Puberty Blockers

Twisting words, the first time I stood before news cameras was in Washington DC when I went down there to lobby for ENDA in 2007. I was interviewed for a couple of minutes and the only thing they used was “I don’t think it will pass this year, I think we are in it for the long haul.” and the reporter called me a season activist.

This Christian news source had this to say about puberty blockers.

Transgender Activist Makes Argument for All Kids Taking Puberty Blockers Until They Can Confirm Their Gender Identity
ChristianHeadlines
By Milton Quintanilla
December 15, 2020


Lauren McNamara, a well-known transgender activist known by followers as “Zinnia Jones,” made the argument that all children should be given puberty blockers until they are old enough to confirm their chosen gender identity.

According to the Washington Examiner, Jones argued her case earlier this month in a series of posts on Twitter.

“If children can't consent to puberty blockers which pause any permanent changes even with the relevant professional evaluation, how can they consent to the permanent and irreversible changes that come with their own puberty with no professional evaluation whatsoever?” Jones asked.

“This is literally a position that permanent changes are fine as long as you're not trans,” the trans activist continued. “An inability to offer informed consent or understand the long-term consequences is actually an argument for putting every single cis and trans person on puberty blockers until they acquire that ability.”

Notice how the Christian press latched onto her comment all children should be on puberty blockers, I am sure she didn’t mean it that way but they twisted it to mean what they wanted.

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Meanwhile out in Oregon the Supreme Court let stand the transgender students to use restrooms, locker rooms, and showers matching their gender identity.

High Court Declines Challenge to District Policy Protecting Transgender Students
Education Week
By Mark Walsh
December 15, 2020


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The challengers sued over the policy of the 3,000-student Dallas, Ore., school district, which adopted its student safety plan after a student at Dallas High School who was born biologically female began identifying as male in 2015. The plan allowed the student to use facilities matching his gender identity and included training for staff and lessons for students against bullying and harassment.
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“We ... hold that a policy that treats all students equally does not discriminate based on sex in violation of Title IX, and that the normal use of privacy facilities does not constitute actionable sexual harassment under Title IX just because a person is transgender,” the 9th Circuit panel ruled in February. “We hold further that the Fourteenth Amendment does not provide a fundamental parental right to determine the bathroom policies of the public schools to which parents may send their children.”

This is big!

This is big for several reasons first is obvious reason that the Supreme Court let stand the lower court rulings in that it says Title IX covers. The second is that the law applies to bathrooms and locker rooms and the last is that this is suppose to be a conservative court, they have ruled in favor of LGBTQ issues; they ruled in our favor in Bostock v. Clayton County, Ga, R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. EEOC, and the Altitude Express, Inc. v. Zarda cases this spring.

The article went on to say…

The challengers “are not using Title IX to ensure that they have equal access to bathrooms and locker rooms as compared to members outside their protected class. Rather, they are trying to use Title IX to take away something which the school district granted the transgender boy to ensure that he was not denied equal access to bathrooms or locker rooms just because his gender did not match the gender typically associated with his sex at birth.”

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In Texas a gay student is being harassed by the school system for wearing nail polish.

Openly gay Clyde CISD student protesting his in-school suspension for wearing nail polish
KTXS Ch 12 ABC
By Jamie Burch & John Rupolo
December 3rd 2020


ABILENE, Texas — An openly gay Clyde CISD student is protesting his in-school suspension for wearing nail polish.

Trevor Wilkinson, a senior at Clyde High School, was sent to ISS on Monday.
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Wilkinson told KTXS he thinks the policy is unjust and he's taking a stand to get it changed.

On Thursday, the school have him three choices, according to Wilkinson:

• Remain in ISS
• Remove the nails
• Go to virtual learning

Wilkinson said he's not removing the nails and he chose to stay in ISS.

And it doesn’t look like they are going to change the policy…

Clyde CISD not yet changing policy that led to suspension of gay male for nail polish

KTXS Ch 12 ABC

By Jamie Burch & John RupoloTuesday, 

December 15th 2020

CLYDE, Texas — Clyde CISD is not yet changing the policy that led to the suspension of a gay male over nail polish.

Trevor Wilkinson was placed on in-school suspension Nov. 30.

Afterwards, he started an online petition that has been signed by more than 321,000 people.

Wilkinson's story went viral and he appeared on ABC's "Good Morning America."

Monday night, Wilkinson addressed the school board for a second time asking them to change the dress code.

My guess that the Board is going to have an awaking when president-elect Biden’s Secretary of Education gets in and I think that the Supreme Court will back them up.