6/8/14

The ENDA Schism: HRC is once again on the outside looking in

A protester begins shadowing this years HRC DC Pride contingent
Photo Oblogdeeoblogda.me
I admit it. I really didn't care that much about this years ENDA religious exemptions. I mean, its obvious the bill would never be introduced into the House with its Republican strangle hold. But its become increasing difficult to ignore,  There is something seriously wrong, and its not just this doomed legislation.


The splitting of the T from the GLB was the impetus that flung planetransgender into the blogosphere with our first crude posts in 2007.

Now once again HRC is being seen as a outsider with ulterior motives regarding the current ENDA Legislation. This time ENDA seems to be overstepping TittleVII religious exemptions making the bill worthless.

So how hard is it to fix?

It could be as it was in 2007 that HRC is a led by a testosterone driven egocentric man who would rather drive his organization over a cliff for a gay win than admit to an error?

And I will admit, I do not fully understand exactly what makes this version of ENDA's religious exemptions so erroneous. What began with GetEqual's protestations, easily dismissed as reactionary by gay.com, is blossoming into a yet another full scale HRC showdown.

So is HRC listening this time?

When the people who were carrying the signs at this years DC Pride (right) went to the front of the HRC contingent they were pushed away. After all these years there's still no place in HRC for dissent.

This years ENDA no matter how doomed will have an effect on next years legislation. So its important to note when ENDA was introduced four trusted human rights organizations, American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, National Center for Lesbian Rights and the Transgender Law Center expressed their concern over the religious exemptions it contained in a Joint Statement.

That concern has evolved into outright condemnation as HRC continues to push this problematic bill.


Thomas Library of Congress S.815 Religious Exemptions
COMPARE THAT WITH TITLE VII religious exemptions

OK so what about HRC and why are we focusing on them?

Towleroad is reporting that while HRC is raking in millions promoting this bill they have requested an audience with the Pope to protest the firing of LGBT people from Catholic Schools, a practice that this bill would enshrine into law.

HRC is caught with its politically expedient duplicitous beeratches down. Again.


Mark Snyder, spokesperson for the Transgender Law Center, reaffirmed the concerns expressed over the religious exemption in that letter on Thursday via an email to the Washington Blade.

“We reaffirm the joint statement we issued last spring that outlined our very grave concerns with the religious exemption in ENDA that is significantly broader than the exemptions in other federal civil rights laws like Title VII,” Snyder said. “Our laws should not treat discrimination against LGBT people as a more acceptable form of discrimination.”

But Snyder went further on Thursday by unequivocally saying his organization won’t support ENDA as long as the current religious exemption remains in the legislation.

In addition Equality Illinois broke from HRC issuing a statement condemning the religious exemptions. Now that's news.

So what are these religious exemptions and how would they affect you individually? Well for starters do you work for a corporation?






Pumper says her cause was 'noble' and she's 'remorseful' for death caused by silicone injections

Padge Gordon, the transgender woman charged with murder after injecting a fatal does of silicon to enhance the physique of dancer Claudia Seye Aderotimi, says she's 'remorsefull' in a letter to the DA but contends her actions were 'noble'.

The letter  to Philly AG Seth Williams published in part by Philly.com aka the Daily News reads:
"The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office would like to promote [the] thought that it was greed, recklessness and malice that fueled my conduct," she wrote.

"However, I swear that my aim was noble in nature. I simply really just loved the feeling of . . . helping others feel more beautiful, wonderful and magical about themselves - just as someone once helped me."
Aderotimi's friend testified Gordon sealed the puncture wounds caused by the needles with super glue and left Aderotimi in the motel room to die after after she complained she couldn't breath.

Gordon turned down a plea bargain by Williams which would have landed her behind bars for 15 to 30 years. The maximum she can receive for third degree is 40 years. Gordon is seeking a conviction of involuntary manslaughter for which she could be out in as little as 2 1/2 years in her letter to the DA saying:

This woman eventualy died a horrific death.

Gordon was arrested at yet another 'pumper party' Click HERE to watch video

Gordon's letter continues...
"Please let us amicably put this case to rest without any more negative press and media attention on our city . . . which a trial like this would bring," she wrote.

Gorden was charged with murder while in custody for aggravated assault after she gravely injured a woman with industrial grade silicone injections earlier in 2012.

At the time of Windslowe's 2012 arrest, Williams had called her arrogant and greedy.

"Her conduct cost one young woman her life and placed countless others in danger," he said. "The defendant put her own greed above the public's health and safety, and instead of being remorseful she bragged about prospective clients."

Windslowe's murder trial is scheduled for Feb. 17, 2015


6/7/14

International Business Times flaunt transphobic 'she-male ' J.Lo. headline

Apparently the IBN formally a respected international news source is desperate for click generating revenue. The publication has chosen to race for the bottom beating grocery store tabloids, even Dirt.com with a defamatory headline and transphobic story.

....being known to like trans woman is humiliating and he wanted to see her WHAT?!!....


