board adopted last November that restricted such groups to high school students only.

The updated regulation lays out the procedure for establishing a non-curriculum-related student organization. It requires “proof of written parental permission to form and/or join” the organization. If the organization wants to renew for a subsequent year, the renewal request form must include “a list of students who are currently members” and “proof of written parental permission from each member to renew such membership.”

So lets step back in time to...

A Virginia school board bent over backward to block an LGBTQ+ club. One mom explains why she’s suing

Susan Park says she filed a federal lawsuit after the King George County School Board repeatedly rewrote its rules to keep a gay-straight alliance from forming.

The Advocate

Christopher Wiggins

Aug 06, 2026

Susan Park’s child has already advanced from King George Middle School, about an hour and 20 minutes southeast of Washington, D.C. The eighth-grade year in which he hoped to join a gay-straight alliance, make friends and find some relief from bullying is over. That time cannot be returned to him. When school starts, he will enter King George High School.

Park could have allowed the dispute over the club to become another family’s problem. Instead, on Tuesday, she, along with the family of another student, filed a federal lawsuit so that the next LGBTQ+ student in this rural Virginia county might receive what her child was denied.

The school was happy with providing the club... but then parents and outsider got involved!

Some parents circulated the materials in a community Facebook group, generating hundreds of comments. The proposed faculty sponsor was allegedly doxxed, accused of “grooming” children and targeted with demands that she be fired.

The Fredericksburg Free Press went on to write;

“I’d [Board member Ed Frank] also like to state that every student in King George County Schools deserves to be safe, treated with dignity, and protected from bullying,” he said. “My concern is not about denying protection to any child. My concern is age appropriateness, parental transparency, and rules governing extracurricular discussions.”

[...]

Board member Colleen Hoover said “a lot of blood, sweat, and tears” went into conversations about the policy and regulation.

“The community as a whole needs to come out and be more supportive,” she said. “We were voted into this position to be here and do what you want us to do, and sometimes when things get difficult, it would be nice to have more community support.”

Gee how the Board changed its tune once the lawsuit was filed!

In another Advocate article they report;

“Having been advised that the parties have reached a settlement,” Senior U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne wrote in a September 4 order obtained by The Advocate, “any further discovery deadlines are stayed until further order of this Court.”

[...]

The lawsuit accused the school board, Superintendent Jesse Boyd, and King George Middle School Principal Casey Nice of violating the First Amendment and the federal Equal Access Act by blocking the GSA while finding ways for other student organizations to continue operating.

The legal principle is well established. In Board of Education v. Mergens, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Equal Access Act, which requires federally funded public secondary schools that permit noncurricular clubs to provide other student groups equal access regardless of their message. Federal courts have repeatedly applied that protection to GSAs, including rulings for students in California and Kentucky. In 2016, a federal appeals court also ruled that the act covered a Florida middle school. Schools can close their forums to all noncurricular clubs, but once they allow even one, courts have said they cannot exclude an LGBTQ+ student group because officials or community members object to what it represents.

They added more hoops for the after school organizations to jump through...

Under a regulation adopted Friday, students must provide proof of written parental permission to form or join such an organization. Groups seeking to return in subsequent years must submit a membership list and proof that every student has parental permission to renew their participation.

So, because of their hatred of all things LGBTQ+, they added extra burdens for all the other clubs... which I imagine will not make them popular with the other clubs and students, and the LGBTQ+ students will be blamed for it.

Off The Deep End

Well the Republicans finally went off the deep end of there hate for us... DNA testing! This is sick!

Idaho’s transgender bathroom ban is now the law. How will police enforce it? That’s still unclear.

To prove someone’s biological sex, law enforcement official sees DNA tests as unpractical, and inspecting people’s naked bodies as unlikely

Idaho Capital Sun

By Kyle Pfannenstiel

July 13, 2026

As parts of Idaho’s criminal transgender bathroom ban are now in effect, how far will law enforcement officers have to go to enforce the new law?

What if officers don’t believe a person’s gender markers on IDs?

Will they inspect people’s naked bodies to prove their biological sex? Do they need a warrant for that? 

Will they use DNA testing to prove someone’s sex? At what point in an investigation under the law will that testing take place? 

These questions echo concerns that high-ranking law enforcement officials shared with state lawmakers on the bill, which some said would be difficult to enforce and might require invasive methods. Now, more than a week into the law taking effect, some are confronting the realities of how they’d handle reports of the law being broken.

So this Pink News popped up on Facebook yesterday...

Idaho officials tell judge they can use DNA testing to enforce trans bathroom laws

Jun 11

by Poppy-Jay St. Palmer

Idaho officials have told a federal judge that they can use DNA testing to enforce strict trans bathroom laws in the state.

In Idaho, transgender people are required by law to use public bathrooms and changing facilities of the sex they were assigned at birth.

[...]

According to the Idaho Capital Sun, US District Judge Amanda Brailsford asked officials how they could expect to enforce the bathroom law when many trans people now carry ID that corresponds with their correct gender.

Idaho Solicitor General Michael Zarian then told the judge that it shouldn’t be too difficult “because there is DNA testing.”

Okay, let that sink in... do they mean that each and every person going to the bathroom will be tested? Or just the women who do not look feminine enough for the gender police?

