20 March 2024

national/world - GA lawmaker says he can’t vote for his own bill after transgender athlete additions

Richard Elliott

WSB-TV


Decatur, GA

please press:  www.wsbtv.com

ezs note:  Oh, I know.  Compassion and caring can be so  difficult... 😡


Illinois - City of Springfield approves settlement over denial of healthcare coverage to former transgender employee

Staff

WAND-TV


Springfield, IL (c. 1905)

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please press:  www.wandtv.com


What We Do For Others We Do For Ourselves (video)


Credit:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-RdlyckqVE


ezs note:  I ran across Rev. Ed Trevors, who gave me a breath of fresh air.  Unfortunately, most of what passes off as 'Christianity' is pure crap. Fortunately, though, Ed saves the day. I may not see every line from side to side (he is a [real] Christian, I am a Baha'i), but, geez, this guy is good. I'll do my bit to promote him. To learn more about him, go to Bing AI and type 'Who is Reverend Ed Trevors?'

By the way, if you're free, Ed broadcasts live on 1) most Saturday nights at 7:30 pm and 2) most Wednesday afternoons at 2:00 pm (Eastern time). (other time zones will vary)  Look for :

19 March 2024

national/world - Dual protests over transgender bathroom use take place at John Jay High School

Brooke Reilly

Spectrum Local News


Lewisboro, NY

please press:  spectrumlocalnews.com

Iowa - Carlisle's Ainsley Erzen joins lawsuit against NCAA transgender inclusion policy

William Morris
Des Moines Register


Warren County, IA  (Carlisle?)

please press:  www.desmoinesregister.com

ezs note:  It'll take a while (well... quite a while) but I strongly suggest you read the New Yorker article that refutes Ainsley Erzen's sincere but misguided speech.  It's right here.

I know that it'll take quite awhile, but please read the hotlinks also.  IMHO, you'll gain a far greater appreciation of the article.



Charity and Justice (video)


Credit:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RspDreruriw


ezs note:  I ran across Rev. Ed Trevors, who gave me a breath of fresh air.  Unfortunately, most of what passes off as 'Christianity' is pure crap. Fortunately, though, Ed saves the day. I may not see every line from side to side (he is a [real] Christian, I am a Baha'i), but, geez, this guy is good. I'll do my bit to promote him. To learn more about him, go to Bing AI and type 'Who is Reverend Ed Trevors?'

By the way, if you're free, Ed broadcasts live on 1) most Saturday nights at 7:30 pm and 2) most Wednesday afternoons at 2:00 pm (Eastern time). (other time zones will vary)  Look for :

18 March 2024

national/world - Supreme Court rejects appeal from parents who lost custody of trans teen

Maureen Groppe

USA Today


Anderson, IN

please press:  www.usatoday.com

ezs note:  Hey, you have the right to believe as you wish.  What you DON'T have is to force the blatherings of your 'pastor' down their child's throat, especially those of a teenager.

California - California AG Files Amicus in Support of Ruling Blocking Idaho’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth

Staff

The Davis Vanguard


Davis, CA

please press:  www.davisvanguard.org

Created "In Our Image," Plaid Shirts, and Plurality (video)

 

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ezs note:  I ran across Rev. Ed Trevors, who gave me a breath of fresh air.  Unfortunately, most of what passes off as 'Christianity' is pure crap. Fortunately, though, Ed saves the day. I may not see every line from side to side (he is a [real] Christian, I am a Baha'i), but, geez, this guy is good. I'll do my bit to promote him. To learn more about him, go to Bing AI and type 'Who is Reverend Ed Trevors?'

By the way, if you're free, Ed broadcasts live on 1) most Saturday nights at 7:30 pm and 2) most Wednesday afternoons at 2:00 pm (Eastern time). (other time zones will vary)  Look for :

17 March 2024

national/world - A Montana transgender teenager’s journey for gender affirmation

Nance Beston, Aislin Tweedy

Montanan


Alberton, MT

please press:  dailymontanan.com

Oklahoma - Oklahoma Schools Boss Starts Anti-Trans Shitfight With Chasten Buttigieg

Michael Daly

The Daily Beast


Owasso, OK
Owasso High School

please press:  www.thedailybeast.com

Speaker Mike Johnson, Embryos and Conception, And Your Faith (video)

 



ezs note:  I ran across Rev. Ed Trevors, who gave me a breath of fresh air.  Unfortunately, most of what passes off as 'Christianity' is pure crap. Fortunately, though, Ed saves the day. I may not see every line from side to side (he is a [real] Christian, I am a Baha'i), but, geez, this guy is good. I'll do my bit to promote him. To learn more about him, go to Bing AI and type 'Who is Reverend Ed Trevors?'

