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LostOne4Ever's JournalNYT Trans Letter a Fight for Media Democracy
In a letter to New York Times leadership (2/15/23), more than 180 of the paper’s contributors (later swelling to more than 1,000) raised “serious concerns about editorial bias in the newspaper’s reporting on transgender, non-binary and gender nonconforming people.” What started as a conversation about a paper’s coverage exploded into a battle between media workers who see a problem at one of the most powerful media outlets on earth, and a media management that simply won’t listen.
“Some of us are trans, non-binary, or gender nonconforming, and we resent the fact that our work, but not our person, is good enough for the paper of record,” the letter declared:
Some of us are cis, and we have seen those we love discover and fight for their true selves, often swimming upstream against currents of bigotry and pseudoscience fomented by the kind of coverage we here protest.
The letter was organized by the Freelance Solidarity Project, a part of the National Writers Union.
A similar letter from LGBTQ media advocacy group GLAAD (2/15/23) and over a hundred other LGBTQ groups and leaders made three demands (summarized in a press release):
Stop printing biased anti-trans stories, immediately.
Listen to trans people: hold a meeting with trans community leaders within two months.
Hire at least four trans writers and editors within three months.
As FAIR (1/6/23) and many other progressive outlets and groups have noted, there is a campaign in state legislatures, in the courts, in the streets and in the media to roll back rights for transgender people, fomenting a moral panic about teachers and drag queens coming for America’s children. States like Florida are already banning certain types of medical care for trans people (Tampa Bay Times, 2/10/23), and other states have enacted similar laws (NBC, 2/14/23). States are even looking to restrict drag performances (Washington Post, 2/14/23).
For copyright purposes more at link:
https://fair.org/home/nyt-trans-letter-a-fight-for-media-democracy/
Stable Diffusion/ Midjourney are doing the same exact thing to commercial artists!
Stable Diffusion/ Midjourney are doing the same exact thing to commercial artists!
No concern about copyright or all the artists (who already are ripped off and exploited) who are going to lose not only their livelihood, but their dreams of living off their art!
Not only that but using an AI that used their own art to put them out of a job too!
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Antisemitism Meets Transphobia
Just a reminder that bigots always find a way to include antisemitism in their hate:
https://progressive.org/magazine/antisemitism-meets-transphobia-greenesmith-lorber/
White nationalists and anti-trans feminists use the same conspiracies to target trans and Jewish folks.
BY BEN LORBER, HERON GREENESMITH APRIL 28, 2021 9:30 AM
We live in an age of conspiracy theories. In the wake of the January 6 insurrection in the U.S. Capitol, and with movements like QAnon on the rise, it’s clear that millions across the United States subscribe to theories that a diabolical cabal of elites is secretly controlling society, and that they are willing to take violent action against these imagined enemies.
These types of conspiracy theories have long been a cornerstone of antisemitism—which insists that this cabal is Jewish—and today, they’re seeping into antitransgender activism as well. Now, more than ever, antisemitism and transphobia are becoming deeply connected, making it vital for progressives to fight both together.
On the radical right, white nationalists are obsessed with fears of “white genocide”—the imagined fast-approaching biological extinction of the “white race”—and are convinced that Jewish activism is the prime mover of this existential threat. One of the main ways they believe Jews advance “white genocide”—in addition to engineering increased immigration of Black and brown people, orchestrating racial justice movements, controlling the government and giant corporations, using space lasers to start California wildfires, and other dastardly schemes—is by liberalizing societal attitudes around gender and sexuality in colleges and universities, media, and other cultural institutions.
In order to “secure the existence of our people and a future for white children,” as their slogan goes, white nationalists believe they must defend a status quo rooted in patriarchal violence—undergirded by cis-heteronormative gender roles, straight white nuclear families, a culture of warrior masculinity, and more—from Jews, who foster feminism, LGBTQ+ liberation movements, and multiculturalism to undermine this “natural order.” Movements for transgender justice, white nationalists believe, represent a key cultural front of Jewish-backed “white genocide.”
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Scratch a transphobe and you will find an antisemite.
I fear this is the beginning of the end for most commercial art
What company is going to pay a concept artist when you can get the same exact thing plugging a prompt into a program for almost nothing?
What is worse is they did it by taking copyrighted art without permission and stuck it into these data sets under the cover of non-profits… intending to use them for profit along.
I just hope copyright laws catch up to these corporations and preserve careers of people just pursuing their dream!
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Today has been a day of Tragedy.
So let this be a thread of Remembrance for all the martyrs including those that were lost in Colorado Springs.
The BBC should be considered an Trans-antagonistic Hate News Site
Once upon a time the BBC was a liberal and progressive newsite that provided objective news and opinion.
However, since before JK Rowling was revealed to be a Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, a group who often use the term "Gender Critical Feminist" as a euphenism, the UK media has becotrame increasing trans-antagonistic in thier coverage of trans people and our issues.
