Jordan Peterson: Gender Pronouns and Free Speech War

[Mari]

Here is a collection of videos from recent pride.

It‘s a nightmare!

I can’t believe that parents bring their children to this sick porn display!!!

Infowars Article

Infowars: There's a War on for your Mind!

www.infowars.com

Also, look at this sick freak!

Infowars Article

Infowars: There's a War on for your Mind!

www.infowars.com

 

[bjorb]

Here is a collection of videos from recent pride.

It‘s a nightmare!

I can’t believe that parents bring their children to this sick porn display!!!

Infowars Article

Infowars: There's a War on for your Mind!

www.infowars.com

Also, look at this sick freak!

Infowars Article

Infowars: There's a War on for your Mind!

www.infowars.com

Sodom and Gomorrah

 

[bjorb]

I think cities like San-Francisco and Washington DC will be destroyed, just like Sodom and Gomorrah.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1536701383721816066

 

[Mari]

God, we really need puke emoji in quick reaction button… This stuff is unbelievable, this degradation of moral values… when one thinks that nothing can surprise me any more, I imagine those freaks say: wait, hold my beer…

 

[XPan]

I remember 'Pride' 20 years ago...

It used to be really fun, like a one big open carnival party and people were genuinely happy (it felt sincere to me). But somehow it all slided and has become (sometimes) a Rocky Horror Picture show kind of style, going overboard with their performances. As if the parties within, compete with one another who get's to be the nastiest. So, it has been like a gradual, sliding decline accumulating...

And when I think of my first Pride in Stockholm back in 1985 - it wasn't a Pride at all - but a demonstration for rights during a time in which gay's where still heavily discriminated. Sweden had only recently abolished a law in which homosexuality was a disease (so you could call in sick at the health authorities "because you felt gay" *LOL* - a friend of mine actually did that once . It worked, it was accepted by the authorities)

Back then, you didn't see any nasty manifestations. People were proud, yes, as human beings, but none of the sliding moral display you see today, was present back then. What people did within the sub culture and behind walls, was their thing - fine - but it wasn't a thing to show off in public. The mindset of gay people were different, without binding any kinky stuff onto people's noses in public.
In 1995 I believe the demonstation was changed into being a Carnival (in Stockholm).

[I dressed as a cat, but don't know why I chose that . I thought, Carnival ? OK - so, it doesn't have to be gay related, right ? I was asked several times during the ceremonies, if i was a "spy" or something, since I took photos... A gay cat with a camera
A few years later they changed Gay Festival into calling it "Pride".

And then, as society started to change more significantly - it got reflected within the public gay and lesbian community outwards, too, sliding down the hill, especially after 2014 showing more nasty tendencies in public "between the flowers and laughter". Kind of tasteless at times.

This is how most people looked like during Stockholm Gay Festival in 1995

 

[Alana]

I remember 'Pride' 20 years ago...

It used to be really fun, like a one big open carnival party and people were genuinely happy (it felt sincere to me). But somehow it all slided and has become (sometimes) a Rocky Horror Picture show kind of style, going overboard with their performances. As if the parties within, compete with one another who get's to be the nastiest. So, it has been like a gradual, sliding decline accumulating...

And when I think of my first Pride in Stockholm back in 1985 - it wasn't a Pride at all - but a demonstration for rights during a time in which gay's where still heavily discriminated. Sweden had only recently abolished a law in which homosexuality was a disease (so you could call in sick at the health authorities "because you felt gay" *LOL* - a friend of mine actually did that once . It worked, it was accepted by the authorities)

Back then, you didn't see any nasty manifestations. People were proud, yes, as human beings, but none of the sliding moral display you see today, was present back then. What people did within the sub culture and behind walls, was their thing - fine - but it wasn't a thing to show off in public. The mindset of gay people were different, without binding any kinky stuff onto people's noses in public.
In 1995 I believe the demonstation was changed into being a Carnival (in Stockholm).

[I dressed as a cat, but don't know why I chose that . I thought, Carnival ? OK - so, it doesn't have to be gay related, right ? I was asked several times during the ceremonies, if i was a "spy" or something, since I took photos... A gay cat with a camera
A few years later they changed Gay Festival into calling it "Pride".

And then, as society started to change more significantly - it got reflected within the public gay and lesbian community outwards, too, sliding down the hill, especially after 2014 showing more nasty tendencies in public "between the flowers and laughter". Kind of tasteless at times.

