(responding to someone discussing anti-polyamorous discrimination)
you're definitely cishet and white, huh?đ
I'm not anti-poly but comparing it to ACTUAL discrimination/bigotry like racism and homophobia is some 𤥠behavior fr
(discussing a polyamorous foursome)
I really wouldn't care one bit what the perverts think. These "alternative" lifestyles that are driven by the worst part of our nature many times end up in a forensic files episode when one or more of the 4 some wind up buried in a ditch.
(in response to âWhat is it that makes a woman a woman?â)
Two X chromosomes and a lived experience that cannot be replicated. Not hair extensions, a handbag, makeup, nail polish, lipstick, and plastic surgery.
If I have to explain the lived experiences of women, then you fail to understand misogyny, the patriarchy, biology, history, bias that even toddlers encounter. Donât tell biological women that what they experience isnât unique to them.
I canât take anyone seriously who begins an argument describing women as âAFAB folks.â You lost any impact you could ever have on me or many of us when you minimize us to slurs such as AFAB and cis! I prefer not to be degraded that way and find those terms offensive. Again, prime example of ignorance!
Columbia City Council voted Tuesday to strike down the cityâs ban on conversion therapy.
Council members voted 4-3 during a special-called meeting to repeal a 2021 ordinance that banned the practice in the city.
[âŚ]Columbia Mayor Daniel Rickennman provided the following statement after Tuesdayâs vote: âTonightâs vote was not taken lightly. Every member of City Council grappled with the difficult balance between our cityâs deeply held values and the fiscal responsibilities we owe to our residents. Make no mistake: Columbia will never tolerate abuse of any kind. While no violations of the 2021 ordinance have been reported in the past three years, we remain fully committed to protecting every young person in our community. [âŚ] We faced an undeniable reality, and preserving an ordinance under legal challenge would have put millions of critical state funding at risk. Funds that support public safety, basic city services, and the day-to-day operations that make Columbia work. The cost of inaction was too high. This vote is not a retreat from our values. It is a recognition we must act strategically to protect our residents.â
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson published an opinion in 2022 where he stated he felt the ordinance violated the state constitution. Later, the South Carolina Legislature passed the Medical Ethics and Diversity Act, which stopped municipal governments from interfering with psychological therapy and counseling.
[âŚ]The legislature then passed a budget proviso, which was then signed into law by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, that withholds local funds from the state to any city that has such a ban. (Columbia is the only local government in the state that has such a measure). Because the council could not decide a course of action in time, the city drafted a budget that did not include roughly $3.7 million in state funds.
The entire idea of polyamory is attention seeking nonsense.
The city of Columbia is receiving a demand from the stateâs top prosecutor.
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says in a letter dated April 22 that the city must repeal a ban on conversion therapy for minors that the council narrowly passed in 2021.
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Wilson said in the letter that his office has âsteadfastly maintained a position dedicated to safeguarding, upholding, and advancing the rights of South Carolinians to freely exercise their respective religious beliefs.â
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âOpponents of my position and proponents of this ban are going to use the straw man argument to say that this is anti-gay, this is anti-LGBT or whatever and this is going to hurt people,â Wilson said. âThat is as far from the truth as it could possibly be.â
However, advocates like Dylan Gunnels, the president of South Carolina Pride, say the practice does exactly that.
He underwent conversion therapy and founded The Agape Table, a local nonprofit.
âThe Attorney General is choosing to disregard facts, data, choosing to disregard all of the major medical associations, whether itâs the American Psychological Association, American Medical Association, American Pediatric Association, who for over a decade have now said that this is a harmful practice that harms LGBTQ youth.â
Uh yeah, mixed race friend groups only work in movies. They aren't really your friends. They'll turn on you if the time comes. White people in the 90s and so on were brought up to not judge based on color. Most of them were brought up to think you're an oppressor. Listen to what they think that we think of them. That is how they feel. They are letting their own feelings out and think everyone thinks the same way. Stick with your own people and support denaturalization and deportation. Might not be the answer you all want, but it is the correct answer.
South Carolina Superintendent Ellen Weaver announced Monday afternoon that the Palmetto State has adopted PragerU as an educational partner.
[âŚ]PragerU is well-known for their short videos for social media and YouTube with titles like âWhat Radical Islam and the Woke Have in Commonâ, âMake Men Masculine Againâ, and âWould You Rather Be Colonized by Aztecs or Christians?â
[âŚ]The South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) said various content streams from Prager U have been approved for usage in state schools, including PragerU Kids content, age-appropriate â5-Minute Videosâ and the Cash Course series.
The department said PragerUâs resources are optional but will be supported by the state should teachers wish to use them.
âAs we celebrate Constitution Day, the South Carolina Department of Education reaffirms its commitment to providing an exceptional education for every child,â said Superintendent Weaver. âWe are thrilled to announce the addition of supplemental materials for South Carolina schools through this partnership. These optional educational materials, aligned with South Carolinaâs K-12 standards, will provide a wide range of essential topics like civics and financial literacy.â
South Carolina is one of several states that have joined the PragerU in Schools initiative, including Florida, Oklahoma, Montana, New Hampshire, Arizona, Louisiana and more.
A 12-year-old girl in Texas died after her parents didnât seek medical attention after she suffered life-threatening injuries. Instead, they gave her smoothies and vitamins, according to authorities.
