Thanks Mike for having the depth of understanding and giving us a real voice...keep up the good work calling these shallow, ignorant people on the carpet!!
Hypocrisy - their favorite meal - fools no one. Evidently though, it's an effective switch, and causes disorientation. Wha???? Keep on slugging. We appreciate you.
I know. There are no recorded instances of a trans person attacking your precious daughter in a restroom. But try searching for "pedophile" and "pastor" or "pedophile" and "priest".' You'll get LOTS of hits. Hundreds. Thousands!!!
I am a cis male person, and I'm appalled at the way this regime punches down on a tiny minority of the US population. Let the sports in which trans athletes compete determine the rules!
Todd Blanche wants to extend an abortion ban across all 50 states. That will harm women. Sounds like a good way for Republicans to lose more votes.
No surprises! That is their playbook. As for Piers Morgan? A Time Square lady of the night has more honesty and integrity. To use Brit Speak, he gets up my nose!
This is one of the most profound of anyone's notes I have encountered in some time, in a very good way, the simpleness of the content certainly underscores the shallowness of the right and the absolute hollowness of their mind/brain power. Thanks for the deliberate target of the article and your willingness to stay the course.
Thanks Mike and you're 100% correct. I saw you last night on Abby's show on CNN and you were great, that Caroline Sunshine at times doesn't seem like a Republican but then damn, there it is.
You are right Mike. They definitely have their priorities mixed up. They are a bunch of low character talking heads that have no sense of kindness or morals.
Why they have it out for trans kids is beyond me. Why can't they leave them alone. I do however feel that the whole sports thing needs to be looked at because in my opinion there is a issue with strength that may not fair for everybody. But that is no reason to act so ugly.
Thanks for always standing up for what in my opinion is right.
As a trans person it tears my heart when conservatives go after trans kids. I’ve seen what happens to trans kids when someone tries to erase them. It is a stew of self loathing, simmering anger and suicide. All of this for being denied recognition and being a part of community. We trans people are less than one percent of the population. All we want is to live with dignity. We do not deserve to be used as an excuse for hatred. When I was in school, sports were about learning respect and the ability to act as a group. They were not about simply who was the winner. If you look at teams with trans kids, they are not necessarily dominating other teams. This issue is not about sportsmanship. It’s about stirring up a false dichotomy to make people hate.
Oh, good, Mike! You’re on one of my topics! I wrote a lengthy piece yesterday, and even a few people Read it. I would suggest more read it as well. Not because I wrote it, but because it underlines the absolute corruption, moral and intellectual, that undergirds all of these culture war issues.
Where to begin?
First here. If your concern for female prisoners begins and ends with excluding transgender women from women’s prisons, then you’re concerned is not for the female prisoners, it’s for causing harm to transgender women. You know that once a year phenomenon of a transgender person walking around a woman’s locker room waving a penis around? Sorry, that sounds like a heterosexual man.
If your concern for women's sports begins & ends with excluding a handful of transgender women from competition, especially based on the whining of a bio woman who placed TIED for fifth, then maybe you’re really not concerned about women’s sports at all, but about excluding transgender people from participation in society. Transgender women who are in transition have been shown to have no biological advantage. Or maybe they do. But what I see is nobody wants to actually have a conversation where the facts are laid out and people can make up their minds. What they want is propaganda.
IF your concern for women's safety in public facilities begins & ends with excluding transgender people from using public facilities, when there isn’t the slightest bit of evidence that they pose any danger to women and children , then once again, what you care about is excluding transgender people from life. They just need a place to pee, same as anyone else. There is not the slightest bit of evidence that there is anything else going on.
As I wrote yesterday, I get close to 500 reports every year — probably a vast underrepresentation of the actual figure figures — of children who have been molested or assaulted by the men of God. These men of God are arrested, or convicted or sentenced for these crimes. If you google gay men molesting kids*, Or drag queens molesting kids, or transgender people molesting kids— you might get a few reports every year. Might.
And as I wrote yesterday, this is what makes me beyond furious, because I’ve been listening to this garbage for longer than many of these molesting assholes have been alive. LGBT people are not the threat, but the unending fecal bleating is that gay people ARE the threat— not the ministers, not the priests, not the Christian professionals, not the churches and entire donominations that cover. Up the sexual assault. not the hyper conservative reactionaries infesting the Republican Party, not the Epstein class.
Here is the reality: if transgender wanted to groom or molest your children, they wouldn’t be going through years of therapy, surgery, social ostracism and political attack from malicious assholes. They would simply join your church and become a youth minister. Why would rapists bother to pretend to be trans in a culture that treats rapists better than trans women? Or for that matter, a society and the culture that will not believe women when they say they have been assaulted, but will believe the man who has been incredibly accused, if not adjudicated to be a rapist or a child molester?
