Analyzing and refuting the inaccuracies lodged against the lgbt community by religious conservative organizations. Lies in the name of God are still lies.
When Congresswoman Nancy Mace had a pro-trans advocate arrested for merely shaking her hand, she faced a huge onslaught of social media ridicule such as the above meme. The charges against the gentleman have been unsurprisingly dropped.
Charges dropped against trans advocate falsely accused of assault by Nancy Mace for giving her a firm handshake - Not surprising. In her bid to get attention, Mace smeared the trans community and had a supporter of the community arrested on a false claim that he had assaulted her. All he did was shake her hand. Mace got the attention she wanted, but with it came a lot of deserved ridicule. Rumor control is that she's going to be running for the governor's seat in South Carolina. If so, we will see if her shameless grandstanding reaps benefits. Or will the mockery of her embarrassingly obvious attempts do her ambitions in.
Related posts - These posts below is a reminder of the depths Mace has crawled through thus far in her bed for public attention while scapegoating trans Americans:
Jesse Watters Mocks Co-Host For Criticizing Deportation of Innocent Man: ‘You’ve Been Talking About This Gay Barber For Weeks’ - There is something seriously wrong with America and it's Fox News. Trump is merely a symptom. If it weren't for Fox News, Trump probably wouldn't have been seen as a serious presidential candidate. Trump will one day go on his way, but as long as Fox News exists, this country will have ugly division problems. And the saddest thing is that probably everyone in the national news and on Capitol Hill knows this.
One of the main things which will get us through this turbulent period is comedy. And satire. Viciously on-point satire. This above video hits all of the spots.
On Wednesday, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene held a public hearing in which she tried to put forth the argument that PBS and NPR should be defunded. In interviews before the meeting and statements during the meeting, Greene pushed the claim that PBS in particular should be defunded because it supposedly uses drag queens to groom children into thinking that they are transgender. It's a ludicrous belief to normal people, but we are also talking about Marjorie Taylor Greene, a woman who made strange claims in the past about "Jewish space lasers."
The hearing was ridiculous, of course. Luckily though all of the attention in the beltway is focused on the war plans leak scandal which has gripped the Trump Administration for the last few days. That's not to say that MTG''s hearing didn't have its moments. One is below when Greene showed her "proof" regarding her claims about PBS and drag queens supposedly grooming kids. It's a video of a drag queen singing:
🔥MUST WATCH🔥@RepMTG TORCHES PBS for airing a program that included a Drag Queen singing to children.
“‘The hips [on the drag queen] goes, swish, swish, swish. The shoulders go, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy.’ That's repulsive. That's not what children ages three to eight should… pic.twitter.com/am9D86wEsP
By the way, according to a Daily Beast article, the video did not air on PBS. In the same article, the drag queen in the video, who was also smeared as child predator by Greene, had this to say:
Lil Miss Hot Mess, the stage name of performer Harris Kornstein, told the Daily Beast in a statement that Greene’s “political bullying” amounted to censorship. Greene attacked PBS CEO Paula Kerger on Wednesday over a digital segment featuring Lil Miss Hot Mess reading her book The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish, though Kerger said the segment did not air on PBS.
“While she claims to promote liberty, in reality, she just wants to tell us all what to think and do,” the performer said in a statement. “That’s not freedom, that’s fascism.”
“Greene’s attempts to defund PBS and NPR are the worst form of censorship, reflecting both her own ignorance and the Republican party’s authoritarian impulses,” she said. “The reality is that communities all over the country – including in her own district – deserve access to educational public media that reflects the diversity and creativity that makes our world beautiful.”
But what if the segment had aired on PBS? What was wrong with it? There was nothing obscene or sexual in general about it, except for in the bigoted minds of Greene and people like her. No matter what LGBTQ people do, they will always see us in a prejudicial light because they refuse to see us as anything else other than their stereotypical objects of derision.
And that is their problem, not ours.
One more thing of note which took place during MTG's hearing is how Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett called Greene out to her face. Ms. Crockett broke it down rather nicely.
A federal judge has struck down Texas A&M's ban on drag shows, determining it to be a violation of the First Amendment.
Motivated by Donald Trump's executive order denying the existence of trans people, the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents voted to ban drag performances across all 11 campuses earlier this month, claiming that the art form was somehow “offensive” and “inconsistent" with the “core values of its universities, including the value of respect for others.”
