Posted on 11/19/2015 6:53:04 PM PST by markomalley
One Republican has joined eight Democrats in creating the first Transgender Equality Task Force in Congress.
Created by the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus and chaired by Rep. Mike Honda, D-CA, the task force held a hearing yesterday to discuss challenges, especially violence, that transgender advocates say are prevalent among transgendered Americans.
According to the description below the Human Rights Campaign's video of the two-hour forum, the event consisted of two panels. The first was about "the lived experience of transgender victims and educating on the scope of violence experienced by transgender people." The second panel included "HRC President Chad Griffin and other voices of organizations dedicated to ending bias-motivated violence against transgender people."
The forum was preceded by a press conference the morning of the event, attended by members of the Task Force, as well as House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California.
Transgender advocates argue that Americans with gender dysphoria are frequently ill-treated by others, including being assaulted, being harassed, and facing difficulty finding housing and work. Likewise, they argue that high suicide rates in this community are related to alleged ill treatment by society.
However, the Family Research Council's Peter Sprigg told LifeSiteNews that "witnesses at the congressional forum acknowledged that intimate partner violence and prostitution can be factors in transgender people becoming victims of violence."
In 2013, a federally funded study found that 89 percent of transgender youth said they had been in a physically violent dating relationship.
With regards to general unhappiness among transgendered Americans, Dr. Paul McHugh – who from 1975 to 2001 was the psychiatrist-in-chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital and director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science – says this is often linked to a priority of so-called "gender transitions" over counseling.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed last year, McHugh cited two studies that he said show neutral or worse results for mental health among people with gender dysphoria who attempted to change their gender.
Like McHugh, Sprigg said that counseling and therapy are the real solutions to gender dysphoria. "There is evidence that children with gender dysphoria can be effectively treated, and even those who are not treated do not usually grow up to be transgendered if not encouraged to 'transition' to a new gender identity in childhood," he said.
Regarding violence against transgender people, Sprigg said that "there is no justification for violence against" them – but that "we already have a federal hate crimes law which makes such violence a federal crime."
"Many Americans have adopted the philosophy that 'I don't care what someone does in the privacy of their own bedroom,'" said Sprigg. "The transgender issue, however, is not merely about what someone does in the privacy of their own bedroom, but what they do in public (and particularly in public sex-separated facilities such as restrooms, locker rooms, and showers).
"Many transgender people are quite unconvincing in their presentation of themselves as the opposite of their biological sex, and many people thus have a negative reaction to their physical appearance. This is not a matter of irrational prejudice. We should seek to foster attitudes that violence is never a solution to interpersonal problems, rather than seeking to force society to accept the myth that people can change their sex."
The one Republican with the group, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, has a son who identifies as transgender. According to the Human Rights Campaign, Ros-Lehtinen said that she was "honored to join the Transgender Equality Task Force in order to help bring awareness to the challenges that transgender individuals face in their day to day lives."
"My son, Rigo, is an incredible inspiration for so many in both living an authentic life and advocating for a more accepting society," she continued. "The United States of America was founded on the liberty of each and every individual, and its citizens should be able to live that reality. Americans should not be discriminated against or be left alone on their journey to find their true selves."
Members of the Task Force include Reps. Honda, Ros-Lehtinen, Mike Quigley (D-IL), Joe Kennedy (D-MA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), and Jackie Speier (D-CA).
I wonder if she went to public schools or some elitist private school where she and her sister got the full indoctrination in dysfunctional sexual behavior. Apparently after her folks likely shelled out huge amounts of money to send her to Brown (Providence, RI) she “discovered” she was really a “he.” Used to be a time when colleges educated, now it’s nothing but perverse indoctrination and outright brainwashing. Caring parents would’ve sued the schools for psychological abuse. Now “Rodrigo” is well on his way to making a career on said aforementioned twisted and degenerate lifestyles and other sundry moral depravity and ways to disfigure themselves in opposition to God.
It’s too bad Ileana didn’t stay true to her Catholic upbringing and later decided to join the post-Christian Cult of Faggotry (the Episcopalians) in order to assuage her “revised, modern thinking” that her daughters (one current, one former) brought her over to. That’s bad parenting right there when you let your ungodly and misguided children lead you astray. Same goes for Rob Portman and the Cheneys. Love your kids, but those timeless values and dictates come down from God, not from man or the pop culture or debauched miseducational facilities (which is a lot closer to serving Satan’s cause).
Actually, the person has two x chromosomes. In other words, the child is a FEMALE.
Nice!!!
Just about the only violence experienced by “trans-(whatevers)” is by their own alphabet brothers.
The “beards” of these freaks are pretty pathetic.
Like a 14 year old.
Remember that pregnant “transman” person? She was a model before mutilating herself IIRC, as was that “transman” porn “actor” I think.
South Park nailed this with Kyle being a transNBAstar and and his dad being a trans-shark.
Me, I’m trans-rich and trans-royality. Where the F are my crown jewels, eh society?
If a man thinks he’s Napoleon people say he’s nuts, if he says he’s Elizabeth Taylor he was “born that way” and we should indulge his delusion or else we’re bigots. What is the difference exactly?
