From Andrea Lafferty and the nice folks at the Traditional Values Coalition, “Hillary Clinton She-Male Advisor Harasses Maryland Signature Gatherers” …

“Dana Beyer’s appearance and hostile behavior is a perfect picture of how confused these individuals are – and why no government agency or legislature should protect what is clearly a Gender Identity Disorder (GID),” said TVC Executive Director Andrea Lafferty. “Do parents really want someone like Dana Beyer entering a girl’s shower or restroom? I think not. The legalization and protection of a serious mental disorder cannot be permitted to stand.”

Once again, words just utterly fail me with these people …

There was a good read yesterday (”The Sentinel: Shower-Nuts Lied To People“) from Jim at Vigilance on the petition drive in Montgomery County …

I’m glad to see this story. I have wondered if there wasn’t any law regulating what you can tell people when you get them to sign a petition.

Unfortunately for us, The Sentinel is behind a paywall. Here’s the story.

Petition Faces Big Road Blocks

A top attorney with Montgomery County said that some if not all of the signatures gathered by Citizens for a Responsible Government for a petition may be invalid if it is born out that petitioners were misrepresenting the contents of the petition to potential signers.

Citizens as diverse as members of the media, church goers, county council members and their staffers have reported that the CRG, a group responsible for a petition drive to try and get a referendum vote on County Council bill 23-07, which protects transgender individuals from being discriminated against in employment, housing and public accommodations, have been misrepresenting the content of the bill and their petition for several weeks.

True, that. We heard them say all kinds of stuff. They said, This law will require men and women to use the same bathroom. They said it would enable pedophiles and predators to come into ladies rooms. We saw one guy with a sign that said, “Protect our children,” though the law has nothing whatsoever to do with children.

You can read the rest of the entry here.

This story is probably going to anger The Catholic League, the California Catholic Daily, Focus on The Family (CitizenLink), the Pacific Justice Institute, and the freepers — since these groups have already jumped on how wrong a transgender woman’s lawsuit over breast enhansemnt surgery was in the first place — but Seton Medical Center has just backed down on their use-of-facility denial of for a transgender woman’s plastic surgery. It seems that California requires that if you offer a type of surgery to some people, you can’t deny others surgery based on their being a member of California’s protected classes (i.e. race, religious creed, disability status, gender, etc.)

Seems that a denial of plastic surgery services that would be available to anyone else in at Seton’s facility is against the law — likely due to the changes that took effect with AB 1400 (The Civil Rights Act Of 2005); a change to California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act (California’s public accommodation law).

The Catholic League proudly proclaimed in early January that “No Catholic Right to Transgender Surgery!“, and the California Catholic Daily proclaimed to this transgender woman God Made You A Man. It’s nice to see California considers these organizations, from a public accommodation perspective, wrong — I have to admit I’m pleased Seton is changing their policy, and these Catholic religious right organizations are functionally eating their words.

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Further Reading:
* Who is Catholic League president William Donohue?

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Related:
* This And That: This Week In Gender Identity And Expression
* Chocolate Jesus, Eat Your Heart Out

GID, I mean. Not Genocide Identity Disorder …

Last week he compared us to Hitler and the Nazis …

… these Nazi brownshirt tactics.

These are same tactics Hitler used to gain power in 1930s Germany.

This week he’s comparing a “man in a dress” to a group of infamous mass murderers not named Hitler …

One 69 year old grandmother said of Mr. Beyer “a man dressed as woman came up to me and said he was here to ‘re-educate me’ about the bill.” The grandmother told Mr. Beyer that she was already educated.

Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and Ho Chi Minh would be proud of Mr. Beyer’s “re-education” efforts and the joyous support of his bosses on the Montgomery County Council. As of today, Gender Identity Disorder is still a mental illness. Why is the council collaborating with madness?

What should never be doubted about fanatics like this individual is that they are usually projecting their own contemptible motives and malicious feelings upon those they are attacking.

Such comparisons trivialize the unspeakable evil committed by a Hitler, a Stalin or a Pol Pot and reflect poorly on the humanity and sense of reason of those making them.

Demonizing and dehumanizing a group, such as the writer is attempting to do to trans people, was a signature tactic of a Hitler or Stalin. So, know him by the company that he keeps.

Justin Bond wasn’t mincing … words … on transgender politics and the HRC (Human Rights Campaign) in this interview yesterday with New York Magazine …

In the show, you gave some alarming statistics about a national rise in violence against transgender people — like the 15-year-old Lawrence King, who was shot and killed in a high-school classroom two weeks ago. What accounts for that in this day and age?

