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Aunt Boo Says MYOB In Public Restrooms And Everyone Can Have A “Wonderful Bathroom Experience”
Meet Aunt Boo. She’s a God-fearing, Christ-loving comedienne from Raleigh, N.C. with a Facebook following of approximately 335,000 fans. She regularly posts videos featuring advice about things like the importance of personal hygiene, why you shouldn’t drink and drive and how to survive a sexual assault. She also has a video of herself returning an unsatisfactory hamburger to McDonald’s and another about installing locks on her kitchen cabinets so crackheads don’t steal her groceries.
Related: Target Announces Trans-Inclusive Bathroom Policy
In her latest video, Aunt Boo discusses the very hot topic of trans people using public bathrooms. One might think, given her Christian background, and that she resides in the current epicenter of anti-LGBTQ discrimination, she would be in support of the uptick in anti-LGBTQ laws regulating the bathroom use of trans people, but no.
Related: Selfie Campaign Shows How Absurd It Is To Force Trans People To Use The Wrong Bathroom
Aunt Boo wants the world (aka her 335,000 followers, many of whom are Christian) to know that just because a person is trans doesn’t mean they are a sex offender. But to any non-LGBTQ sex offenders out there who may be peeking at her going to the bathroom, you better watch out.
“If you’re minding your business and I’m minding mine, we’re going to have a wonderful bathroom experience,” she says. “When your outside matches your inside, use the corresponding restroom, please.”
Preach.
Check out Aunt Boo’s video below.
There’s Only One LGBT Kids Clothing Line Colton Haynes Will Buy From
Colton Haynes knows the power of a social media share.
The Arrow actor has made headlines, at least here anyways, with everything from body modification to an unlikely pregnancy announcement to alluding to the fact that he’s been out of the closet all along.
But Haynes took a break from sparking conversation about himself to focus the attention of his vast followers list on something else: his gay brother-in-law’s new gay children’s clothing line.
Well not gay children per se, but for children of gay parents.
“I’m so incredible proud of my brother’s husband @scottculley for launching @gaybyapparel!” he wrote on Instagram. “I can’t wait to watch this brand sky rocket 🙂 Go shop online & get the word out there :)”
The line features familiar slogans that parents force their children to wear (“Isn’t this hilarious, honey? We’ve got to get this for Mikey.”) but with an LGBTQ twist.
Included on the company’s website is this message:
We are Just starting out.. If you have ideas for shirts PLEASE email them to us…. [email protected]. We are making shirts for our community and we’d love to have your input!!
Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Lane, Tituss Burgess, and Daniel Franzese Ask: ‘Why Aren’t We Talking About HIV/AIDS?’ – WATCH
A new PSA from GLAAD and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation asks a simple but important question about HIV and AIDS: Why aren’t we talking about it?
The PSA is the second video as part of a campaign highlighting the unfinished work left in the fight against HIV/ AIDS. The previous PSA was launched in October of last year and was a call to action to continue the fight against the disease that has taken millions of lives.
Both ads invoke Elizabeth Taylor’s famed speech at the 1992 Freddie Mercury Tribute concert.
GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said of the campaign,
“GLAAD was founded in order to combat the sensationalized media coverage surrounding the HIV and AIDS crisis in the 80s, and we have been committed to this cause ever sinceThis campaign will help bring more awareness HIV and AIDS and remind everyone that we have the power to end this epidemic in our lifetime.”
The PSA features Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Lane, Tituss Burgess, and Daniel Franzese, who point out that even 20 years after Taylor’s historic speech, an estimated 1 in 5 gay men in major U.S. cities are living with HIV, and that today, we have the tools to make HIV history. The PSA will air on Logo beginning today.
Joel Goldman, Managing Director of The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation added,
“HIV infection rates are up 133% in last decade among young gay men. It’s troubling that 1 in 3 gay men have never had an HIV test. We must find new ways of raising awareness in order to reach this community and inform them of the tools available to prevent new infections. We are so fortunate to have the support from Logo as well as our incredible partners at GLAAD on this PSA campaign.”
Watch the stirring video, below.
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Media Outlets Are Reporting 1 Million People Are Boycotting Target. Here’s The Truth.
No, a million people are not boycotting Target.
The post Media Outlets Are Reporting 1 Million People Are Boycotting Target. Here’s The Truth. appeared first on ThinkProgress.
thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2016/04/28/3773580/target-boycott-reality/
Bill Banning Discrimination Against Transgender Patients Heads to Hawaii Governor’s Desk
On Tuesday, the Hawaii Legislature passed a vital bill to protect transgender citizens from discrimination in healthcare coverage. House Bill 2084 prohibits health insurers from denying, excluding or limiting healthcare coverage on the basis of gender identity. The bill now heads to Governor David Ige for approval. If signed into law, it would take effect on January 1, 2017.
The unfortunate reality is that many healthcare plans contain explicitly discriminatory “transgender exclusions” that prohibit coverage for medical care related to gender transition, otherwise known as transition-related health care. Even when healthcare plans do not explicitly contain “transgender exclusions,” coverage of transition-related care is still often denied and falsely perceived by the insurer to be not medically necessary. Transgender people are even denied coverage for many of the procedures routinely provided to people who are not transgender.
