Category: Free News Experiment
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TSA Insanity
The Sikh Coalition has released the FlyRights app, a phone app that gives anyone traveling, “who believe they’ve been the victim of discrimination by the TSA the ability to submit formal complaints directly from their smart phones.” And just in case you haven’t been hearing about the idiotic, embarrassing and rights eroding things happening at…
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Portland Implements Trans Inclusive Health Care
The Portland City Council has voted unanimously to implement trans inclusive heath care. As reported by Bilerico: They [Portland City Council] are only the third municipality ever to do so. This is obviously important to any trans employees of the city, however, it is just as important that the city is recognizing the inherent discrimination…
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Airman Fired Under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
it’s june of 2011, but still. Via Washington – The Air Force has discharged an airman under the law banning gays from serving openly in the military, the first firing since President Barack Obama signed legislation aimed at ending the ban. The ban, laid out in the 1993 “don’t ask, don’t tell” law, is just…
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White House Meets With Transgender Activists and Leaders
I missed this when it happened back in April, but haven’t heard a peep of it since (until I was cleaning out my feed reader and there it was!) Via The Washington Blade Online Transgender activists intend to discuss federal policy issues at an upcoming White House meeting that will be the first ever…
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On Duty Cop Gets Away With Rape
Police do get away with things that us regular folks never would. This case is sickening and grossly unfair for so many reasons…but on the other hand, “He had been officer of the month a couple times” and this had nothing to do with the fact that the victim was a transsexual sex worker. From…
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Christian right leader George Rekers takes vacation with “rent boy”
via boingboing For decades, George Alan Rekers has been a general in the culture wars, though his work has often been behind the scenes. In 1983, he and James Dobson, America’s best-known homophobe, formed the Family Research Council, a D.C.-based, rabidly Christian, and vehemently anti-gay lobbying group that has become a standard-bearer of the nation’s…
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On Technology and Naturalism
‘The more ingenious and accurate our instruments, the more unsusceptible and inexpert become our organs: by assembling a heap of machinery about us, we find afterwards none in ourselves.’ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Florida Family Policy Council’s Mistake
The picture says it all really. A Christian Florida hate group used the picture on the left to describe a couple that was allowed to adopt a family member’s child they had been fostering. FFPC says it was a ‘mistake’. More Here , Here and Here
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Sex not specified
The Australian government has issued what is likely the first gender neutral identification card, or Recognised Details Certificate (similar to a U.S. birth certificate). Norrie, 48, was born in Scotland and was labeled male at birth. At age 23 Norrie commenced sex and gender conversion to female through hormone and construction of a vagina and…
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Students protest for LGBT inclusion in school nondiscrimination policy
(Via Feministing) Students at John Carroll University in Ohio protested during a school basketball game over the school’s unwillingness to include sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination policy. From a student statement on YouTube: John Carroll’s mission is to create people for others. That means support, protection, love, and understanding for all people without regard to…