Blog: Anti-LGBT Groups Recycling Old Anti-Gay Talking Points

[Carolyn Marie]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/12/28/how-anti-gay-talking-points-are-being-recycled/207667

I notice that, with the possible exception of Jon Stewart and John Oliver, no one ever airs those old Fox News and other right wing media hysterical commentaries about slippery slopes, and asks those folks where that slippery slope ever led to. Anyone seen any legislation lately to legalize bestiality???

Carolyn Marie

[Guest amanda_s]

i wonder who they will hate after the trans community?

[Carolyn Marie]

i wonder who they will hate after the trans community?

Why, Muslims, of course!

Carolyn Marie

[Guest]

They build their castles on beaches of sand. One day the higher power will wash them away with the tide.

The unconditional love of people will one day be our cement to seal their vaults of stone. Hug. JodyAnn

[Guest]

i wonder who they will hate after the trans community?

Why, Muslims, of course!

Carolyn Marie

Heck yeah! They are warming up the outdated B-52s as we speak! They just can't figure out where to point them. Shaking head. Jody

[VickySGV]

Having thwarted one potential Women's Restroom trouble maker who was NOT dressed as a woman, and also helping several young children there (with their mother's permission) to reach restroom hand washing sinks, my own life of danger to children is pretty much blahh. I recently (post transition) submitted fingerprints through my church to work in areas on the grounds near our licensed Pre-School which were run at State & Federal levels to see if I had a record that would prevent me from being around children. The result was the same as it had been 5 years before I began transition. No convictions for child abuse, or sexual crimes against children.

HMMMMM!! Maybe one of our Talking Points ought to be that all of us who get a name change MUST have a criminal background check as a matter of law in all of the states I know about.

[Carolyn Marie]

I recently (post transition) submitted fingerprints through my church to work in areas on the grounds near our licensed Pre-School which were run at State & Federal levels to see if I had a record that would prevent me from being around children. .

Everyone at the museum I volunteer at had to do the same. The form requested any other names I've used in the past, which I provided. There were no problems, either with museum staff or the folks at the State who processed the prints.

I've often wondered why these "sky is falling" types who hyperventilate at the thought of a transwoman in the girls restroom don't make the same arguments against Catholic priests using the men's public restrooms? If ever there was a risky group of people to be around children, it would be them. Could there be a double standard? Nah!

Carolyn Marie

[VickySGV]

One safety precaution I do take for both my sake and the children's sake is that another adult is always within clear sight of me when I am with children who I am not related to or where I do not have a parent's friendship and trust, both of which I have earned.

Easy does it on the RC priests, Episcopalian priests look a lot like them, and here in Los Angeles at least all of ours have background checks run by the Diocese. I cannot speak for the L.A. RC diocese, but I hope their new Bishop is coming on board.

[Guest Kenna Dixon]

These people betray a bizarre, childlike fascination with women's restrooms. Apparently, they find the idea

of being in one quite titillating and assume that others do as well. Why do they conflate restroom use with sexual

arousal?

I don't remember ever wanting to enter a women's restroom when I was presenting as male. I'll use one now

if I'm in female mode, but that's just common sense. Restrooms were "unisex" at a lot of bars when I was in Korea

back in the 60s, and we just took it in stride.

[Guest]

These people betray a bizarre, childlike fascination with women's restrooms. Apparently, they find the idea

of being in one quite titillating and assume that others do as well. Why do they conflate restroom use with sexual

arousal?

I don't remember ever wanting to enter a women's restroom when I was presenting as male. I'll use one now

if I'm in female mode, but that's just common sense. Restrooms were "unisex" at a lot of bars when I was in Korea

back in the 60s, and we just took it in stride.

I am nominating you as our National Federal spokes person. That totally makes sense. Their boogeyman is between THEIR LEGS!!! Eww... That's so sick! Thank you God I'm not them.

[Guest Clair Dufour]

I was not much for the altar boy-priest thing and made it clear but, I sure liked the dress! By fifth grade we knew all about it and who to avoid or not! Today, with the internet, its hard to imagine that there are many kids who have not found their knitch on the web. As far as bathrooms go, the main thing girls and women want from men is their well (?) paying job. I think that men who talk this stuff should walk into a woman's bathroom and see what happens. Their full of it and the women who say the same wish they had it.

[MWK89]

Seems the big political talking point in regards to the community is now "bathrooms". Like this proposed by a State senator in Indiana http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-indiana-bill-bathroom-transgender-20151224-story.html

[ciel]

"crazy liberals want to let a MALE shower with your fifteen year old daughter, and on top of that, that male is attracted to boys, are YOU ok with that?"

'murica!

It's ridiculous how so many of these people hate minorities under the pretense of religion, yet haven't ever read the bible, or even know how to read it.