1/3/13

Missourians for Equality Novel Approach: Please Vote On Our Rights

Referendum.  The word send chills up the backs of most traditional civil rights advocates. The threat of a popular vote is always a consideration when advancing LGBT rights. It's a tool occasionally used successfully by anti LGBT groups to defeat progress we achieve by city council and legislative means.

Voting on a minority's rights by the majority is problematic at best. If it were not for the discrimination faced by said minority the issue wouldn't have come up in the first place.

Or so we thought. The new kids on the block, Missourians for Equality have received State approval to begin collecting the 105,000 petition signatures needed for a state wide vote in 2014.

I asked Aaron Malin, executive director of Missourians for Equality this morning about this novel approach. Malin explained "We see this a viable method since millions of Missourians are already living under such protections the fear factor has disappeared for them. Our efforts will be much like the recent Maine Marriage vote. Addressing the more contentious subject of transgender protections Arron said "A recent poll indicates 64% favor same sex marriage and we think those same people will support gender identity protections as well."

As for religious organizations potential opposition Arron's group is taking a preemptive approach by asking for enhanced protections for religious freedom as well.

As far as the established Missouri group's non support of the ballot initiative Arron replied " Promo is using a different, incremental path towards equality. They have done much of the groundwork but we don't see this happening in the states legislature. We look to expound on Promo's work for a statewide vote. And if we fail, there is always the more traditional path. In any case we see the vote as a good thing."

Show me Show Me State!


On facebook Missourians for Equality



Video; Russian Duma LGBT Kiss in Met With Violence And Arrests


Гомофобы и полиция попытались сорвать флешмоб против принятия гомофобного закона у здания Государственной Думы. 19 декабря 2012, видео Дмитрия Зыкова для www.grani.ru

Police and homophobes tried to disrupt and FlashMob against homophobic law outside the State Duma. December 19, 2012, Dmitry Zykova for www.grani.ru videos

Arrested at the kiss in was one of my favorite journalists Elena Kostyuchenko who writes for Novaya Gazeta one of the last remaining free press outlets in Putin's Russia.



Read more at Gay Star News



1/2/13

NH AG Issues Opinion: Transwoman Stacie Laughton May Not Run For Office.

Laughton made a huge deal of resigning then stated she was running
again, to fill the seat she had just vacated.
An opinion from New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney issued Monday states that Stacie Laughton may not run to fill the seat she vacated after her past criminal history was revealed earlier this year.

Is this finally over? Laughton says she is planning to remove her name from contention.

I couldn't believe it when Laughton said she was running to fill the seat she hadn't even officially taken. Well, she forced the hand and I just hope this is the end of this mess.
Read more at NPR A.G.: Criminal History Bars Nashua Transgender Woman From Holding Office




1/1/13


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Transgender Is No Longer A Disorder.

Trans Folk Don't believe the headlines. Transgender is still included in The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

Nearly every day we see it "Transgender no longer a disorder". That headline has been repeated Ad nauseam in nearly every gay publication until even CNN http://fox8.com/2012/12/27/transgender-no-longer-a-mental-disorder/ is repeating the story, almost word for word.

I have begun to wonder if maybe the people who use our pathologization against us will begin to believe it too, if they read it enough. I'm here to say, we are still patholoigized and no they won't because unlike the trans people who want to believe things are better they want to. They know better than that . As long as we remain in the DSM we will have that chain around our collective necks.

It's a great headline for gay and mainstream media. Its sensational and it lifts the guilt tha gay and lesbians feel for sacrificing us.  We weren't added until homosexuality was removed. Gay people knew there was only one way to advance there agenda and they did it.

 Dysphoria. Granted there's is a slight difference in the dichotomy and if our diagnosis is focused on helping gender dysphoric individuals transition successfully, that an improvement too. But at what cost?

We remain patholigized despite massive protests in Europe and keyboard plunking in the States.

