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Corvus

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Of course they are using the same playbook, because no matter what sort of clothes it wears, or wig it hides under in an effort to disguise itself, it's the same old discrimination and bigotry, and the same people trying to spread it like a plague.
 
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An opinion article about the current (negative) state of matters in Africa right now (behind spoilers to avoid upsetting anyone).

Viewpoint: East Africa's battle over culture and homosexuality

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In our series of letters from African journalists, Tanzanian writer Sammy Awami considers what is behind recent moves against homosexuality in East Africa...
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(Full article:- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65239117 )
 
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Corvus

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A clear example of how American political stances have a tendency to metastasize to other parts of the world, particularly when helped by the fundamentalist zealots of the religious right.

 
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Corvus said:
A clear example of how American political stances have a tendency to metastasize to other parts of the world, particularly when helped by the fundamentalist zealots of the religious right.

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I read it was more to do with certain right wing (sects?) of the Evangelical Christian church that were using Africa as a front to push their agendas, with help from certain African nationalists using anti-Western feelings to bolster their careers?
 
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There's absolutely cross-pollination going on.
 
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In some good news:
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Federal judge says Christian teacher has no right misgender students

John Kluge sued his former employer saying that their trans student policy violated his religious freedom...
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A federal appeals court just told a public school teacher that he does not have a constitutional right to misgender transgender students.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, based in Chicago, ruled that Brownsburg, Indiana orchestra teacher John Kluge could not use his religion as an excuse to violate the school’s policy on transgender students.
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Plutoniumboss said:

‘Explicitly queer and trans’: the 1580s play that inspired Shakespeare’s cross-dressing love plots | Theatre | The Guardian

John Lyly’s long-forgotten Galatea – featuring gods, mortals and a highly elastic approach to gender and sex – is being revived at the Brighton festival. We meet the team behind it
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I wonder if, under current Florida regulations or views regarding drag, traditional Japanese kabuki, Shakespeare or British pantomime plays would be illegal if shown to kids?
 
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Yes. Many Shakespeare plays are now illegal in several states if there are kids in the audience. They don't care.
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Really? I couldn't find any evidence of that in my limited search. I found and example of his plays (or rather, the books of his plays) being replaced with other, arguably more progressive texts, but not banned by stereotypical right-wingers:

- https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...h-literature-disrupt-texts-column/4629748001/

I was also referring to the fact that Japanese kabuki and Shakespeare traditionally had an all-male cast (for misogynistic reasons) and British pantomimes often featured (possibly offensive) gender-swapped characters, with young girls playing boys (Peter Pan, etc) and men playing old women (fairy godmother, widow Twanky, etc). This would contradict certain policies in parts of America aiming to ban "gender-swapped" characters in performances with children in the audience.

The thing is, if that's true, most kids' cartoons, animated films and some videogames would also fall foul, due to female voice actresses voicing young male characters, etc, right?
 
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They don't have to specifically ban them, they would fall under the "drag bans" that have been or are being implemented across the country. Cartoons, tv shows, and movies would not be covered by these laws as the bans only cover live performances. Yes, this means you can film a drag performance and show it to kids but that same performance would be illegal under these laws. Kids can read Shakespeare plays but they cannot see some of them performed. Is all of this dumb? Yes it very much is.
 
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Seriously folks, please stop using Twitter. In fact, try not to use anything related to Elon Musk while you're at it.

Twitter removes transgender protections from hateful conduct policy.

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Twitter appears to have quietly rolled back a portion of its hateful conduct policy that included specific protections for transgender people.

The policy previously stated that Twitter prohibits “targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category. This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.” But the second line was removed earlier this month, according to archived versions of the page from the WayBack Machine.

Twitter also removed a line from the policy detailing certain groups of people often subject to disproportionate abuse online, including “women, people of color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual individuals, and marginalized and historically underrepresented communities.”..
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(Full article: - https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/19/...uct-policy-transgender-protections/index.html )

Meanwhile, in Florida:

- Florida legislature kidnapped a bunch of non-binary and trans kids today.

More news on this here:

- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...ng-protest-at-florida-legislature/ar-AA1a4xiq

And also in Florida:

- "Don't Say Gay" bill expanded to cover up to 12th grade.
 
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www.kmbc.com

Kansas governor vetoes bills on trans youth care, bathrooms

The bill would have applied to bathrooms and locker rooms outside schools, as well as to prisons, jails, rape crisis centers and domestic violence shelters.
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Kansas' Democratic governor on Thursday vetoed Republican legislation aimed at ending gender-affirming care for children and teens, and another, sweeping GOP proposal for preventing transgender people from using bathrooms and other public facilities associated with their gender identities.

Gov. Laura Kelly also vetoed a third GOP bill that specifically would have prevented jails from housing transgender prisoners in units consistent with their gender identities and a fourth measure that would have barred schools from allowing transgender girls from rooming with cisgendered girls, and transgender boys with cisgender boys, on overnight trips.
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PrimalxConvoy

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I just came across an older thread, dealing with a news article that might have been posted either here or in the regular LGQTB+ thread.
 
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