Category: LGBQT
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Deplatformed for “Hate” Speech: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
Reka Gyorgy, a Virginia Tech senior who missed the cut to compete in the NCAA swimming finals because she was displaced by transgender Lia Thomas, has had her Twitter account suspended. “I’m a 5th year senior, I have been top 16 and top 8 before and I know how much of a privilege it is…
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No Woke-ism to See Here, Move Along Now: VMI Edition
A correspondent has forwarded to me a communication to all Virginia Military Institute employees from the VMI chief of staff: The Office of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion would like to offer a voluntary workshop (with certification) for employees who would like to learn more about working with the LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer,…
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The Richmond Times Dispatch, “Hate Groups” and Journalism
by James C. Sherlock The Hanover County School Board (HCSB) is seeking legal assistance in reviewing its transgender policy from the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a conservative legal organization that provides its services pro bono. ADF’s key values that it goes to court to defend are religious freedom, free speech, marriage and family, parental rights,…
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Is Your Kid Trans? Don’t Expect the School to Tell You
by Kerry Dougherty In case you’re wondering how Glenn Youngkin came to be elected in Virginia perhaps it’s because the Northam regime ensured that you could drop your son off at school where he could duck into the girls’ room, slap on lipstick and demand everyone address him as “She/Her.” And you’d be the last…
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Allyn Walker and ODU to Part Ways
by Kerry Dougherty It’s official. Allyn Walker, the Old Dominion University assistant professor who wants to normalize perceptions about pedophilia is out at ODU. Or rather, Walker will be out at the conclusion of the spring semester, when the professor’s contract expires. Walker was placed on administrative leave earlier this month when an interview of…
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ODU Professor Allyn Walker Put on Administrative Leave
by Kerry Dougherty That didn’t take long. Two days after Old Dominion University issued a tepid word salad supporting assistant professor Allyn Walker, who’s attempting to normalize pedophilia, the president of the university, Brian O. Hemphill, placed Walker on administrative leave. Looks like the brass at ODU heard loud and clear from the parents, donors…
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Pedophiles Ought to be Stigmatized
by Kerry Dougherty Stop it. Just stop. We’ve had enough. At least I’VE had enough and I think I speak for many Americans who are done with woke. Done with the left. Done normalizing things that are anything but normal. Late on Thursday night, as I was putting the finishing touches on Friday’s post, I…
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Harassment and Bullying Not the Reason for New Transgender Protections in Virginia Schools
by James C. Sherlock The Virginia Department of Education’s Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools continue to be fiercely controversial. The Left points to harassment and bullying as the reason the 2020 law was needed. Yet we already had a law and policy against that. The new…
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The Loudoun Way — School Rapes by a Member of a Progressive Protected Class
by James C. Sherlock Any time you think there is only one system of justice in America, consider these two stories I offer below, one a progressive dream and the other true. The true story will show some progressives care more about their dogma than kids. And any time you think only big city progressives…
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Dueling Claims of Victory in Transgender Lawsuit
by Emilio Jaksetic On July 27, 2021, Judge J. Frederick Watson, with the 24th Judicial Circuit of Virginia, issued a decision on a lawsuit challenging the adoption of the Virginia Board of Education’s Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools, reports The Virginia Star. Because Judge Watson dismissed the lawsuit…
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Transgender Medical Care for Children – Do not Parents Have a Role?
by James C. Sherlock Yesterday’s two-part column, I responded to the Virginian-Pilot’s assertion that transgender rights are being conflated by conservatives with critical race theory in schools. I agree that they are, and I find it appropriate. Child instruction in CRT and transgender affirming psychological and medical interventions for children without parent participation are…
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School Board Fails on First Amendment
by Dick Hall-Sizemore The Loudoun County School Board has gone too far by disciplining a teacher for speaking in opposition to a proposed Board policy. Tanner Cross, a physical education teacher, appeared before the Board at a meeting in May in opposition to a proposed policy regarding LGBTQ students. One of the provisions of the…
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VDOE Transgender Policies Dangerous to Both Children and School Personnel
by James C. Sherlock Virginia’s Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools is a bigger mess the more I study it. It is as far as I can tell unprecedented in scope. I checked parallel California, D.C. and Arlington County policies. None of them comes close to the dangerous nonsense…
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Virginia Board of Education – In Loco Parentis and Headed to Court
by James C. Sherlock Is your child yours or does he or she belong body and soul to the state in the person of the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE)? That is a question that is not only reasonable, but absolutely necessary after reading its new transgender student regulation. That regulation represents a straight-up, in-your-face…
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Old News: Transgenders and Bathrooms. New News: Taxpayer-Funded Gender Reassignment Surgery
by James A. Bacon I’m surprised this hasn’t caused an uproar yet: In his newly revised budget, Governor Ralph Northam wants to guarantee that transgender enrollees in Virginia’s expanded Medicaid program have access to “gender-affirming” care. “This is an important equity issue and a critical part of making our commonwealth welcoming and inclusive of all,”…