This is how most people looked like during Stockholm Gay Festival in 1995

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Ah, that made me laugh. This is how Pride Parades look like in Cyprus nowadays. It wasn't until 2015 that civil union between gay couples was legalized, and the Pride celebrations started a few years later, 2018 I think was the first one.

And it still looks pretty tame, colorful and festive, without the vulgar manifestations. I guess society is getting "warmed up" to the idea so the people are not pushing it. On the one hand, traditional/religious values (and a small population!) protect the society as a whole, but on the other, from a few gay friends I had growing up, living in Cyprus as a gay man especially caused a lot of suffering. You either had to repress/hide or be completely thrown out and ostracized by family and the entire society. Gay females were not even acknowledged as existing, legally or otherwise. Most of my friends made their lives elsewhere in the world.

Nowadays the climate in Cyprus can be viewed as ideal. Enough acceptance and open-mindedness for people to live their lives as they see fit - it's even a bit à la mode to be gay - but still family-friendly. We'll see how long it holds though.

 

[ryu]

I remember 'Pride' 20 years ago...

It used to be really fun, like a one big open carnival party and people were genuinely happy (it felt sincere to me). But somehow it all slided and has become (sometimes) a Rocky Horror Picture show kind of style, going overboard with their performances. As if the parties within, compete with one another who get's to be the nastiest. So, it has been like a gradual, sliding decline accumulating...

And when I think of my first Pride in Stockholm back in 1985 - it wasn't a Pride at all - but a demonstration for rights during a time in which gay's where still heavily discriminated. Sweden had only recently abolished a law in which homosexuality was a disease (so you could call in sick at the health authorities "because you felt gay" *LOL* - a friend of mine actually did that once . It worked, it was accepted by the authorities)

Back then, you didn't see any nasty manifestations. People were proud, yes, as human beings, but none of the sliding moral display you see today, was present back then. What people did within the sub culture and behind walls, was their thing - fine - but it wasn't a thing to show off in public. The mindset of gay people were different, without binding any kinky stuff onto people's noses in public.
In 1995 I believe the demonstation was changed into being a Carnival (in Stockholm).

[I dressed as a cat, but don't know why I chose that . I thought, Carnival ? OK - so, it doesn't have to be gay related, right ? I was asked several times during the ceremonies, if i was a "spy" or something, since I took photos... A gay cat with a camera
A few years later they changed Gay Festival into calling it "Pride".

And then, as society started to change more significantly - it got reflected within the public gay and lesbian community outwards, too, sliding down the hill, especially after 2014 showing more nasty tendencies in public "between the flowers and laughter". Kind of tasteless at times.

This is how most people looked like during Stockholm Gay Festival in 1995

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Thanks for sharing those pictures @XPan ! You wouldn't believe it's a demonstration for gay rights, people look way too normal! And 1995 seems like a century ago, when you see today's madness.

I don't know how it is in other european countries, but from what I saw in France, the gay community who is living in smaller cities are still acting like normal human beings, and people are leaving them in peace.The LGBTQ madness seem to be mostly in big cities. So it's not all doom and gloom

 

[Voyageur]

Miller chimed in (the short TikTok tells a part of the story):

They're marching for "a woman's right to choose" (as long as she agrees to get injected)​

It seems they don't believe in any "choice" EXCEPT abortion—which means that they don't actually believe in choice​

Mark Crispin Miller
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Whether they’re fixated (only) on abortion rights, or pushing mandatory “vaccination,” those “feminists” are really all about depopulation (just like Margaret Sanger and Bill Gates).

https://twitter.com/x/status/1536589006565146624

 

[Mari]

New article from JP

We are sacrificing our children on the altar of a brutal, far-Left ideology

The medical profession is crumbling in response to radical transgender activists

www.telegraph.co.uk

We are sacrificing our children on the altar of a brutal, far-Left ideology​

The medical profession is crumbling in response to radical transgender activists

There is good evidence that many ancient societies sacrificed children to their gods. Parents in ancient Phoenician colonies in Carthage, Sicily, Sardinia and Malta slew their offspring prior to cremating them, hoping that the gods would hear their voices and bless them.

We are rightly appalled by this, though sometimes I wonder whether we understand child sacrifice far more than we’d like to admit.

I saw a video the other day featuring an American surgeon bragging that he had performed more than 3,000 double mastectomies on young women who had paid for gender reassignment, individuals confused – one might say encouraged – by those who profit from it into believing that their adolescent emotional trials can be ‘cured’, and happiness reign forever, if they subject themselves to this brutal practice.