These discriminatory exclusions persist despite the fact that the nation’s top professional health associations — including the American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association — have unequivocally affirmed that transition-related healthcare is medically necessary for the health and well-being of many transgender people.
Prohibiting these discriminatory practices is a matter of basic fairness and equality. Like everyone else, transgender people deserve equal access to essential medically necessary care. Their health and well-being depend on it.
HRC engaged its members across the state and submitted testimony in support of House Bill 2084.
More information on transgender-inclusive health benefits can be found here.
South Carolina's anti-trans bill defeated, sponsor threatens new bills
Today, South Carolina Senate Bill 1203, which would prevent municipalities and schools from establishing protections that would allow transgender people from using sex-designated bathrooms, missed a key legislative deadline, effectively nullifying any chance of passing.
South Carolina anti #trans bill fails to leave committee. Probably dead for now. t.co/zkOnzQISqX #S1203
— Gwendolyn Ann Smith (@gwenners) April 28, 2016
South Carolina’s The State explained, “Sponsored by state Sen. Lee Bright, R-Spartanburg, the legislation will miss Sunday’s crossover deadline for bills to pass from one legislative chamber to the other. Bills that do not have that deadline have almost no chance of passing this year.”
“This is an important victory for equality and acceptance in my home state of South Carolina,” said Zeke Stokes, GLAAD’s Vice President of Programs, who was in South Carolina recently speaking out in opposition to the bill. “South Carolinians of all political parties came together to say clearly that discrimination has no place in the Palmetto State and joined together to defeat this bill. I couldn’t be more proud.”
Local and national trans advocates, organizations, businesses, and even S.C. Governor Nikki Haley—who said S1203 was unnecessary–spoke out against the bill. Earlier this month, GLAAD was on the ground in the Palmetto state, amplifying the voices of trans South Carolinians targeted by this legislation as advocates spoke to the state senate during a hearing.
It’s believed Senator Bright missed the deadline as a strategy to avoid putting it to a vote in the Senate General Committee, where it was expected to lose.
Though the harmful S1203 is no longer considered a live danger, the bill’s sponsor, State Senator Lee Bright, has made clear that his efforts to discriminate against LGBT South Carolinians are far from over. According to The State:
When the state budget comes up for debate next week, Bright said he will try to add a proposal to ban state aid to local governments that pass laws requiring businesses to allow transgender people to use the bathrooms of their choice. Local governments that require that are telling businesses “how to run their restrooms,” he said.
Bright said he has high hopes that his no-aid proposal will pass. “We’d rather have the full bill, but we’ll take what we can get.”
… Bright said Wednesday he would reintroduce his original transgender bathroom bill next year if he wins re-election.
Despite persistence in the legislature, trans South Carolinians and their allies stand strong against these attempts at legislative inequality. Just yesterday, Berkeley County became the Lowcountry’s first public school district to respond to the national conversation around trans-inclusive bathroom policies, indicating they would allow trans students to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity.
While celebrating today’s victory, GLAAD will continue to work on the ground and in partnership with local advocates throughout the U.S. South to support LGBT Southerners from discriminatory legislation.
For more information on LGBT South Carolinians and accurately covering bills like S1203, check out GLAAD’s resources:
www.glaad.org/blog/south-carolinas-anti-trans-bill-defeated-sponsor-threatens-new-bills
Alabama Chief Justice: Trans People Have a 'Mental Disorder'
Chief Justice Roy Moore called a trans protester a “known transvestite.”
www.advocate.com/politics/2016/4/28/alabama-chief-justice-trans-people-have-mental-disorder
This trans girl’s photograph is showing people around the world how stupid bathroom bills are
If this was your daughter, would you be comfortable sending her into a men’s bathroom?
That is the question that is changing hearts and minds around the world.
As North Carolina and other cities across the US have passed bills that prohibits transgender people from using the bathroom that reflects their gender identity, more and more people are seeing the idiocy and discrimination of this kind of legislation.
Showing a picture of trans child Corey Maisen, photographer Meg Bitton says: ‘If this was YOUR daughter, would you be comfortable sending her into a men’s bathroom? Neither would I. Be fair. Be kind. Be empathetic. Treat others how you would like to be treated.’
The photo, which has been shared thousands of times, has many comments. While some are them are transphobic, many say they have changed their minds because of the photo.
‘It is impossible to moderate this post, try as we may,’ Bitton added. ‘I want to delete it as badly as I don’t want to delete it. I decided to let Corey’s mother make that call and she asked for it to stay to raise awareness so it will. PLEASE BE ASSURED that I do not in anyway support the trolling insanity I am seeing here and I VERY MUCH appreciate all the positivity around Corey as does she AND her family.’
Of course, these bathroom bills are not just targeting trans people who can ‘pass’. Anyone who does not present as someone’s idea of ‘male’ and ‘female’ is in danger of arrest and fines.
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