The first video is from CNN which sets the benchmark by offering fair and balanced reporting giving both opponents and proponents of AB 1266 a chance to present their views.
The second and third are fox videos that open by indicating transsexualism as a transit condition or made by a subjective decision. AP, Fox and ABC' are all to blame for propagating this untruth as the first paragraph in each of these mainstream media articles reporting the passage of AB 1266 state that California transgender students can now use 'whatever restroom they want".
The following two videos are representative of the skewed reporting by these Fox affiliates.
Nether "Fair" or "Balanced".
How many sexual harassment cases will come forward? The answer? There has never neen a single lawsuit filed in any of the 624 colleges and universities and ever expanding list of which includes 16 states and DC and and a innumerable list of counties, cites an jurisdictions that have transgender students inclusive policies. The truth is? Fox News is leading a fear mongering hate filled retaliatory attack against transgender students disregarding historical and empirical evidence.
8/16/13
8/15/13
Don't blow smoke up my ass
Nick Symmonds ran a great race yesterday at the Moscow summer games and yes he deserves accolades for his silver. He also played the games by Putin's rules wearing nothing visible indicating he is gay.
No speechifying condemning the brutal totalitarian theocracy that's crushing the life from the Russian LGBT community.
Symmonds post run blog post in runners world titled "My Medal Isn't Just for Me" published while he was on Russian soil makes no mention of the "Gay Propaganda" law.
Its a personal decision whether one should put themselves out there for there community and you made it when you announced you weren't willing to be arrested.
I respect that, but had you wore a LGBT pin would you have been arrested Nick? We will never know. What we do know is that you have set the bar incredibly low for the athletes at the winter Olympics like Johnny Weir-Voronov. You played by Putin's Rules.
Huge appreciation to @NickSymmonds for standing up for Russian LGBT community at the World Track & Field Championships this week in Moscow!
— Johnny Weir-Voronov (@JohnnyGWeir) August 14, 2013
8/14/13
Pussy Riot Sentencing COMMEMORATIVE Festival Manchester Aug 18-19
REVOLUTION: PUSSY RIOT COMMEMORATION FESTIVAL IN MANCHESTER
- 3:00pm in UTC+01
- Chance of Rain 61°F / 52°F
SUN 18 AUG: 3-11:30pm @KRAAK // Afterparty 11:30pm till late @COYOTES
MON 19 AUG: 7pm-11:30pm @KRAAK // Afterparty 11:30pm till late @COYOTES
Advance tickets (main event at KRAAK): www.wegottickets.com/f/6352 Advance Sunday £6, Monday £8 /// On-door Sunday £7, Monday £9
AFTERPARTY confirmed! At COYOTES BAR (18+) www.facebook.com/CoyotesManchester -- DJs, performance, £2 drinks all night!! Entry £2 / Festival-goers discount £1 (on-door only)
* Any profits go to Pussy Riot direct (via www.voiceproject.org/pussyriot), so spread the word, invite friends and family, bring donations and let's have a Manchester Pussy Riot!!!
* This event is 18+ (please bring ID)
* Lineup details & playlist: www.shatterjapan.com/pussy-riot-commemoration-fe stival-in-manchester
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LINEUP:
- 15 live bands, 8 DJ acts and 3 sets of performers (all from Toronto, London, Liverpool, Leeds, Warrington and Manchester).
- Direct participation by many local artists including: NAOMI KASHIWAGI (origami workshop, www.naomikashiwagi.co.uk), ROISIN KEOWN (live painting,www.roisinkeown.wordpress.com), ANDREW CHADDOCK (live painting,www.achaddock1.wix.com/ fingerpaint), DANIEL GLASTONBURY (contact juggling), CLAIRE KEOWN (poetry).
- Artwork by the following UK artists will be auctioned during the event (in addition to those painted live by Roisin and Andrew) to raise funds: TWISTED DREDZ (www.society6.com/TwistedDredz), DAN BIRBECK (www.behance.net/ danbirkbeck), LEE PEARCE (www.leepearceart.blogspot. co.uk) and DAVID LOWTHER (www.facebook.com/ DavidLowtherArt).