And it is brutal – a process that often includes not only the aforementioned mastectomies but other appalling surgical processes: orchiectomy (that’s castration, in blunter language), the removal of the uterus, the demolition of the musculature of the forearm to make what is not a penis but must be referred to as such – all of that.

For someone purporting to be a physician to perform this on children, to me at least, seems like something worthy of a prison sentence.

Whatever happened to the doctrine expressed by the ancient language as primum non nocere – first, do no harm?

The Hippocratic Oath has been replaced by a delusion: a belief that can be summarised as ‘by blocking the puberty of children, and then surgically altering them, we are only restoring what is theirs by right. A child’s feelings are the final arbiters of their reproductive destiny, and any attempt to contest their gender identity risks increasing their proclivity for suicide’.

Lies. Lies. Lies. Then butchery.

Changing standards​

Psychologists – those in my own personal field of medicine – have also surrendered to this groupthink. The American Psychological Association’s ‘Task Force on Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People (TGNC)’ insists that psychologists and other professional counsellors offer “trans-affirmative” care, starting with such niceties as displaying “TGNC-affirmative resources in waiting areas”. Practitioners are also asked to examine “how their language (e.g. use of incorrect pronouns and names) may reinforce the gender binary in overt or subtle and unintentional ways”.

These guidelines first read like a manual of indoctrination written by Marxist ideologues, and second like a document designed to undermine and destroy the practice of therapy itself.

But at an alarming rate these ‘guidelines’ have transformed themselves into punitive laws governing what a psychologist or counsellor may say and think in relation to their clients.

Let me make myself perfectly clear: speaking as a professional, whether in America, Britain, or anywhere, it is not the place of a therapist to “affirm” or, conversely, to deny, the “identity” of anyone whom they take into their care. People come to see a therapist, often after long and painful deliberation, because they are suffering, confused, or both. The job of that therapist is to listen, to question, and proceed with due caution, neither providing cheap advice (and thereby stealing their client’s successes or heaping failure upon them) nor assuming special knowledge of the proper outcome for a given individual.

There is simply no way that I would ever tell an 18-year old woman that she is absolutely correct if sometimes she feels more masculine than feminine (however that feeling might emerge), and that if she feels that surgery is the answer then recommend hormones that day. I would instead spend many weeks, perhaps even months or years, listening to her unwrap her story, using caution as my watchword, and help her come to some thorough and well-developed understanding of both her autobiographical history and her destiny.

That is not “affirmation” and neither is it “denial.” How could I possibly dare to do either when someone has come to me because they are mixed up and desperate – a state of twinned experience indicating a profound confusion about identity itself?

Radical new guidelines​

I am focusing on the American Psychological Association (APA) because it is the body charged with establishing the norms and ideals for clinical practice in the most populous democracy on Earth– principles that will, and are, spreading around the West more broadly, including in Britain. Some of their ‘guidelines’ are appalling enough to deserve dissection:

“Guideline 1. Psychologists understand that gender is a nonbinary construct that allows for a range of gender identities and that a person’s gender identity may not align with sex assigned at birth.”
I don’t understand this radical postmodern definition of gender, one that rests on a person’s “deeply felt” or “inherent sense” of being one sex over another, regardless of biology.

Psychologically it is indisputably the case that a non-trivial proportion of males have a feminine temperament (which essentially means that they experience higher levels of negative emotions such as anxiety and the analogs of pain – grief, frustration, disappointment, depression) and are more agreeable (compassionate/polite) than typical males, and equally true that a non-trivial proportion of females have a masculine temperament. But this does not change how, objectively, professionals should measure a person’s gender.

Psychologists once cared if measurement followed standard practices of validity and reliability. Try reading, for example, a document published by the APA itself in 2014, where you will learn that a psychologist worth their salt is obliged to utilise “constructs” (i.e. terms such as “gender”) in a technically appropriate manner. This means, at the very least, that fundamental attributes must be measurable and measured properly.

But all that goes out the window when we are discussing the magic of “gender” now, which is entirely subjectively defined, even though that insistence indubitably contravenes the earlier standards. But feelings über alles, folks. And it's no joke. Particularly if you’re 15, and have undergone surgery that makes you incapable of reproducing, often to foster someone else’s sense of moral superiority or sense of self-attributed “compassion”– a word that increasingly makes me shudder when I encounter it.

