Another Attack On Our Rights

This time the Republicans think that it is okay to deny us jobs. The courts have ruled that we are covered under Title VII and 16 states are suing.

16 states want the Supreme Court to okay anti-trans workplace discrimination
LGBTQ Nation
By John Gallagher
August 24, 2018

In a move that puts them in league with former Alabama Judge Roy Moore and a leading anti-marriage religious right group, sixteen states have asked the Supreme Court to reaffirm the right of employers to fire you if you are transgender.

At issue is the case of a Michigan funeral home chain that fired one of its funeral home directors after she told them she was transitioning. The employee, Aimee Stephens, sued R.G. and G.R. Harris Funeral Homes on the grounds that her dismissal was sex discrimination under federal Title VII law, which prohibits gender discrimination. (There is no employment protection in Michigan for LGBTQ people.)

The Portland Press Herald in Portland Maine reported…

LePage joins court brief seeking to allow companies to legally fire gay or transgender employees
The brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court argues that a portion of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that prevents discrimination against workers, including in pay and benefits, shouldn't apply to gender identity or sexual orientation.

The Tennessean’s headlines cry…

Tennessee fighting court ruling that said people couldn't be fired for being transgender

The Arkansas Times that the Attorney General…

Leslie Rutledge joins push to allow firing transgender people

What do they all have in common?

They are all Republicans.

The Republicans don’t care about us; they only care about power and that the donations that come in to persecute us from the white supremacists and evangelists Christians.

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More fallout from the Brown University pulling the research on ROGD (Rapid Onset of Gender Dysphoria), this time from Europe.

Brown University in row with transgender activists over claims gender dysphoria spreading among children
Telegraph
By Olivia Rudgard
28 August 2018

An Ivy League college is embroiled in a row with trans activists over an article which suggested gender dysphoria was spreading among children.

Brown University has removed research from its website which hypothesised that teenagers who came out as transgender were more likely to have friends who were transitioning and were influenced by YouTube videos and social media.

Academics accused the university of bowing to pressure from activists after it removed a news article and link to Lisa Littman's research. A tweet promoting the paper has also been deleted.

The research concluded "social and peer contagion" was a plausible explanation for "cluster outbreaks" and a high number of cases where the majority of children in a friendship group became "transgender-identified".
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The announcement was made after critics raised concerns about the political stance of the 256 parents who participated in the study, entitled "rapid-onset gender dysphoria in adolescents and young adults".
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But Susie Green, the CEO of British charity Mermaids, which supports young transgender people and their families, said the methodology of the study was "completely flawed".

"The places they went to get these responses were very much anti-trans websites. They haven't talked to the young people themselves and the parents are sourced from gender-critical websites, who do not believe that trans children exist, who think that children should be forced to accept their birth gender, no matter how much damage that causes," she told the Telegraph.

"As a colleague, a clinician who works in this field has stated, it's like recruiting from a white supremacist website to demonstrate that black people are an inferior race," she added.

Just reading the article in MedExpress what jumped out me was “the first study to empirically describe teens and young adults who did not have symptoms of gender dysphoria during childhood but who were observed by their parents to rapidly develop gender dysphoria symptoms over days, weeks or months during or after puberty.” and if you look up the definition of empirically in the Merriam-Webster dictionary…

1: originating in or based on observation or experience empirical data
2: relying on experience or observation alone often without due regard for system and theory an empirical basis for the theory
3: capable of being verified or disproved by observation or experiment empirical laws
4: of or relating to empiricism

Empirical observations is not the best way to do research and the researcher didn’t talk to the children just their parents.

The Telegraph article goes on to say,

In a statement posted alongside Dr Littman's article, the journal said: "We take all concerns raised about publications in the journal very seriously, and are following up on these per our policy and COPE guidelines.

"As part of our follow up we will seek further expert assessment on the study’s methodology and analyses. We will provide a further update once we have completed our assessment and discussions."

The other question is about the research paper saying that “One of the most compelling findings supporting the potential role of social and peer contagion in the development of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria is the cluster outbreaks of transgender-identification occurring in friendship groups.” She didn’t do any research into the causes of the clusters and once again only talked to the parents.

Take away from all this brouhaha… when you take a survey before you click on “Submit” think about the questions asked are they biased loaded questions? I bailed out of one survey and refused to click on the submit button and refused to post it on our support group.