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Oklahoma education superintendent under fire for anti-LGBTQ rhetoric after Nex Benedict's death
ABC News via Yahoo ^ | February 28, 2024 | KIARA ALFONSECA

Posted on 03/01/2024 8:39:38 AM PST by fwdude

Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters is standing by policies affecting the transgender community in state schools following the death of 16-year-old Nex Benedict, which has resulted in increasing calls for his removal from office.

"To make sure that all individuals are safe in a school, we want every student to be protected, we want every student to be successful," Walters told ABC News in an interview Tuesday. "That also means we're not going to lie to students. And we're not going to push a gender ideology."

However, an open letter is calling for Walters' immediate removal from office for, the letter claims, "fostering a culture of violence and hate against the 2SLGBTQI+ community in Oklahoma schools." The letter is signed by about 350 local, state, and national organizations.

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Let the nancies rage on. We have truth on our side.
1 posted on 03/01/2024 8:39:38 AM PST by fwdude
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To: fwdude

**fostering a culture of violence and hate against the 2SLGBTQI+ community in Oklahoma schools.” The letter is signed by about 350 local, state, and national organizations**

The hypocrite alphabet crowd projecting again, I see. They are as guilty of violence and hate as anybody.


2 posted on 03/01/2024 8:46:14 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: fwdude

Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters is standing by policies affecting the transgender community in state schools following the death of 16-year-old Nex Benedict, which has resulted in increasing calls for his removal from office.

“To make sure that all individuals are safe in a school, we want every student to be protected, we want every student to be successful,” Walters told ABC News in an interview Tuesday. “That also means we’re not going to lie to students. And we’re not going to push a gender ideology.”

However, an open letter is calling for Walters’ immediate removal from office for, the letter claims, “fostering a culture of violence and hate against the 2SLGBTQI+ community in Oklahoma schools.” The letter is signed by about 350 local, state, and national organizations.
A transgender state senator stormed out of the chamber after [he/she/it/???] was incorrectly [sic] referred to as “sir” by the lieutenant governor.


Delusion Will Never Defeat Biology
Torrence Stephens Phd on Substack ^ | February 25, 2024 |

Torrance Stephens
Posted on 2/25/2024, 7:58:45 AM by Wuli

When a person has or maintains a false belief or judgment about overt and objective external reality, and holds such views in defiance despite unquestionable authentication to the contrary, clinicians and therapists appropriately describe this as delusion and reflective of some form of mental disorder.

Delusions are beliefs that are plainly untrue and that indicate an abnormality in the affected person’s content of thought.

More problematic is these individuals are positively assured that the delusion is real.

(Excerpt) Read more at torrancestephensphd.substack.com …

https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/delusion-will-never-defeat-biology?utm_source=substack&publication_id=249561&post_id=141312859&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=jk16x&open=false

https://i.imgflip.com/3epyd9.jpg

It is completely delusional and madness to teach that a man can become a woman, and that a woman can become a man!

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a27OKOY_460s.jpg

Forcing you/us/me to affirmatively participate in someone else’s delusion will not cure their mental illness.A transgender state senator stormed out of the chamber after [he/she/it/???] was incorrectly [sic] referred to as “sir” by the lieutenant governor.

Delusion Will Never Defeat Biology!
Torrence Stephens Phd on Substack ^ | February 25, 2024 |

Torrance Stephens
Posted on 2/25/2024, 7:58:45 AM by Wuli

When a person has or maintains a false belief or judgment about overt and objective external reality, and holds such views in defiance despite unquestionable authentication to the contrary, clinicians and therapists appropriately describe this as delusion and reflective of some form of mental disorder.

Delusions are beliefs that are plainly untrue and that indicate an abnormality in the affected person’s content of thought.

More problematic is these individuals are positively assured that the delusion is real.

(Excerpt) Read more at torrancestephensphd.substack.com …

https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/delusion-will-never-defeat-biology?utm_source=substack&publication_id=249561&post_id=141312859&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=jk16x&open=false

https://i.imgflip.com/3epyd9.jpg

It is completely delusional and madness to teach that a man can become a woman, and that a woman can become a man!

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a27OKOY_460s.jpg

Forcing you/us/me to affirmatively participate in someone else’s delusion will not cure their mental illness.


3 posted on 03/01/2024 8:54:44 AM PST by Grampa Dave (“Surrender means wisely accommodayting ourselves to what is beyond our control.” — Sylvia Boorstein.)
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To: fwdude
"And we're not going to push a gender ideology."

It would be nice if a few school systems would start pushing things like math, science, and English. Good to hear some push-back from at least one source.

4 posted on 03/01/2024 8:56:13 AM PST by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: fwdude

“Protecting” trannys does a disservice to everyone else. The kids will have to stand up to this as the adults seem to be afraid of being called names.
AMERICA: STOP KOWTOWING TO QUEERS. BRING BACK BULLYING.


5 posted on 03/01/2024 9:00:32 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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One thing I’m sure of: OK high school freshman never even heard of the state superintendent. Another thing: if the state superintendent ever said anything, no high school kid would even notice.


6 posted on 03/01/2024 9:01:53 AM PST by Migraine
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To: fwdude
“We have truth on our side.”

