I’m waiting for folks to realize that Judge Walker’s (and many other people’s) thoughts about the ability to appeal the case by the bad guys is actually a bad thing.
We want it appealed. The case is a *very* strong 14th amendment challenge that satisfies all the requirements — and despite people’s love of deciding that a judge is biased, the 9 folks in Washington have been judges for a long time and really do understand the ideas of law damn near to a degree that no typical person on the street will ever get, and certainly to a better degree than all the headlines will lead one to think.
You see, we want it appealed because its not about gay marriage.
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Unique visitors to post: 57This is H.O.W. is inviting the community to join us on Saturday, August 21st, and Sunday, August 22nd from 8:00am to 5:00pm each day for a bit of roll up the sleeves and dive in cleaning, organizing, and decorating of the HOW House, located at 1838 E Cypress St, Phoenix, AZ, 85006.
Refreshments and food will be provided, and we’ll be focusing on fun and volunteerism as we refresh the house at the same time we refresh the organization, and make it possible for TIH to provide the expanded services it’s going to start providing in September.
So show a little community spirit and dive in and dig in and let’s start Making Lives Better.
You can RSVP on our new Events page!
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We’ll see you there!
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Unique visitors to post: 7So Saturday afternoon and evening I wrote several posts. Four, I think. And I added a fifth that I’d already written and stumbled across doing some routine housecleaning behind the scenes here at the .com.
After that, I set aside the blog and started working on trying to meet the deadline I’d set up for myself regarding a website that I was, at the time I started once more, already a day behind on.
In part because I wrote those blog posts and did that stuff because I was knda sorta hoping to get intothe right mindset to do the kind of coding that I wanted to do.
I can’t just sit down and do website work. I need to be a in a certain frame of mind. When I’m in that headspace, I’m not too bad. But after years of running my own website and company to pay my bills, well, I’m not all that keen on it. I like blogging because I don’t have todo the website stuff.
And so, after two days of hard work and a modicum of sleep that I feel like I shouldn’t have done, I am surrendering to the inevitable and going with a prepackaged solution that I won’t be happy with, and will want to eventually find someone to redo, but can, for now, make do with and make work.
I’m sorry, what? Run on sentence? Eh, you’ll live.
Now, of course, I have the joy of creating content. *ugh*. Took me years to have the content I have here, and I don’t have that luxury for this site.
Rather exasperating, one might say.
Ah, screw it — I will say it. The whole process is exasperating. Which reminds me of a few other things that are that way…
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Unique visitors to post: 61I said it was coming, so here it is.
That gal that at one time basically described the scientific method as deciding on something and then proving it (instead of asking a question, testing possibilities, and figuring out the answer based on the data collected, even if it disagrees with what you thought it might prove) — which is, as you can see, not the scientific method but rather the method used by the ignorant — has, once again, written something that is absolute fuckng rubbish and tries vainly to pass itself off as something reasonable and erudite.
Yeah, I’m talking about AriaBlue.
It’s a common theme for us, one which I lay at the feet of the lover’s quarrel between Paul McHugh and John Money. The outcome of the tantrum thrown by McHugh over the study of the transsexual phenomenon was that transsexual abruptly ended in 1979. For the next decade, there was no such thing as transsexual. This left a gap into which transgender emerged.
This is from very early on in the piece, where she apparently tries to rewrite history and erase some of the most incredibly important stuff in the history of trans people and specifically in the history of transsexual people. Not that this is unusual, mind you; this is the gal who said that since Gender was a social construction it doesn’t really exist.
Like, oh, money. Or the concept of transsexual. Yep, Transsexual, you see, is a social construction. So it must not really exist, which means, by her own logic, that the above quote couldn’t possible have been written by her, as that would require the existence of a social construction.
*sigh* Yeah, that’s the level of idiocy that’s involved here this time. And, as I did earlier, let’s look at the malarky that is being spewed as if it has genuine value from another side of the small clique of anti-trans trans people…
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Unique visitors to post: 99On twitter, there was a comment left that asked, simply, what is a community.
That’s a kind of theme in a lot of what I encounter within the LGBT community. IT’s someting one hears within the communities that make up the LGBT community.
It’s odd, as well, because while those who are still finding their grounding wonder what a community is, those who oppose them, who try to erase them and kick them out and outlaw them know already.
And in their knowledge, we are not a part of that community.
Which kinda puts those who boldly say things like “i didn’t vote for this lgbt thing” into the same category, yet again, as those who want to get rid of LGBT people.