Deputies said Miranda Sipps, a cheerleader at Jourdanton Junior High School, suffered unknown life-threatening injuries for about four days before she tragically died Monday, WKRC reported.
Before her death, her parents, 36-year-old Denise Balbaneda and 40-year-old Gerald Gonzales, allegedly tried to treat her injuries through smoothies and vitamins.
âThey were trying to give her smoothies, but somebody who is unconscious is not able to swallow,â Soward noted.
[âŚ]âShe was not talking. She basically could flutter her eyes and move her hands a little bit over a four-day period,â said Atascosa County Sheriff David Soward. âAnd they had her laying on a pallet in the house.â
The 12-year-old girl was pronounced dead in the emergency room.
[âŚ]Investigators believed the couple avoided seeking medical attention to prevent law enforcement from coming to their home.
Even after calling 911, Balbaneda left their house and met emergency responders on the road.
(from a Reddit thread where the original poster wanted advice on a âfriends with benefitsâ situation. This user started to accuse people in casual sexual relationships of being rapists; this is a collection of their quotes from throughout the thread)
No relationship is casual once you have sex. Sex has consequences whether people want to admit it or not. It's physical.
(âI have had plenty of casual relationships, mainly just having sex and maybe watching movies or whatever.â)
You raped people?
Sex by deception is a criminal act of rape.
(âYou think no one can consent to casual, no strings attached sex?â)
Nope.
(âIt didn't create an emotional response in him. All he led her to believe is that he was down to nut, just like her. She shouldn't have led him to believe she wouldn't catch feelings.â)
Take a biology class child.
(âSo you're saying that sex is inherently damaging to people?â)
It is the most emotionally damaging thing that ever happens to anyone.
(âI've been the naive girl who caught feelings from a FWB situation, and you're talking bullshit.â)
You "caught feelings" because that's a normal human response you learned the hard way; that there is no such thing as simply FWB. You were used.
(âChill out, dude.â)
Why, because guys can't be called out for using someone? Lying by actions? Women do this as well at times. But yes, usually men because other men tell them it's ok to do. Just like the hundreds on this sub who are supporting casual rape.
(It goes on and on like thisâŚ)
COLUMBIA, S.C. â Patients who go to any affiliate of MUSC Health for gender-affirming care will no longer be able to receive it due to a part of a law passed in May that primarily targets preventing these procedures for minors.
MUSC has pointed to one sentence in the bill that says public funds can't be used "directly or indirectly for gender transition procedures," as the reason they can no longer offer these procedures to anyone, including those over 18.
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But that wasn't the intention of lawmakers when adding to the language, said bill sponsor Rep. David Hiott.
"Our bill dealt with the minors only," said Hiott. "But I applaud MUSC for going the next step and saying they are not gonna do any of those procedures for any individual in South Carolina."
Police in south India have arrested a couple after the woman allegedly threw their deaf and nonverbal 6-year-old son into a crocodile infested canal, leading to the child's death.
The incident happened in the Dandeli rural area of Karnataka state on Saturday, according to police, who told CBS News that Savitri, 26, who uses only one name, threw her son into a local canal after an argument with her husband.
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"We found the child's body from the canal on Sunday morning," Karnataka Police sub-inspector Krishna Arakeri, who is investigating the case, told CBS News. "There were several injury marks on the child's body and one hand was missing, which seems to have been eaten by a crocodile."
During preliminary questioning, Savitri told police that her husband, Ravi Kumar, 27, would often blame her for their son's disabilities and urge her to throw him into the river, Arakeri said.
COLUMBIA, S.C. â State Education Superintendent Ellen Weaver is urging school districts across the state to ignore the new federal Title IX guidelines issued by the US Department of Education last week.
The regulations, aimed at preventing sex discrimination in schools, offer new protections to groups such as LGBTQ students, pregnant students, and victims of sexual assault. However, they do not address the issue of transgender athletes.
In a statement released by Weaver, she expressed concerns about the new rules, calling them "troubling" and stating that they create chaos and confusion for teachers, students, and parents.
[âŚ]Weaver's letter recommends that districts refrain from implementing the new rules at this time, suggesting that a court may block the rules before their effective date. She argues that the Biden administration's actions undercut existing Title IX law and are an attempt to "redefine biological reality."
"Title IX applies to every school that receives federal funding, so ignoring these rules could put risk us losing federal dollars when our schools are already really underfunded," [Jace Woodrum, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of South Carolina], emphasized.
(arguing that the male pregnancy/âmpregâ kink is transphobic and wrong)
Trans men are being ignored in favour of cis men, despite the cis men characters embodying traits of trans men in order to create/progress a certain narrative. This is textbook fetishization.
[âŚ]So essentially, cis men are used instead of trans men, which is fetishistic, but even when trans men are used, itâs nearly always fetishistic in how the characters and narrative are handled.
[âŚ]any media content that doesnât explicitly humanize trans people will end up being transphobic.
[âŚ]if theyâre not trans, then the work is a transphobic write-off
[âŚ]In reality, mpreg doesnât explicitly claim to be related to trans (or intersex) people, but it cannot be viewed outside of that context in a world where trans and intersex people are also displaced from our bodies and our realities by cis dyadic people, in a world where our body parts are literally objectified and fetishized and removed from our humanity. I literally donât give a crap what anyoneâs intent is, thatâs the reality of it, thatâs representation that harms trans and intersex people, and if people fail to realize that, then theyâre harming trans and intersex people, categorically.
