Analyzing and refuting the inaccuracies lodged against the lgbt community by religious conservative organizations. Lies in the name of God are still lies.
One of the main things which will get us through this turbulent period is comedy. And satire. Viciously on-point satire. This above video hits all of the spots.
On Wednesday, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene held a public hearing in which she tried to put forth the argument that PBS and NPR should be defunded. In interviews before the meeting and statements during the meeting, Greene pushed the claim that PBS in particular should be defunded because it supposedly uses drag queens to groom children into thinking that they are transgender. It's a ludicrous belief to normal people, but we are also talking about Marjorie Taylor Greene, a woman who made strange claims in the past about "Jewish space lasers."
The hearing was ridiculous, of course. Luckily though all of the attention in the beltway is focused on the war plans leak scandal which has gripped the Trump Administration for the last few days. That's not to say that MTG''s hearing didn't have its moments. One is below when Greene showed her "proof" regarding her claims about PBS and drag queens supposedly grooming kids. It's a video of a drag queen singing:
🔥MUST WATCH🔥@RepMTG TORCHES PBS for airing a program that included a Drag Queen singing to children.
“‘The hips [on the drag queen] goes, swish, swish, swish. The shoulders go, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy.’ That's repulsive. That's not what children ages three to eight should… pic.twitter.com/am9D86wEsP
By the way, according to a Daily Beast article, the video did not air on PBS. In the same article, the drag queen in the video, who was also smeared as child predator by Greene, had this to say:
Lil Miss Hot Mess, the stage name of performer Harris Kornstein, told the Daily Beast in a statement that Greene’s “political bullying” amounted to censorship. Greene attacked PBS CEO Paula Kerger on Wednesday over a digital segment featuring Lil Miss Hot Mess reading her book The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish, though Kerger said the segment did not air on PBS.
“While she claims to promote liberty, in reality, she just wants to tell us all what to think and do,” the performer said in a statement. “That’s not freedom, that’s fascism.”
“Greene’s attempts to defund PBS and NPR are the worst form of censorship, reflecting both her own ignorance and the Republican party’s authoritarian impulses,” she said. “The reality is that communities all over the country – including in her own district – deserve access to educational public media that reflects the diversity and creativity that makes our world beautiful.”
But what if the segment had aired on PBS? What was wrong with it? There was nothing obscene or sexual in general about it, except for in the bigoted minds of Greene and people like her. No matter what LGBTQ people do, they will always see us in a prejudicial light because they refuse to see us as anything else other than their stereotypical objects of derision.
And that is their problem, not ours.
One more thing of note which took place during MTG's hearing is how Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett called Greene out to her face. Ms. Crockett broke it down rather nicely.
A federal judge has struck down Texas A&M's ban on drag shows, determining it to be a violation of the First Amendment.
Motivated by Donald Trump's executive order denying the existence of trans people, the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents voted to ban drag performances across all 11 campuses earlier this month, claiming that the art form was somehow “offensive” and “inconsistent" with the “core values of its universities, including the value of respect for others.”
The Board of Regents vote cancelled a performance of "Draggieland" (a combination of “Drag” and “Aggieland”), an award-winning student-hosted show that has been performed annually since 2020. In response, the Texas A&M Queer Empowerment Council and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) filed a lawsuit against the university.
“Texas A&M, like any public university, has the utmost duty to respect the First Amendment rights of students,”
FIRE Supervising Senior Attorney JT Morris said in a statement. “As public officials, they can’t banish speech from campus just because it offends them, any more than they could shut down a political rally or a Christmas pageant.”
. . . “Today is a resounding victory for the First Amendment at public universities in Texas,” said Adam Steinbaugh, an attorney with FIRE who argued before the district court. “The court reaffirmed that state university officials cannot block student expression they claim is offensive. State officials should stop trying to score political points at the expense of students’ First Amendment rights.”
The students' March 27 performance will go on as scheduled, which the Queer Empowerment Council said they are "overjoyed" by.
My guess is that the somewhat muted response from a lot of the opponents of drag shows means that the war on drag queens which gripped the nation for a number of years is pretty much over. Many of those "won't someone please think of the children" types have gotten bored with or tired of raising hell against drag and have moved on to other objects to rage-bait about.
But like that Japanese soldier who became famous for not knowing that World War 2 was over, there is still a contingent of folks raging on Twitter.