- Our MCs will be LUKE SLATER (Sunday, www.twitter.com/LukeSlaterSBH) and ZOE IQBAL (Monday, www.twitter.com/zoeIqbal).
SUNDAY 18 AUG:
@KRAAK (3-11:30PM) main
- *Headliner* SOPHIE DELILA (www.facebook.com/SophieDelila)
The high-energy London-based French performer is coming to get us in the festival mood. As well as boasting a successful solo career, Sophie has performed with NOUVELLE VAGUE (www.facebook.com/nouvellevagueofficial) and collaborated with Christophe Willem (www.facebook.com/ willemofficiel), among others.
- WITCH HUNT (www.facebook.com/wearewitchhunt)
- ECHO BOOM GENERATION (www.facebook.com/pages/Echo-Boom-Generation/ 100262346815018)
- ROUGHNECK RIOT (www.facebook.com/theroughneckriot)
- MINUTE TAKER (www.facebook.com/MinuteTakerMusic)
- ILL (www.weareill.tumblr.com)
- HEALD PLACE (www.facebook.com/HealdPlace)
- BAD GRAMMAR (www.facebook.com/badgrammaruk)
- RoBoT//aLiEn (www.facebook.com/robotandalien)
- LIVESTOCK JIHAD (www.facebook.com/LivestockJihad)
- CIRQUE DU MANC MISTRESSES
(www.facebook.com/the.cirque.du.manc.mistress es)
- CHERIE BEBE (www.facebook.com/pages/Cherie-Bebe/204525167387)
- FACTORY ACTS (DJ) (www.facebook.com/FactoryActs)
@COYOTES (11:30PM-2AM) afterparty
- ¡THE BIRDS! DJ COLLECTIVE (www.facebook.com/thebirdsmcr)
- ONE NOTE (www.facebook.com/FreeSpiritedGod)
* Special performances: burlesque from CIRQUE DU MANC MISTRESSES (www.facebook.com/the.cirque.du.manc.mistress es) and drag from CHEDDAR GORGEOUS (www.facebook.com/ chachaboudoir)
MONDAY 19 AUG:
@KRAAK (7-11:30PM) main
- *Headliner* PRINCESS CENTURY (Toronto's Maya Postepski of AUSTRA/TRUST)www.facebook.com/princesscentury)
Maya has chosen this event to make her UK SOLO DEBUT!! Her solo album Lossless (released April 2013) was inspired by the Charles Manson murders, lending a distinct intensity and creepiness to its dark synth vibes. She is currently playing to sellout crowds around the world as drummer for AUSTRA (www.austramusic.com).
- DEATH RATTLE (www.facebook.com/deathrattle)
- LETTERS TO FIESTA (www.facebook.com/letterstofiestaprofile)
- FACTORY ACTS (www.facebook.com/FactoryActs)
- TRIPHAZARD (www.facebook.com/triphazardband)
- WITCH HUNT (DJ) (www.facebook.com/wearewitchhunt)
@COYOTES (11:30PM-2AM) afterparty
- PRINCESS CENTURY (DJ) (www.facebook.com/princesscentury)
- LETTERS TO FIESTA (DJ) (www.facebook.com/letterstofiestaprofile)
- SEAWAVES (DJ) (www.facebook.com/pages/SEAWAVES/123947271049023)
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SHATTERJAPAN (www.facebook.com/SHATTERJAPAN) presents this special non-profit festival of music and performance spread over 2 days. Artists from various parts of the UK and beyond are working together at no fee to bring you this special commemorative event.
