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Apr 27, 2022·edited Apr 27, 2022

Matt Walsh has the most successful LGBTQ and etc. book on Amazon, I think. He's pretty good.

At this link exist two clips: one is of "the community" outrage on twitter and the other is the author reading his book.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2022/04/26/watch-amazon-employees-hold-secret-zoom-meeting-plotting-to-ban-conservative-childrens-book-johnny-the-walrus-by-matt-walsh-n1592951

And, just for added fun, Conservatives humanize babies by putting a gender on them so they can stop- people having abortions:

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1518276445335961605?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1518276445335961605%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpjmedia.com%2Fvodkapundit%2F2022%2F04%2F26%2Finsanity-wrap-did-steve-martin-just-kill-cancel-culture-n1592815

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These people might want to read Ursula Leguins Left Hand of Darkness which is about a society of gender fluid beings. Once a month they go through 'kemmer' a biological condition where they become fertile and can exchange DNA. Either one depending on the situation can become pregnant. Sometimes they are born in 'permanent kemmer' only being able to pitch but not catch so to speak and there is a word for this condition that translates as being a pervert. It is not a perfect world just a different set of problems.

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My twin boys are both gay and graduated from PPS over 10 years ago. My wife who is way more liberal and open minded than I am always made sure from the point they reached adolescence that a bowl of condoms would be available in a discreet place in our bathroom for any occasion be it boy or girl. I wasn't ashamed of their gayness if anything I was relieved because growing up I was way more worried about them getting involved with girls (though gay children do have their own set of issues that can make parents anxious because that's just the price of parenting). They never were stigmatized in anyway by their peers, that I was aware of perhaps because they had known all their friends since Kindergarten. The only bit of harassment I ever overheard was a friend of theirs who was also gay was teased by another student. He was filling out a college application form and another student asked him 'Is that your application to queer school?' (I actually laughed at that). It didn't bother him and he said that 'He should talk he has two mothers.' I am sure my boys would have a good laugh at tampons being available in all school bathrooms. About the only thing about one of them that disappoints me is that he voted for Trump both times (and smokes) but he was the sweetest of the two and he always was a bit of a contrarian but as a child he was one of the most empathic individuals I ever knew.

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Apr 26, 2022·edited Apr 26, 2022Liked by Richard Cheverton, Pamela Fitzsimmons

As a gay man in my 60s, I would like to disassociate myself from the madness of radical trans activist' gender-identity movement. As this post shows, their malign influence has penetrated our core institutions, including the educational establishment. It's likely that materials rooted in the same ideology are circulating within local, state and federal governments and in corporations where the HR director has drunk the trans KoolAid.

How I wish we could put the postmodern genie back in the bottle. Until Queer "Theory" and Gender "Theory" metastasized out of the academic departments and liberal arts campuses where they originated, trans people, like gays and lesbians, sought nothing more than individual equality under the law. Our heroes were people like Harvey Milk and even Martin Luther King, not obscurantist oracles of the mad gods of deconstruction like Judith Butler.

To point out just one difference, my coming out was a one-man operation planned and executed from the isolation of the closet. I didn't have and didn't need battalions of activists, influencers, allies and peers to help me figure out who or what I was and cheer me on. No school administrators saw to it that teachers papered the walls of my classrooms with affirming, rainbow-colored posters.

Once out of the closet myself, I did not find it necessary or appropriate to mobilize the power of the state to mount rescue missions in elementary schools for the benefit of the 5 percent who might someday come out as gay men. I knew that left to their own devices most of them would figure it out and land on their feet like I did.

However, I am not naive. There are those who would like to return gays to the status of second class citizens we once occupied. Knowing they are out there, I am furious at trans activists for having provoked a backlash by forcing their way into classrooms in order to teach little boys and girls the ABCs of their unscientific and harmful gender theory. My fear is that having correctly moved to suppress the instruction of trans ideology in elementary schools, politicians will next try to undo gay people's hard-won civil rights.

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Apr 26, 2022Liked by Pamela Fitzsimmons

I'm an old gay guy who remembers the "shame" of being different in high school. Back in that day, effeminate boys could be found in drama and music classes while masculine girls were often found in sports. I kept my head as low as possible and got through that nightmare intact. My question today is how you survive the shame of somehow being politically incorrect. The illiberal left makes a big show of "inclusivity" unless you happen to disagree with any of their precepts. Then it's off to the re-education camp for you, infidel! It's says something about the human psyche that we're hard-wired for opposition. We're not content with being right. Someone else has to be wrong, and we will find increasingly arcane ways of demonstrating our superiority. It will never end but I think about the anti-gay zealots of past decades the same way I do today's thought police. I call them fascists.

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So good!! Did you see the Higejr Ed commission is having a rulemaking hearing in May 16 to add colleges and universities too. Add another few million for that.

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