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San Francisco - Dee Snider Responds to SF Pride After Being Axed: “So I Hear I’m Transphobic. Really?”

San Francisco – Dee Snider Responds to SF Pride After Being Axed: “So I Hear I’m Transphobic. Really?”

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Cites his long history as an LGBTQ+ supporter after being “cancelled” for supposed anti-trans post. But really, was it transphobic?

Former Twisted Sister front man Dee Snider was recently as Grand Marshall and opening rally performer at the upcoming San Francisco Pride Parade after he showed support for a “controversia”l statement made by KISS’ Paul Stanley about sex reassignment treatment for children.

Long story short Stanley stated that “normalizing” sex reassignment for children has “turned it into a sad and dangerous fad,”  Snider chimed in, “You know what? There was a time where I ‘felt pretty’ too. Glad my parents didn’t jump to any rash conclusions! Well said, @PaulStanleyLive.”

San Francisco Pride has stated that it was “heartbroken and angry” when the singer “expressed support for Kiss’s Paul Stanley’s transphobic statement.” despite the fact that “Dee has always been a vocal supporter of LGBTQ+ rights.” 

In a Facebook post on Friday (May 5th) Snider clapped back with a post titled, “So I Hear I’m Transphobic. Really?,”

“Why did the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade invite me, Dee Snider to be a Grand Marshal in their parade and sing ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ on the center stage at what could possibly be the most important LGBTQIA+ gathering in the organization’s long history. To quote Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle‘s senior political writer, ‘… Dee Snider [is] a longtime supporter of LGBTQ rights…’

I have ALWAYS stood with the community and its important causes. I was honored to accept the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade’s invitation and I even gave my blessing for ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ to be used as this year’s battle cry [‘Queer Not Gonna Take It!’].

Is that transphobic?

I was not aware the Transgender community expects fealty and total agreement with all their beliefs and any variation or deviation is considered ‘transphobic.’

So, my lifetime of supporting the Transgender community’s right to identify as they want and honoring whatever changes they may make in how they present themselves to the world isn’t enough? Why not?

I’ve recently stated I do not believe young children are ready to decide their gender allocation. I believe their choices should be supported and accepted by their parents, but I do not think kids have the mental capabilities to make rational, logical decisions on things of a magnitude that will affect them for the rest of their lives. I do not believe they are mentally developed enough.

Dr. Jennifer Katzenstein [director of psychology, neuropsychology and social work, and co-director of the Center for Behavioral Health at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital] says, ‘…it is important for parents to remember that development varies across children, and that one age (such as age 7) is not the end of development, or a ‘deadline for developing reasoning skills.’ Cognitive development continues into adulthood, and as parents, it is our responsibility to continue to challenge and support our children.’

Well said. It’s just good parenting.

I am a proud moderate. I drive a Tesla and a Hummer. I have too many guns but strongly support intelligent gun control. I have four children yet fight for a woman’s right to choose. I am a motorcycle riding environmentalist. I am a heterosexual who proudly supports LBGTQIA+ rights. To me (and I believe to many of you) none of these things are mutually exclusive.

The Transgender community needs moderates who support their choices, even if we don’t agree with every one of their edicts. For some Transgender people (not all) to accuse supporters, like me, of transphobia is not a good look for their cause.

Don’t reject people who are willing to march, sing and stand with you just because we don’t perfectly see eye-to-eye. We are still your allies.

I, Dee Snider, will continue to support the Transgender community and their right to choose even if they reject me and moving forward, I am open to educating myself so I can be a better ally.

Sincerely, Dee Snider, your cisgender, crossdressing ally.”

So the question is this. Is it really “transphobic” to have the opinion that young children should wait until they are older (like in tier teens) before making such a life-altering decision just to be sure?

What are your HONEST thoughts on sex re-assignment when it comes to young children?

Leave a comment. If you are brave enough.

Police Charge Trans W Spa Member With 5 Counts of Indecent Exposure.

Police Charge Trans Wi Spa Member With 5 Counts of Indecent Exposure.

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The incident that we reported on in June at the W Spa in Los Angeles over a transgender customer “exposing ” her male anatomy to other women in young girls which led to complaints and protests that many believed was a “Proud Boy/Right Wing” anti-trans set-up may just might not be.

Darren Agee Merager, a registered sex offender was charged last Monday with five counts of indecent exposure, relating to an incident inside the Wi Spa on June 23, according to a news release issued by the Los Angeles Police Department. 

Merager, who spoke to The New York Post (of all papers), denied the allegations and insists that she is actually the victim of transphobic harassment.

“Everything about the Wi Spa was a bunch of garbage and lies,” Merager said in an interview. She says she is legally female in California and was in a jacuzzi in the women’s section when she was accosted by “Cubana Angel.” 

“She never saw me naked. I was underwater with water all the way up to my chest.” Merager denies ever being erect or around children at the spa. She says she is actually the victim of sexual harassment by transphobic women at the Wi Spa.

Merager is a tier-one registered sex offender with two prior convictions of indecent exposure stemming from incidents in 2002 and 2003 in California. 