New doctrines​

Psychologists are also now adopting the simple-minded and anything-but-revolutionary doctrine of “intersectionality” without question. And what is that doctrine? Nothing more than the claim that human beings are characterised by identities that span multiple dimensions. Any given person has a race, ethnicity, sex, temperament (five dimensions there alone), intelligence level, etc. We’ve known that forever. It's only become a hot cultural item since fools noted the obvious fact that minority status might be additive or multiplicative. I hate to even point that out given that anyone with any sense whatsoever also knew, without any statistical training, that it was possible to be of Latino extraction, say (or even ‘LatinX’, to use that absurd, demeaning and patronising term) and female simultaneously.

One cannot question this, however, without fear of being ostracised by one’s colleagues. Note the chilling wording of Guideline 7:

“Psychologists understand the need to promote social change that reduces the negative effects of stigma on the health and well-being of TGNC people.”
In summary: if you’re not an activist (and one of our activists) then you better be watching over your shoulder.

So what should govern my behaviour as a therapist, and your expectations as a client? The answer to that is: whatever the activists deem a priority at their whim. And remember that in court, folks.

Active malevolence​

I’m increasingly ashamed to be a clinical psychologist given the utter cowardice, spinelessness and apathy that characterises many colleagues and even more so my professional associations. At least in 20 years when we all come to regret this terrible social experiment I will be able to say “I said no when they all came to insist that we participate in the sacrifice of our children.” Other countries, and Britain in particular, must not make the same mistakes as in the US and elsewhere.

I cannot consent to what we are doing. I cannot abide by what have become the doctrines of my discipline. I believe that the acts of the medical ‘professional’ rushing to disfigure, sterilise, and harm young people with what are clearly ill-advised, dangerous, experimental procedures cross the line from ‘do no harm’ to outright harm.

Only if we bury our heads in the sand will sterility, impaired or absent sexual function, complex reactions to poorly understood hormones, expense – and, intermingled with all that, misery and confusion – continue for countless young people. We must address the threat posed to the integrity of the entire education system as indoctrination into the same philosophy that spawned this surgical enterprise and the APA ‘guidelines’ grows. It threatens general public trust that our peace and prosperity depends upon.

And, by the way: it will definitely be the case that a disproportionate number of children “freed” from their gender confusion would have grown up to be physically intact and fully functional gay adults. Need I point out that this unpalatable fact makes a mockery of any claim that the extended alphabet world of the LGBTQ+ coterie constitutes a homogeneous and unified “community.”

We have crossed the line from ideological possession to active malevolence – and we are multiplying our sin (there’s an intersection for you) by attributing our appalling actions to “compassion”. Heaven help us. Truly.

 

[Adobe]

JP also just posted a video of him reading his (above posted by Mari) telegraph post. His emotion visible in his face as usual.

"DOCTORS, PSYCHOTHERAPISTS, LIARS AND BUTCHERS"​

Doctors, Psychotherapists, Liars and Butchers

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[Mari]

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Announces She is Introducing Bill to Make it Illegal for Children to be Exposed to Drag Queen Performances

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced that she is introducing a bill that would make it illegal for children to be exposed to drag queen performances. Greene announced the upcoming bill in a Twitter post on Tuesday evening. “I’m introducing a bill to make it illegal for children to be...

www.thegatewaypundit.com

Finally someone stepped up!

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Announces She is Introducing Bill to Make it Illegal for Children to be Exposed to Drag Queen Performances​

Greene announced the upcoming bill in a Twitter post on Tuesday evening.

“I’m introducing a bill to make it illegal for children to be exposed to Drag Queen performances,” the representative wrote.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1536863160996593665

Earlier in the day, Greene had quote tweeted a video from Libs of TikTok that said “a bakery in NJ hosted a ‘family-friendly’ drag show for all ages. Children hand money to the drag queen who also gets cash stuffed into his bra including from someone who appears to be a minor.” The tweet included a video of the performance and children attendance.

In her response, Greene wrote, “This needs to be illegal. What’s the difference in children stuffing cash in a drag queen bra and a strippers bra? Nothing. It’s wrong and it’s indoctrination.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1536771465625886722

Greene has been outspoken about children being exposed to drag shows for some time.

On June 6, Greene had tweeted that “it should be illegal to take children into Drag Queen shows and strip clubs.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1533643620787572743

“And there should be no federal funding for any school that intentionally confuses children about gender/sexuality,” Greene added. “Any teacher or school employee caught doing so should be fired and lose all benefits.”