By the way, if you're free, Ed broadcasts live on 1) most Saturday nights at 7:30 pm and 2) most Wednesday afternoons at 2:00 pm (Eastern time). (other time zones will vary)  Look for :

16 March 2024

national/world - Federal appeals court dismisses Eau Claire schools transgender policy lawsuit

Rich Kremer

www.wpr.org


Eau Claire, WI

please press:  www.wpr.org

New Jersey - Ramapo Indian Hills school board abolishes transgender policy

Marsha A. Stoltz

www.northjersey.com


Franklin Lakes, NJ

please press:  www.northjersey.com

ezs note:  Next time voters get to vote on the Board of Education, here are the members to vote AGAINST:

Kim Ansh
Marianna Emmolo
Tim Bogdansky
Melissa Kiel
Doreen Mariani
Audrey Sounders

voters, kick em' out!  

"I’m A Bitch" And Many Other Things (video)

 



ezs note:  I ran across Rev. Ed Trevors, who gave me a breath of fresh air.  Unfortunately, most of what passes off as 'Christianity' is pure crap. Fortunately, though, Ed saves the day. I may not see every line from side to side (he is a [real] Christian, I am a Baha'i), but, geez, this guy is good. I'll do my bit to promote him. To learn more about him, go to Bing AI and type 'Who is Reverend Ed Trevors?'

By the way, if you're free, Ed broadcasts live on 1) most Saturday nights at 7:30 pm and 2) most Wednesday afternoons at 2:00 pm (Eastern time). (other time zones will vary)  Look for :

15 March 2024

national/world - Highland Park man, 18, arrested in murder of transgender woman found in hotel

Miriam Marini

Detroit Free Press


Highland Park, MI

please press:  www.freep.com

ezs note:  While I'm certainly glad that Carlos Lamar Scotland has been arrested, there are simply too many transgender people who have been murdered whose killer goes off scot free.  If you have any information about any of these murders, CALL THE POLICE!!!

Utah - Utah prison discriminated against transgender woman, Department of Justice finds

AP

NBC News


Gunnison, UT (women's state prison)

please press:  www.nbcnews.com

A Message To Trolls (video)


Credit:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQgrrGkWcFU

ezs note:  I ran across Rev. Ed Trevors, who gave me a breath of fresh air.  Unfortunately, most of what passes off as 'Christianity' is pure crap. Fortunately, though, Ed saves the day. I may not see every line from side to side (he is a [real] Christian, I am a Baha'i), but, geez, this guy is good. I'll do my bit to promote him. To learn more about him, go to Bing AI and type 'Who is Reverend Ed Trevors?'

By the way, if you're free, Ed broadcasts live on 1) most Saturday nights at 7:30 pm and 2) most Wednesday afternoons at 2:00 pm (Eastern time). (other time zones will vary)  Look for :

Bernie Sanders - Democracy is at stake (video)

 



ezs note:  Of all the people - Senators, Congresspeople, governors or anybody in some lower office - that I respect, it's Bernie.  He may not be right  100 percent of the time (who is?) but he is honest.  No one else in the Capitol even comes close.  So when he says 'vote for Joe', dammit, I'll vote for Joe, and I hope you will too.  But above all, REGISTER.   

14 March 2024

New York - Freedom of Sex - The moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies.

Andrea Long Chu

nymag.com


New York Magazine

please press:  nymag.com

ezs note:  Once in a while, a magazine puts out an issue which will be discusssed for a long, long time.  Here is the paragraph which I feel is the most seminal:

I am speaking here of a universal birthright: the freedom of sex. This freedom consists of two principal rights: the right to change one’s biological sex without appealing to gender and the right to assume a gender that is not determined by one’s sexual biology. One might exercise both of these rights toward a common goal — transition, for instance — but neither can be collapsed into the other. I am put in mind of a bicameral system. Each chamber has its own prerogatives, but neither the exclusive upper chamber (sex) nor the boisterous lower one (gender) has the ultimate power to overrule the other. (Not all trans people wish to change their sex; some trans people are also gender-nonconforming.) By asserting the freedom of sex, we may stop relying on the increasingly metaphysical concept of gender identity to justify sex-changing care, as if such care were only permissible when one’s biological sex does not match the serial number engraved on one’s soul. The same goes for “sex assigned at birth,” which unhelpfully obscures the very biological processes that many people have a right to change. In general, we must rid ourselves of the idea that any necessary relationship exists between sex and gender; this prepares us to claim that the freedom to bring sex and gender into whatever relation one chooses is a basic human right.

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I strongly urge you to read the entire article.  Agree or disagree, it could be the 21st century version of The Federalist Papers.