Exactly! That would include the fact the deceased was the instigator of the bathroom incident and is on school video of walking, escorted by the SRO, to the office for transportation to medical attention. Further facts include video of a lucid conversation with authorities while in the emergency room where it was decided no further medical attention was required. The only fact yet to be known is the result of toxicology lab tests of samples from the deceased.

Just because someone has declared themselves to be “non-binary” while insisting everyone else must participate in that delusion does not establish a prima facie case of a hate crime.

7 posted on 03/01/2024 9:23:59 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: Zuriel

Adding the “2S” makes them even MORE better than you, virtue-wise, don’cha know...


8 posted on 03/01/2024 9:34:10 AM PST by jagusafr ( )
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The only fact yet to be known is the result of toxicology lab tests of samples from the deceased.

As if we'll ever get to see that. It will be filed in the same drawer as the Nashville "trans" shooter's manifesto.

9 posted on 03/01/2024 9:35:48 AM PST by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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To: Zuriel

“Anti LGBTQ Rhetoric”? Didn’t know that it was against the law to NOT support LGBTQ? What is Ryan being persecuted for? Having an opposing opinion? Take it to court Ryan- Don’
t let the Anti-opposing view scum bully you- Fight back! Opposing a movement like lgbtq is NOT hate! Nor does it ‘promote violence’- Sue the school into bankruptcy for falsely accusing you of crimes-


10 posted on 03/01/2024 9:36:53 AM PST by Bob434
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To: fwdude

When is ABC News or NPR going to explain how there is no relationship between so-called LGBTQ and Sodomy, which the true and traditional Catholic church teaches is one of the four sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance?

Spoiler: They won’t because you CAN’T!


11 posted on 03/01/2024 9:47:12 AM PST by Repent and Believe (Heaven or hell; We'll each spend eternity in one or the other.)
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To: T-Bird45

Yep.


12 posted on 03/01/2024 9:58:59 AM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: fwdude

Has the final autopsy report been released yet? The preliminary report said direct trauma was not the cause. If it had been a brain bleed, it would be known by now. I guess they’re either waiting on the toxicology report, or they want to bury the real cause of death.


13 posted on 03/01/2024 10:15:33 AM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: fwdude

“Oklahoma education superintendent under fire for anti-LGBTQ rhetoric after Nex Benedict’s death”

Fire back...harder.


14 posted on 03/01/2024 11:14:35 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Authorities are awaiting the full results of the autopsy and toxicology reports for more insight into the circumstances surrounding the teen’s death. The state medical examiner’s office will determine the final cause and manner of death.
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Bullsh!t. Nobody with any information said that Benedict was “assaulted”.

It’s been weeks since Benedict’s death. And yes, a preliminary autopsy WAS released. It showed that Benedict DID NOT die from physical trauma:

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/nex-benedict-death-oklahoma-lgbtq-community-mourns-rcna139800

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The Owasso Police Department said in a statement Wednesday that preliminary information from an autopsy report shows that Nex’s death was not the result of trauma. A toxicology exam is still pending, and an official autopsy will be released later.
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15 posted on 03/01/2024 11:58:10 AM PST by nagant
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To: fwdude

He said: “And we’re not going to push a gender ideology.”

What the left heard: “We’re going to hunt down all the queers and burn them alive.”

He’s done nothing wrong and is doing an outstanding job.


16 posted on 03/01/2024 9:40:53 PM PST by unlearner (I, Robot: I think I finally understand why Dr. Lanning created me... ;-)
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To: fwdude
In many places in education today, the focus is increasingly on promoting wokeducation, with its ethos from Hell.

As proclaimed in the manifesto of a feminist wordcrafter in wokeducation, warring against what God ordained, and who is employed from a college founded in 1824 by Episcopal Bishop Philander Chase, but now has a potential candidate ("Brianna Thompson") for the office of implementation of WOKE policies under the auspices of a Council of Transexuality:

"...intersections with race, ethnicity, coloniality, class and ability, the sex/gender system of oppression has long served as a taxonomizing apparatus. And yet, the literary, in league with anticolonial, civil rights and LGBTQ social movements,...animates the liberatory potential of imagining embodied relations otherwise... representations of gender and sexuality can leverage critiques against normativity...Taking our transnational cue from subjugated knowledges and intersectional epistemologies, we’ll constellate the diverging genealogies and methodologies...
Against the traffic of binary opposition, we’ll index the possibilities of intimacy and performativity... As a class collective, our aim is to read and reread as well as write and rewrite texts that interrogate and complicate how gender and sexuality, as contested sites of pleasure and pain, are embodied and experienced."
This counts toward the methods requirement for the major. Prerequisite: ENGL 103 or 104. Open only to first-year and sophomore students.

Author is Brianna Thompson, who teaches courses in American women’s literature, queer theory and utopias/Afrofuturism at Kenyon college (founded by Episcopal Bishop in 1824). Course is Reading and Writing Gender and Sexuality ENGL 214, https://www.kenyon.edu/academics/departments-and-majors/english/academic-program-requirements/courses-in-english/

17 posted on 03/02/2024 1:18:42 PM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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