The following day, Greene added, “I could care less what 2 consenting adults do sexually, nor do I judge, but when it comes to adults training children sexually, both mentally & physically, I do care. And so do MOST people. We must protect children from child grooming predators & abusers in every way possible.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1533786598214717441

 

[Voyageur]

New article from JP

We are sacrificing our children on the altar of a brutal, far-Left ideology

The medical profession is crumbling in response to radical transgender activists

www.telegraph.co.uk

We are sacrificing our children on the altar of a brutal, far-Left ideology​

The medical profession is crumbling in response to radical transgender activists

It was well written and to the point, and yet so bloody true and sad.

I’m increasingly ashamed to be a clinical psychologist given the utter cowardice, spinelessness and apathy that characterises many colleagues and even more so my professional associations.
[...]
We have crossed the line from ideological possession to active malevolence – and we are multiplying our sin (there’s an intersection for you) by attributing our appalling actions to “compassion”. Heaven help us. Truly.

I've met many in associations of various kinds and their stories of being ashamed are the same by degree of activity. Associations are easy targets for pathocracy to get a foothold, many of the management do not even practice - they have no idea, and of course HR hires and brings in the programs and policies.

Yes, "heaven help us."

 

[Ca.]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1537649468522258432

https://twitter.com/x/status/1432635139805286401

https://twitter.com/x/status/1537512879301177344

That sounds about right considering the choice of free will.

Is the Czech Republic about to legalise same-sex marriage?

Legalising same-sex marriage has broad support among Czechs. But will politicians put a spanner in the works? #UncoveringEurope

www.euronews.com

By David Hutt • Updated: 13/06/2022

“It’s only right that I should have the same privileges as anybody else. I don’t feel different from the next man; I met someone, fell in love, and have a happy, healthy relationship,” says Glenn, a Brit living in the Czech Republic.

He and his husband, a Czech national, have been together for more than 20 years, but a few years ago they had to travel back to the UK to get married, making do with a registry service in the Czech Republic.

Same-sex couples can currently take civil partnerships, which carry fewer rights than opposite-sex marriages.

That could soon change as a cross-party motion was put to the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house, on 7 June to amend the country’s civil code to allow the marriage of same-sex couples and provide them with the same legal rights as heterosexual couples.

It would essentially do away with registered partnerships that have been legal since 2006 and make the Czech Republic the first country from the former Eastern bloc to legalize same-sex marriage.

It has broad support among the Czech population and from four of the six political parties that sit in the Chamber of Deputies, but previous attempts to introduce a marriage equality bill stalled in parliament for years.

It still remains unclear when the motion will be debated.

President Milos Zeman sought to put a spanner in the works when he said on 8 June that he would veto the law if it was passed by parliament.

But Zeman, known for his controversial comments about the LGBT community, is unlikely to be able to prevent the law from being enacted if it enjoys strong parliamentary support.

Czech president Milos ZemanCredit: AP Photo

What is the proposal on the table?​

The proposal, which would amend the civil code, would give same-sex couples the right to marry under the eyes of the state and to enjoy the same rights as heterosexual partnerships.

Since 2006, same-sex couples have been able to live in registered partnerships and have certain rights to inheritance and health care, similar to opposite-sex married couples.

However, the recently-proposed amendments would provide additional rights, including the creation of joint property, inheritance of their partners’ pension, and access to alternative family care. Symbolically, it would give equality to same and opposite-sex couples.

“Both the pandemic and the current crisis have shown the importance of family and legal certainty, which is needed to address the fact that the other registered partner was not entitled to go to the child's hospital and request information about his or her health.” Olga Richterová, the Chamber’s deputy speaker, told local media this month

“If more people want to bear the obligations of marriage, we should support it,” she added.

Richterová, who is also vice-president of the Pirate Party, a member of the five-party coalition government, was one of the four co-sponsors of the motion.

Filip Milde, the spokesman for Jsme Fer (We Are Fair), a coalition of local organisations advocating for LGBT rights, says the proposed amendment will help thousands of same-sex families with children who are not currently full citizens in the Czech Republic.

Last December an amendment failed to pass the Senate, the upper house, which would have forced Czech courts to recognise adoptions of children abroad by same-sex couples. This issue hit the headlines after the famous snowboarder, Šárka Pančochová, adopted the daughter of her American wife but would lose her parental rights if she returned to the Czech Republic.