Olson [Lambda Legal attorney] expanded on the pitfalls of the new law while speaking to reporters after the hearing. “If I just go to a restaurant with my family and want to wash my hands before dinner, this law comes into play. Now I have to stop and decide, do I – if this law is in effect – do I go into the restroom that is illegal now, the men’s room?” he asked.

“Or do I walk into the women’s room and take all of the risk that that now comes with, whether that’s assault or harassment, or someone calling the police, because now it looks like I’m violating the law?”

These Republicans have their anger focus so tightly on trans that they don't even think of trans men! Back in August in Kansas a bunch of trans men show how absurd these laws are.

Transgender men in Kansas 'compliance crew' use women's bathrooms to protest state law

The group of trans men use women’s bathrooms in publicly owned facilities, which is required by Kansas law, to highlight what they say are flaws in the bathroom bill.

Kansas Public Radio

By Zach Boblitt

August 20, 2026

A group of transgender men are highlighting the confusion caused by a new Kansas law that requires them to use the women’s restroom in publicly owned facilities.

The transgender men have gathered at locations across Kansas to do a sort of protest by complying with the law. They use the women's bathroom — the restroom of their assigned biological sex at birth.

The SB244 Compliance Crew — named after the bathroom ban bill that became law earlier this year — went to a library in Emporia, a swimming pool in Garden City and water parks in Dodge City and Great Bend.

The gender police is out there enforcing the "Gender Norms" beware!

The November Election – The Governor’s Race.

We know the position of the governor but the Republican candidate is an unknown… so lets look at his voting record and statement.

He has a problem with using your electric bill to fund assistance for low-income households and wants to remove that charge, but he hasn’t said what he would replace that funding with.

Abortions… mainly, he follows the national Republican position. According to CT Mirror, in 2022 Fazio voted no on Connecticut’s Reproductive Freedom Defense Act. That law expanded protections for abortion access and protected patients and providers from certain legal actions originating in states with restrictive abortion laws. Fazio has said he supports keeping abortion legal under Connecticut law, while also supporting the ability of states to set their own abortion laws, but he voted against expanding. CT protections.

Immigration… mainly, he follows the national Republican position. Fazio supports greater cooperation between Connecticut law enforcement and ICE and has opposed Connecticut laws that limit that cooperation. However, in this year’s session he voted against legislation that established schools, hospitals, courthouses, and places of worship as protected areas where ICE generally could not make an arrest without a judicial warrant.

Now for us… trans rights and healthcare.

First the good news he has publicly opposed homophobic/transphobic harassment and he vote for the bill consolidated the discrimination statutes. But that is where the “good news” ends. He mainly followed National on our rights. He opposes trans athletes. He playing our healthcare for young adults close to his vest, but why? Why does he not want to go on record, what is he afraid of?

And it is funny he is all for parent’s rights until it comes to our healthcare and then he thinks it is okay for government to step between us and our doctors.

So for Connecticut if you like Trump… you will probably like Fazio.

It's Spreading!

There are so many evil things have been spreading... in Turkey we are being violently rounded up!

Turkish police detain dozens in raids on gay bars and homes of LGBTQ+ activists

BBC News

Kieran Kelly

Sept. 13, 2026

Police in Turkey have detained 47 people in a series of raids on gay bars and the homes of LGBTQ+ activists, officials say.

Raids took place in 12 provinces over the weekend as part of a campaign dubbed "My Family is Safe" that the Turkish government says has been designed to protect family values.

One of the targets of the operation was LGBTQ+ association Kaos GL.

[...]

Officers detained 26 people and seized drugs, digital equipment, smuggled alcohol and a firearm during the raids, according to the Istanbul chief prosecutor's office.

In a separate statement, the Ankara chief prosecutor's office said another 21 people had been detained as part of an investigation into Kaos GL.

The organisation said 50 activists had been detained, more than 10 taken after police raids on their homes.

It said that authorities had blocked several websites and social media accounts linked to LGBTQ+ organisations.

This is scary! Al Jazeera reports;

Justice Minister Akin Gurlek said in a social media post on Sunday that prosecutors had launched an investigation into 162 suspects, nine associations and 13 businesses to “protect children, the institution of the family, and public order”.

Turkish authorities targeted current and former members of multiple LGBTQ rights and HIV awareness groups. The organisations’ websites were blocked days before the police raids.

Gurlek said the “My Family is Safe” operations on Sunday aligned with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 10-year “Decade of Family and Population” executive order, which aims to combat Turkiye’s falling birthrate.

The scary part is I can foresee Trump doing something like because of Executive Orders.

“The real name of this operation is not ‘My Family is Safe’; it is state-led discrimination, politics of fear and the dismantling of civil society,” the Turkish Human Rights Association said on X.

The European Parliament’s rapporteur on Turkiye, Nacho Sanchez Amor, condemned the detentions as “a shocking escalation in the repression” in the country.

Last September in a National Security Memorandums and Executive Orders it directed federal law enforcement to target political violence, explicitly framing "extremism on gender" and support for progressive social causes alongside phrases branding opponents as "domestic terrorists" So it makes you wonder if Trump would do something like this?