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/15/britain-transphobia-uk-transphobic-history-gender-recognition-act-what-the-trans/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opinion/terf-trans-women-britain.html
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/01/transphobia-uk-terf-island-tiktok/
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/uk/uk-trans-rights-gender-critical-media-intl-gbr-cmd/index.html
Nowhere is this more evident than at the BBC where the government funded news organization has taken steps that recently that have caused numerous LGBTQ employees to leave the company:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7nv97/lgbtq-employees-are-quitting-the-bbc-because-they-say-its-transphobic
At the center of the epicenter of this exodus is the decision to publish a trans-antagonistic article accusing transpeople of being abusers and predators trying to pressure lesbians into having sex with trans women. They do this using a poll with only 80 respondants from a trans-antagonistic source as evidence:
https://www.them.us/story/bbc-latest-transphobic-screed-is-a-mockery-of-journalism
Then to add fuel to the fire, one of the people interviewed by the article, Adult film actress Lily Cade, released a hate filled screed against trans people calling on the general public to commit violence and even lynch trans women:
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/03/lily-cade-bbc-trans-transphobia/
The BBC responded not by taking the awful article down, but by just removing Ms Cade out of said article:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/04/bbc-changes-online-article-at-centre-of-transphobia-row
Of course the guardian isn't much better than the BBC... And all of this comes on the heals of the BBC leaving the Stonewall Diversity Champions Program out of fear of bias.
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/10/bbc-stonewall-diversity-champions-programme/
A fear of bias that seems to come up if it in any way is in favor of Trans people and not against as the BBC has no issue defending their trans-antagonistic article:
https://www.them.us/story/bbc-trans-women-article-statement
I doubt they would use a poll of a 1000 Norweigns saying trans people are alright despite it being a better poll than the one they used:
https://trans-express.lgbt/post/667766588799336448/955-of-all-human-beings-think-trans-people#notes
My point being this, until they take steps to address and correct this bias, the BBC should be considered an anti-Trans news source.
Texas lawmakers proposed a bill to separate trans children from their families
Texas lawmakers proposed a bill to separate trans children from their families, labeling transgender care 'child abuse'The Texas state legislature is attempting to pass a bill that would separate trans children from their families for providing them with gender-affirming care.
SB1646 would prohibit parents from "administering or supplying, or consenting to or assisting in the administering or supplying of puberty suppression prescription drug or cross-sex hormone to a child, other than an intersex child, for the purpose of gender transitioning or gender reassignment."
The bill would change the state's definition of child abuse to include parents allowing trans minors to access hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and puberty blockers, two types of treatment commonly prescribed to trans minors by medical professionals.
Advocates like Adri Perez, a policy and advocacy strategist for the ACLU of Texas, say the bill could cost trans children their lives if passed.
More at link:
https://www.insider.com/texas-lawmakers-propose-bill-to-label-trans-health-care-child-abuse-2021-4?fbclid=IwAR1YmRjWLTUkQbEzmYdCnfyv2c7p-7aeIxpyEubkV2FDOz_Zy9QwK8r2TP0
The lawmakers of my state are monsters!
Schools closed after Oklahoma parents threaten to castrate transgender child
The horrific messages, which referred to 12-year-old Maddie as “it,” “this thing,” “half baked maggot” and “the transgender,” were posted on a Facebook group for parents of students in Achille, Oklahoma.
Earlier this year, an Indiana teacher who refused to use trans pupils’ chosen names resigned because his religious beliefs conflicted with his school’s policy.
The two schools in Achille will be closed until Wednesday (August 15) after Maddie – who usually goes to the staff bathroom – used a girls’ toilet once, on the first day of seventh grade.
More at link:
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/08/14/transgender-castrate-child-oklahoma-parents-threaten-school/?utm_source=MOBFB&medium=292923+Schools+closed+after+Oklahoma+parents+threaten+to+castrate+transgender+child&utm_campaign=PNMOBFB
Being a bigot is one thing but physically threatening a CHILD is a whole new low for these evil people!!!
Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition
posted on 06.10.18 at 04:55 PM EDT by Sal Romano (@salromano)
Upscaled screen resolution, new characters, events, and costumes.
Bandai Namco announced Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC during Microsoft’s E3 2018 press conference. It will launch this winter.
Here is an overview of the game, via Bandai Namco
Follow Yuri Lowell, a resident in the Lower Quarter of Zaphias and former Imperial Knight, as he accepts a mission to retrieve a stolen Blastia Core used to regulate his neighborhood’s water supply. This simple mission spins into a series of events that finds Yuri befriending a colorful cast of characters, traveling to exotic locations, and being pushed into the middle of a nefarious plot that threatens the destruction of the entire planet.
Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition features two new fully playable party members for North America; Patty Fleur, a young pirate searching for her lost memories, as well as Yuri’s rival and best friend, Flynn Scifo. Along with these two new playable characters,Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition will include additional scenarios, locations, and costumes that will be all-new for Western players.
Read more at https://gematsu.com/2018/06/tales-of-vesperia-definitive-edition-announced-ps4-xbox-one-switch-pc#GhGiJ40y1bh7pio1.99
House Candidate Who Chased Trans Woman From Restroom Is Primary Loser
Congressional candidate Jazmina Saavedra may have thought accosting a trans woman at a Los Angeles restaurant would win her votes, but it didn't quite pan out — the Republican came in third place in Tuesday's primary election.
Incumbent Democrat Nanette Barragan crushed her competition for California's 44th Congressional district, winning over 26,000 votes, or nearly 66 percent of the vote. In second place was a fellow Democrat who actually dropped out of the race months ago — Compton, Calif., mayor Aja Brown.
Then in third place was Trump-devotee Saavedra, who received about 4,000 votes or 10 percent of the vote (in fourth was Clueless star Stacey Dash, who also dropped out of the race before Tuesday's election). Saavedra, a Nicaraguan immigrant, was running on an anti-immigration/anti-transgender/anti-abortion platform.
More at link:
https://www.advocate.com/politics/2018/6/06/house-candidate-who-chased-trans-woman-restroom-primary-loser
I hope she has hate crime charges placed on her.
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