On January 10th, Nebraska goevrnor Jim Pillen and Senator Kathleen Kauth announced a sweeping anti-trans bill that targets trans people in bathrooms and on sports teams across the state.
"Without our church, without our God, who are we?”
Anybody who doesn't have an answer for that shouldn't have ANY legislative privilege to force people who DO have an answer to live their meaningless lifestyle. It's like admitting you're a mindless slave without any sense of self, and then demanding the rest of the world join your slavery cult. NO THANKS.
I love the "some people haven't felt the love of Jesus Christ" stuff when me and a lot of other queer/trans people I've met were LITERALLY "good Christian kids" until they were suddenly told Jesus doesn't love them or want them because they're not cishet. "Jesus loves everyone unconditionally... except YOU."
They push us out of their churches, out of their schools, out of public life, and then they attack us for "leaving Jesus behind." Abusers always gotta blame the victim.
Yeah, push out queer people while hiding the abusers in their ranks. I stopped going to church in 3rd grade after getting jumped by 2 "good" church boys for being "flamboyant" in their words.
I was a Christian fundamentalist for year s. before I came out as trans they told me to abandon my sister don’t eat with her. Don’t be in the same room with her engage her only in conversations to bring her closer to Jesus. because she’s gay. I left the church. I left my wife who supports the church and I will tell you 100% their Jesus is more of a fairytale than me being a woman. christianity is mass insanity.
I just want to throw a Talmud (the Jewish encyclopedia of the bible that has eight genders in it) at every transmisic politician that says "To hell with the separation of church and state!". Christofascism is as much a curse on our nation as the influence of money.
They seem to be forgetting that some of us are not Christian, and their beliefs are not the only ones a religion can have. I am a Soto Zen Buddhist.
Soto Zen Buddhism views transgender individuals with acceptance and respect, aligning with its core teachings of non-duality and the impermanent nature of self, meaning that gender identity is not seen as a fixed or essential characteristic and should be honored as part of an individual's experience.
Soto Zen emphasizes compassion and acceptance towards all beings, including those who may experience gender dysphoria.
The practice of meditation encourages individuals to deeply examine their own experiences and identities, including gender, without judgment.
As an atheist, nudist, political activist, cisgender woman in a a 58 year relationship with a man and registered Democrat I have to question why my family abandoned me. Recently a person in a group discussion said "well as a lesbian of course you feel that way." I replied no as a person who respects all is why I feel that way. My friend wanted to know why I did not correct the person who called me a lesbian. BECAUSE it does not matter.
I am beginning to believe that all this hate was a premeditated plan to distract from all the issues we should be able to focus on. As far as I know there is no documentation of a trans attacking anyone in a bathroom.
Please note that this bill also formalizes Jim Pillen's executive order into legislative law, recognizing only two binary sexes defined as that assigned at birth. Most concernedly, section 8 of this bill also directs all state agencies to act administratively on this definition. This will affect how trans people are treated in state prisons and by state agencies, including the Vital Records Department and the DMV. Kathleen Kauth even bragged about how her bill would prevent trans women from getting art and business grants from state agencies "in favor of real women".
A little Nebraska history: Jordy Bahl is an aspiring transphobe and Riley Gaines lackey - she gave the opening speech at a Riley Gaines event that Jim Pillen attended in the Fall of 2023. Jim Pillen issued his executive order a week later. Enragingly, he did this the same evening the Nebraska Volleyball team set a world record for women's sporting event attendance, taking the spotlight from a wholesome event and shining it on his bigotry instead. Jim Pillen's predecessor was Pete Ricketts, who appointed Kathleen Kauth a state senator when her district had a vacant seat. Pete Rickets endorsed Jim Pillen for Governor (incredibly, Trump endorsed Jim Pillen's opponent - that's the rotten choice Nebraska had: a MAGA candidate or a Christian Nationalist) and in return, Jim Pillen appointed him a US Senator when that vacancy opened up after Ben Sasse, one of the few Republicans who opposed Trump in his first term, retired early. The Rickett's family are well-known MAGA billionaires trying to position themselves in the new oligarchy. These guys are all in each other's pockets in the most blatant cronyism.