Rob Reiner and Christian Nationalism (video)



ezs note:  I ran across Rev. Ed Trevors, who gave me a breath of fresh air.  Unfortunately, most of what passes off as 'Christianity' is pure crap. Fortunately, though, Ed saves the day. I may not see every line from side to side (he is a [real] Christian, I am a Baha'i), but, geez, this guy is good. I'll do my bit to promote him. To learn more about him, go to Bing AI and type 'Who is Reverend Ed Trevors?'

By the way, if you're free, Ed broadcasts live on 1) most Saturday nights at 7:30 pm and 2) most Wednesday afternoons at 2:00 pm (Eastern time). (other time zones will vary)  Look for :



Vote yes on Plainville's referendum!


Plainville, CT

Credit:  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Civil_War_Memorial%2C_Plainville%2C_Connecticut.jpg

ezs note:  As I've said before, although I no longer live in Plainville, I read the town's goings-on with great interest.  There are two reasons why you should vote YES on the school board's budget:

1)  the middle school is in dire need of repair,

and, 

2)  it would royally piss off a person who heads an anti-anything board.

Yeah, the last one's personal.  So what.

13 March 2024

national/world - Wisconsin governor to veto transgender ban

AP

The Mining Journal


Plymouth, WI (Gov. Evers' birthplace)


please press:  www.miningjournal.net

Nebraska - Nebraska governor approves regulations to allow gender-affirming care for minors

Margery A. Beck

Independent


Columbus, NE (Gov. Pillen's birthplace)

please press:  www.independent.co.uk

ezs note: Nebraskans -  Y'all know what to do.  When Election Day rolls around, vote out Gov. Pillen and the idiotic state legislators who voted for this stupid bill.  Bumper stickers wouldn't hurt either.

MN State Rep and the Importance of Being Civil (video)


Credit:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuQTPMd7V4o

ezs note:  I ran across Rev. Ed Trevors, who gave me a breath of fresh air.  Unfortunately, most of what passes off as 'Christianity' is pure crap. Fortunately, though, Ed saves the day. I may not see every line from side to side (he is a [real] Christian, I am a Baha'i), but, geez, this guy is good. I'll do my bit to promote him. To learn more about him, go to Bing AI and type 'Who is Reverend Ed Trevors?'

By the way, if you're free, Ed broadcasts live on 1) most Saturday nights at 7:30 pm and 2) most Wednesday afternoons at 2:00 pm (Eastern time). (other time zones will vary)  Look for :

12 March 2024

Robert De Niro on Trump Being “So F**king Stupid,” Being at the Oscars & New Movie Ezra (video)


Credit:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnQXC4_h-LM&t=540s

'Do people not understand' - Transgender golfer furious after being banned from women's tour

Stuart Ballard

GBN


Howey-in-the-Hills, FL

please press:  www.gbnews.com

Florida - Historic Settlement Achieved in Challenge to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” Law

Cielo

Equality Florida



St. Petersburg, FL

please press:  eqfl.org

ezs note:  Finally, sunshine in Florida!

Sitting at the feet of my barber (video)


Credit:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRByVbUC5fE

ezs note:  I ran across Rev. Ed Trevors, who gave me a breath of fresh air.  Unfortunately, most of what passes off as 'Christianity' is pure crap. Fortunately, though, Ed saves the day. I may not see every line from side to side (he is a [real] Christian, I am a Baha'i), but, geez, this guy is good. I'll do my bit to promote him. To learn more about him, go to Bing AI and type 'Who is Reverend Ed Trevors?'

By the way, if you're free, Ed broadcasts live on 1) most Saturday nights at 7:30 pm and 2) most Wednesday afternoons at 2:00 pm (Eastern time). (other time zones will vary)  Look for :

11 March 2024

national/world - Alabama official calls for firing of transgender Space Camp employee after parent speaks out

William Thornton

AL.com


Huntsville, AL
(where else?)

please press:  www.al.com
 

Tennessee - How to stay or when to move? Transgender laws force tough choices on Tennessee families

Jamie McGee

Lookout


 Knoxville, TN

please press:  tennesseelookout.com

ezs note:  If Tennessee continues to be bullheaded, COME TO CONNECTICUT!  Granted, the state as a whole is more expensive, but there are areas which are significantly lower in cost. (look at the northeast quarter of the state in particular).

Healers and Triggers (video)

 



ezs note:  I ran across Rev. Ed Trevors, who gave me a breath of fresh air.  Unfortunately, most of what passes off as 'Christianity' is pure crap. Fortunately, though, Ed saves the day. I may not see every line from side to side (he is a [real] Christian, I am a Baha'i), but, geez, this guy is good. I'll do my bit to promote him. To learn more about him, go to Bing AI and type 'Who is Reverend Ed Trevors?'

By the way, if you're free, Ed broadcasts live on 1) most Saturday nights at 7:30 pm and 2) most Wednesday afternoons at 2:00 pm (Eastern time). (other time zones will vary)  Look for :