Guess Which Party Wants Us Back In The Closet?

Out in Kansas a couple of months ago the Republican Party passed a resolution marginalizing us and now they are trying to justify their resolution.

The Kansas Republican Party is taking a stance on transgender identity
Kansas City Star
By Eric Teetsel
March 18, 2018

Editor’s note:
In February, the Kansas Republican Party voted yes on a resolution to “oppose all efforts to validate transgender identity.” Here the author of the GOP resolution shares his perspectives on the topic. Read another viewpoint from Larry J. Bingham, treasurer of the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas and chair of it finance committee, here.

In 1856, a new political party held its convention in Philadelphia. They called themselves Republicans.

As violent skirmishes over slavery in “Bleeding Kansas” foreshadowed the Civil War, the delegates took their stand, resolving that “it is both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism — polygamy, and slavery.”

This legacy of moral clarity and courage is the inheritance of every Republican. It was in that spirit that the delegates at this year’s State Convention of the Kansas Republican Party passed a resolution regarding human sexual identity that I wrote.
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A media frenzy then ensued, from local papers and LGBT blogs to a shamefully inaccurate column in The New York Times. For the majority of Kansans, it is stunning that basic biology is now debatable, much less that to defend it is considered “undignified,” “crass,” and “hateful anti-science,” in the words of opponents of the resolution.

Now guess who they quote?

Facts like these are the reason doctors like Paul McHugh professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, put a stop to gender-reassignment surgeries in 1979 (though they resumed last year). It’s not about bigotry or fear or being “anti-science.” I feel transgender identity is sexual ideology spread through shame and intimidation.

Now guess who wrote the editorial?

Eric Teetsel is the president of Family Policy Alliance of Kansas. and author of the resolution on human sexual identity recently affirmed by the Kansas Republican Party.

This is what we are up against and they used our own research against us....

Fellow Kansans are suffering and dying because of what I believe is a lie that one’s gender is whatever a person believes it to be. According to a January 2014 analysis by the Williams Institute, in collaboration with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and based on 2008 data from the National Center for Trangender Equity’s 2008 U.S. Transgender Survey, the rate of attempted suicide for those who experience gender dysphoria is 41 percent — 10 times the national average. A 2011 study in Sweden concluded that those who undergo gender reassignment surgery are 19 times more likely to commit suicide.

They picked and chose snip-bits to back up their hate and ignored all the rest that didn't support their bigotry.

We have to oppose the billionaires backed conservative mass media, bigotry, and lies.