About a half of the 5,000 trans people on the https://www.facebook.com/events/131907566870401/?ref=ts&fref=ts facebook page I begun wanted our complete removal, many of them signing the petition. http://www.change.org/petitions/remove-transgender-from-the-dsm-5 

Many of the remaining folks were happy with the status quo hoping one day there insurance would better cover transition. Many couldn't care less because they self medicate and when and if they opt for SRS, they just get it.

Did those of us who wanted our removal succeed? No, most likely we failed despite my best efforts at getting local people out from behind their keyboards. That was somehow my fault. Not the gay communities. We didn't take to the street at key moments and gain the spotlight as they did twenty years ago.

The facts.

The December first 2012 press release from the APA announced the next bureaucratic step needed to publish the DSM-5 had been taken place by the board voting it's approval.

And the world fell over themselves to announce trans people were no longer listed as "disordered" by in the DSM.

Did I miss something in that press release?

The Message From APA President Dilip Jeste, M.D., on DSM-5 offers no specifics, only justifications and denials regarding the process.

So whats up?

The often quoted Med Page published in May following the last public meeting reports what may not up:

"Gender identity disorder. Individuals who believe their biological gender doesn't match their gender identification will no longer be labeled with a disorder. Instead, if they seek psychiatric treatment, they can be labeled with "gender dysphoria."

The workgroup responsible for dealing with the hot-button issue considered a variety of other approaches, addressed later in this article. Ultimately they settled on a formal diagnosis -- potentially qualifying a patient for insurance-paid treatment if they want it -- but with a less pejorative name than "disorder."

So the name might change but what is the difference between the two words and what does it mean to trans people? The free medical dictionary defines....

Gender Identity Disorder:

"The psychological diagnosis gender identity disorder (GID) is used to describe a male or female that feels a strong identification with the opposite sex and experiences considerable distress because of their actual sex."

Gender Dysphoria:

"unhappiness with one's biological sex or its usual gender role, with the desire for the body and role of the opposite sex.

Not much difference between the two words is there?

Please understand, this is just conjuncture since no further official information available until the DSM-5 is published in May 2013.

But given that one D word is being substituted for another what's the end result?

We remain pathologized by the APA

pa·thol·o·gize

/pəˈTHäləˌjīz/Verb

Regard or treat (someone or something) as psychologically abnormal or unhealthy

Which in my opinion denies us our rightful place among the worlds well adapted productive citizens.

So try as hard as I may I failed, kind of. Who knows. I did give space to those who wanted conversation. But most importantly, those who wanted our total removal from the DSM as well.

But now its just a waiting game. The APA has what it wants, our undivided attention, our money, the guidelines to normality, acceptability and our chances at success in life.

Patrick Bonnett of Omaha Liberty Project Busted. Religious Rights Are Protected.

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The amendment to Omaha's anti-discrimination ordinance protecting LGBT people passed in 2012 is under attack by a organization which portends to represent many local churches. The Liberty Project has begun a petition to rescind the new law.

Patrick Bonnett of Omaha Liberty Project told Channel 6 News, "Ordinances like this lead to unintended consequences and those consequences lead to discrimination against religious liberties, religious freedoms of speech, rights of conscience and we oppose that."

Bonnett's real fear is that non religious business owners (where his bread is buttered) will be compelled to place the city's laws above there own fears. Bonnett hopes by misinforming and fear mongering he will persuade enough people to sign the petition and force a public vote on a minorities rights.

Dispelling the lies. Omaha's laws:

The Liberty Project petition tells potential signers that the law now says:


Source: Liberty Project

Rhetorical question: Would the liberty project, religious bookstores or Churches deny me employment if I asked to sweep there floors before this amendment was passed? How about after it's passage?

In case Omaha's Church's don't all ready do discriminate this the ordnance makes it clear that they do have the right to discriminate against me:


Source: Omaha Municipal Codes.

What about jobs other than ministering?

A church's membership obviously would decline so keeping it clean, mowing or shoveling snow would be considered essential to it's religious activity.

Administration and clerical duties would suffer if a godless transgender person like myself were to sabotage it, so of course that position is essential to a churches religious function.

