Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Allies

Some students came out in support of us or was it because of the free brownies.
Some Great Hearts Students Join Anti-Transgender Policy Protest, Others Shout 'MAGA!'
Phoenix New Times
By Molly Longman
October 30, 2017

About 20 protesters just outside of Great Hearts Veritas Preparatory Academy in Phoenix were swarmed Friday afternoon by a politically diverse group of teen students.

Hannah Duncan, a 2011 Great Hearts graduate, admitted part of the draw could have been the free brownies.

But the students also engaged in a civil discourse about the school's "sex and biological gender" policy, which many believe is discriminatory towards transgender students, and that made Duncan feel great.

The protesters with Duncan carried signs and a transgender flag, offering fact sheets for the students at a table. After school ended at about 3:15 p.m., some of the several-dozen students came bounding across the school's lawn to sniff out the sidewalk diplomacy and side of brownies.
And of course the haters came out,
One boy made a “Make America Great Again” sign and later led his group of friends in “Trump” cheers, shouting “Let’s make America great again!” alongside all the anti-policy demonstrators.

One boy borrowed a protester’s sign that read “This is ridiculous” and added “People who undergo hormone therapy have a 45% chance of suicide" in small black lettering.
He went on to say…
“I hear them say, ‘Why are you disrespecting people?’” the boy said. “Frankly, I think people should learn how to get harder skins. I do not support bullying to the point where the person kills themselves — but I think ridicule can make a person stronger at the end of the day.”
Well kid I have news for you, the high suicidal idealization rate is because of people just like you! People who think bullying okay it just that we’re “snowflakes.”

I’ll say it again and again that haters and bigots have been given the green to come out of the woodwork.



This afternoon I am a college in the New Haven area teaching a class on multicultural education, every semester a friend who teaches the class lets me teach it for the section on transgender culture. Part two is Thursday.

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