The people that run organizations like the Human Rights Campaign are privileged white people. In all honesty, they’re out for themselves and getting what they can get. When they have power, they’ll look out for those who they consider to be less powerful or less important than they are. They don’t represent me. They represent their own selfish interests as bourgeois white people who really are angry that they’re looked down upon. I think they’re disgusting sell-out pigs. But, hey, that’s always been the split in the gay community: “Why don’t you just put on some pants and be a man and go and get your rights, faggot!”

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Related reading …

HRC’s New York Dinner — Not Pretty

Before I begin this, let me by saying I’ve been trying to write this piece for days. As Pam warned me — but I didn’t want to believe — it’s taking a long time for me to recover from my gastric bypass surgery. So my apologies to all for not getting this piece out as soon as I would have liked to, but I do have a good excuse.

So to begin, in recent months I started working with TransYouth Family Advocates (TYFA) — now TransYouth Family Allies. The reasons are pretty simple: with regards to transgender youth, the organization has been filling a void that no other LGBT organization has been filling. They’ve been helping the parents of children that may or may not be transgender find psychological help; they’ve been talking to school districts about their policies towards transgender youth; and, they’ve been talking to the press about the issues surrounding transgender youth as required.

Basically, TYFA is working to take care of the next generation of transgender youth.

So, let’s back up a few decades. I’ve read the average coming out age of gay males back in the early seventies was between approximately seventeen and twenty-one years of age (pg. 241). The last report I read states that that the average coming out age for LGBT youth is now thirteen.

And, with the coming out age dropping, the parents of transgender youth now have the real world issues of accepting or rejecting their children, as well as school bullying issues to deal with:

[S]tudies have also found that one out of every four teens who comes out faces family rejection. The Safe Schools Coalition Web site notes that research done for the FBI in 1998 found that these LGBT teenagers make up 30 percent to 40 percent of the nation’s homeless youths and that usually the gay youths’ coming-out conflicts with their families’ moral and religious beliefs.

Even LGBT youths who don’t face rejection at home usually face some at school. According to the National Mental Health Institute, the average secondary school student hears an anti-gay slur 26 times a day. And 31 percent of kids who are gay or are perceived as gay were physically harassed or assaulted last year at school.

And let’s not forget transgender youth suicide:

The Amethyst Ribbon Campaign was established as part of the Ian Benson Project. Ian was a 16-year old affirmed male who took his own life in October 2007. Ian’s mother, TYFA’s secretary/treasurer, hopes to help other children and families avoid the pain and struggles that can lead to suicide among trans youth.

As mentioned earlier, TYFA has this past week has changed the “A” in their acronym from Advocates to Allies (Press release: here.). Their new mission and vision, which they’ve updated on their website, is as follows:

Mission: TYFA empowers children and families by partnering with educators, service providers and communities, to develop supportive environments in which gender may be expressed and respected.

Vision: A society free of suicide and violence in which ALL children are respected and celebrated.

Earlier this week mentioned an organization that doesn’t receive my support or charitable donations. Well, TYFA is on my short list of organizations that I do send charitable donations to, specifically because I wholly support their mission and vision. It’s because the organization was founded by parents of the next generation of transgender youth, and these children’s allies, that I care about this organization so much.

While only about fifty protesters showed up outside the HRC’s New York Dinner, the bigger story was that their was the complete “absence of every lesbian, gay, and bisexual elected official from New York City” at the annual fundraising event. Per the Gay City News:

Joe Solmonese, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, used his keynote address at the group’s annual Midtown Manhattan dinner to answer critics who fault it for going along with a version of the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) that does not include protections for transgendered Americans.

The Gay City News said this of Joe Solmonese’s speech:

“I understand and I hear every day that some members of our community are feeling forgotten or left behind. It is easy to understand why,” Solmonese told a crowd approaching 1,000 in the ballroom of the Hilton on February 23. But he also said, “We have to overlook our differences and we have got to see instead of our individual wants and immediate desires… a vision for the America that we all want to live in.”

…In his toughest volley against some in the LGBT community who argue that HRC has lost its right to lead the battle on ENDA, Solmonese suggested it is others who have left the field.

“I have to ask myself: When did we all become so impatient? When did we say to ourselves, okay that civil rights thing, I’ll give it a year, maybe two, then I’m done,” he said. “Let me be very clear: No, we are not done. We are in the grueling, blinding middle of this fight and the middle of this fight is the hardest part.”