I don’t know which is more nauseating to me, cross dressers or Muslim women walking around in body-bags with three holes in the front (for eyes and mouth).
My mom saw one of those (the later) in the grocery store a few months back, freaked her the hell out.
In the dead of a very cold winter a few years ago I once walked into a little convenience store and didn’t take off my ski mask as I planned to be in and out in 2 minutes, the owner had a cow, I shoulda said it twas religious garb.
I knew there was something not right about him. Maybe he used to be a woman? Christine Van Hollen?
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
Pssssst! Rigo’s still a woman.
Per Wikipedia, it says Ros-Lehtinen's husband was a RAT state legislator who switched to the GOP after marrying her. Looks like the other way around to me, she married him and switched to supporting the RAT party, but continued to run for office with an "R" next to her name anyway.
I think AuH2ORepublican said the heavily homo areas of her district (South Beach and Key West) have since been drawn into other districts, but she remains as rabidly pro-gay as ever. Her district did go to Obama in 2012, but it has a PVI rating of R+2 nationally. Basically it can go either way but leans just so slightly Republican. I'm betting its more GOP friendly than it was when Claude Pepper represented it.
Speaking of pro-gay rights RINOs, has anyone heard anything more from Liz Cheney mulling a run for the open congressional seat in Wyoming? Are the misguided Tea Party groups and Mark Levin still fooled by Princess Liz? Is she going to restart her phony "feud" with her sister until she can get elected and join Ros-Lehtinen in the "LGBT Equality Caucus"?
Not at the Presidential level. It voted 55% for Reagan in 1980, 60% in 1984 and 58% for Bush, Sr. in 1988 (as Pepper won his last term before his death).
Wow ... hadn’t known of this nor seen Ros-Lehtiner in probably 20 years. I know I don’t look as good as I did 20 years ago, either.
Is this a “mother of the .....” occasion? Looks like people seated in a church.
Ros-Lehtinen is like Rob Portman, doing the wrong thing for the right reason. I’ll give her a pass. Anyway, she’s a historic figure, first Hispanic woman, so that gives the party PR value.
You may give her a pass, but her voting record and agenda are terrible. Her social agenda is extremist (and anti-God) even by Democrat standards. She needs badly to be defeated.
Ros-Lehtinen decinitely lost Key West in the 2012 redistricting, but I think that she kept South Beach. In any event, I used to think that her pro-gay voting tecord was due to all of those gay constituents from 2002-2010, but that was before I learned of her “transgender” daughter.
In 1980, 1984 and 1988, FL gave the R presidential candidate 56%, 65% and 61%, respectively, so Pepper’s CD was 1%, 5% and 3% *less* Republican than the state as a whole at the presidential level. Ros-Lehtinen’s CD, as redrawn in 20012, would have given McCain 50% in 2008 (3% more R than the state) and have Romney 46% in 2012 (3% less R than the state) thanks to the collapse of the Cuban GOP vote So I wouldn’t say that the district has become less Republican; it’s just that the R presidential candidates no longer get 59% nationwide or 65% in FL.
It’s amazing the post-1988 political polarization in this country, especially at the Presidential level, that’s for sure. We’re so much worse these days.
Agreed. It's not like she's only voting like a RAT on gay issues, either. She's become one of the go-to RINOs whenever the Dems need "bipartisan" support for some unpopular leftist scheme. For example, she voted against a measure to block Obama's executive order amnesty and opposed reducing the Dept. of Energy's funding back to 2008 levels. As Impy noted, she's never been a reliable conservative and her voting record has just moved further and further left over the years.
http://conservativeamerica-online.com/11-biggest-house-rinos-7-ileana-ros-lehtinen/
I really have to wonder what the hell is wrong with the self-appointed "conservative" watchdog groups in this country. They really seem to have their priorities backwards lately. There's some freeper (who's not posting on this thread, BTW) who came up with his own cherry picked list of five conservative ratings and kept demanding Pat Roberts head on a platter because he "only" got a 78% score from one of those groups. Meanwhile this useless RINO Ros-Lehtinen gets less than a 30% rating from Heritage, the American Conservative Union, AND Conservative Review, but none of these idiots screaming for Mike Enzi and Pat Roberts to be run out of town on a rail because they've "been there too long" will lift a finger to oppose an actual liberal RINO who's been entrenched in south Florida for 30 years.
As I noted in another thread, had today's "conservative groups" used the same standards in the 80s and 90s, they would have worked their butts off to "take out" Strom Thurmond because its "3 Senate terms is enough for anyone and its time for him to go", while giving Arlen Specter a complete pass.
Also, I could care less if her election decades ago with a "historic first". Joseph Cao's election was just as much a "historic first" for Vietnamese Americans, he won an ultra safe RAT district that was 10X harder for a Republican to win in than Ros-Lehtinen, and plenty of conservatives were willing to throw him to the wolves after a single term because they didn't care for his centrist voting record.
Finally, we now have numerous "Hispanic women" that the GOP can use nationally as the face of the party. Dump this slime and promote Jaime Herrera and Susana Martinez, if you want to reach out to Hispanic women.
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