Dirty.com and intouchweekly.com insinuated in their articles that if a partner is outed as a "chaser",  aka a transsexual fetishist, its the worst possible insult to the cisgender woman. That's bad but what expect fom tabloids? There's no accounting for them. But when a respected international news source ups the ante with their defamatory headline,  that's unacceptable.

The problem with this race to the bottom is other less reputable rags take their cue's from from mainstream media and seeing no repercussions and having nothing to lose will mimic the IBN, or worse..



Man arrested for the 2013 shooting death of Cleveland Transgender woman Brittany Stergis

Delshawn Carroll, 19 has been charged with the 2013 shooting and killing of transgender woman Brittany Stergis. Carroll was arrested at the Cuyahoga County Justice Center while being held for drug possession according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Her murder, stunned friends and family who said that they couldn't imagine anyone could hate her so much that they would kill her.

A facebook post shared by Brittany-Nicole Kidd-Stergis just days before being murdered reflects the sentiments her friend and family shared about her.



6/6/14

3 charged with enslaving a transgender woman in Natchitoches Lousiania.


Christina Harper is among those charged with human trafficking after a transgender woman was found on the side of the highway, with a logging chain wrapped around her

The three David Rodriguez Jr., 37, Christina Marie Harper, 39, and Ambre Tubbs Lomas, 39 turned themselves in Thursday ans are being held at the Natchitoches Parish Detention Center.

The out of state transgender woman met them online and agreed to move in with them. Soon afterwards she was forced to sign over her motorcycle and to hand over her money.

According to the release, she was subject to mistreatment by Rodriguez, Harper, and a third person identified as Lomas. The mistreatment included beatings, carving initials into her body, being shocked with a stun gun and having urine thrown on her. She was kept chained, sometimes outside, fed once a day and given limited water and urine to drink.

On Wednesday, detectives executed a search warrant on the residence in the 500 block of Dick Anderson Road near Ajax. They seized 15 firearms, a stun gun, four computers, two tablet computers, three external hard drives, two digital cameras and an iPod.

Two children in the residence, ages 15 and 16, were removed by the State Office of Child Protective Services.

As a result of the investigation:

• Rodriguez was charged with one count of human trafficking, one count of aggravated second-degree battery, one count of second-degree kidnapping/false imprisonment and two counts of offenses against computer users.

Bond was set at $635,000.

• Harper was charged with one count of human trafficking, one count of aggravated second-degree battery, one count of second-degree kidnapping/false imprisonment and two counts of offenses against computer users.

Bond was set at $635,000.

• Lomas was charged with one count of second-degree kidnapping/false imprisonment and one count of aggravated second-degree battery.

Bond was set at $525,00

Source: Town Talk

The 1860 U.S. Census Slave Schedules for Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana (NARA microfilm series M653, Roll 429) reportedly includes a total of 9,434 slaves. Source: Ancestry.com


6/5/14

Southern Baptists concede gay victory, contemplate attacking transsexualism

The southern Baptists are no different than any other hate group, they must have someone, or some group to focus on to remain viable. 

This weekend they will gather in Baltimore Maryland to decide to what extent they will mask their contempt of transgender people..

Using religious dogma,ignoring passages in the bible that explicitly welcome transgender people 'pastor' Denny Burk, pictured, is asking Southern Baptists to openly hate us.

A lot of people will say, who cares? He's just another evangelical hate filled religious demagogue?

Members of Baptist churches account for one-third of all Protestants and close to one-fifth of the total U.S. adult population. Baptists also account for nearly two-thirds of members of historically black Protestant churches. ~ Pew Report

Chances are good your employer is a Baptist or is affected by the attitudes of Baptists. So, my friends say, the work place is different. Company's have employment protocols? Yeah. Please do not kid yourselves. Religious beliefs always trump corporate policy overtly, if not openly.

What got this Denny Burk so worked up? Laverne Cox Time cover. He even featured it as proof of the transsexual menace.

After reading all the 'we love our transgender friends if they accept our god and ask for his forgiveness for their brokenness' bullshit we come to the real 'pastorial love' of this haters wishes.

Denny Burk warns that
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) has at different times seen majority support in both houses of Congress and would make it illegal for employers to make personnel decisions based on gender identity—a measure that would restrict the religious liberty of Christian employers (SIC) to hate.
Denny Burk's Resolution on Transgender for the SBC to be presented at the Southern Baptist conference June 10th will ask that they....

"condemn efforts to alter one’s bodily identity (e.g., cross-sex hormone therapy, gender reassignment surgery) to bring it into line with one’s perceived gender identity; and be if further

,,,continue to oppose steadfastly all efforts by any court or state legislature to validate transgender identity as morally praiseworthy and be it further

.....commit ourselves to pray for and support legislative and legal efforts to oppose the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and other legislation like it that would give gender identity the same legal protections as sex and race; and be it further

....That we call upon all judges and public officials to resist and oppose the efforts to treat gender identity as a protected class; and be it further

....That we oppose all efforts by media and entertainment outlets and public schools to mainstream transgender identity in the eyes of our children; and be it further...
On and on and on ad nauseum. I get it.. You are filled with hate and now that killing the gay agenda is a lost cause you're coming after us.