And yet, that’s precisely what we have happening, as you note. You wrote: “ And yet — when an actual woman or child is harmed? When the abuse isn’t hypothetical, but sitting right in front of them (sometimes at the same dinner table)?’ The president of the southern Baptist convention claims it’s all a hoax. The Catholic Church has for decades, if not centuries, tried to blame gay men somehow infiltrating the priesthood— not possible by their own theology— for their thousand year-old sexual abuse crisis. E. Jean Carroll’s case against Trump— we now have a sitting president that has bragged about sexual assault, hasbeen everything but convicted of sexual assault, associated with known sex traffickers, one of whom is in prison for doing just that.
Here is my actual point. I want LGBT kids to have the opportunity to grow up to be full, happy, authentic, functioning adults. I don’t want to turn your cisgendered kids into transgender kids, because that’s not possible. If you believe Trump when he says “transgender for everyone”, then you are too fucking ignorant to be entitled to have an opinion.I don’t want to turn your straight kids into gay kids, I want gay kids not to turn into dead kids— because somewhere, there’s a gay kid who thinks that perhaps it’s better for him to be dead than it is for him to be gay.
NO AMOUNT OF RELIGION, NO AMOUNT OF REACTIONARY PROPAGANDA, NO AMOUNT OF POLITICAL GRIFTING SHOULD EVER CONVINCE YOU THAT SOME KIDS DON’T DESERVE TO GROW UP AND LIVE THEIR BEST LIVES. IF YOU CAN BE CONVINCED OF THAT, YOU’VE LONG AGO LOST TOUCH WITH INTELLECT, SPIRITUALITY, MORALITY, EMPATHY,KINDNESS, CARING. OR YOUR OWN GODDAMN AND GODDAMN RELIGION.
* conservatives love to point out that postpubescent boys are getting molested by grown men, and they want to blame gay men for that. The gender of a kid molested says little to nothing about the sexual orientation of the adult that does it. This is a whole topic all by itself. But it’s the answer to the question “why is it that a man who molest boys is called a homosexual, but a man who molest girls is not called a heterosexual, but a child molester ?” and it positively ignores the issue that half the time, it’s the child’s father, and most of the time, these perverts are heterosexually married. The Boy Scouts have a problem with that for decades, but that’s a topic all by itself, as I said.
Thanks Mike for having the depth of understanding and giving us a real voice...keep up the good work calling these shallow, ignorant people on the carpet!!
Hypocrisy - their favorite meal - fools no one. Evidently though, it's an effective switch, and causes disorientation. Wha???? Keep on slugging. We appreciate you.
I know. There are no recorded instances of a trans person attacking your precious daughter in a restroom. But try searching for "pedophile" and "pastor" or "pedophile" and "priest".' You'll get LOTS of hits. Hundreds. Thousands!!!
I am a cis male person, and I'm appalled at the way this regime punches down on a tiny minority of the US population. Let the sports in which trans athletes compete determine the rules!
Todd Blanche wants to extend an abortion ban across all 50 states. That will harm women. Sounds like a good way for Republicans to lose more votes.
No surprises! That is their playbook. As for Piers Morgan? A Time Square lady of the night has more honesty and integrity. To use Brit Speak, he gets up my nose!
So on point, as usual! Thank you.
" HYPOCRISY HAS NO BOUNDS" 😡
Thanks for the reminders that resisting and have real answers, as opposed to screaming points, makes a difference to real people and to real outcomes.
Unfortunately, campaigns are won on perception not facts.
EXACTLY MIKE 🎯
This is so true. We have heard more about who goes into whose restrooms than we ever hear about the true horrors of this administration.
That's the truth. Thanks for giving us a voice.
This is one of the most profound of anyone's notes I have encountered in some time, in a very good way, the simpleness of the content certainly underscores the shallowness of the right and the absolute hollowness of their mind/brain power. Thanks for the deliberate target of the article and your willingness to stay the course.
Thanks Mike and you're 100% correct. I saw you last night on Abby's show on CNN and you were great, that Caroline Sunshine at times doesn't seem like a Republican but then damn, there it is.
Ty Mike. Hey they don’t have solutions to problems Americans deem important because according to them, there is no problem. 🙄
You are right Mike. They definitely have their priorities mixed up. They are a bunch of low character talking heads that have no sense of kindness or morals.
Why they have it out for trans kids is beyond me. Why can't they leave them alone. I do however feel that the whole sports thing needs to be looked at because in my opinion there is a issue with strength that may not fair for everybody. But that is no reason to act so ugly.
Thanks for always standing up for what in my opinion is right.
As a trans person it tears my heart when conservatives go after trans kids. I’ve seen what happens to trans kids when someone tries to erase them. It is a stew of self loathing, simmering anger and suicide. All of this for being denied recognition and being a part of community. We trans people are less than one percent of the population. All we want is to live with dignity. We do not deserve to be used as an excuse for hatred. When I was in school, sports were about learning respect and the ability to act as a group. They were not about simply who was the winner. If you look at teams with trans kids, they are not necessarily dominating other teams. This issue is not about sportsmanship. It’s about stirring up a false dichotomy to make people hate.