(trying to argue that the term âfemboy,â even when used by and about cis men, is transphobic)
Enter femboys. Femboys often look exactly like the standard trap â a very young, semi-androgynous, flat-chested, thin, white anime girl â though theyâre frequently depicted even more salaciously because the artist has no reason to âconceal their masculine traits,â instead drawing attention to their genitals.
The default reasoning people use as to why this concept isnât transmisogynistic is that femboys are gender-nonconforming boys who arenât trying to trick anyone into believing that theyâre girls. [âŚ] However, this argument completely ignores that half of the issue with traps and futanari is that they are a fetish. In every instance, a great deal of emphasis is placed on the penis â itâs shocking and unexpected; itâs connotative of a cis boy in disguise; itâs accentuation goes hand-in-hand with male femininity, designating male femininity as inherently erotic. [âŚ]
This is what youâre contributing to when you normalize the fetishization of âfemboys,â the fetishization of the juxtaposition between a feminine presentation with a so-called âmasculineâ biology.
I will always hold resentment towards nonblacks for the way they treat us as less than human.[âŚ]Call me racist all day but I will never understand the infatuation with Whites and I will always be mistrusting of them
(from a thread discussing AI-generated deepfake porn)
H_T1998
Porn is degenerate unless you make it yourself with your partner
Reasonable-Design_43
I absolutely agree. Tried to explain this to someone and they fought me tooth and nail over it
H_T1998
That person 100% cranks it to the hub daily. Porn just melts peoples brains itâs crazy
SnowMiserForPres
"it's my God given RIGHT to jerk off to and objectify a human being. If you don't support that, you want my rights and my freedom taken away"
AliceLoverdrive
Why yes, I want all the coomers to be stripped of rights and sent to uranium mines, why do you ask?
Netflix has removed an Indian language film from its platform after the movie faced a backlash on social media for depicting the daughter of a Hindu priest eating meat.
Hindus are Indiaâs largest religious grouping and Hindu priests, as well as their families, are typically vegetarian.
âAnnapoorani â The Goddess of Food,â a Tamil-language film that was released in theaters in December and aired on Netflix later the same month, was no longer available on the international streaming platform as of Thursday.
[âŚ]On Wednesday, protesters from the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), a hardline Hindu organization with ties to Prime Minister Narendra Modiâs Bharatiya Janata Party, shouted slogans against Netflix and the movie at the companyâs Mumbai office, according to a post on X by VHP spokesperson Shriraj Nair.
The film depicts the daughter of a Hindu temple priest in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu eating meat and later entering a high-stakes cooking contest, where she cooks meat.
âThis film ... is intentionally released to hurt Hindu sentiments,â Ramesh Solanki, who described himself as the head of an organisation called âHindu IT Cell,â said on X, formerly known as Twitter.
A ban on gender-affirming care for kids and teens in South Carolina is moving quickly at the State House.
Just hours after lawmakers gaveled in to begin their 2024 legislative session Tuesday, the newly-filed bill, H.4624, drew hours of criticism from parents and pediatricians during an afternoon hearing.
[âŚ]But supporters, including top Republicans in the stateâs House of Representatives, claimed they are pushing this legislation to protect kids.
âWhen God created us, he created us male and female, and thatâs it. There is no other choice, and all these other folks that want to change that from birth or change that through their life, we need to stand up against that,â House Majority Leader Davey Hiott, R â Pickens and the billâs lead sponsor, said during a news conference Tuesday.
This bill would ban minors in South Carolina from undergoing âgender-transition procedures,â including surgeries, hormone therapy, and puberty blockers.
It would also prohibit state dollars from paying for these procedures and would ban Medicaid from covering them for anyone younger than 27 in South Carolina.
Science instruments aren't the only things hitching a ride to the Moon on a commercial lunar lander that is ready for launch on Monday. Two companies specializing in "space burials" are also sending cremated human remains to the Moon, and this doesn't sit well with the Navajo Nation.
The Navajo people, one of the nation's largest indigenous groups, hold the Moon sacred, and putting human remains on the lunar surface amounts to desecration, according to Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren.
âThe sacredness of the Moon is deeply embedded in the spirituality and heritage of many Indigenous cultures, including our own,â Nygren said in a statement. âThe placement of human remains on the Moon is a profound desecration of this celestial body revered by our people.â
[âŚ]Charles Chafer, CEO of Celestis, pushed back on the Navajo Nation objections in an interview with Marcia Smith of SpacePolicyOnline.com. âNobody owns the Moonâ and there is âno religious test for the conduct of space activities,â he said.
âWe reject the whole premise that this is somehow desecration,â Chafer said. âWe handle these capsules reverently. We do not scatter them on the lunar surface. We object to the entire characterization of our service that I read in the letter. Itâs the antithesis of desecration. Itâs celebration.â
(more discussion on the term âqueerâ; followed-up from https://fstdt.com/TVNWJ9FLKBG2B)
>Queer and cis go hand in hand. Itâs hipster bullshit.