Having stated HRC’s commitment to delivering hate crimes and job protections — as well as marriage rights — for all members of the LGBT community, Solmonese said, “Some of us may want to stand back or check out, but there is no standing back. There is no checking out. Because sometimes — and I know this is frustrating — the fight for our rights feels like hell, but as Winston Churchill so aptly put it, ‘When you are going through hell the most important thing is to keep going.’”

It seems there were a lot of “scheduling conflicts” …

[Which politicians didn't show after the fold.]

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How to make church relevant? Sex! (Obviously, Rev. Wirth had something else on his mind and was not paying much attention to Doris et al. in Shrek 2 and Shrek 3, by the way … ) …

A Florida church leader is challenging married members of his congregation to have sex every day for a month.

The challenge for single parishioners is slightly different, though - to abstain from sex for 30 days, reports Sky News.

Paul Wirth, head pastor of the Relevant Church in Ybor City, said the marathon undertaking could help cut high divorce rates.

He said: “Couples across America are struggling in their relationships, both married and single people.

“For married people it seems like the sex is great up front but then for some reason life happens.

“But when you’re single it’s like you’re always thinking about it and you’re like, man I’d like to have it as much as possible.

“And sometimes that prevents them from having a great really healthy relationship later on when you do get married.”

The Relevant Church describes itself as “a casual, contemporary Christian church” and says its services are designed “specifically for urban professionals and young families”.

Mr Wirth’s previous sermons have included using hit film Shrek The Third to explain “what happens when we trust God”.

Pastor tells flock to have sex - every day

Or, as the Minneapolis City Pages headlined it, Bang your spouse for Jesus!

Some photographs from the Los Angeles Times‘ coverage of yesterday’s memorial service for gender-nonconforming teenager Larry King …

Steve Weinstein reviewed this biography by Richard Docter (who also wrote one on Virginia Prince, and who was mentioned by Zagria today in reference to Vern Bullough’s preface to that book) yesterday in EDGE Boston.

In 1952, the front page of the Daily News blazed with a headline that “Ex-G.I. Becomes Blonde Beauty.” With that, George Jorgensen, a quiet, shy young man from the Bronx, burst into the public eye like a blazing comet.

Over 50 years later, it’s impossible to imagine the impact that Christine Jorgensen had on the United States, indeed on the whole world. She wasn’t the world’s first male-to-female transsexual, but, in one of those perfect historical storms, she became a touchstone for every compass point on the 1950s roadmap: the changing nature of human identity; science as a determinant of identity; the encroachment of medicine on human behavior.

At least as important, she came along just as Dr. Alfred Kinsey was publishing his explosive results of his extensive studies into human sexuality. Sex roles, he found, were a good deal more fluid than Ozzie and Harriett or Donna Reed on the tube could ever envision. And then there was the power of the media, which had always been great, but with TV adding to radio, newspapers and film reels, was reaching into every aspect of Americans’ lives.

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Becoming a Woman: The Christine Jorgensen Story

I got my start in life right around the time that Christine began her new life, and, like her, grew up in the Bronx (watching O&H and Donna Reed on the B&W TV) and later lived quite near her old neighborhood in Throgs Neck (when the bridge toll was not $4.50, but $.25, and, how time flies, everything was groovy).

What’s just utterly amazing to me is Christine’s focus and determination …

George was, however, unhappy and restless as a man. What makes his so extraordinary is that he set about trying to figure it out. He relentlessly pursued any kind of expert of whom he had heard a whisper. He tracked down every available book on the subject. There wasn’t much there, but if there was anything at all, he discovered it.

He finally trekked to Denmark, where he went from George to Christine, thanks to the good offices of a research doctor, who cheerfully admitted that he took Jorgensen on as a patient for his value as an investigatory subject. But the doctor wasn’t some mad scientist. He was caring and kind, as was his family.

Jorgensen spent a long time in Denmark. He had apparently tried to keep his new identity under wraps, but, in a process that is still the subject of dispute, the press somehow got wind of his transformation.

There’s absolutely no comparing now (the information, resources, etc.) to what I found then (despite a — “we’re not in Kansas … ” backgound — going to college, socializing and working in “The Village” in the Stonewall Era), nevermind to what Christine had back when.

[Update and clarification from Dr. Dana Beyer on the fight against this referendum at the end of the post.]

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fac•toid - something fictitious or unsubstantiated that is presented as fact, devised especially to gain publicity, and accepted because of constant repetition.