Currently, local courts recognise foreign adoptions by Czech citizens as long as it “would be permissible under the substantive provisions of the Czech law”. The failed motion in the Senate last year and the latest amendment put to the Chamber of Deputies seek to remove this conditionality. It also applies in some instances to unmarried opposite-sex couples.

In December, the European Court of Justice ruled that parental rights must be recognised in all EU member states without distinction, which includes same-sex couples who adopt abroad.

Šárka PančochováCredit: Felipe Dana/AP

How LGBT-friendly is the Czech Republic?​

The Czech Republic is occasionally ranked behind other countries in western or central Europe on LGBT rights on some indexes. In the ILGA Rainbow Europe’s map of LGBT+ rights, the Czech Republic scored just 26%, behind Slovakia and Hungary.

Yet, homosexuality was decriminalised in 1962 during the communist era, earlier than in many Western European countries. It was decriminalised in the UK four years later.

In 2006, the Czech Republic allowed registered partnerships. A 2016 ruling by the Czech Constitutional Court allowed registered partners to adopt.

A poll conducted by the Median agency in early 2020 found that 67% of Czech respondents reckoned homosexuals should have the right to get married. Some 62% say they should be able to adopt children from institutional care.

Improving the rights of same-sex couples has been a long-time coming. In June 2018, a draft of the marriage equality bill was introduced to parliament. It took lawmakers 1052 days to finally vote on the bill to start the long legislative process, noted Milde, of the We Are Fair coalition.

The bill passed the first reading in May last year but stalled in the committees and died when parliament was dissolved ahead of national elections in October 2021.

“We firmly hope that this time the bill debate will be easier and faster, and our legislators will vote on the bill soon, so the bill can be referred to expert committees for its approval,” Milde said.

The draft was sponsored by a parliamentarian from four of the five parties of the ruling coalition government, as well as by a delegate from the main opposition party, ANO.

Martin Baxa, the Minister of Culture and vice-chairman of centre-right Civic Democrats (ODS), the largest of the coalition government partners, told Euronews that he signed the bill because it “will lead to the full equality of people of the same sex…a strong loving bond between people should be equal for all.”

“I fully respect the fact that there are differing views on this institution and that the cleavage on this matter is across political parties and opinion currents,” Baxa added.

“However, I have decided to express my opinion as a member of parliament directly by becoming one of the introducers of this bill.”

People take part in the Prague Pride Parade march of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transexuals (LGBT) in the centre of Prague, Czech Republic, on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019.Credit: AP Photo

Who is opposing same-sex marriage?​

One dissenting voice has come from ODS’ own coalition partner. The amendment proposal was not signed by a delegate from the Christian Democrats (KDU-ČSL), a member of the five-party coalition government that took office in December. As expected, it wasn’t supported by the far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy party (SPD), which sits in opposition.

“We believe that everybody deserves equal rights no matter who they love. But we will not support [a law] to allow same-sex marriage,” said a spokesperson for KDU-ČSL.

“Marriage is an important part of life for KDU-ČSL. Marriage, as a bond of man and women, is a unique bond with the potential of transformation of new human life,” the spokesperson added. “Marriage is a crucial part of [life] for us and its meaning can not be changed, but we want to bring equal legal rights for everybody.”

However, the KDU-ČSL spokesperson said that on laws about ethics the party’s delegates are given a free vote “based on their personal conviction” in parliament.

Most of the other parties, including ODS, which is split on the issue, will also give their delegates a free vote. Marek Benda, chairman of the ODS’ parliamentary club, has opposed the motion in the past. Some members of ANO, the opposition party, are also divided on this question.

It is still unclear when it will be debated by the Chambers of Deputies. It will go to the government for consideration and then go can before parliament next month, according to local media reports. It appears to have a better chance of passing the Chamber this time around, analysts say.

It has strong backing from leading politicians. The motion was co-sponsored by Baxa, the minister of culture, and Markéta Pekarová Adamová, the chairwoman of the Chamber of Deputies and leader of TOP 09, a governing coalition partner.

When a similar bill was first read by parliament last year, some delegates also proposed a constitutional amendment to define marriage as the union between a man and a woman. But a constitutional amendment needs a three-fifths majority in the house and most commentators reckon that is very unlikely.

President Zeman’s threat to veto the law if it was passed by parliament is likely a hollow one. Presidential vetos can be overridden by a simple majority of lawmakers and Zeman will leave office after next January’s presidential election.

