A judge in the US has denied two trans people the right to change their name to fit with their transitions, ruling that they were appealing to change for fraudulent purposes.

Oklahoma District Judge, Bill Graves, has denied the name change in two cases - one in August, and one last year, NewsOK reported.

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Facebook: the place to ponder your homophobic thoughts so the whole world can comment on them ( Read more... )

I have this image of all these old men clutching their pearls. I'm pretty sure there's words more offensive to hear. (Like moist ( Read more... )

Trigger warnings for: Slut shaming, women blaming, child abuse fallacies and general tin foil hattery.

http://jezebel.com/5889799/proposed-law-would-declare-single-parenthood-child-abuse

The proposed law states:

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Tory MP Nadine Dorries says:

"If a stronger 'just say no' message was given to children in school,"
Dorries argued, "there might be an impact on sex abuse, because a lot of
girls, when sex abuse takes place, don't realise until later that was a
wrong thing to do …"

( Victim blaming, anyone? )

A bit of a startling moment happened near the end of Monday night's CNN debate when a hypothetical question was posed to Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).

"What do you tell a guy who is sick, goes into a coma and doesn't have health insurance? Who pays for his coverage? Are you saying society should just let him die?" Wolf Blitzer asked.

"Yeah!" several ( Read more... )

So I came upon this second hand. I am proud to be a liberal individual. However, this article written in an attack on Sarah Palin's family is, well, disgusting. It is a very hard article to read.

WARNING: Triggers for Extreme Ableism, Misogyny, and Other Horrifying ThingsThe video clips they have attached are just as bad, if not worse. I ( Read more... )

Anger over Quran burning spreads in Afghanistan
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Guess what? The Republicans want to make rape, incest and survival subjects for IRS audits! Not only that, they want to narrow the definition of what rape IS.

And it looks like they might succeed on both counts.

Thomas Barthold, the chief of staff of the nonpartisan Joint Tax Committee, confirmed that one consequence of the Republicans' "No ( Read more... )

Republicans vote to cut funding to Planned Parenthood unless they stop performing abortions.

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