'Culture war backlash fuels Democrat school board sweeps' & other Mon/Tues news briefs

Editor's note - This being Thanksgiving week, I don't expect to be blogging as much as I usually do. Of course knowing the disastrous few weeks the Trump Administration has been having (ain't it grand!), that may change. Either way, Happy Thanksgiving, folks. Love yourself and each other

In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards - This is not to say that the issues Republicans exploited have gone away. It's a case of simple exhaustion, which is what tends to happen when folks are manipulated into being angry all of the time:

 “Folks just want their school boards to be boring again,” said Lesley Guilmart, one of the newly elected members in Cypress-Fairbanks. “They want normalcy. Once the board was taken over by a super partisan extremist majority, folks across the political spectrum were dismayed.”

Out Rep. Angie Craig reintroduces bill to protect LGBTQ+ foster kids from rampant discrimination - The situation involving the safety of LGBTQ kids vs. "religious freedom" of potential foster parents should be a no-brainer. The needs of the child should come first, regardless of anything else. If the anti-LGBTQ industry want to play the "religious freedom" card about this one, it only shows that they don't actually care about children in spite of all of the times they assure us that they do. 

Anti-Trans Hate Group Genspect Loses Its CME Certification, Michigan State Medical Society Says - A case of an anti-LGBTQ group masquerading as a medical group getting caught in its lies. The anti-LGBTQ industry pushing fake medical groups against our community is an old tactic (which can be read about in several posts on the right side of this blog in the 'The Best of Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters' sections. This latest one - Genspect - zeroes in on legitimatizing transphobic quackery. 

Federal court rejects Trump Justice Department’s effort to access trans kids’ medical records - Leave our trans kids alone!

Lexington parent sues over LGBTQ-friendly storybooks in schools - Someone is trying to extend a recent - and ridiculous - SCOTUS decision against pro-LGBT books in schools. This is going beyond an opt-out policy, which seems to be the plan - little by little erasing LGBTQ families on the basis of "religious freedom." I don't think this will work, though.