It Is A Different Generation.

One of the reasons that I retired is that it is time for the next generation to takeover the baton.

One of the things that an activist needs is a good understanding on social media and I am falling behind with it. “Substack?” What is that? That was my first thought when I read about that.

I read a lot of mainstream media but not much of social media except for Facebook and an activist must be informed in all media outlet.

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We saw this before in a different generation but now it is happening again.

Attacks on Ohio transgender community a calculated political ploy to scapegoat the vulnerable

Ohio Capital Journal 

By Marilou Johanek

June 27, 2023

The right to exist is being erased for transgender kids and adults. You know it. There is always another bill or law being passed in dozens of Republican-controlled state legislatures, including Ohio’s, targeting the transgender community. It’s a vulnerable community. No match for the aggressive national campaign launched against it by the GOP and an unholy army of fanatical Christian haters. 

Trans-Americans are being nullified as people ahead of 2024 to stick it to the “woke left” and ensure right-wing evangelicals vote Republican. A political wedge used to win elections by pulverizing a population of nonconformists into nothingness. Calculated cruelty to destroy lives for power.   

Transgender adolescents are most at-risk of being rubbed out by the unsparing hostility of anti-trans rhetoric and lawmaking. They’ve been made to feel like a freak show, aberrations to be pushed into the shadows and potentially suicide just to score cheap political points. It is so wrong and so unchristian.

But the Republican abuse heaped on trans youth, already stigmatized and mistreated, is unrelenting. Right-wingers have unleashed a torrent of unjustified bills to purge the trans community from public life. It is hateful, hollow legislating to curb the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of LGBTQ+ people.

They just don’t care, they don’t care that they are hurting people, they have no empathy, they see us only as a tool to use to gain power.

Mainstream Ohio is consumed with real problems like the economy, affordable housing and day care, not with banning trans girls from female sports or blocking parents from providing medical care for their trans kid. There is no public outcry for pre-clearance of LGBTQ topics in school classrooms or for teachers to out their students. 

That’s mean and muzzling. Who would go out of their way to harm transgender youngsters who are just trying to survive? Not a majority of Americans. But a vocal minority of far right politicians and religious zealots is on crusade to crush young lives without mercy.   

Theirs is a politically expedient partnership, deceptively cloaked in concern for children, girls sports, and parental rights. It is an ugly charade with real life consequences. A record number of statehouse bills nationwide have been submitted this year (560 and counting).

Smoke and mirrors… look at what these minorities are doing… don’t look at the bridge collapse! Don’t look at the crumbling infrastructure. Look at these filthy books about the civil rights leaders… it make my child feel uncomfortable! Don’t look at the stretched thin FAA. Look over here at these abortion clinics! Don’t look at overloaded electrical grid. But look at the these horrible drag queens! Look at anything but us.

A speaker at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference told the crowd, “For the good of society…transgenderism must be eradicated.” An open call for the annihilation of human beings who happen to be trans. People applauded. It wasn’t them being torn down. 

That’s how it starts. The moral connectedness that holds humanity together breaks apart. Suddenly some people are not deserving of care and compassion. Like those instinctively disliked or dismissed as different. Anyone in another tribe. The marginalized. Not your concern.

Back in the 30s that is what the fascists did… look at the Jews! Look at these degenerate Gypsies. They feed them into the gas chamber to eradicate them. Don’t look at the Neo-Nazis outside a synagogue in Georgia waving Nazi flags last week.