We do have a community. And our community is part of a wider network of them. And what it means to be part of a community is pretty damned important when it comes right down to it — because that’s what will allow us to live our lives and learn about others who are like us.
Here’s a couple of those “counter intuitive” things that actually prove there is a community:
1: people who say there’s no such thing. THey do this, most often, in a place where there is a collective gathering of people who have come there for the same purpose — to trade. Typically, this trade is in the form of information, and information is, in fact, a critical and vital currency.
2: people who talk about a homosexual agenda. For their to be an agenda, there has to be a community of sorts, unless, by chance, you want to try and pretend that thee’s a secret cabal of maybe 10 people doing everything. Far be it from me to take away someone’s right to pretend, but there’s a simple fact there — to have a shared goal requires community.
Communities are inherently aware of each other, especially when they experience conflict between each other.
Community is not a simple thing. There are lots of ways to look at it, but, as I’m rapidly being seen to do, when one focuses on the important points, and looks at the issues we face, a community has a great many aspects to it that are readily seen, if you have the knoweldge of what to look for.
To start with, remember the nature of the word itself. The Gift of togetherness is what community is. ANd that foundation explains much of why a community is sometimes called an extended family.
In the fashion of the tribes that loaned us our language, a community is one’s Kith — the larger sphere in which one’s kin and one’s family operate. It is like a tribe, and yet it often lacks the formalized structure that people tend to ascribe (incorrectly) to tribal systems.
Communities are organic in their structure. They are not something one creates via vote, they come from a sense of things that are shared in common, and the danger to a community is always based in what divides it, in what creates a separation.
So it is important, when thinking about what is a community, or what creates a community, to look once again, at what people have in common, not what they have in difference.
To say that the LGB has sexual orientation in common but the T doesn’t reflects a lack of awareness about the T.
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Unique visitors to post: 3A long while back I wrote a piece on fructose, centered on the massive ad effort to stop people from thinking it was the demon’s child.
Well….
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38528161/ns/health-cancer/
Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same.
Um, yeah.
Pancreatic cancer has no cure. It is not operable, really, and it’s fatality rate is freaking sky high. And the number of cases each year is increasing.
Fructose is also known as High Fructose Corn Syrup. You see it on pretty much anything you eat that would normally have sugar in it.
Fructose has been linked to the obesity epidemic (which I kinda question), it’s not really well known how the body processes it, because it more or less seems to just sit there (unlike glucose — table sugar — which the body just burns right up super fast).
I am, obviously, not a fan.
Yet, I’m sitting here with a Coke next to me, a Popsicle having just been finished, and, well…
Yeah.
Did you know that there used to be a lot of black market traffic conducted in Mexican Coca Cola across the Arizona state border?
Two reasons, for it.
First, they still had “old coke”. For those of a certain age, you’ll remember that fiasco.
Secondly, it was sugar sweetened. Actual sugar, not fructose. IT tastes different, too.
The black market was ended when retailers started ordering it.
There’s a shortage right now…
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Unique visitors to post: 24Presented without further comment because, well, it’s just fucking unbelievable that this site would call the current mainstream thinking “fairly new”. There is, however, a really great comment by a pretty sharp and smart gal I like.
From LiveScience:
Perhaps the most controversial of all current DSM disorders is gender identity disorder. Under the DSM-IV, people who feel that their physical gender does not match their true gender are diagnosed with gender identity disorder (GID). The DSM-5 proposals would revise the criteria for the disorder and change the name to the less-stigmatizing gender incongruence.
But to many, the DSM changes don’t go far enough.
“To have gender incongruence in the DSM-5, as they’ve defined it, still leaves it open to a child being sent to be ‘fixed’ when a child doesn’t have any problems,” said Diane Ehrensaft, a clinical psychologist in Oakland, Calif., who specializes in gender identity issues in children.
In fact, the largest controversy over GID is about an area the DSM doesn’t cover: treatment. Should kids who feel gender mismatched be allowed to define themselves, or should they be encouraged to identify with their physical gender? Those who argue for the latter see their role as helping kids get comfortable in their own skin. Those who argue for letting the child take the lead, like Ehrensaft, say that forcing a kid to live as an unwanted gender causes depression and anxiety.
Therapies like Ehrensaft’s are relatively new, so there are no long-term studies comparing the two approaches. When it comes to examining differences in how the kids turn out, “We don’t know,” said Kenneth Zucker, a University of Toronto psychologist who advocates teaching kids to identify with their physical gender. “We should know in another 10 years.”
