Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: 1% And I Am Not Talking About Billionaires

Thursday, August 21, 2025

1% And I Am Not Talking About Billionaires

The Republicans like to pick on the small guy who can't fight back. Back in the 1930s and 40s the right-wing tried to do it with the Jews... make them the scapegoats for all the ills in the world... so the looked for a groups that is so small that no one would defend them... us.

UCLA study reveals how many Americans identify as transgender – and it’s only 1%
Despite the rising number of anti-trans executive orders and bills in the United States of America, just one per cent of the population aged 13 and over identifies as transgender, according to a new study from UCLA.
Pink News
Aug 21, 2025

Newly published research from the UCLA Williams Institute looked at data from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and the Youth Risk Behaviour Surveillance System (YRBS) in the study, published this week.

It estimates the rate of trans identity in those aged 13 years old and older across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, excluding Puerto Rico.

Researchers found that over 2.8 million people, comprised of around 2.1 million adults (aged 18 and older) and 724,000 youth (aged 13-17), identify as transgender in the US. As per the study, that means just one per cent of the American population aged 13 and older identify as trans.

The study outcome is a stark reminder of gender identity in the US, compared to incessant misinformation from the right. Back in March, President Donald Trump wrongly claimed, “Everything is transgender, everybody is transgender”.

Okay, stop and think... how many manhours have the Republican's put towards legislation against us?

SceneMag writes...

The release of this data comes amid significant political controversy. President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that the US government will officially recognise only two genders - male and female - prompting concerns about the erasure of trans individuals from federal surveys and public policy.

Researchers warn that this may be the last opportunity for a comprehensive analysis of the transgender population for years to come, as federal agencies begin removing references to gender diversity from critical datasets.

And the witch-hunt continues... are the Salem trials next?

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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

“A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.”
― Booker T. Washington

"We will not walk in fear one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason."
– Edward R. Murrow

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Thursday, August 21, 2025

1% And I Am Not Talking About Billionaires

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