LAWFARE: Judge Rosenthal, a Texas federal judge, is forcing Texas A&M to host drag shows for children despite Trump's executive order. The judge believes that drag queens have a first amendment right to strip for kids. pic.twitter.com/YMZPzyOASu
Editor's note - This drag show will be held on a college campus and geared to an adult audience. Judge Rosenhal mentioned this in her ruling. You know how certain people are, unfortunately. They think everything about LGBTQ culture has a goal of "grooming" or "recruiting" children. That in itself doesn't make any sense. If we could recruit, we'd go after adults with money. At least I would.
Anyway:
Drag queens have no right to be around children at all. They are exclusively adult entertainment, much like strippers.
— Valkyries for women🇺🇸 (@valkyriesrwomen) March 24, 2025
Please make all Texas A&M students aware that Judge Rosenthal is spending time and money forcing the hosting of Drag Shows. Boycott them and send her the bill to pay for these shows herself!
All Pride events that are public where children can attend or witness it's atrocities should be banned
— MAGA MAGA-zine 🇺🇸 (The White Rabbit🐰) (@LukeSkywatcher4) March 24, 2025
These people are sick and they need to be disbarred. This is pedophilia, do you know when you want to force little children to watch adult human beings behaving in their devious sexual ways. They are grooming these children to be screwed up in their head and never know what’s…
Ohio’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors is unconstitutional and must be permanently blocked from being enforced, a three-judge panel of appellate judges ruled Tuesday. The law also banned trans women and girls from participating in female sports.
The state’s Republican attorney general vowed an immediate appeal.
On Tuesday, the state’s 10th District Court of Appeals reversed a decision made last summer to allow the law to go into effect after a judge found it “reasonably limits parents’ rights.” The law bans counseling, gender-affirming surgery and hormone therapy for minors, unless they are already receiving such therapies and a doctor deems it risky to stop.
The litigation was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Ohio and the global law firm Goodwin, who argued the law not only denies health care to transgender children and teens, but specifically discriminates against them accessing it.
The court agreed and cited a number of flaws in the lower court’s reasoning.
Judge Carly Edelstein wrote in the ruling that the Ohio law does not outlaw identical drugs when they’re used for other reasons, only when they’re used for gender transitioning, which makes it discriminatory. She also said that a prescription ban is not a reasonable exercise of the state’s police power when it is weighed against the rights of parents to care for their children.
Addressing proponents’ arguments that minors are not in a position to understand the long-term impacts such procedures could have on their lives, the judge said that, while they may not be, their parents are.
“Thus, in considering whether the H.B. 68 ban is reasonable, it is necessary to keep in mind that the law recognizes the maturity, experience, and capacity of parents to make difficult judgments and act in their children’s best interest,” she wrote.
The irony of this ruling is how it's partly based on the argument that it is parents who should decide what's best for their children when it comes to healthcare. Parental rights are an argument generally used by conservative and right-wing groups as a way to undermine the rights of LGBTQ students.
Attention-seeking mom loses anti-trans appeal - The Trump Administration is using Florida mom January Littlejohn's story to justify its attack on the rights of transgender Americans. Florida Gov Ron DeSantis used her story as a justification for his now muted 'Don't Say Gay' law.
While Littlejohn was invited to Trump's address before Congress last week, a court ruled against her
A federal appeals court this week upheld a lower court’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit brought by January Littlejohn against her child’s school district in Tallahassee.
In 2022, Littlejohn sued the Leon County School District and staff members at Deer Lake Middle School for allowing her 13-year-old child to use they/them pronouns and go by the “masculine” nickname “J” without their express permission.
. . . The U.S. District Court dismissed the case for the Northern District of Florida in December 2022.
The school officials named in the case “did not force the Littlejohns’ child to do anything at all,” Judge Robin S. Rosenbaum of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in this week’s decision. “And perhaps most importantly, defendants did not act with intent to injure. To the contrary, they sought to help the child.”
“Even if the Littlejohns felt that defendants’ efforts to help their child were misguided or wrong, the mere fact that the school officials acted contrary to the Littlejohns’ wishes does not mean that their conduct ‘shocks the conscience’ in a constitutional sense,” Rosenbaum wrote.
In a concurring opinion, Judge Kevin C. Newsom said he considered the actions taken by the school district officials “shameful.” But the question at hand, he wrote, was “whether it was unconstitutional.”