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Unique visitors to post: 34Its Sunday. And it’s been a while since I’ve tackled some of the stuff that’s out there that is based in prejudice and internalized stigma by anti-trans trans folks.
So I’m a gonna do so. And then I’m going to talk about a few other things that have gone on recently, and I suspect it will result in a strong of posts that I’m doing in order to clear my mind because I don’t have as much of a stomach for web coding as I once did, lol.
To start with, I’m going to tackle this post by SA-ET, which pretends to have sense and understanding and functions from what superficially seems to be a logical point of reference,but is, in reality, a bunch of fucking bullshit of the sort that this racist, bigoted woman usually puts out.
After this one, the posts just get more interesting. Stick around today — I’m on a tear…
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Unique visitors to post: 163This is a completely random thing, and I’m simply venting in as polite a manner as i can manage, which should be somewhat ok.
As part of the arrangement for moving, and related to a need I have to establish a “local utility” bill in my name for a future goal, I’ve agreed to take over the cable costs for the place that I will be moving into sometime this month.
So, dutifully, I go over to the site for the cable company that is allowed to operate in this area (one of my personal issues) and I peruse their offerings, and you know what?
I really fucking hate cable companies.
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Unique visitors to post: 50So yesterday I spent the day working on a couple of program outlines and then running around talking to the various magazines as we ramp up the news from the press release I posted here a few days ago.
Programs are a challenge. I’ve written them in the past, and I’ve adapted a few, but these programs need to be very solid, and they need to be fairly specific, as the point and purpose of these programs is to increase the likelihood of getting grants in order to fund them. So they sorta need to meet the specific goals and objective sof the outside parties I’ll be asking for grants, and so forth and so on.
Program creation is a fairly straightforward process: Determine the need, outline the course, write the course, develop the supporting materials (handouts, presentations, tests, etc), and then, of course, do it.
I have a small collection of them I’ve done already, but they are more broad based than these. So while the writing part is easy, the outlining part is a little more involved, lol.
It’s fun,though, to do programs. It is not as fun to do the media stuff, though…
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Unique visitors to post: 40Good Day.
I’m going to preface what is becoming something of a habit with me by telling you a few things about me. I’m what is often called an “angry tranny”. This is used in the exact same way that people still say “uppity nigger” and “mouthy bitch”. Both of those things can be also be applied to me (and, come to think of it, both have been).
Apparently, you sat down one day not too long ago with someone who did an interview with you for Details magazine. Now, in all fairness, I don’t read details magazine, and generally could care less, but you are quoted in that article as saying something that is really, well, as Brian would say, fucking stupid, you asshole.
Except on FOX, of course, since the censors would edit that out. Too bad you didn’t have them around during that interview, though…
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Unique visitors to post: 123Feminism.
Been a while since I’ve talked about it.
Feminism is, for me, a core concept. It’s essentially based in the idea that for various reasons, men have come to a position of authority and power over women, and that they have used that power to oppress women.
Feminism, then, is the resistance to those socially enforced aspects of social life which act in a manner to limit and proscribe what women can and cannot do and how women are supposed to act and exist in society.
Which, even more simply for me, boils down to the idea that there are three billion women and change on Earth, and there are, thusly, three billion and change ways of being a woman on earth.
And anyone, anywhere, who takes it on themselves, to ascribe some sort of failure on another woman who, for whatever reason, fails to live up to their personal expectations or ideas on how women are supposed to behave, is best described as a sexually intercoursing individual of limited intellect and capacity for reason.
(that’s really two words, and I could employ brevity, but other people have complained that my use of certain expletives and pejoratives is uncouth and unbecoming a woman.)
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Unique visitors to post: 22And there’s three trains of thought that are going on at once.
But I’m not up for a ramble tonight — and too happy about things — so it will wait until the morrow.
I’ve got some stuff to say, of course, that isn’t happy making, but eh — for now, bask and revel. Tomorrow Consider and call out…
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Unique visitors to post: 14Yes, that’s the secret to the conservative mindset.
It’s all about the money, the dollars, and the less you know, the easier it is to lie to you and trick you into doing something that makes you think that you will make money when in fact you are only making money for someone else.
Simple truth: no one ever got rich working for someone else.
Unless, of course, you are getting a kick back by shilling gold through a company that sponsors your program on Fox News…
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