>The Trans Industry needs "Queer" as an umbrella term to lump in AGPs and pedos with the LGB. It's also why they have completely appropriated (and literally purchased) the original Black Lives Matter and turned it into something that actively harms black women and children. It's why they infiltrated and destroyed 3rd Wave feminism. These are the same rich white straight male colonizers we've known for most of recorded history. They rename our cultures, wear our cultural dress as costume, invade our spaces, forbid us our language and rights. And make a lot of money doing it.
>Now it's used by straight women wanting to be edgy.
>[âŚ]it's such a broad term now, it's used as fad slang for every fad gender swap, purple hair, they them zee za zou pronoun BS[âŚ]
>The term Queer is completely meaningless now that it represents self-obsessed straight people.
(in which people take various positions on the term âqueerâ; I'd actually tag this as heterophobia if I could)
>"Queer" now means straight people who want to larp as oppressed. To me, that makes it doubly offensive.
>"Queer" has a long history as a slur against gay men in particular, and they are the only ones who can "reclaim" it. Not women pretending to be gay men, not straight people who dye their hair cotton candy colors, not trannies, or enbys, or any of the other imaginary identities. Homosexuality is an orientation, not an "identity".
> "Queer" allows them to elide and obfuscate the stark disparity that exists between gay people and everyone else (bisexuals, while they experience same-sex attraction, still benefit from heterosexual privilege).
>Because you can't define it nowadays, it's meaningless as a word. I hate all this stupid 'non-binary' 'queer' nothingness.
>Back before many of you were born, we simply said "gay and lesbian." "Bisexual" was something people grew out of. There was no need to encourage it.
>it's been extra funny watching the bisexuals shriek on social media about how they're left out of everything or how they are stigmatized.
>"Queers" are asshole fake gays temporarily using the gay community to add some kinky flavor to their dull straight lives, and they are going to be the death of the real gay community.
> Go ahead and pretend to shamed when youâre misgendered when you foolishly try to look like the gender you are not. Your obvious body dysphoria is a sad condition and you should seek treatment instead of validation.
(Regarding an episode of âBob's Burgersâ where Louise researches Amelia Earhart)
I've always liked how Louise is seen as a bit of a tomboyish character and had a wide array of interests. I've especially liked it how she would speak out against girls not being allowed to do certain things that boys are allowed to do, and talk ahout how girls can look and do whatever they want to do (and insinuating they don't have to be boys to do so). I haven't watched this show for a decent while, but that was something that I've always enjoyed about her character, and I was even surprised it was allowed to say things like that anymore, with all the TRA garbage in the media today.
(Submitterâs note: she's apparently unaware that âBob's Burgersâ is a VERY trans-friendly show)
BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - For the past three school board meetings some people have recited the Lordâs prayer during a designated moment of silence.
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Former Berkeley County School Board Member Ann Conder has been leading the prayer. She says the board used to open all meetings with the prayer up until 2016. In 2016, South Carolina leaders passed the Public Invocation Act. It says that prayer at public meetings must not âadvance any one faith or belief, or coerce participation by observers.â
âFor fear of legal repercussions, the board at that time made the decision to place on the agenda a moment of silence instead of the longstanding practice of opening prayer. I beseech you to reinstate that historical practice,â Conder said to the board during public comment at a recent meeting.
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âIt is to invite God into our boardroom so that he will grant you righteous guidance as you make your decisions for our children and their education. We will not be silenced and we will continue to invite God into this boardroom,â Conder said at the comment podium.
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When asked to comment specifically about the altercation at the start of the last meeting, Conder gave a statement saying: âI just donât feel I need to defend something that is a constitutional right, but most importantly a God given right.â
(South Carolina has passed a hate crimes bill in its House; now it goes to SC Senate)
Republican Rep. John McCravy said leaving gender in the bill would allow a progressive court a door to dismantle efforts conservatives have made to pass bills curtailing what sports teams transgender people can play on or the bathrooms they use.
âThe language in this bill could be used against the Save Womenâs Sports Act. It could be used against arguments about bathrooms,â McCravy said. âI think you see what the real agenda is here.â
An adjunct professor fired from Hamline University in St. Paul has filed a religious discrimination and defamation lawsuit against the school.
Fabian May & Anderson, PLLP, announced Tuesday that the firm is filing the suit on behalf of Dr. Erika LĂłpez Prater, who was let go from her position at the university after she displayed an artistic depiction of the Prophet Muhammad during an Oct. 6, 2022 lecture.
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Prater's course syllabus included the following disclaimer:
"I aim to affirm students of all religious observances and beliefs in the content of the course. Additionally, this course will introduce students to several religious traditions and the visual cultures they have produced historically. This includes showing and discussing both representational and non-representational depictions of holy figures (for example, the Prophet Muhammad, Jesus Christ, and the Buddha). If you have any questions or concerns about either missing class for a religious observance or the visual content that will be presented, please do not hesitate to contact me."
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LĂłpez Prater distributed the syllabus to students and reviewed it with her class. It was also posted online.
On the day the images were shown in class, LĂłpez Prater told the Times that she warned students right before the painting was shown in case they wanted to leave.
After a student in her class filed a complaint, LĂłpez Prater was let go from her position. That student, Aram Wedatalla, is also president of the Muslim Student Association at Hamline University.