According to a post I published in 2022, the narrative that the school did all of this without Littlejohn's knowledge or permission isn't accurate. The following is from the post:
CNN did a fact check and discovered, according to emails, that Mrs. Littlejohn knew full well what was going on. In fact, she was the one who notified the school about her trans son:
CNN obtained emails that show Littlejohn wrote the school in 2020 and notified a teacher that her child wanted to change pronouns. Contrary to the governor's portrayal of the story, Littlejohn also wrote that she would not stop her child from using preferred pronouns or name of choice at school. Littlejohn references these emails in her lawsuit against the school and they were reported by the Tallahassee Democrat in November.
. . In an August 27, 2020, email to a teacher, Littlejohn stated, in part, "This has been an incredibly difficult situation for our family and her father and I are trying to be as supportive as we can. She is currently identifying as non-binary. She would like to go by the new name [redacted] and prefers the pronouns they/them. We have not changed her name at home yet, but I told her if she wants to go by the name [redacted] with her teachers, I won't stop her."
The teacher thanked Littlejohn and asked if she should share with other teachers. Littlejohn explained it was difficult and confusing, and went on to write, "Whatever you think is best or [redacted] can handle it herself." In another email the same day, Littlejohn told the teacher, "This gender situation has thrown us for a loop. I sincerely appreciate your support. I'm going to let her take the lead on this."
According to CNN, Littlejohn filed a lawsuit against the school because she claimed that after this email, the school went behind her and her husband's back and created a Transgender/Gender Nonconforming Student Support Plan with the child. She also claimed that she was denied access to information.
However, the school district spokesperson said the following:
"From the moment Mrs. Littlejohn first emailed her child's teacher to inform our staff of the situation, this has been handled together in partnership with clear communication. We understand that outside entities have now become involved, but the family clearly instructed the school staff via email to allow their child to 'take the lead on this' and to do 'whatever you think is the best,' " Chris Petley, Leon County Schools communications coordinator, said in a statement to CNN.
As Donald Trump lies, backstabs, and incompetently bulldozes thus far through his second term, I think the following video clip courtesy of Family Guy accurately conveys what Black Americans have to say to the rest of y'all who voted for him (especially after the vast majority of you were here during his disastrous first term.)
While I am not attempting to speak for the entire Black American community, I feel safe in saying that the clip below conveys what a vast majority of us are feeling.
Before or after you read the news briefs below, check out the above video of Saturday Night Live's 'Weekend Update' absolutely skewering the Trump Administration and its associates. I don' think I've ever seen them be as merciless as this. Referring to Elon Musk as "the White Kanye" (at 2:49) left me laid out laughing.
Trump administration hit with over 100 lawsuits since inauguration - The point is defeating the lie that is Trumpism isn't going to happen overnight and it won't be easy. It's going to be a long, hard battle. But do NOT believe anyone who claims that folks are capitulating to him or his MAGA bullies. Just because you don't see things happen doesn't mean they aren't. And I am very hopeful about how all of this will end.
LGBTQ Advocates Condemn Newsom’s Anti-Trans Stance on Sports - Unfortunately, picking a fight if probably what Newsom wants to do in order to supposedly distinguish himself from other Democrats. He is definitely preparing a 2028 presidential run.
South Carolina Rep Nancy Mace has made a name for herself by targeting the trans community. But sometimes in doing so, she makes a colossal fool of herself. Mark this one as another example.
Now before you get into a long tangent about lions, lionesses, and manes, let me stop you before you even start. This is a male lion. I even know his name.
Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) makes a bonkers claim that some high school teams are comprised solely of trans female athletes.
If some Americans were honest with themselves, they would admit that their negative views about trans female athletes are rooted in weird fears instead of reality. An example of this is the following video below in which Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville (R) makes an incredibly inaccurate claim about trans female athletes:
Tuberville: "We're getting to a point now where women and girls sports and getting ready to be extinct. Because already in states across this country, we have high school teams that are made up of totally boys participating against girls." pic.twitter.com/3toOXcCtPF
It goes without saying - even though he was rightfully laughed at online - that Tuberville's assertion isn't true.
And for a number of reasons. A main one, which is solely my opinion, is knowing the way folks go crazy about sports, if such teams of female trans athletes existed and they were winning, a lot of high schools AND parents would greet them with open arms.