Most sources who spoke to Euronews did not think the change to the law would be ready for a president’s signature until after that ballot.

Following last December’s ruling by the European Court of Justice, the Czech Republic may also be heading towards legal challenges if it doesn’t get a move on to reform the law.

“We don't view marriage equality adoption as a means of change for society, as the institution of marriage won't change at all. People's marriage is not defined by other people's marriage,” said Milde.

“Marriage will be simply available for all couples and families who want to live a happy and satisfied life under the same legal protection,” he added.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1537647318882582529

Fox denies removing trans 'Jeopardy!' champ from Giants broadcast

Fox Sports says it did not mean to slight Amy Schneider throwing out the first pitch on Pride Day at Oracle Park.

www.sfgate.com

On Saturday, Oakland resident and trailblazing "Jeopardy!" champion Amy Schneider threw out the first pitch at the Giants game for Pride Day. Schneider, who is transgender, had the second-longest winning streak in the show’s history.

Every player on the Giants and Dodgers wore Pride-themed caps, in what had to be a major relief for MLB after several Tampa Bay Rays players refused to participate in their team’s Pride Night, citing a “lifestyle … that maybe we don't want to encourage.”

But while the team welcomed Schneider — and Dale Scott, the only MLB ump to come out as gay before retiring — there was one hiccup beyond their control.

The game aired on Fox, and the broadcast made it seem like NASCAR driver Kurt Busch, not Schneider, threw out the first pitch. Busch threw out the first pitch at Oracle Park two days earlier.

The edit was bizarre, and it immediately raised eyebrows.

“Kurt Busch threw out the first pitch,” said play-by-play announcer Adam Amin, neglecting to mention that the footage was from Thursday. “Of course, we’ve got the NASCAR race tomorrow coming up from Sonoma. You’ll see that on the Fox networks.”

"Kurt Busch threw out the first pitch." pic.twitter.com/DzolTVrLey
— The Comeback (@thecomeback) June 12, 2022

Jeopardy! megachamp Amy Schneider throws out the ceremonial first pitch on Pride Day at Oracle Park. pic.twitter.com/m7ihPTEsze
— Andrew Baggarly (@extrabaggs) June 11, 2022

Schneider and Giants broadcaster Duane Kuiper responded over the weekend, while the network denies it selectively edited the footage to keep Schneider off the air.

“Well, that’s Fox for you,” Schneider said on Sunday, referring to Fox News’ relentless attacks on transgender people.

Kuiper noticed it, too. "I wanted to make a correction from what I watched yesterday on the Fox broadcast," he said when the team returned to local TV Sunday. "The broadcast implied that Kurt Busch threw out the first pitch yesterday, which was not true. ...

"It was Amy Schneider from 'Jeopardy!' fame who threw out the first pitch on Pride Day yesterday. So I just wanted to make sure she got her due."

pic.twitter.com/tCu8UByYVK
— kate ️ (@sfgiantskate) June 12, 2022

Fox says that it did not intend to slight Schneider, and that first pitches usually don’t make telecasts.

“On Saturday, as part of a promotional package for the weekend’s NASCAR race in northern California, we aired a taped first pitch of famed NASCAR driver Kurt Busch,” a Fox Sports spokesman told SFGATE. “This promotion was in no way meant to overshadow the ceremonial first pitch for the game as it is not routine for us to air.”

The Giants directed all questions to Fox.

Update, June 16: Schneider told SFGATE that "They say that the reason they chose to mislead their viewers had nothing to do with me, so I’ll take them at their word."

 

[Laurs]

Just saw this article covering the tragic story of a detransitioned man Ritchie Herron from the UK, who medically transitioned 9 years ago to become a woman, has been on hormone replacement therapy ever since and 5 years ago he underwent genital reassignment surgery. In March 2022, Herron publicly came out as detrans.

He is full of grief and anger, feels like he has been butchered psychologically and physically, he is angry at everyone who let this happen to him, as at that time he was, according to him, obsessive and deeply unwell. He is painfully reminded on a daily basis 'of his own stupidity'. He took his story on twitter but some of his tweets got removed as they were mass reported, but he is not going to allow that to silence him. A ghastly story. I think he does what he can to help others and warn people out there, he is involved in detrans advocacy, appears on podcasts, writes about his experience and is a member of Genspect’s team, an international alliance of professional groups, parents, trans people, detransitioners, and others who advocate for a better model of care than the current “affirmative” approach.