âIâm 23 years old, Iâve never seen a picture of a prophet. Never in my whole lifeâ Wedatalla said at a recent press conference hosted by the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. âIt hurts; it breaks my heart to stand here to tell people and beg people to understand me. To feel what I feel.â
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Though on Jan. 13, the national CAIR chapter released its own statement, writing in a series of tweets that the organization had seen "no evidence that a former Hamline University professor acted with bigoted intent or engaged in Islamophobia when she analyzed a medieval painting depicting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) that was drawn hundreds of years after his passing by a Muslim artist."
hate2breakittoya:
âim a survivor and i engage in bdsm to cope and explore my trauma in a safe environmentâ
you just admitted yourself that youâre retraumatizing yourself. whatâs more, youâre retraumatizing yourself⌠for the purpose of sexual gratification? and your partner is not only okay with it, but playing the part of your assaulter brings them sexual gratification as well? and youâre still gonna argue that itâs a healthy coping mechanism and a healthy sexual practice to be involved in?
thewoesofyaoi:
if i may proffer my own Hot Take to add onto this excellent post: inasmuch as systemic oppression is a form of continual, lifelong trauma, this is also true of other âkinksâ or sexual behaviors that have to do with reinforcing the violence you face as a member of a marginalized group.
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tl;dr these forms of oppression all include a facet that attempts to govern your sexuality, which asserting your sexual agency goes against. To a degree, I think this can in and of itself be regarded as a form of sexual trauma. Itâs often easier to try to deal with that trauma by turning into a Fun Sexy Thing that you can control, rather than digging deeper into your own pain and its causes.
(from a thread about annoying commercials)
The commercial for the new HIV prep drug, Descovy, annoy the hell out of me. Specifically the bit where one of the actors says that it hasn't been tested on people who were assigned "female" at birth. No, you mean people born female. The actual biological sex they were born as. Because all but small percentage of people were born either male or female. It's not like gender, which is cultural and something you can be assigned, it's a biological fact.
So basically this drug hasn't been tested for anyone who was born female, regardless of how they might identify now. Just say that.
Transwomen are more likely to rape transmen so idk why you think THEYâRE the vulnerable ones. Theyâre also raping lesbians by threatening to hurt or socially ostracize them if they donât have sex with their âgirldick.â
But that's not true. Every transwoman was born with a dick and surgical mods to a penis doesn't make it anything other than a penis that's been carved up and rearranged.
If a man's penis is injured beyond repair and something must be rigged so he is able to urinate, does he automatically become a woman? Of course not. He is a man who survived a life changing traumatic injury. So are transwomen.
It's also worthy of note fewer 15% percent of transwomen have had neovaginas surgically created. That is considered statistically insignificant. If a party of transwomen got together roughly one in ten would have mutilated peens. The other nine would be out swinging.
The Medical University of South Carolina announced they are dropping pediatric transgender clinics.
The clinics provided hormonal care to minors.
In response, the South Carolina Freedom Caucus, which is made up of conservative politicians around the state, called the decision âa huge win.â
âThis is a huge win for the Freedom Caucus, but more importantly, it is a huge win for childhood innocence,â Chairman Adam Morgan, R-Greenville, said. âOfficials from MUSC have informed us that they will no longer be providing morally and ethically repugnant âgender-affirming careâ that results in irrevocable and irreparable harm for minors.â
MUSC released the following statements related to the decision and its current policies.
MUSC Health has worked diligently to make sure that we are in compliance with the 2022-2023 Appropriations Act and proviso 23.4 and will do the same with any future legislative requirements/directives.
MUSC Health does not have a dedicated pediatric/adolescent transgender endocrine clinic.
MUSC Health no longer provides pediatric/adolescent transgender hormonal care.
MUSC Health does not offer gender-altering surgery.
Behavioral health and nutritional support and social services are provided, based on need, for all pediatric patients and families regardless of sex, gender orientation, or race.
The parents or legal guardians of any patient under legal age are involved in all decision-making regarding their children.
There is no such thing as Black supremacy. There never has been and there never will be.
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Black folks ainât superior and any person spewing it has a personal motive. You should flee from them promptly. There is no way any Black person in America or Black people collectively can be Black supremacists.
Any person using the term is doing nothing more than deflecting from their own discomfort discussing race and is incapable or willing to deal with their adjacency to white supremacy.
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Black people cannot be racist, only prejudice (many people donât know the difference between prejudice and supremacist)
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People using the term Black supremacists have an entirely different motive, and itâs keeping their White gate owners, employers, family members, and friends happy and comfortable. Iâm not about to allow anyone (including Black folks) to use their privilege to scapegoat Black folks who recognize what white supremacy is going to them individually and to Black people collectively.
As Michael Harriot noted, Black supremacy isnât a thing because Black people can never be supreme or superior. I also believe people misconstrue racism and white supremacy.
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Lastly, White and European people are the only people in the world who believe and act as if they are superior to all other races. The rest of us are just trying to either navigate or compete with white supremacy for seats at the table or scraps from the floor. This is a White manâs world. Black folks are just squirrels trying to gather a few nuts to survive the winter.
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Black supremacy is a made-up term coined by folks who either love/need their paychecks supplied to them by White people, are Black folks married to White folks who arenât ready or willing to unpack their own ties to white supremacy, or biracial people torn between the Black/Brown parts of themselves and their other part â the White or White passing side.