Theresa Rickman and her Citizens for a Responsible Government have won a victory in their efforts to repeal Montgomery County BILL 23-07. They’ve gathered the necessary signatures for a referendum on the bill — the transgender civil rights ordinance which otherwise would have taken effect today.

Equality Maryland has a press release out on the news:

Citizens for a Responsible Government, the group that paid for thousands of computerized calls to county households to further the petition drive, says the measure infringes on the privacy of most citizens while protecting just a few.

“Our primary objection is the impact this has on every other citizen in Montgomery County,” said Michelle Turner, a spokeswoman for the group. “This legislation affects or was written for less than 1 percent of the population, with total disrespect for the safety, well-being and rights of everyone else.” Public restrooms, for example, will no longer offer real privacy for each gender, the group says.

But officials say the new law, which the County Council passed unanimously and County Executive Isiah Leggett signed, does not force changes at public restrooms. Furthermore, they say the bathroom issue is an old scare tactic that unfairly takes attention away from the measure’s point: to protect people whose internal sense of gender and biological gender at birth do not match.

“Have you ever heard of this being a problem anywhere? No, because transgender people are going to use the bathroom where they’re going to be the safest and where they’re going to blend in the most. They’re used to being subjected to discrimination and violence. And they have no interest in making other people uncomfortable,” said Dan Furmansky, director of Equality Maryland. “It’s a common-sense bill about helping people live their lives.”

The factoid that Rickman and her Citizens for a Responsible Government keep repeating is that this law is a Montgomery County ordinance would allow men to invade women’s locker rooms and engage in peeping. She and her organization apparently manufactured a locker room incident to create such an incident, because per the transgendernews archive, there hasn’t been a case in the last five years of a man invading a locker room to peep at the other women.

Again, per the press release:

In 2002, when O’Malley was Baltimore’s mayor, the City Council unanimously passed its own version of a transgender anti-bias law. About a dozen people have filed complaints with the Baltimore Community Relations Commission since then, according to commission director Alvin O. Gillard, but the bathroom problems that Montgomery County critics have forecasted have not come to pass.”If you’re committed to fairness and equality, you can find a way to accommodate everyone and protect their privacy,” Gillard said. “It’s disappointing to know that you’re refighting battles that you thought that you’d already won.”

…The Montgomery County Council removed more explicit wording addressing the [bathroom and locker room] issue.

The law now reads that the requirements do “not apply to accommodations that are distinctly private or personal.”

Turner says the language addressing access to restrooms or locker rooms is too vague, but Patrick Lacefield, a Leggett spokesman, disagreed. In the county’s view, the bill provides an adequate exemption that would allow businesses or other entities to restrict the use of facilities, he said.

Editor Brian Karem of the local paper The Sentinel wrote an editorial that commented on the misinformation campaign, stating in part:

[More on the factoid that BILL 23-07 is about locker rooms being filled with male predators after the fold]

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Asheville’s a much smaller place compared to, for instance, Autumn’s home town of San Diego. That means that AVL just doesn’t generate as much news, but it doesn’t mean that things are not happening transgender-wise here. Kudos to Zeke and Tranzmissions. From the UNC-A student newspaper today …

The Heart Breaker’s Ball broke free from the archetypical dance formal to create the ultimate night to remember: Queer Prom, a benefit ball for transgender, transidentity charities.

“The Heart Breaker’s Ball is awesome, because so many people felt really awkward at their prom or didn’t go to it. It’s great that a fancy dress event can include people of way different genders,” said Kyle Korbas, a 22-year-old resident of Asheville.

The Heart Breaker’s Ball was a benefit for Tranzmission, a group dedicated to raising awareness and support for people of transgender and transidentity, and Tranzmission Prison Books, which sends trans-identified prisoners books and sets up pen pals as part of a support system.

“A lot of time when they are in prison they’re pretty much alienated and don’t have anyone to talk to,” said Christine Stroud, a 21-year-old literature student.

The benefit held last Wed. at the Joli Rouge was a big success, according to Tranzmission officials.

“We raised around $600. We had about 15 to20 books donated, which is really awesome. We can use regular Prison Books’ books, but a lot of their books aren’t directed to gay, queer or trans subjects. All the money goes to postage and buying books,” Stroud said.

With a large trans-identified population, a lot of Asheville residents continually come out to support these events, according to Tranzmission.

“I think that the Heart Breaker’s Ball is one of the most beneficial charities I’ve ever given money to. I don’t even believe in charity, but I feel all right giving to this one. Also, I didn’t even know if I had any queer books, but I found out I have every David Sedaris book, and that technically counts,” said Kendra Eaves, a UNC Asheville student double-majoring in classics and history.