Coincidentally, both Jordy Bahl and Jim Pillen suffered major personal injuries in the last year. Jordy Bahl didn't want to play against trans softball players, suffered a season-ending injury in her first game for Nebraska, and in a bit of karmic fate, got her wish by not playing against anyone at all. Jim Pillen had a riding accident that he made sure to make a dramatic deal of in his State of the State Adress earlier in the week. Neither of these experiences impacted the empathy of either individual in the slightest. Incidentally, there were protestors in the hallway outside the press conference when LB89 was announced. They were threatened by security when they started chanting and were silenced.
From Carl Sagan (no doubt many of you know it already):
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
From 1995. This is where we have come. Following him and my other mentors in science (and Carl is especially important as an outstanding novelist/scientist, as well as fierce defender of women's full participation in society and DEI before it was even called that), I am attempting to use the same type of talents with both a novel and a science book on transgender women in athletics. (More information on my Substack for those interested.)
Alas, against such ignorance, I fear that "Mit der Dummheit kämpfen selbst die Götter vergebens."
[Friedrich Schiller: "Against stupidity even the gods battle in vain."]
Y'know what, I'm Agnostic, and this is one of the few times, I'm hoping for a deity like God somewhat exist and just be a bloody showdown in actually being visible to the world globally and just have his 1 hour on the mic, no interruptions just so people can finally get their acts together and don't speak and mis interpreted a deity's words to be so twisted and vile for minorities.
I would finally go to church monthly if I can see that, since it's getting so bananas that I can't even believe sometimes how cruel people could be in hating folks that don't even do anything but alive and breathing.
Wild ASF, a lot of people gonna be in for a surprise once judgement day come if the so called afterlife exist since this ain't what the people wanted to see in society and just continue to make us go backwards in equality and human rights that should be the opposite of any religious book telling anyone what to do I'm assuming.
When a coop of chickens doesn't have a rooster, one of the hens will undergo a sex change. Did god fuck that up too? Sounds like these christians don't have such a high opinion of their god, if they've gotta clean up after all those mistakes that god keeps making, according to them.
"Without our church, without our God, who are we?”
Anybody who doesn't have an answer for that shouldn't have ANY legislative privilege to force people who DO have an answer to live their meaningless lifestyle. It's like admitting you're a mindless slave without any sense of self, and then demanding the rest of the world join your slavery cult. NO THANKS.
Was there Q&A session after that question? 🤔
Never mind...
Wow, and they call us delusional when they believe in their abusive sky daddy plagiarized from other texts.
I love the "some people haven't felt the love of Jesus Christ" stuff when me and a lot of other queer/trans people I've met were LITERALLY "good Christian kids" until they were suddenly told Jesus doesn't love them or want them because they're not cishet. "Jesus loves everyone unconditionally... except YOU."
They push us out of their churches, out of their schools, out of public life, and then they attack us for "leaving Jesus behind." Abusers always gotta blame the victim.
Yeah, push out queer people while hiding the abusers in their ranks. I stopped going to church in 3rd grade after getting jumped by 2 "good" church boys for being "flamboyant" in their words.
I was a Christian fundamentalist for year s. before I came out as trans they told me to abandon my sister don’t eat with her. Don’t be in the same room with her engage her only in conversations to bring her closer to Jesus. because she’s gay. I left the church. I left my wife who supports the church and I will tell you 100% their Jesus is more of a fairytale than me being a woman. christianity is mass insanity.
Christian nationalism must be fucking eradicated, I'm done playing games
No more games
Let us all do our share in making this happen.
I just want to throw a Talmud (the Jewish encyclopedia of the bible that has eight genders in it) at every transmisic politician that says "To hell with the separation of church and state!". Christofascism is as much a curse on our nation as the influence of money.
Even our religion is being colonized by these Xtian crazies.
They seem to be forgetting that some of us are not Christian, and their beliefs are not the only ones a religion can have. I am a Soto Zen Buddhist.
Soto Zen Buddhism views transgender individuals with acceptance and respect, aligning with its core teachings of non-duality and the impermanent nature of self, meaning that gender identity is not seen as a fixed or essential characteristic and should be honored as part of an individual's experience.
Soto Zen emphasizes compassion and acceptance towards all beings, including those who may experience gender dysphoria.
The practice of meditation encourages individuals to deeply examine their own experiences and identities, including gender, without judgment.
They are not forgetting it in the slightest. EVERY other religion is apostasy in the eyes of fundamentalist christians.
Who else up hailing Satan on this fine queer evening?
God I hate Christianity. I really do. It’s so hateful. So violent.