On 21 February 2012, members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot performed a "punk prayer" in a Moscow church for which they were arrested, detained for over 5 months and eventually sentenced on 17 August 2012 to 2 years imprisonment. With two of the three members remaining imprisoned (Nadezhda “Nadya” Tolokonnikova and Maria “Masha” Alyokhina) in separate and remote penal colonies, SHATTERJAPAN brings you 2 days of entertainment provided by artists from the UK & international music, film and performance worlds, to commemorate the 1 year anniversary of the sentencing, to appeal for the women’s release, and to celebrate freedom of expression.
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-- Huge thank you to all bands, performers, artists, techs, venue, staff, visitors, and of course Pussy Riot
-- Special thanks go to multi-tasking genius Lizzy Doe for her amazing design workwww.lizzydoe.co.uk/
-- Stand united, protect your arts communities and FREE PUSSY RIOT!
-- Enquiries & volunteers & donations (in kind or other) please message us atwww.facebook.com/SHATTERJAPAN
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American Bar Association calls on courts and legislatures to end the "Transpanic" Defense
I thought the despised "transpanic" defense met its end with the brutal murder of Angie Zapata when it took the jury just hours in 2009 to convict Allen Andrade of the highest charges against him, first degree murder. Andrade unsuccessfully attempted to use the transpanic defense saying his actions were uncontrollable when he was surprised by Ms Zapata's transgender status after having sex with her as an excuse for acquittal or to mitigate his punishment.
Apparently lawyers have souls too.
Source: ABA Now.org
113A
Apparently lawyers have souls too.
Source: ABA Now.org
113A
ADOPTED AS REVISED
Urges action to curtail use of the “gay panic” defense
RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association urges federal, state, local and territorial governments to take legislative action to curtail the availability and effectiveness of the “gay panic” and “trans panic” defenses, which seek to partially or completely excuse crimes such as murder and assault on the grounds that the victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity is to blame for the defendant’s violent reaction. Such legislative action should include:
(a) Requiring courts in any criminal trial or proceeding, upon the request of a party, to instruct the jury not to let bias, sympathy, prejudice, or public opinion influence its decision about the victims, witnesses, or defendants based upon sexual orientation or gender identity; and
(b) Specifying that neither a non-violent sexual advance, nor the discovery of a person’s sex or gender identity, constitutes legally adequate provocation to mitigate the crime of murder to manslaughter, or to mitigate the severity of any non-capital crime.
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8/12/13
Victory In California! Governor Jerry Brown Signs AB 1266 Empowering Transgender Students
Today marks the beginning of a new era for transgender equality. AB1266 is now law.
What this means: As our next generation of citizens matures they will have first hand knowledge and respect for their transgender peers and vice versa.
What this doesn't mean: AP, Fox and ABC's first paragraph states that California transgender students can now use 'whatever restroom they want".
Being that this extension of the bathroom meme is repeated by all of the major media outlets in this way, at this time, lends to the impression that it is fact, and could lead one to assume that a trans student could sit down and make a decision which gender they want to be, on that day.
Setting the record straight. Its not a spurious, frivolous or an apocryphal decision which guides trans students to the correct restroom. In fact, it's not a decision at all. It is the universal innate knowledge of ones gender. There are always factors which could preclude a young person from from transitioning, but that does not alter ones gender awareness.
What this means: As our next generation of citizens matures they will have first hand knowledge and respect for their transgender peers and vice versa.
What this doesn't mean: AP, Fox and ABC's first paragraph states that California transgender students can now use 'whatever restroom they want".
Being that this extension of the bathroom meme is repeated by all of the major media outlets in this way, at this time, lends to the impression that it is fact, and could lead one to assume that a trans student could sit down and make a decision which gender they want to be, on that day.
Setting the record straight. Its not a spurious, frivolous or an apocryphal decision which guides trans students to the correct restroom. In fact, it's not a decision at all. It is the universal innate knowledge of ones gender. There are always factors which could preclude a young person from from transitioning, but that does not alter ones gender awareness.
8/11/13
"I'm a Girl" The last words by Jamaican 16yo Dwayne Jones before her 2hr beating death began
Truly heartbreaking to die alone, rejected by family, homeless, tortured for hours for expressing ones true gender, but that's how Dwayne's life ended after being outed at a dance. Heartbreaking that not one of the 300 people at that dance would be caring enough to identify her attackers.