(regarding Amy Bosley, who murdered her husband in an attempt to conceal her financial fraud, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison)
I know for a fact she never actually went to prison. She was introduced to the Dwarf Mafia out of Syracuse New YorkâŚtheir main offices are hidden on Syracuse Universitiesâ property, underneath Bird Library.
Iâve been to their meetings and the jobs they carry out there for an unforeseen power, are terrifying.
She is doing deeds now that would set your soul afire.
(Regarding the missing child Jaliek Rainwalker, and the suspicious behavior of his adoptive parents)
This is the exact reason why white people have no business adopting black children. They take out all their pint up racism on the child. Reminds me of that white lesbian couple that killed all those black children in Portland. Those âparentsâ had no electricity or running water?! And was getting $1500?? How the hell did they get approved as adoptive parents??!! Because they were white and can do no wrong. I really wish our people would get their stuff together so their black children wonât end of like one of these tragedies.
BLYTHEWOOD, S.C. (WIS) - WIS is continuing to look into the distribution of pro-white flyers that have allegedly been passed out to some people living in the Blythewood neighborhood.
A Blythewood resident says he was handed one of the flyers on Halloween night. The resident says he believes the masked men were going door to door with these flyers.
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The flyer gives information on a pro-white group called the Southern Sons Active Club.
It claims that the white race is going extinct and one of the groupâs goals is to secure the existence of that race. The flyer also makes use of the âSSâ symbol, which is commonly associated with officers in Nazi Germany.
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The resident called the Richland County Sheriffâs Department which sent a deputy to the scene.
According to an incident report, the two men that gave him the flyer were wearing black masks with a white design resembling a ghost. When questioned, the men ran off.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center has an online map that identifies hate groups by city and state. A researcher with the group Cassie Miller said in an email that the Active Club is a white nationalist hate group with about a dozen chapters around the country, including the Southern Sons Chapter in South Carolina.
The group was started by longtime white nationalist activist Robert Rundo. Rundo was formerly the leader of the Rise Above Movement, a white nationalist group that engaged in violence at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.
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The Richland County Sheriffâs Department says they will continue to investigate to find out who passed out the flyers by running a lab analysis on the paper.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Two of the men vying to lead South Carolina for the next four years outlined their visions for the stateâs future Wednesday, with one pitching for South Carolina to stay its current course and the other arguing his opponent is pulling the state back to the past.
Republican Gov. Henry McMaster, seeking re-election for a second term, and former Democratic Congressman Joe Cunningham met Wednesday in Columbia for their first and only currently scheduled debate ahead of the Nov. 8 election.
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âI think it was fine the way it was before under Roe v. Wade,â Cunningham said. ââŚIf an abortion ban comes to Gov. McMasterâs desk with no exceptions, heâll sign it, and Iâll veto it.â
Prior to Roeâs overturn, McMaster had indicated his support for a ban from conception without exceptions, but he has since said he finds the exceptions included in the stateâs currently-blocked six-week ban â for the life and health of the mother, sexual assault victims, and fatal fetal anomalies â as reasonable.
South Carolinaâs Republican-dominated legislature has been attempting since the summer to further restrict abortions, but lawmakers have not been able to come to an agreement on a final bill.
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Questioning later turned to what would happen if the Supreme Court overturned another precedent, protecting same-sex marriage nationwide.
McMaster said he would follow a current state law that bans it. While that law is still on the books, it has been unenforceable following the courtâs 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision to require states recognize same-sex marriages.
âMaybe Iâm old-fashioned, but I think marriage ought to be between a man and a woman, just like I think that boys ought to play in boysâ sports and girls ought to play in girlsâ sports,â McMaster said.
Cunningham, seemingly caught by surprise by McMasterâs response, responded the governor was taking the state backwards.
âGov. McMaster has been leading South Carolina into the 1950s since the 1980s,â Cunningham said.
State Senator Josh Kimbrell is calling for change, threatening to defund libraries across the state if certain books are not removed from the kidâs sections.
He held a press conference Monday, at the Spartanburg Public Library, following what he claims are hundreds of complaints against books that teach children about gender identities. During the press conference, he added that the books are hiding behind âbeing educationalâ.
Examples of the books in question are âYou be Youâ, âThe Pronoun Bookâ, and âMy Own Wayâ.
âI do not want tax money to be used to put this stuff in the hands of kids against their parentâs wishesâ, said Kimbrell.
Protestors lined to streets outside the library making their voices heard against Kimbrell. One mother of an LGBTQ+ child said, by taking away inclusive books you are taking away free speech.
Jodi Snyder said, âthis is our library too and our library is inclusive, diverse, and loving and we protect our children by making sure that they are learning about all people and all backgrounds and all socioeconomic backgrounds and all orientations. Josh Kimbrell is trying to ban books. Thatâs banning freedom.â
The director of the Spartanburg County Library said since the start of the year, he has only received six complaints about LGBTQ+ positive books. He said if anyone has a concern over books to please fill out a complaint form your branch.
In New Jersey not long ago, I went to play miniature golf with my fiance. Iâll call the place âGolfville.â After weâd paid, we discovered that the course consisted of nothing but flat, straight, unchallenging par-2 holes. I immediately complained to the management, and the response was that a NJ law requires any new miniature golf course to be wheelchair accessible!
