Politics & Public Opinion

Gays Faced Forced Sex-Reassignment in Iran

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Just a reminder: Under the Islamic Republic’s penal code, sexual relations between people of the same sex are illegal and strictly punished by imprisonment, corporal punishment, or execution. But there is a legal and socially approved option for homosexuals: they can undergo state-sanctioned sex-reassignment surgery to avoid persecution.

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Can Democrats Stop Digging on Trans Ideology?

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Harsanyi also observes: “Anyone with a functioning moral compass is horrified by the thought of the government seizing confused children from parents and allowing strangers to mutilate their bodies via “gender-affirming care,” a perverse euphemism for plying children with puberty blockers or hormones, or worse.”

And the party keeps rolling along. Next up: “To the Democrats’ Dismay, the List of Hospitals Ending ‘Gender-Affirming Surgeries’ for Minors Grows.”



Next on the agenda:



And the Canadian Liberal Party: “Member of Parliament Especially Concerned for 2SLGBTQIA+ Canadians in Puerto Vallarta.”



Then there’s the mendacity of the left: “Medicaid Spent More Than $100 Million in Five Years on Gender Treatments and Surgeries for Minors, Government Investigator Finds.”



The party’s positions on trans issues are not based on “science” or medical evidence, but were incubated in left-wing academia:



On the subject of academia and how supportors of trans ideology want to stifle any debate on their positions, the Wall Street Journal reports on an attempt at the University of North Carolina to foster civil debate, which is, of course, opposed by “progressive,” Muslim and TQ+ student groups (“These Schools Want Civil Discourse on Campus. Even That Is Up for Dispute”):

CivComm [is] a residential hall affiliated with a program at UNC called the School of Civic Life and Leadership (SCiLL). … At CivComm, all discussions are governed by an agreed-upon set of rules; as one student put it, while residents might strongly disagree, they must still live with one another…. Her experiences there have made it hard to put people in boxes and helped her recognize their inherent goodness, even when they have very different beliefs. … Another student organization, TransparUNCy, has organized boycotts and teach-ins opposing the school. “Your participation in these classes only continues to fund the cancerous growth of SCiLL,” warned its Instagram account.

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Democrats Engage in Yet Another Smear Campaign Against an Openly Gay GOP Rival

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Post-Election Update:

Openly gay Republican John Reid ran a strong race and fought the good fight in his bid for lieutenant governor, but the immense concentration of federal government employees in northern Virginia makes it tough going for statewide GOP candidates in the best of circumstances, and, sadly, Winsome Earle-Sears was a weak candidate for the governorship against well-financed and slick “fake moderate” Abigail Spanberger.

Reid was defeated for lieutenant governor by Ghazala Hashmi, a far-left leaning nonentity who repeatedly refused to debate Reid and only agreed to softball interviews with liberal media.

Spanberger, who voted the straight Democratic party line as a Congressmember, marching in strict lockstep with Nancy Pelosi and then Hakeem Jefferies, is now indebted to party progressives. The teachers’ unions will gain more protection against having to actually, you know, teach, while student achievement again declines. She’ll bring higher taxes to fund more unnecessary and wasteful spending that goes to favored constituencies, which then funnel funds back to the party. And more gerrymandering to ensure that only progressives Democrats can be elected to the state legislature in Richmond and to Congress.

So, more decline while the self-satisfied northern Virginia elites and government rent-seekers celebrate their victory. All so sad.

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In Key November Elections, the ‘Pro-LGBTQ+’ Democrats Aren’t ‘Pro-Gay’

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Virginia’s Democratic nominee for governor, Abigail Spanberger, can’t bring herself to oppose biological males in women’s sports.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/abigail-spanberger-virginia-dem-gov-hopeful-ripped-for-weak-kamala-answer-on-trans-athletes



Spanberger has also urged her supporters to “let your rage fuel you” against political opponents. Hint: “rage” rarely leads to constructive engagement, but in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder and rising violence on the left, it’s, let’s say, deplorable.