As an atheist, nudist, political activist, cisgender woman in a a 58 year relationship with a man and registered Democrat I have to question why my family abandoned me. Recently a person in a group discussion said "well as a lesbian of course you feel that way." I replied no as a person who respects all is why I feel that way. My friend wanted to know why I did not correct the person who called me a lesbian. BECAUSE it does not matter.
I am beginning to believe that all this hate was a premeditated plan to distract from all the issues we should be able to focus on. As far as I know there is no documentation of a trans attacking anyone in a bathroom.
Please note that this bill also formalizes Jim Pillen's executive order into legislative law, recognizing only two binary sexes defined as that assigned at birth. Most concernedly, section 8 of this bill also directs all state agencies to act administratively on this definition. This will affect how trans people are treated in state prisons and by state agencies, including the Vital Records Department and the DMV. Kathleen Kauth even bragged about how her bill would prevent trans women from getting art and business grants from state agencies "in favor of real women".
A little Nebraska history: Jordy Bahl is an aspiring transphobe and Riley Gaines lackey - she gave the opening speech at a Riley Gaines event that Jim Pillen attended in the Fall of 2023. Jim Pillen issued his executive order a week later. Enragingly, he did this the same evening the Nebraska Volleyball team set a world record for women's sporting event attendance, taking the spotlight from a wholesome event and shining it on his bigotry instead. Jim Pillen's predecessor was Pete Ricketts, who appointed Kathleen Kauth a state senator when her district had a vacant seat. Pete Rickets endorsed Jim Pillen for Governor (incredibly, Trump endorsed Jim Pillen's opponent - that's the rotten choice Nebraska had: a MAGA candidate or a Christian Nationalist) and in return, Jim Pillen appointed him a US Senator when that vacancy opened up after Ben Sasse, one of the few Republicans who opposed Trump in his first term, retired early. The Rickett's family are well-known MAGA billionaires trying to position themselves in the new oligarchy. These guys are all in each other's pockets in the most blatant cronyism.
Coincidentally, both Jordy Bahl and Jim Pillen suffered major personal injuries in the last year. Jordy Bahl didn't want to play against trans softball players, suffered a season-ending injury in her first game for Nebraska, and in a bit of karmic fate, got her wish by not playing against anyone at all. Jim Pillen had a riding accident that he made sure to make a dramatic deal of in his State of the State Adress earlier in the week. Neither of these experiences impacted the empathy of either individual in the slightest. Incidentally, there were protestors in the hallway outside the press conference when LB89 was announced. They were threatened by security when they started chanting and were silenced.
From Carl Sagan (no doubt many of you know it already):
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
From 1995. This is where we have come. Following him and my other mentors in science (and Carl is especially important as an outstanding novelist/scientist, as well as fierce defender of women's full participation in society and DEI before it was even called that), I am attempting to use the same type of talents with both a novel and a science book on transgender women in athletics. (More information on my Substack for those interested.)
Alas, against such ignorance, I fear that "Mit der Dummheit kämpfen selbst die Götter vergebens."
[Friedrich Schiller: "Against stupidity even the gods battle in vain."]
She grossly, clumsily, and Inarticulately encapsulated the entire hateful belief of the misguided christian ethos.
Y'know what, I'm Agnostic, and this is one of the few times, I'm hoping for a deity like God somewhat exist and just be a bloody showdown in actually being visible to the world globally and just have his 1 hour on the mic, no interruptions just so people can finally get their acts together and don't speak and mis interpreted a deity's words to be so twisted and vile for minorities.
I would finally go to church monthly if I can see that, since it's getting so bananas that I can't even believe sometimes how cruel people could be in hating folks that don't even do anything but alive and breathing.
Wild ASF, a lot of people gonna be in for a surprise once judgement day come if the so called afterlife exist since this ain't what the people wanted to see in society and just continue to make us go backwards in equality and human rights that should be the opposite of any religious book telling anyone what to do I'm assuming.
Hmmmm "Stand With Women" bill? Is this a Freudian slip referring to urinals in women's restrooms????
I fear the day they require folks to report to train stations.....
I believe that’s about as far as one can go with simple demonization, saying they’re “actually” in league with satan…
When a coop of chickens doesn't have a rooster, one of the hens will undergo a sex change. Did god fuck that up too? Sounds like these christians don't have such a high opinion of their god, if they've gotta clean up after all those mistakes that god keeps making, according to them.
Thank you so much for keeping us informed!