The entertainment ranged from local punk rock bands to burlesque to a full-on dance party.

Attendees won raffle prizes from local businesses such as Harvest Records and Rosetta’s Kitchen, and a consistent line of people waited for their turn in the ball’s Polaroid photo booth, which was complete with a romantic black backdrop decorated with hearts.

“I think as far as in the community we get a lot of support. Just for the benefit, we had so many businesses donate gift certificates for the raffle. All the businesses in town seem really supportive, like Rosetta’s, Mayfel’s, Doc Chey’s, all the places like that,” Stroud said.

People at the ball agreed community events and organizations keep Asheville alive and localized.

Visitors might think of Asheville as weird. After all, this town is a major tourist attraction, but Asheville culture revolves around community.

“I’m an organizer of the Heart Breaker’s Ball. It’s a project that is very dear to my heart. I feel like trans-work in this town is really important right now. Any projects we do to forward that work is great. If we can make way for more awareness and community surrounding Tranzmission all the better,” Heather Steele said.

Endless Bummer and Nasty Ponies both performed, and DJ Abu Disarray provided a variety of dance tracks throughout the evening.

When a bunch of Asheville people get together for an event like a queer prom, they bring it.

“It’s about lawless love,” said Crysta Brock, a 22-year-old literature student.

With organizations like Tranzmission, Asheville benefits from diversity and support for a sustainable community, producing the recognized counter-culture that draws people to the area.

“I always like working with Tranzmission. They’re one of the best crowds we work with. The performances are great. I love throwing events that aren’t standard but good for the community and help people out,” said Jacob Levinsohn, the 30-year-old partial owner of Joli Rouge.

UNCA students made a presence at the ball, however most in attendance have no affiliation with the university.

“There could be more support at UNCA. It seems like they want to move toward that, but they could be doing more. I know of at least one trans-student at school,” Stroud said.

Tranzmission hosts Queer Prom

Local transgender awareness group raises funds to support transgender prisoners

“Counter-culture”?  Who can forget that? Growin’ old. 

Yesterday, we had Mongomery Public Schools blogger Not Jerry Weast invoking “Nazi brownshirt tactics” (THE BROWSKIRTS ARE COMING! School Sex Pushers Intimidate Petition Collectors), which Autumn wrote about earlier.

Today, we have an attorney (representing volunteers collecting signatures for Citizens for a Responsible Government’s referendum petition) alleging “intimidation tacics. Such tactics are commonly used by totalitarian [Nazi] governments” (Nearly 30,000 seek to turn off coed showers/County law gives special rights to those with ‘gender identity’ issues).

(By the way, I wonder how Dana Beyer feels about being compared to a Nazi?)

Now, here are a couple of examples of “Nazi tactics” that CRG should be familiar with …

From What Would Machiavelli Do? The Big Lie Lives On …

German filmmaker Fritz Kippler, one of Goebbels’ most effective propagandists, once said that two steps were necessary to promote a Big Lie so the majority of the people in a nation would believe it. The first was to reduce an issue to a simple black-and-white choice that “even the most feebleminded could understand.” The second was to repeat the oversimplification over and over. If these two steps were followed, people would always come to believe the Big Lie.

In Kippler’s day, the best example of his application of the principle was his 1940 movie “Campaign in Poland,” which argued that the Polish people were suffering under tyranny - a tyranny that would someday threaten Germany - and that the German people could either allow this cancer to fester, or preemptively “liberate” Poland. Hitler took the “strong and decisive” path, the movie suggested, to liberate Poland, even though after the invasion little evidence was found that Poland represented any threat whatsoever to the powerful German Reich. The movie was Hitler’s way of saying that invading Poland was the right thing to do, and that, in retrospect, he would have done it again.

And from The Gleiwitz incident …

False Flag Terrorism is an old and effective way to justify acts of aggression that would be hard to justify otherwise … Famous examples are the Berlin Reichstag fire in 1933 that gave Hitler reason to demand emergency powers and the completely phony attack on the Gleiwitz radio station used to justify Hitler’s invasion of Poland the following day. A corpse wearing a Polish uniform was arranged outside of a radio station in Silesia, anti-German messages were broadcast and the public told that Poland had attacked.

So, reducing the issue of transgender anti-discrimination legislation to pervs in the loo and co-ed showers (repeated again and again and again) and staging a Gleiwitz (Rio Health & Sports) — reminds you of whom now?