In other words, I mused, only crappy miniature golf courses can now be built â which means no one who isnât handicapped will want to play, effectively killing the pastime â just so a handful of theoretical miniature golf âdiehards on wheelchairsâ can play.
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I understand the desire to include the disabled in recreational activities, and this is not a bad idea. (Iâm sure that if I were wheelchair-bound Iâd be complaining about all the things I couldnât do and all the places I couldnât go. Would I have the right, however, to demand access to everywhere I feel like going?) What I donât understand is that the federal government has any business telling mini-golf entrepreneurs what they can and canât do with their own property, that it can define what a âsocially integrated experienceâ is, and then it can force all of this down everyoneâs throat in order to include a small minority which may or may not have any interest in the activity in the first place.
If there were, in fact, a demand for wheelchair-accessible mini-golf courses, wouldnât businesspeople be building them? The disabled from miles and miles around would descend like locusts upon such places, and their owners would make fortunes! Forced compliance would be unnecessary if the need actually existed.
So, as old mini-golf courses wear out and new ones are built, nine holes out of eighteen will be tepid at best, effectively killing the fun for the non-disabled 99% of players. An alternative would be to build two courses, one for the disabled and one for the non-disabled. Twice as expensive to build, but too bad for the entrepreneurâŚ. Of course, all of this will really improve peopleâs attitudes toward the handicapped.
Current and former Anderson University students gathered Sunday morning to show support for a professor who says she lost her job last week because of her sexual orientation.
About 20 people stood outside the university's metal archway on Boulevard in Anderson holding signs and waving flags in support of the LGBTQ+ community and former theater professor Miranda Barnett.
In a video posted Wednesday on Instagram, Barnett said her contract as a part-time professor at Anderson University had not been renewed for the fall semester because she is queer.
[âŚ]the spokesperson also sent a written statement to the Independent Mail that reads, in part, "Anderson University is a private Christian university which upholds the South Carolina Baptist traditional view of sexuality and marriage as set forth in Scripture."
[âŚ]Barnett, a Greenville native, won Anderson University's 2019-20 award for "Excellence in Teaching" for part-time faculty. Nominations were submitted from students and faculty, and the recipient was chosen by a student and faculty committee, according to the university's website.
Gov. Henry McMaster will soon sign a bill that would allow healthcare professionals to deny service on the basis of their beliefs.
A spokesperson with the governorâs office said he plans to sign the Medical Ethics and Diversity Act into law Friday.
The bill would authorize whatâs known as âmedical rights of conscienceâ in South Carolina. It would essentially protect doctors, nurses and medical students from being fired or punished for opting out of services based on their âreligious, moral, or ethical beliefs or principles.â
State law already protects doctors, nurses and technicians from refusing to perform abortions - but the Medical Ethics and Diversity Act would add medical students to that list.
It would not, however, apply to emergency medical treatment that is required by federal law. The bill also states that practitioners are not allowed to refuse services on the basis of race.
A group of healthcare professionals and students previously asked McMaster to veto the bill, saying it could lead to a denial of care for services like gender-affirming care as well as life-saving medications to prevent and treat HIV.
Support women who choose not to give birth to sons.
(Anonymous asked:
So there is an author who's books I really like (non-sexualized lesbian action romances, anyone??), but I recently found out that she is a HUGE supporter of the troons. Would it be ethical of me to rip her books off online or send her a few IMs and home she comes to her senses?)
I dunno if I can support stealing from an author for any reason but you can always reach out and see if she's willing to have a convo with you about it! I think if you explain the sanctity of the lesbian identity to her she might understand.
The Sumter Police Department has charged a 17-year-old accused of tampering with a state sign and having it display a racial slur.
The suspect is considered a juvenile under S.C. law, so his name will not be released. He will be charged with aggravated breach of peace and is being held in a state Department of Juvenile Justice facility, according to Sumter police. [âŚ]
The sign was located on South Pike West near Shoneyâs and US-76/378 bypass. It was placed there by the Department of transportation to alert drivers to an ongoing construction project, according to police.
Police say the sign belonged to a paving company involved with a road improvement project.
On Saturday, the sign was altered by an unknown person to display an offensive statement. (Submitterâs note: The statement was âHONK IF YOU HATE N******â.)
Officers were notified around 4:30 p.m. and the statement has been removed.
âWe will investigate this to the fullest,â Chief Russell Roark said, describing the incident as extremely disturbing, âA scar on the city and its residents that is in no way indicative of the community where we work and live.â
H. 4605, also known as âFreedom from ideological coercion and indoctrination,â would regulate what goes on at any entity that receives state funding, grants, or tax exemptions, including public and private schools, colleges and universities, nonprofit organizations, state contractors, and private businesses.
Reps. Lin Bennett, R-Charleston, Mike Burns, R-Greenville, and Cal Forrest, R-Saluda, are sponsoring the pre-filed bill, which will officially be introduced when lawmakers return to Columbia in January for their regular legislative session.
The bill would prohibit entities like schools from teaching âdiscriminatory concepts,â such as that âan individual, by virtue of his or her race, sex, ethnicity, or heritage, bears responsibility, or must confess or atone for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race, sex, or ethnic groupâ and that they âshould feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress because of his or her race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, heritage, culture, religion, or political belief.â
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The bill would also ban these entities from compelling students or employees to accept, affirm, adopt, or adhere to âcontroversial and theoretical concepts,â including the existence of genders other than male or female, nonbinary pronouns, implicit bias, and that race and sex are social constructs.
