The GOP Is Terrorizing LGBTQ+ Youth, But the Kids Are Fighting Back

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The South Dakota city of Watertown is conservative. Heads turned when former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestants Shangela, Eureka, and Bob the Drag Queen arrived in Mount Rushmore’s state last year to tape their HBO Max show We’re Here. The episode featured the queens getting to know a group of LGBTQ+ Watertown residents and their allies and culminated in a well-attended (and partially protested) drag show.

Fred Deutsch, a Republican state representative from Watertown, called the drag performance “highly sexualized” and “not to be shown to our children,” echoing the sentiment of some who picketed the event. But it wasn’t drag or any other manifestation of LGBTQ+ culture that drove a nonbinary teen to suicide there in 2019. It was loneliness. Shortly after, to commemorate the teen’s life, Amy Rambow and her 14-year-old transgender son, Alex, founded Watertown Love, an LGBTQ+ support group that held the town’s first Pride festival and was featured on We’re Here.

Alex Rambow, now a 17-year-old high school senior, and his town are in the news again. Earlier this year, a teacher at Rambow’s school wrote an anti-trans letter to a group of 14- and 15-year-olds.

“When you asked me to call your friends by masculine names, and I started trying to do that, I was wrong. It was a lie,” the teacher wrote. “Biologically, every cell in your body is — female — feminine. That’s the biological truth.” The letter made national headlines and led to a huge backlash. The teacher eventually resigned.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-terrorizing-lgbtq-youth-kids-113000789.html

Highly sexualized? Sounds like it turned you on Fred.

[madaboutharry]

2. Republicans are obsessed with sex.

They see sex everywhere and in everything. Instead of minding their own business they insert themselves into other peoples’ lives. Adults in the LGBTQ community have learned that these interlopers need to be told to fuck off. They can’t be intimidated anymore. So these bullies have turned to terrorizing young people who haven’t yet found their footing in the world. It shows just how evil and cruel they are.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

3. About time someone have the balls to say it...

Terrorizing LGBTQ youth. Terrorizing us all at any age, but especially the ones under the age of 18. Because nothing says tough like flexing your power and stomping all over vulnerable people - especially kids and teenagers. Fuck these fascist thugs. Fuck their Party of Hate shit. Fuck their bigotry.

I'm glad they're fighting back. We have to. These people have become obsessed with destroying us. They won't stop until they're made to stop. They're filled with nothing but hate and cruelty. And they've made it clear that being nice is a sign of weakness. We have no choice but to fight back - for our very lives. Because who needs Osama bin Laden when we have Osama bin Drumpf?

As for Incel Fred Deutsch... Quit taking your inability to get some out on us, for starters. And then "highly sexualized" and "not to be shown to our children"? I'm sorry, but I think you're thinking of Groomer Gaetz. Dumb Nazi scum.

[Victor_c3]

4. If I saw anyone mistreating any LGBTQ+ person, I'd be livid

As a man and as a father, I can’t stand seeing anyone’s child being victimized. I would be absolutely out-of-control angry if something like that happened in my community.

I just can’t wrap my head around why anyone would care about another person’s gender identity or sexuality.

[ck4829]

5. "The biological truth!" sounds like something a cult leader with a double helix staff would say