The truth is most LGBT people have a spiritual belief. Many including myself attend a religious gathering and it has always been our practice to insure those religious rights are protected.

I will ask the good people of Omaha to consider this. Transgender people were spoken about three times in the Bible. Once in the old Testament by God, once by Jesus and once by a angel and to see what the Liberty Project for what they really are, hatemongers.








12/29/12

Anonymous to Release All Steubenville "Rape Squad" Info and Child Porno Found In emails

Anonymous Threatens To Release All On Steubenville's Alleged Football Rape Squad If No Apology is Given to Victim by 1/1/2013.

We wouldn't have known there was a rape had it not been for one courageous blogger investigating the crime in spite of a lawsuit to shut her up. She knew it was being ignored by local law enforcement.



Video released January 3rd 2013 by KnightSec shows young men, one wearing a Steubenville tshirt, joking and laughing about the rape of this minor girl.








Anonymous sub-group KnightSec, which has released a preliminary dox outing the identities of other students at Big Red High School who they say dubbed themselves the "rape crew" but are being protected by the teachers and parents in the small town. More people and info will be exposed if those involved don't publicly apologize in the next few days:

KightSec Pastebin:
Greetings Citizens of the world, We are anonymous, We are knightsecc. Around mid-August 2012 a party took place in a small town in Ohio known as Steubenville. At this party are a list of men named in the prelimenary dox below who took part in the kidnapping and rape of a 15 year old girl. This video is to document the proof for the masses. The town of steubenville has been good at keeping this quiet and their star football team protected. Their school website shows how high the football team is held in regards to education with no links to academics what-so-ever. Even the founder of the school website Man o War offers his opinion here, "enough with the hyperbole, how can she be "scarred for life" if she supposedly can't remember anything?" On this fateful night a life was changed forever as a group of the football players of Big Red High School, dubbed themselves "rape crew" and began taking advantage of an underage girl. The girl was sexually assaulted, molested, raped, and drug unconcious from party to party. This is a warning shot to the school faculty, the parents of those involved, and those involved especially. A preliminary dox is being released on some of those involved, while a full size dox of everyone involved including names, social security numbers, addresses, relatives, and phone numbers is being compiled as you watch this video on every single member of the football team, those involved, the coaches, the principle, and more. This dox will be released unless all accused parties come forward by new years day and issue a public apology to the girl and her family. Make no mistake, all you need is a google search engine to realize we are serious in what we do. You can hide no longer, you have attracted the attention of the hive. We will not sit idely by and watch a group of young men who turn to rape as a game or sport get the pass because of athletic ability and small town luck. You now have the world looking directly at you.

michael nodianos,
Cody Saltsman,
Jake Howarth,
Jordan Banks,
Ryan Vodich,
Harold Malone,
John Linn,
Dashon Redman,
Anthony Craig,
Evan Westlake,
Mark Cole,
Malik Richmond,
Trent Mays,

Current principle and faculty, you would be wise not to sheild the guilty.

Op Roll Red Roll. Engaged. January 1st. Expect us.


@Kyanonymous
@doxsex
#knightsec
#oprollredroll

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R E A S O N

VICTIM............. 16-year-old girl

Charged:
Malik Richmond
Trent Mays
Photographed/Video:
Anthony Craig
Evan Westlake
Mark Cole
Made a video play by play and disseminated it.
Michael Nodianos
Ex boyfriend – Reportedly the one that set the victim up for this brutal attack
Cody Saltsman


REASON.............. http://behindtheyellowtape.me/2012/08/31/steubenville-high-school-rape-case/
REASON.............. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/sports/high-school-football-rape-case-unfolds-online-and-divides-steubenville-ohio.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&smid=tw-nytimes&partner=rss&emc=rss&