It would prevent schools from teaching students under 18 about sexual lifestyles, acts, or practices; gender identity or lifestyles; and pornographic, lewd, explicit, profane, or similarly ageâinappropriate materials, or instructing in ways that ârepeatedly distorts or misrepresents verifiable historical facts,â âomits relevant and important context,â or âinterjects the instructorâs personal views,â among other regulations.
Schools, businesses, and entities in violation would lose their state funding or tax exemptions until the Attorney General determines they are in compliance, and the bill outlines that the Attorney Generalâs office would have to set up a phone and email hotline to take complaints about potential violations to investigate.
Lawmakers are reintroducing a bill that will ban transgender women from playing womenâs high school sports in SC.
A bill pre-filed by two Greenville representatives and one Aiken representative signed onto the bill that adds a section to the state code of laws that transgender women/girls may not participate in womenâs secondary and post-secondary sports.
Also mentioned in the proposed bill, it is stated that transgender men/boys MAY participate in male sports.
The biological gender of the student will be confirmed using their birth certificates.
The bill has been filed in the past by Representative Ashley Trantham (R-Greenville) who has sponsored it again for this upcoming session.
The two other representatives are Rep. Melissa Lackey Oremus (R-Aiken) and Rep. James Mikell âMikeâ Burns (R-Greenville).
When asked about the bill in February, Rep. Trantham said:
Itâs not that Iâm not compassionate about what theyâre going through. But I would also point out, we have to think about how this is going to impact our girls. I mean they have to be able to have a level playing field and we just know based on the science that when we allow biological males to compete with our girls that weâre taking away that opportunity.
The bill has far to go and has to be signed by Governor Henry McMaster in order for it to become a part of state law.
(For context: Columbiaâs first black mayor, Steve Benjamin, is retiring at the end of this term. The candidates heading to a run-off election are Tameika Isaac Devine, a black woman, and Daniel Rickenmann, a white man.)
A public figure in Cayce is under fire for allegedly making racially insensitive remarks.
Marion Hutson, one of nine Cayce Historical Museum Commissioners, allegedly told a city employee that Columbia âdoesnât need another âcoloredâ person as mayor.â
Cayce council members are now calling for an investigation into the remarks. Three council members voted to keep Hutson as commissioner, and they tell WIS they want an investigation into the remarks.
Hunter Sox was a candidate for Cayce City Council, and Hutson was a family friend campaigning for Sox.
âItâs terrible to hear,â Sox said. âI would not have had someone campaigning for me if I knew there were a possibility he would say such a thing. I was appalled and shocked and we donât allow those comments in the city of Cayce.â
WIS spoke with Mayor Pro Tem James âSkipâ Jenkins who voted to remove Hutson from his position Tuesday night.
âHutsonâs statement is unacceptable and disturbing,â Jenkins said. âI donât know where we go from here. Itâs slated to be brought back up at the council meeting next Wednesday. Iâll do an on-camera interview after itâs resolved. I donât want to get ahead of the investigation.â
WIS also spoke with Council Member Phil Carter who voted not to remove Hutson yet.
âThe comments were unacceptable, despicable and I donât condone those statements period,â said Carter. âI voted Tuesday for due process so that there can be an investigation into the alleged statement. I believe strongly in due diligence.â
Tim James voted to keep Hutson in his position and hopes there will be an investigation.
âThe City of Cayce has a sweet spirit and is a loving community,â said James. âItâs unconditioned and doesnât mirror the sweet spirit of our city and citizens and we will address this issue.â
City of Cayce Mayor Elise Partin posted a statement on her Facebook page which says she doesnât believe there needs to be an investigation and she believes the worker who made the allegations.
GREER, S.C. (WIS) - A Greer company said it is hiring new employees who have not or will not get the COVID-19 vaccine or who donât want to wear masks.
OTB Tax put up a billboard on Pleasantburg Drive in Greenville and one on Highway 123 in Easley that says: âNo Vaxx? No Mask? No Job? Perfect. Weâre Hiring.â
The billboards have been up for about a month.
Toppa Epps, the CEO of OTB Tax, said the company has 25 employees right now â all of whom are unvaccinated and do not wear masks in the office on Wade Hampton Boulevard.
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He said the company is expanding and looking to hire more employees who have not gotten the COVID-19 vaccine and do not wear masks.
Epps says the company does taxes, bookkeeping and payroll.
Toppa Epps said the owner of the company, Courtney Epps, feels strongly that vaccines should not be required by companies.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is vowing to fight President Biden and Democrats to the "gates of hell" after the president announced new vaccine mandates.
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"The American Dream has turned into a nightmare under President Biden and the radical Democrats," McMaster said on Twitter. "They have declared war against capitalism, thumbed their noses at the Constitution, and empowered our enemies abroad."
"Rest assured, we will fight them to the gates of hell to protect the liberty and livelihood of every South Carolinian."
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#Transgenderism is one of the most insane ideologies to ever exist in the modern day and age #Porn should not exist #Women are superior to men
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All sounds like BS ! And Iâm starting to see the same faces in these so called CASES! Crazy how NO ONE IS ALIVE TO QUESTION ABOUT THIS CASE? All dead so so young????? lol fake news.