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Related:

What Citizens For A Responsible Government Really Means …

Let me add to Stephanie’s post on the transgender agenda…

And the Hitlers keep on coming. Yes, Adolf Hitler, one of the worst mass-murders in all of history, has become the go-to metaphor and comparison for anyone you have a minor disagreement with.

…Here’s my point. When you compare people to Hitler, enh, you lose a little credibility.

…[P]lease stop calling people Hitler when you disagree with them. It demeans you, it demeans your opponent, and to be honest, it demeans Hitler. That guy worked too many years, too hard, to be that evil to have any Tom, Dick and Harry come along and say “Hey, you’re being Hitler.” No–You know who was Hitler? HITLER!
–Jon Stewart, Someone disagrees with you? Compare ‘em to a Nazi. Works like a charm. A Hitler charm

The screaming rhetoric just keeps coming out of Montgomery County, Maryland. From a piece entitled THE BROWSKIRTS ARE COMING! comes a comparison between transgender people and Nazi’s:

Seeing the enormous turnout of the public against this controversial bill and since the dishonesty campaign of the council failed, the gay and transgender community went into action. The gays and transgenders went to the petition collection sites and attacked the citizens involved. These attacks are said to be verbal and physical. Members of the Citizens for Responsible Government (CRG) http://www.notmyshower.com/ are looking into a lawsuit to stop these Nazi brownshirt tactics.

These are same tactics Hitler used to gain power in 1930s Germany. Hopefully the MoCo citizens will not accept such intimidation tactics and vote out the ridiculous bill that violates several parts of the constitution.

The bill in question, of course, is the civil rights ordinance Theresa Rickman of Citizens for Responsible Government and Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum is fighting, based on the idea that this will allow co-ed locker and dressing rooms. Rickman’s the one who apparently was deeply involved in the fake transgender person’s Rio Sport and Health Club locker room invasion. (Rickman’s talking up the petition to repeal the ordinance in a Christian Broadcasting Network video here.)

Geez, and I don’t even own a brown skirt!

[Christianity Today takes on transgender people after the fold]

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Here I was earlier, doing a bit of googling … “gay agenda”? 389,000 entries … “homosexual agenda”? 337,000 entries … “transgender agenda”? 1,020.

1,020??? Heck!

I mean, things just haven’t been going well … being left behind or left out just doesn’t do much for one’s self-esteem … and now this.

But, thanks to Theresa Rickman of Citizens for Responsible Government and the Christian Broadcasting Network, we’re closing the gap …

CBNNews.com - Citizens in one Maryland county are fighting a new law that grants special rights to transvestites, cross-dressers and transsexuals.

Citizens for Responsible Government has launched a petition drive to repeal the measure that was passed by the Montgomery County Council.

The group says the bill essentially creates co-ed bathrooms and locker rooms that would put women and girls at risk.

They also say it lets transgender advocates indoctrinate kids in local schools.

And it allows transgender teachers and faculty to be open about their sexual choices.

Md. Group Fights Bill for Co-ed Bathrooms

1021. (Hey, it may be incremental progress, but as Barney Frank says, get used to it.)

And I’m feeling better now.

I guess I’m just being one of those “homosexual activists [who] have seized on [the] Lawrence King case,” but the California Catholic Daily’s really picking on a scab as far as I’m concerned.

The CCD published a story today (about which they were “scooped on” by the WorldNetDaily, which reported about it on Feb. 12, before the murder of Lawrence King) called “No escape from sexual indoctrination”, which refers to remarks that Randy Thomasson of the Campaign for Children and Families made in Los Angeles on Feb. 11 …

One of the laws, SB 777, prohibits public school instruction and activities from “promoting a discriminatory bias” against transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality for all grade levels, including kindergarten. There is no “opt out” clause for parents who do not want this for their children.

The other law, AB 394, requires that schools provide publications, wall posters, web curricula, and handouts on anti-discrimination and anti-harassment training. Thomasson believes these are, in effect, indoctrination to promote various sexual lifestyles — especially since AB 394 fails to define the term, “harassment.”

(It seems to me that Thomasson might be comfortable with a definition that says, in essence, “no lives lost, no harassment.”)

Now, I was just taking a look at the home page (Daily News) of the CCD, with the news they’ve reported on since Feb. 12.

I see one item, “To promote respect and acceptance”. I see another, Five lives spared on Wednesday (from Family Planning Associates in San Diego).

I don’t see anything about Larry, a youngster who had “no escape” and no “opt out clause.”