The Board of Regents vote cancelled a performance of "Draggieland" (a combination of “Drag” and “Aggieland”), an award-winning student-hosted show that has been performed annually since 2020. In response, the Texas A&M Queer Empowerment Council and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) filed a lawsuit against the university.
“Texas A&M, like any public university, has the utmost duty to respect the First Amendment rights of students,”
FIRE Supervising Senior Attorney JT Morris said in a statement. “As public officials, they can’t banish speech from campus just because it offends them, any more than they could shut down a political rally or a Christmas pageant.”
. . . “Today is a resounding victory for the First Amendment at public universities in Texas,” said Adam Steinbaugh, an attorney with FIRE who argued before the district court. “The court reaffirmed that state university officials cannot block student expression they claim is offensive. State officials should stop trying to score political points at the expense of students’ First Amendment rights.”
The students' March 27 performance will go on as scheduled, which the Queer Empowerment Council said they are "overjoyed" by.
My guess is that the somewhat muted response from a lot of the opponents of drag shows means that the war on drag queens which gripped the nation for a number of years is pretty much over. Many of those "won't someone please think of the children" types have gotten bored with or tired of raising hell against drag and have moved on to other objects to rage-bait about.
But like that Japanese soldier who became famous for not knowing that World War 2 was over, there is still a contingent of folks raging on Twitter.
LAWFARE: Judge Rosenthal, a Texas federal judge, is forcing Texas A&M to host drag shows for children despite Trump's executive order. The judge believes that drag queens have a first amendment right to strip for kids. pic.twitter.com/YMZPzyOASu
Editor's note - This drag show will be held on a college campus and geared to an adult audience. Judge Rosenhal mentioned this in her ruling. You know how certain people are, unfortunately. They think everything about LGBTQ culture has a goal of "grooming" or "recruiting" children. That in itself doesn't make any sense. If we could recruit, we'd go after adults with money. At least I would.
Anyway:
Drag queens have no right to be around children at all. They are exclusively adult entertainment, much like strippers.
— Valkyries for women🇺🇸 (@valkyriesrwomen) March 24, 2025
Please make all Texas A&M students aware that Judge Rosenthal is spending time and money forcing the hosting of Drag Shows. Boycott them and send her the bill to pay for these shows herself!
All Pride events that are public where children can attend or witness it's atrocities should be banned
— MAGA MAGA-zine 🇺🇸 (The White Rabbit🐰) (@LukeSkywatcher4) March 24, 2025
These people are sick and they need to be disbarred. This is pedophilia, do you know when you want to force little children to watch adult human beings behaving in their devious sexual ways. They are grooming these children to be screwed up in their head and never know what’s…
Ohio’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors is unconstitutional and must be permanently blocked from being enforced, a three-judge panel of appellate judges ruled Tuesday. The law also banned trans women and girls from participating in female sports.
The state’s Republican attorney general vowed an immediate appeal.
On Tuesday, the state’s 10th District Court of Appeals reversed a decision made last summer to allow the law to go into effect after a judge found it “reasonably limits parents’ rights.” The law bans counseling, gender-affirming surgery and hormone therapy for minors, unless they are already receiving such therapies and a doctor deems it risky to stop.
The litigation was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Ohio and the global law firm Goodwin, who argued the law not only denies health care to transgender children and teens, but specifically discriminates against them accessing it.
The court agreed and cited a number of flaws in the lower court’s reasoning.
Judge Carly Edelstein wrote in the ruling that the Ohio law does not outlaw identical drugs when they’re used for other reasons, only when they’re used for gender transitioning, which makes it discriminatory. She also said that a prescription ban is not a reasonable exercise of the state’s police power when it is weighed against the rights of parents to care for their children.
Addressing proponents’ arguments that minors are not in a position to understand the long-term impacts such procedures could have on their lives, the judge said that, while they may not be, their parents are.
“Thus, in considering whether the H.B. 68 ban is reasonable, it is necessary to keep in mind that the law recognizes the maturity, experience, and capacity of parents to make difficult judgments and act in their children’s best interest,” she wrote.
The irony of this ruling is how it's partly based on the argument that it is parents who should decide what's best for their children when it comes to healthcare. Parental rights are an argument generally used by conservative and right-wing groups as a way to undermine the rights of LGBTQ students.
