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Fresno supervisors send cruel message of exclusion to LGBTQ+ community
Sacramento Bee ^ | May 15, 2026 | By Madison Nield

Posted on 05/15/2026 7:23:57 AM PDT by artichokegrower

On Tuesday, I stood before the Fresno County Board of Supervisors and spoke my truth as a trans woman, a taxpayer, a daughter, a sister, a wife and a member of this community. I watched as three supervisors voted to erase the celebration and visibility of people like me. In a 3-2 decision, Supervisors Garry Bredefeld, Nathan Magsig and Buddy Mendes voted to bar the Fresno County Public Library from participating in the Fresno Rainbow Pride Parade and Festival, as well as from celebrating Pride Month entirely.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
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Praise to you county supervisors for taking a stand on this issue. My local school district has Pride Month, Queer Leadership Awards, Pride Flag Raising, Harvey Milk Day and Glitter Day for K - 5 students complete with drag queens.
1 posted on 05/15/2026 7:23:57 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

These people are mentally ill, are more likely to be involved in crime, murder, suicide, child sexual abuse and other social pathologies. They need psychological help, not support.


2 posted on 05/15/2026 7:26:28 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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To: rlmorel

Muslims, send them to muslims, they know how to cure this illness.


3 posted on 05/15/2026 7:28:34 AM PDT by Ronald77 ( )
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To: artichokegrower

Has she had her annual prostate exam?


4 posted on 05/15/2026 7:29:05 AM PDT by Iron Munro (David Horowitz — "Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" )
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To: artichokegrower

Sure glad I don’t know that we have any of that stuff going on where I live in the midwest/west part of the country.


5 posted on 05/15/2026 7:29:28 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: artichokegrower

The transsexual cult is mad again but still insist no 10 commandments can be displayed at public libraries.


6 posted on 05/15/2026 7:30:13 AM PDT by Kudsman (Thune loves bully Democratic Socialists. )
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To: Ronald77

Agreed.


7 posted on 05/15/2026 7:32:47 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: rlmorel

Exactly.


8 posted on 05/15/2026 7:33:12 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: artichokegrower

There should be celebrations for formerly morbidly obese people who have lost at least 250 pounds, cerebral palsy people, kidney failure people, ultra marathoners, recently widowed mothers, Angel Moms, recently recovered stroke people, volunteer caregivers, EMT’s, Search and rescue people, before we have celebrations for self mutilators.


9 posted on 05/15/2026 7:34:23 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: artichokegrower

So according to this trans activist, the fact that the board of supervisors voted to not have a public library participate in a gay pride parade is a cruel act of erasing the existence of trans people. We’re reaching parody territory here. You don’t buy into the ever more extreme genuflecting to the trans cause? Then you are cruelly erasing the existence of trans people.


10 posted on 05/15/2026 7:35:43 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: artichokegrower

He/she uses every cliche in writing this. I wonder if there is some secret LGBTQ AI writing bot that they use.


11 posted on 05/15/2026 7:37:31 AM PDT by misterdarcey (Abandon all nuance, ye who enter here.)
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To: artichokegrower

Disdain anyone who uses the term “my truth”.


12 posted on 05/15/2026 7:37:41 AM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: rlmorel

AMEN.

I cannot believe that we got to this stage. It is, though, a spiritual battle, and having turned from God, we let our guard down. Evil swiftly moved in.


13 posted on 05/15/2026 7:39:01 AM PDT by drwoof
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“spoke my truth as a trans woman“

Ugh quarantine.


14 posted on 05/15/2026 7:39:14 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: rlmorel

:: are more likely to be involved in crime, murder, suicide, child sexual abuse and other social pathologies ::

Case-in-point: The last SEVEN mass murder perpetrators.


15 posted on 05/15/2026 7:41:02 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (The Democrats' official policy is now, “Hate, Violence and Murder". Change my mind.)
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To: Getready

How about celebrate nobody? Makes it easy. Plus, just teach the 3 R’s and not social engineering.


16 posted on 05/15/2026 7:42:16 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: artichokegrower

Therapy is what you he/she/she/he needs.


17 posted on 05/15/2026 7:42:20 AM PDT by spincaster (i)
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To: Iron Munro

Unless one is born \with\ a uterus, no real claim can be made to understand what it means to be a woman.


18 posted on 05/15/2026 7:42:39 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (The Democrats' official policy is now, “Hate, Violence and Murder". Change my mind.)
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To: misterdarcey
I wonder if there is some secret LGBTQ AI writing bot that they use.

Most likely it all can be found on a TIM McBride government website.

19 posted on 05/15/2026 7:52:10 AM PDT by Kudsman (Thune loves bully Democratic Socialists. )
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To: FreedomForce

“I promise to tell my truth, my whole truth and nothing but my truth” You can see why they want a truth that is separate from the objective truth of which there is only one. If everyone has their own truth then Bill Clinton is not a liar. Then any “objective” truth is in the hands of fact checkers. What a dream come true for fact checkers who otherwise have no marketable skills.


20 posted on 05/15/2026 7:58:54 AM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words?)
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