There has been controversy in the social sphere if Dwayne was transgender. If I knew I was about to be beaten for my gender expression on that Montego morning my last words as a trans woman would have been the same as hers ergo I use female pronouns in reference to Dwayne.
Source AP:
Caribbean-based reporter and editor David McFadden who authored the AP article lives in Jamaica has first hand knowledge of the transphobic and homophobic atmosphere and was allowed interviews with Dwayne's housemates who miss her dearly.
Dwayne had been very careful not to tell anyone about attending this dance in her authentic gender. No one knew except a girl from her church who she confided in who in turn outed her.
R.I.P Dwayne. Your LGBT community will hold you dear and will give you your final resting place in our hearts.
There has been controversy in the social sphere if Dwayne was transgender. If I knew I was about to be beaten for my gender expression on that Montego morning my last words as a trans woman would have been the same as hers ergo I use female pronouns in reference to Dwayne.
Source AP:
Dwayne Jones was relentlessly teased in high school for being effeminate until he dropped out. His father not only kicked him out of the house at the age of 14 but also helped jeering neighbors push the youngster from the rough Jamaican slum where he grew up.
By age 16, the teenager was dead — beaten, stabbed, shot and run over by a car when he showed up at a street party dressed as a woman. His mistake: confiding to a friend that he was attending a "straight" party as a girl for the first time in his life.
"When I saw Dwayne's body, I started shaking and crying," said Khloe, one of three transgendered friends who shared a derelict house with the teenager in the hills above the north coast city of Montego Bay. Like many transgenders and gays in Jamaica, Khloe wouldn't give a full name out of fear.
Caribbean-based reporter and editor David McFadden who authored the AP article lives in Jamaica has first hand knowledge of the transphobic and homophobic atmosphere and was allowed interviews with Dwayne's housemates who miss her dearly.
Dwayne was the center of attraction shortly after arriving in a taxi at 2 a.m. with his two 23-year-old housemates, Khloe and Keke. Dwayne's expert dance moves, long legs and high cheekbones quickly made him the one that the guys were trying to get next to.
Dwayne had been very careful not to tell anyone about attending this dance in her authentic gender. No one knew except a girl from her church who she confided in who in turn outed her.
Minutes later, according to Khloe and Keke, the girl's male friends gathered around Dwayne in the dimly-lit street asking: "Are you a woman or a man?" One man waved a lighter's flame near Dwayne's sneakers, asking whether a girl could have such big feet.Then, his friends said, another man grabbed a lantern from an outdoor bar and walked over to Dwayne, shining the bright light over him from head to toe. "It's a man," he concluded, while the others hissed "batty boy" and other anti-gay epithets.
Khloe says she tried to steer him away from the crowd, whispering in Dwayne's ear: "Walk with me, walk with me." But Dwayne pulled away, loudly insisting to partygoers that he was a girl. When someone behind him snapped his bra strap, the teen panicked and raced down the street.
But he couldn't run fast enough to escape the mob.
The teenager was viciously assaulted and apparently half-conscious for some two hours before another sustained attack finished him off, according to Khloe, who was also beaten and nearly raped. She hid in a nearby church and then the surrounding woods, unable to call for help because she didn't have her cellphone.
Dwayne's father in the Montego Bay slum of North Gully didn't want to talk about his son's life or death. The teen's family wouldn't even claim the body, according to Dwayne's friends.
"I'll be cooking in the kitchen and I'll say, 'Dwayne, you hungry?' or something like that," said Keke while sitting on the old mattress in her bedroom, flinching as neighborhood dogs barked outside. "We just miss him all the time. Sometimes I think I see him."
Dwayne's room is empty except for pink window curtains decorated with roses, his favorite flower.
R.I.P Dwayne. Your LGBT community will hold you dear and will give you your final resting place in our hearts.
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