Posts tagged USA
Gone
Jan 17th
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Photos by Jαrεd Tylεr | Found by Sky Blue Sky
Periodical Political Post *42
Jan 13th
- Americans’ role seen in push of mediaeval gay-execution bill in Uganda
- Portugal legalising gay marriage but not adoption by same-sex couples
- New Jersey Senate defeats same-sex marriage bill, supporters will go to court
- Special ID cards for young transsexuals in Sweden proposed
- British man prevented from donating blood to dying mother because he’s gay
- New Zealand cyber spies win new powers, can monitor whole online life
- Australian child porn filters will be used to block & censor video games
- Iraq invasion violated international law, Dutch inquiry finds
- Google stops censoring search results in China after getting attacked by hackers
- Taser thinks killing people is not enough, wants to stop kids from sexting
- Sherlock Holmes sequel under threat by US copyright holder for homosexual hints
Sweet Irony Special: Northern Ireland’s first minister steps down after his wife, an evangelical Christian who made a series of offensive comments about homosexuality, was caught with her own little Leviticus-style abomination: An affair with a 19 year old teenager who now is being sought as a cover model by a gay magazine ;)
Can’t change a Boy
Jan 11th
Oppression of Sex and Gender Minorities by Psychologists
Jan 11th
You know those reparative therapy "experts" who influenced the homophobic death penalty legislation in Uganda? For sex and gender minorities, that movement is not led by religious zealots, but by a handful of Toronto psychologists like Kenneth Zucker who still get taken seriously in their field.
In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) decided that gay people were no longer mentally ill, but that changed nothing for trans and gender-variant people. In fact, "experts" led the push to create a new disease called "gender identity disorder," which they successfully got added to the APA’s big book of mental illnesses, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Though trans activists have been protesting to get this mental illness removed in the 2012 revision, these Toronto "experts" hold key positions among the people doing the revising.
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Even worse is a sub-disease they created called "gender identity disorder in children." They have made a lot of money claiming to "cure" hundreds of children who are "too feminine." While they also treat kids who are "too masculine," in most clinics which have adopted their methods, 5 to 30 times more children assigned as males are treated. The methods? No playing with dolls, no drawing with the "wrong" colors like pink or purple, and no playing with or drawing pictures of girls. The anxious parents who bring their children in to be "cured" are expected to enforce all rules. They are sent home with instructions to make the child go through all their possessions and remove anything "inappropriate," as well as ways to use reinforcement to "correct" their child’s thinking and behavior. How did nonconformity become a disease? And how did Toronto become infamous for this? It’s a textbook case of pathological science with roots in the 20th-century eugenics movement, and it shows how a few misguided people can have impact all over the world. Read on at Boing Boing |
Make Love, Not Warcraft
Jan 6th
A 16-year-old boy in Ontario, Canada, says he met and fell in love with a 42-year Texas mother of four while playing World of Warcraft. Their chats were sexually explicit, she flew to Toronto, he snuck off there to meet her and escape in her rented car. He’s home now, and reportedly playing WoW again. The response from parents and police seems remarkably mellow. Would things have been handled differently if genders/ages were reversed? [via Boing Boing]
Not so Straight
Dec 25th
Forbidden Fruits
Dec 23rd
Photos by Logan Jack
I’m 18 and I am a weird person, and some people think
i am rude in real life, but i am just trying to spice things up for them.
Periodical Political Post *41
Dec 19th
- Almost half of Americans believe being gay is a choice according to poll
- Australia plans to censor internet with secret list of sites like China and Iran do
- Canada makes talking to children online crime, regardless of what you talk about
- Lithuania still wants to ban information about homosexuality to “protect minors”
- English anti-terror cops ask nursery school workers to watch for 4 year old terrorists
- US-Woman gets 60 years prison for sex with minors (murderers usually get ~20 years)
- Heavy illegal downloaders buy more music & film industry healthier than ever
- How stranger danger changed the way children play on the example of the UK
- CDU & FDP verschulden Staat für Steuergeschenke an Reiche und Unternehmen…
- …Gleichstellung von Schwulen & Lesben findet die CDU dagegen zu teuer.
- FDP meint Krieg ist im nationalen Interesse, egal was die Bürger davon halten
- CDU & FDP ersetzen staatlichen Medizinkontrolleur durch Pharma-Lobbyisten
- Lebensmittellobby setzt sich durch: keine Kennzeichnung ungesunder Produkte
- Fingerabdruckscanner in der Grundschule: In Bayern blüht der Überwachungsstaat
- 14-jähriger erldeidet schwere Gehirnerschütterung während er in Polizeigewahrsam ist
- Geschichte: Tagung beschäftigte sich mit Unrechtssituation Schwuler in der BRD
A Boy alone at Home…
Dec 17th
I (still, Joe) don’t watch Glee but Chris Colfer, I have to admit, well…