Oh, good, Mike! You’re on one of my topics! I wrote a lengthy piece yesterday, and even a few people Read it. I would suggest more read it as well. Not because I wrote it, but because it underlines the absolute corruption, moral and intellectual, that undergirds all of these culture war issues.
Where to begin?
First here. If your concern for female prisoners begins and ends with excluding transgender women from women’s prisons, then you’re concerned is not for the female prisoners, it’s for causing harm to transgender women. You know that once a year phenomenon of a transgender person walking around a woman’s locker room waving a penis around? Sorry, that sounds like a heterosexual man.
If your concern for women's sports begins & ends with excluding a handful of transgender women from competition, especially based on the whining of a bio woman who placed TIED for fifth, then maybe you’re really not concerned about women’s sports at all, but about excluding transgender people from participation in society. Transgender women who are in transition have been shown to have no biological advantage. Or maybe they do. But what I see is nobody wants to actually have a conversation where the facts are laid out and people can make up their minds. What they want is propaganda.
IF your concern for women's safety in public facilities begins & ends with excluding transgender people from using public facilities, when there isn’t the slightest bit of evidence that they pose any danger to women and children , then once again, what you care about is excluding transgender people from life. They just need a place to pee, same as anyone else. There is not the slightest bit of evidence that there is anything else going on.
As I wrote yesterday, I get close to 500 reports every year — probably a vast underrepresentation of the actual figure figures — of children who have been molested or assaulted by the men of God. These men of God are arrested, or convicted or sentenced for these crimes. If you google gay men molesting kids*, Or drag queens molesting kids, or transgender people molesting kids— you might get a few reports every year. Might.
And as I wrote yesterday, this is what makes me beyond furious, because I’ve been listening to this garbage for longer than many of these molesting assholes have been alive. LGBT people are not the threat, but the unending fecal bleating is that gay people ARE the threat— not the ministers, not the priests, not the Christian professionals, not the churches and entire donominations that cover. Up the sexual assault. not the hyper conservative reactionaries infesting the Republican Party, not the Epstein class.
Here is the reality: if transgender wanted to groom or molest your children, they wouldn’t be going through years of therapy, surgery, social ostracism and political attack from malicious assholes. They would simply join your church and become a youth minister. Why would rapists bother to pretend to be trans in a culture that treats rapists better than trans women? Or for that matter, a society and the culture that will not believe women when they say they have been assaulted, but will believe the man who has been incredibly accused, if not adjudicated to be a rapist or a child molester?
And yet, that’s precisely what we have happening, as you note. You wrote: “ And yet — when an actual woman or child is harmed? When the abuse isn’t hypothetical, but sitting right in front of them (sometimes at the same dinner table)?’ The president of the southern Baptist convention claims it’s all a hoax. The Catholic Church has for decades, if not centuries, tried to blame gay men somehow infiltrating the priesthood— not possible by their own theology— for their thousand year-old sexual abuse crisis. E. Jean Carroll’s case against Trump— we now have a sitting president that has bragged about sexual assault, hasbeen everything but convicted of sexual assault, associated with known sex traffickers, one of whom is in prison for doing just that.
Here is my actual point. I want LGBT kids to have the opportunity to grow up to be full, happy, authentic, functioning adults. I don’t want to turn your cisgendered kids into transgender kids, because that’s not possible. If you believe Trump when he says “transgender for everyone”, then you are too fucking ignorant to be entitled to have an opinion.I don’t want to turn your straight kids into gay kids, I want gay kids not to turn into dead kids— because somewhere, there’s a gay kid who thinks that perhaps it’s better for him to be dead than it is for him to be gay.
NO AMOUNT OF RELIGION, NO AMOUNT OF REACTIONARY PROPAGANDA, NO AMOUNT OF POLITICAL GRIFTING SHOULD EVER CONVINCE YOU THAT SOME KIDS DON’T DESERVE TO GROW UP AND LIVE THEIR BEST LIVES. IF YOU CAN BE CONVINCED OF THAT, YOU’VE LONG AGO LOST TOUCH WITH INTELLECT, SPIRITUALITY, MORALITY, EMPATHY,KINDNESS, CARING. OR YOUR OWN GODDAMN AND GODDAMN RELIGION.
* conservatives love to point out that postpubescent boys are getting molested by grown men, and they want to blame gay men for that. The gender of a kid molested says little to nothing about the sexual orientation of the adult that does it. This is a whole topic all by itself. But it’s the answer to the question “why is it that a man who molest boys is called a homosexual, but a man who molest girls is not called a heterosexual, but a child molester ?” and it positively ignores the issue that half the time, it’s the child’s father, and most of the time, these perverts are heterosexually married. The Boy Scouts have a problem with that for decades, but that’s a topic all by itself, as I said.