Another Nail In Our Coffins.

The Democrats Giveth.

The Republicans Taketh Away.

North Carolina Legislature overrides vetoes of bills targeting transgender health care, athletes

The Hill

By Brooke Migdon

August 16, 2023

The North Carolina Legislature voted Wednesday to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto against three bills that would ban gender-affirming health care for transgender minors, prevent transgender women and girls from competing on female sports teams and limit classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity.

Cooper vetoed all three bills last month, writing in the veto message that “Republicans are serving up a triple threat of political culture wars.”

House Bill 808, the gender-affirming health care ban, bars medical professionals in North Carolina from administering puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries to transgender minors. Those who began treatment prior to Aug. 1 may continue receiving care with their parents’ consent.

The new law, which takes effect immediately, also blocks state funds from being used to support government health plans that offer “surgical gender transition procedures, puberty-blocking drugs, or cross-sex hormones to a minor.”

The Democrats give it, the Republicans take it away!

The Legislature also voted Wednesday to override Cooper’s veto of a third bill, known as the Parents’ Bill of Rights, to prohibit kindergarten through fourth grade teachers from engaging in classroom instruction about gender identity or sexuality.

Of course they only mean their “Parental Rights” nobody else’s. Those that believe in exclusion not inclusion.

If you are trans, if you love a trans person… why are you voting for Republicans? They want us dead. Dead. Dead. They want to eradicate us off the face of the Earth.

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You saw this coming.

Baylor University wins exemption from Title IX’s sexual harassment provisions

The private Baptist school argued discrimination complaints made by LGBTQ students were ‘inconsistent’ with the university’s religious values.

Religious News Service

By Fiona André

August 14, 2023

The U.S. Department of Education accepted Baylor University’s request for exemption from Title IX’s sexual harassment provision after the private Baptist school asked to dismiss discrimination complaints filed by LGBTQ+ students that the university said were “inconsistent” with the institution’s religious values.

“For the first time in Title IX’s history, a federally-funded university has been given special permission, by the Biden Administration no less, to allow its LGBTQIA+ students to be sexually harassed,” wrote Paul Southwick, director of the Religious Exemption Accountability Project, in a statement.

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Over the past two years, religious universities invoking their right to exemption from certain Title IX dispositions in the name of religious freedom has been viewed by many LGBTQ advocates as a mechanism to avoid granting equal treatment and protection to queer students attending religious institutions. 

Elizabeth Reiner Platt, director of the Law, Rights, and Religion Project at Columbia Law School, told the Texas Tribune that the decision was “the latest example of religious exemptions being expanded in ways that undermine equality rights.”

The Washington Post wrote…

In a statement issued early Monday to Baylor’s students, faculty and staff, the university’s president, Linda A. Livingstone, said the school requested an exemption from the Title IX provision that prohibits sexual harassment in response to current considerations of the Education Department to expand its definition of sexual harassment. The modification could “infringe on Baylor’s rights under the U.S. Constitution, as well as Title IX, to conduct its affairs in a manner consistent with its religious beliefs,” according to the statement.

So in other words…

• Male harassment of women… nope! Illegal.
• A male harassing another male because he might be gay… okay!

Once again out courts have made two sets of laws, all you have to do is say the magic words… “It is against my religion.”

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Then down in Florida, the little dictator is going after a student club for achievers, those that are striving for excellence.

A Florida Student Group For Black Men May Need To Change Its Name Under New State Law

The Black Male Achievers of Tallahassee Community College risk losing funding if their name remains unchanged.

Blavity

By Kyra Alessandrini

August 16, 2023

A student organization at Tallahassee Community College in Florida is at risk of losing funding under a new state law because of its name. The Black Male Achievers are brainstorming potential new names, as “Black” may now need to be removed from their official title.

“We’re going to have to change the name of our organization or they’re going to defund it because it has ‘Black’ in front of it,” Tyler Soto, a student and a member of Black Male Achievers, told WUSF. 

New names are now being considered, such as “Male Achievers” and “Scholar Male Achievers.”

The law prohibits student organizations from receiving state or federal funding if they “advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion” or are involved in certain social or political causes. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 266 into law on May 15, and it was slated to go into effect in July, according to NBC Miami.

This what got my attention about 1984's Newspeak...

‘‘This has basically been used as a veneer to impose an ideological agenda and that is wrong,” DeSantis said, according to the news outlet. “In fact, if you look at the way this has actually been implemented across the country, DEI is better viewed as standing for discrimination, exclusion and indoctrination, and that has no place in our public institutions.”

That is right out of the novel 1984 where "that up is down, black is white, and that two plus two equals five" and "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

That is what Florida is doing controlling history. You can't talk about Rosa Parks, Selma, or Stonewall. He calls them an "ideological agenda" but his is also an "ideological agenda." where discrimination is good. Where segregation is is the goal. Where bigotry is the norm.

 

In DeSantis's land of Florida...

Diversity is bad, discrimination is good.

Equity is bad, bias is good.

Inclusion is bad, exclusion is good.

 
One of the students of the Black Male Achievers said,

“Trying to erase things that we’ve been through that we had to deal with to get to where we are now is just trying to water down the things that we’ve done,” he added. “I think our history is very important.”

Now tell me, isn't that what 1984 was all about and isn't that what DeSantis is doing? "Who controls the present controls the past."