Meanwhile, the Democratic candidate for Attorney General running with her, Jay Jones, sent text messages in 2022 discussing shooting then-Republican House Speaker Todd Gilbert and wishing death to his children because “only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.”

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On Charlie Kirk

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In 2019, Charlie Kirk said “I believe marriage is one man, one woman,” but he sought dialogue and debate with people who held opposing views.

Podcaster Dave Rubin, who is openly gay and married to a man, met Kirk in 2017 and “went on to do dozens of college campus events where we both relished discussing our differences — not only with each other, but with the huge crowds of college students as well. … What started as spirited disagreements on politics, culture, religion and activism turned into a meaningful friendship and a turning point, pardon the pun, in my career.”

Other openly gay critics of leftwing extremism, including Andrew Doyle and Andy Ngo, have praised Kirk’s commitment to free speech and respectful dialogue. And in a statement, Log Cabin Republicans said that Kirk “worked tirelessly to bring American education back to its roots of civil debate, free speech, and tolerance for differing points of view. His work was, and will continue to be, an inspiration for LGBT conservatives to proudly defend their own views against those who may loudly and hatefully disagree.”

In a quote now being widely shared, Kirk himself said this: “When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence. That’s when civil war happens. Because you start to think the other side is so evil and they lose their humanity.”











And putting it all together:



Addendums:

Well said by Debra Messing: “The idea that disagreement could justify erasure is barbaric. And the fact that so many are celebrating it is horrifying.”



OsborneInk (Matt Osbrone) writes:

… GLAAD, the once-hallowed civil rights nonprofit … claimed that Kirk “spread infinite amounts of disinformation about LGBTQ people.” GLAAD is particularly put out by “Turning Point’s college campus campaigns featuring speakers such as Riley Gaines, Chloe Cole, and Pastor Junsun Yoo, who regularly spoke against transgender people.”
I have met one of those people, Riley Gaines, and watched her speak. … Gaines was denied her Title IX rights to fair sports competition, as well as the safety of a single-sex locker room, because William ‘Lia’ Thomas has special gender gremlin inside him that makes it okay, according to the new leftist dogma everyone has been forced to accept as a civil rights project. …
… I actually know Chloe Cole personally, having met her three times and interviewed her. She did not “speak against transgender people” because she never does. Chloe tells the story of how her breasts were cut off while she was a minor child, during the very same time that GLAAD and ‘the left’ were gaslighting America that no minor children were being surgically transitioned, passing off this lie with the compliant help of the media.


More: Will this hold up? We’ll see.

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Same-Sex Marriage Won’t Be Overturned

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Despite the scare-mongering by the left (Big LGBTQ+ now joined by Hillary Clinton) and the fever dreams of the anti-gay right, it’s not going to happen. There are huge legal and moral differences between marriage equality and abortion, as well as the justices’ differing past positions on these two issues (i.e., Roe critics who supported marriage equality in Obergefell).









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Democrat Presidential Wannabees Trip Over Trans Issues

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I’ve updated my post looking at how potential “moderate” Democratic presidential candidates are trying to appeal to centrists on transgender issues while not provoking too negative a response from the party’s increasingly gender-extreme base.

How’s that working out?

I take a look at the views and actions of former Chicago mayor and Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanual, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Pennsylvania Gov Josh Shapiro, and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg — as well as California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is by no means a moderate but made a brief feint at playing one.

https://stephenhenrymiller.substack.com/p/democrat-presidential-wannabees-trip



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Another Identitarian Big Lie

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A message for Trump critics: spurious attacks that are easily proved false to anyone but the party base don’t win support for your side. For instance, progressive identitarians want low-information Democrats to believe the Trump administration is racist and homophobic, with progressive media backing up their narrative. But the truth will out.

T. Becket Adams responded to a Washington Post op-ed:


I previously addressed some of these issues in a Substack post, “Scott Bessent: A Nomination Based on Merit, Not DEI.”

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