California replaced the state’s lifetime registration requirement to a tiered system. This allows lower-tiered sex offenders to petition to be removed from the list. Merager is not eligible due to ongoing criminal charges. She also has a long criminal history in California that includes nearly a dozen felony convictions for crimes ranging from sex offenses to burglary and escape.

“Vandals” Trash National Organization for Marriages’s “Free Speech” Anti-Trans Hate Bus

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"Vandals" Tag National Organization for Marriages’s "Free Speech" Anti-Trans Hate Bus

USA Today reports:

A bus spreading a message against transgender culture was vandalized near United Nations headquarters early Thursday evening while it was parked, according to the head of one of the three groups organizing the bus tour.

The “Free Speech Bus,” as it is called by organizers, was parked near the UN for a scheduled event when two people approached, scratched it with a key, cracked windows with a hammer, and spray painted slogans such as “Trans Liberation,” Brian Brown, president of the Washington-based National Organization for Marriage, told USA TODAY.

The people on board the bus traveling between points in New York, Connecticut, Washington and Boston were inside the UN for an event, but the driver was with the vehicle, Brown said. The driver tried to protect the bus and was tackled but not hurt by one of the vandals, Brown said.

Brown’s organization put together the bus tour along the East Coast along with Citizen Go, a social activism group that works through online petitions, and the International Organization for the Family, a Washington-based group that promotes “the natural family.”

Brian Brown speaking to Brietbart.com added:

The overall goal for the transgender activists is a “genderless society” which no longer allows any social, civic or legal recognition of the biologically-based, different, equal and complementary preferences of the two distinct heterosexual sexes, including the normal view of marriage as a man and a woman joining to become parents for the next generation of people.

“The end of the [transgender] road is to say that fundamental reality is simply a subset of our wishes — that if I wake up one day and say ‘I’m a boy [then] I’m a boy,’ … that’s the big lie here,” he said.

Small-government libertarians should recognize that “if you [allow government to] change the fundamental nature of male or female persons, it can change anything — and the government can try to coerce people to buy into their false version of reality,” he said.

The orange bus was leased to help share this argument with Americans and media outlets around the nation, he said  “The ‘gender identity’ activists have scared people from stating the obvious truth,” said Brown. “The bus is letting people know they should not be afraid to stand against this nonsense,” he added.

Many in the LGBT Media are referring to the perpetrators as “vandals” while many right-wing websites are calling those who did it “trans-activists”. 

 

Caitlyn Jenner Vows to Take On The 'Radical Rainbow Mafia'

Caitlyn Jenner: ”I Get More Flack for Being Republican Than I Do for Being Trans”

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Caitlyn Jenner appeared before students at the University of Pennsylvania Wednesday night for a Q&A and when asked why she doesn’t belong to a more liberal political party, the 66-year-old Jenner replied, “I have gotten more flack for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.”

Jenner also responded to accusations that she transitioned for fame and money saying: “No one transitions for financial gain. No way…You don’t do it unless you know deep down in your soul that it’s the right thing to do. If I can’t be honest with myself about what I’m doing, I’m no good for anything.”

A student later in the evening asked Jenner to reply to a Daily Pennsylvanian columnist, who’d criticized her for not fitting the profile of a role model.

“I’m not a role model!” Jenner replied. “I’m so new to this community I don’t expect to be one.”

You can say that again sister! And just remember that next time someone asks your opinion or you show us to represent the community as you have been in the past.

 

International Comedy Festival Removes Barry Humphries (Dame Edna) Name From Award Over Transphobia

Dame Edna Trashes “Ratbag” Caitlyn Jenner, Calls Trans People “Self-Mutilated”. – Damn Edna!

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Dame Edna takes on Bruce Jenner

Barry Humphries best known to all as “Dame Edna” is looking to resurrect his drag alter ego for a “Farewell Tour” by bemoaning the tyranny of political correctness by throwing his purse at Caitlyn “Bruce” Jenner’s genitalia or lack of it and stirring up some controversy in an interview with The Telegraph.

As an expat, Humphies is always grouped with fellow Australians Germaine Greer and Clive James. “I don’t mind; they’re friends,” he says. On the other hand, he disliked being linked to Rolf Harris. “He behaved evilly,” says Humphries. 

Greer attracted fury after claiming that “trans” women such as Caitlyn Jenner (formerly the Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner) are men “who believe that they are women and have themselves castrated”, with students at Cardiff University describing Greer as “transphobic” and someone who should make all right-minded people feel “sick to [their] stomachs”.

Humphries is supportive of Greer in the controversy. “I agree with Germaine! You’re a mutilated man, that’s all,” he says. “Self-mutilation, what’s all this carry on? Caitlyn Jenner – what a publicity-seeking ratbag. It’s all given the stamp – not of respectability, but authenticity or something. If you criticize anything you’re racist or sexist or homophobic.”

NOT a great way to make a comeback. Especially since the LGBT community. If he had just stuck to calling Jenner a publicity seeking ratbag and ended there.  But nooooooooo.

Damn Edna!