I looked at that Genspect website, and saw that one of the members is Keira Bell, a 25 year old UK woman, who at the age of 16 began the process of a sex change with help of Tavistock's GIDS and University College of London, taking hormone blockers, cross-sex hormones and then surgery. After 6 years, she discovered all those drugs were leading to negative physical and mental effects and she joined a judicial review case against Tavistock GIDS to challenge the idea that under 18s could give informed consent to this experimental and harmful treatment. In first instance, the court ruled that the doctors of teenagers under 18 may need to consult the courts for authorisation for medical intervention. As a result of the decision, Tavistock's GIDS suspended new referrals for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for the under-16s. However, and this should not come as a surprise, Tavistock GIDS appealed and the Appeal court ruled in September of last year that doctors, not judges, can decide on the capacity of under-16s to consent to medical treatment.

Hope that by telling his story he can make a difference in someone's life.

Here's what he wrote on Twitter, in his own words, as copied from his Twitter thread:

I want to tell everyone what they took from us, what irreversible really means, and what that reality looks like for us.


No one told me any of what I’m going to tell you now.


I have no sensation in my crotch region at all.


You could stab me with a knife and I wouldn’t know. The entire area is numb, like it’s shell shocked and unable to comprehend what happened, even 4 years on.


I tore a sutra 4 days post-recovery, and they promised to address it. I begged them in emails to fix it, but they scorned me instead.


Years later, I have what looks like a chunk of missing flesh next to my neo-vagina, it literally looks like someone hacked at me.


They still won’t fix it


No one told me that the base area of your penis is left, it can’t be removed – meaning you’re left with a literal stump inside that twitches.


When you take testosterone and your libido returns, you wake up with morning wood, without the tree.


I wish this was a joke


And if you do take testosterone after being post-op, you run the risk of internal hair in the neo-vagina. Imagine dealing with internal hair growth after everything?


What a choice … be healthy on testosterone and a freak, or remain a sexless eunuch.


And that’s something that will never come back and one of the reasons why I got surgery.


My sex drive died about 6 months on HRT and at the time I was glad to be rid of it, but now 10 years later, I’m realising what I’m missing out on and what I won’t get back.


Because even if I had a sex drive, my neo vagina is so narrow and small, I wouldn’t even be able to have sex if I wanted to.


And when I do use a small dilator, I have random pockets of sensation that only seem to pick up pain, rather than pleasure.


Any pleasure I do get comes from the prostate that was moved forward and wrapped in glands from the penis, meaning anal sex isn’t possible and can risk further damage.


Then there’re the dreams. I dream often, that I have both sets of genitals, in the dream I’m distressed I have both, why both I think? I tell myself to wake up because I know it’s just a dream.


And I awaken into a living nightmare.


In those moments of amnesia, as I would wake, I would reach down to my crotch area expecting something that was there for 3 decades, and it’s not.


My heart skips a beat, every single damn time.


Then there’s the act of going to the toilet. It takes me about 10 minutes to empty my bladder, it’s extremely slow, and painful and because it dribbles no matter how much I relax, it will then just go all over that entire area, leaving me soaked.


So, after cleaning myself up, I will find moments later that my underwear is wet – no matter how much I wiped, it slowly drips out for the best part of an hour.


I never knew at 35 I ran the risk of smelling like piss everywhere I went.


Now I get to the point where I’m detransitioned and the realisation that this is permanent is catching up with me.


During transition, I was obsessive and deeply unwell, I cannot believe they were allowed to do this to me, even after all the red flags.


I wasn’t even asked if I wanted to freeze sperm or want kids. In my obsessive, deeply unwell state they just nodded along and didn’t tell me the realities, what life would be like.


And finally, there’s dilation, which is like some sort of demonic ceremony where you impale yourself for 20 agonising minutes to remind you of your own stupidity.


This isn’t even the half of it. And this isn’t regret either, this is grief and anger.


F*** everyone who let this happen.


When I lost 1600ml of blood during surgery, it took days to get a blood transfusion.


The surgery lasted 3 hours longer.


They joked about the blood loss too.

“call me”


I haven’t deleted anything btw [referring to tweets in his thread that were “removed”]. The thread got mass reported.


Thank you for archiving, kind internet stranger [and included this LINK].


How dare they/them.

 

[bjorb]

The devil is no longer in the details

https://twitter.com/x/status/1537778545161818112