Right-wing media are fearmongering about Title IX protections for LGBTQ students

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Ari Drennen 🏳️?🌈
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Libs of TikTok & the right wing media targeted a WI school for attempting to protect a trans student under Title IX

The school received so many bomb threats that they *canceled the remainder of their in-person school year*

@lawton_sophie has the story:

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Right-wing media pushed alarmist claims that Title IX protections for LGBTQ students will mean the...
3:26 PM · Jun 15, 2022

https://www.mediamatters.org/right-wing-media-furious-over-biden-administration-effort-to-protect-lgbtq-students

Right-wing media are fearmongering about Title IX protections for LGBTQ students that have been fortified under the Biden administration, claiming providing a safe environment for transgender children will mean the end of “traditional Christian values.” The latest outrage cycle has extended to every corner of the echo chamber, including viral anti-LGBTQ Twitter account “Libs of TikTok,” Fox News, the anti-abortion movement, and others. The right-wing fury toward Title IX protections has led to threats of violence, including a bomb threat that shut down a Wisconsin middle school forcing students to complete the year virtually.

These anti-LGBTQ smears are in response to changes the Biden administration has implemented to strengthen Title IX regulations.

In June 2021, the Biden administration reversed Trump-era Title IX changes that had removed prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Since then, the Department of Education has announced plans to codify safeguards for transgender students by revising the language in Title IX. The final rule isn’t expected to be in place until 2023, though conservative attorneys general have already protested the changes and are expected to sue the administration when the codification takes place. Additionally, in May, the Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service announced it would be interpreting student protections “to include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity” in both Title IX and the Food and Nutrition Act “to help ensure its programs are open, accessible and help promote food and nutrition security, regardless of demographics.”

In two instances over the past two months, right-wing media have attacked protections for LGBTQ students in schools by connecting the proposed Title IX revisions to the left’s “grooming project.”

The first, in March, was a Title IX complaint at Kiel Middle School in Wisconsin where the school district filed a harassment complaint against three students for using incorrect pronouns when addressing a nonbinary student. The complaint was first made public in May when conservative group Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty — which previously investigated false claims of voter fraud in 2020 — went on a tour of right-wing media to sensationalize the investigation, setting off a full-blown outrage cycle. The national attention resulted in multiple bomb threats against the school and surrounding establishments, and Kiel Middle School eventually went virtual for the remainder of the year and dropped the investigation into the three boys. WILL celebrated the win and claimed, “The District may not be willing to admit it publicly, but it has recognized that it has no legal basis to demand that our clients refrain from ‘mispronouning’ other students.”

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[Mad_Machine76]

1. Is this being investigated

for domestic terrorism?!

[IngridsLittleAngel]

2. Bomb threats. Shooting threats. Those are acts of terrorists.

These psychopaths don't even hide it anymore. They are domestic terrorists, and consider it fully acceptable to terrorize innocent people and the entire nation to get what they want.

As I feared would happen 20 years ago, we wound up losing the war on terror after all. Oh, sure. We got bin Laden. We got Hussein. There hasn't been another 9/11... In it's place, we have Christofascists shooting our schools, making threats, and giving us 1/6. Great job stopping terror over there... while it became a problem right here.

Two little issues with the terrorists' cockamamie claims:

1. They don't care about Title IX. At all. It's shown when they have called for cuts to women's sports so the money can go to "real" sports like football. It also shows when they have stood with the football players instead of the victims during things like the Baylor sexual assault scandal. Title IX goes against everything MAGA stands for and therefore they hate it. If trans people didn't exist, they'd be back to work trying to tear apart Title IX.

2. The first amendment gives people the freedom to practice any religion they wish. It does not give people the right to force their religion upon the rest of us. This is not a Christian nation. These people do not have the right to force their views and beliefs upon the rest of us. I have just as much of a right to be an agnostic transwoman as they do to be a cisgender Christian.

On top of that, it's funny how "traditional Christian values" only apply to spreading hate and bigotry, and trying to groom everyone else into being like them. When it comes to feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, helping the less fortunate and truly "protecting kids" from being shot? They don't fucking care! They won't lift a finger.

There's a big gap between "practicing Christianity" and preaching hatred. These Christofascist terrorists only want to do the latter.

[ReluctanceTango]

3. No, there isn't a difference between practicing the religion

And preaching hatred. They are one and the same.

Even the most cursory reading of their history makes it clear that they have been, if not the most prolific purveyors of hate, then definitely among the worst.

They were the ones who mass-murdered pagans across Europe.

They were the ones who said it was okay to torment and murder Cathars--including burning them alive in one of their own churches.

They were the ones who tortured and murdered women who weren't submissive enough, and fought tooth and nail against any measures that treated them like they were human. Still do.

They were the ones who set off the Atlantic slave trade with papal bulls, and used their book to support slavery for centuries.

They have gleefully tormented and mass-murdered Jews ever since their formation. That includes the Holocaust, by the way. It never would have happened without the cult spewing insane vitriol about Jews, going back to its founder. Surely you know that the Nazis followed the advice of Martin Luther--a founder of Protestantism and the German Lutheran church--for how to deal with the Jews, to the letter.

For pity's sake, they canonized a psychopath who murdered his own wife and had his son executed. See: "Saint" Constantine.

The only thing they love more than hate is power, and the acquisition of it. They've only proved that ever since their founding.

[NCLefty]

5. I was just reading how the Mormon church was caugt baptizing already-deceased Jews (from Holocaust).

and others! Just when you think you've seen religion do it all...

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2012-feb-15-la-me-0215-mormon-baptism-20120215-story.html

[IngridsLittleAngel]

7. I was bascially trying to hold their feet to the fire to follow the words of the New Testament...

But you're correct and I can't argue with any of it.

It is indeed a very ugly history and it does seem little has changed - maybe their targets, but that's it. Throughout my lifetime, I've watched their leaders attempt to use their power and influence to basically take over the country and force "the others" to conform... or else.

What I've seen and experienced is the biggest reason that this quote from Gandhi is one of my all-time favorites: "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

[Initech]

4. I think it's way past time to start taking online threats as real threats.

And we need a government agency or branch of the FBI / military / something investigating this shit. Death threats and bomb threats are absolutely acts of terror and we cannot take this stuff sitting down. It's seriously getting scary what is happening out there.


Groups like 4chan / 8chan and Steam Nazi groups, the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers etc -these are real terrorists inspiring real acts of terror. We can't keep letting them go unchecked. If not we're in for some seriously dark times ahead.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

6. It's been past time to do so for 20 years now...

Maybe if they were taken seriously then, things would've never gotten this bad. But, they wanted to dismiss it then. Because, you know, the real threat was al Qaeda.. And it's just words on a screen. Just turn off your computer. Problem solved.

It's definitely time for government agencies to start taking this seriously and monitoring all of this shit. The chans. Daily Stormer. The hate groups like Patriot Front, the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers. Because these people have plans, and intent, and I fear things are going to get real ugly in a hurry.