D O X

TARGET............. Trent Mays
AGE................ 16
Zodiac Sign........ Pisces
HEIGHT............. 5'3"
WEIGHT............. 152
LOCATION........... Steubenville, OH / Bloomingdale, OH
SCHOOL............. Steubenville High School
SPORT.............. FOOTBALL PLAYER
SPORT.............. WRESTLER
MYSPACE............ http://www.myspace.com/tmoney_12
FACEBOOK...........
TWITTER............ @TrentMays_12
LINK............... http://www.rollredroll.com/12.html
LINK............... http://www.flowrestling.org/coverage/247774-59th-Annual-OVAC-Wrestling-Tournament/video/582831-152-lbs-semi-Trent-Mays-Steubenville-vs-Danny-Colby-Wheeling-Park
LINK............... http://www.ncsasports.org/football-recruiting/oh/steubenville/steubenville-high-school/trent-mays


TARGET............. Ma’lik Richmond
AGE................ 16
HEIGHT............. 6'4"
WEIGHT............. 197
ADDRESS............ 1331 Wellesley Ave Steubenville, OH 43952
PHONE.............. 740-283-4919
PHONE.............. 740-282-0866 http://phonereported.com/number/740-282-0866
Caller ID.......... Nathaniel Richmond
Carrier............ AMERITECH OHIO
Phone Type......... Landline
City............... MINGO JUNCTION
State.............. OH
LOCATION........... Steubenville, OH
HOMETOWN........... Chicago, Illinois
SCHOOL............. Steubenville High School
CLASS.............. 2015
SPORT.............. FOOTBALL PLAYER
SPORT.............. Basketbal
MYSPACE............ http://www.myspace.com/118902937
FACEBOOK........... https://www.facebook.com/malik.richmond1
EMAIL.............. m**********n@yahoo.com
PHONE.............. +*******9992
FATHER............. Nathaniel Lee Richmond
DOB................ 09/09/1965
EMAIL.............. naterichmond55@yahoo.com
EMAIL.............. n********6@yahoo.com
FACEBOOK........... https://www.facebook.com/nathaniel.richmond
EMPLOYER........... Grans Goodies
POSITION........... CEO
HIGHSCHOLL......... DuSable High School Class of 1983 Chicago, Il
MOTHER............. Daphaney Mslove Birden-Richmond
MARRIED............ June 15, 1996
LINK............... http://www.berecruited.com/high-schools/ohio/steubenville/steubenville-high-school/boys-basketball
LINK............... http://www.maxpreps.com/athletes/Ba_4n2_sL0S45tseDV6XAA/basketball-winter-11-12/profile-malik-richmond.htm


TARGET............. Michael Colin Nodianos
AGE................ 18
HEIGHT............. 5' 7"
WEIGHT.............
ADDRESS............ 4031 Argonne Ave Steubenville, OH 43952
PHONE.............. 740-266-2179
LOCATION........... Steubenville, OH
ALIAS.............. alias addie_was_here http://imgur.com/JNGhF
Phone.............. 614-266-2179
Address............ 808 Buena Vista Blvd Steubenville, OH 43952
Old Address........ 4031 Argonne Ave Steubenville, OH 43952
MYSPACE............ http://www.myspace.com/290281501
TWITTER............ @Nodidamus
YOUTUBE............ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8AlHrrB11o&feature=youtube_gdata
SCREENCAP.......... http://easycaptures.com/fs/uploaded/641/5203091110.jpg
FATHER.............. Michael J Nodianos
MOTHER.............. Lisa L Nodianos


TARGET.............. Anthony Craig
This Fag "wrestling" pussy footing it:
http://www.flowrestling.org/coverage/238278-58th-annual-ovac-wrestling-tournament-2011/video/434310-damon-outwardmartins-ferryvs-anthony-craig-steubenville


TARGET.............. Evan Westlake
http://www.rollredroll.com/13.html


TARGET.............. Mark Cole


TARGET.............. Cody Saltsman
http://www.rollredroll.com/10.html
AGE................. 17-18
LOCATION............ Steubenville, OH
SCHOOL.............. Steubenville High School
Youtube............. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrw6rbwXmg4RRjAQLeSnlBQ
Google+.............https://plus.google.com/111802047558911127680/posts
Twitter............@cody_saltsman


TARGET.............. Samuel W. Kerr
TITLE............... Juvenile Judge