Ruth Smith 🍁🦫🫐❄️

Yep. Each person’s bodily is their own, no one else’s.
No persons have a right to touch diff humans except to
1) bodily separate to end bodily autonomy violations
2) corral law-breaker thru legal system
3) aid health/safety of consent-impaired (does not incl right to touch other ppl, unless 1 or 2).

h/t @prof-kari-hong.bsky.social

Succinct summary

Like, is there a reason why some bigots, personally, associate the word gay with pornography, cuz there is such a a strong connection in their mind (and their mind’s eye) between gay and sexual deviancy or something? Like, it’s not anyone else’s problem, but they make it other people’s problems?

~OT: After found out I have aphantasia I wondered what homophobes were visualizing to have such a visceral reaction to even an indication of LGBTQ+ people existing in public/media when I was growing up (90s/2000s). It doesn’t happen much now, but I assume increased rep was a kinda exposure therapy🤔

The moment he invited his buddies into the hotel room with the expectation of sex, it became a hostage situation where EM was both hostage and negotiator, trying to doing anything to survive and avoid physical harm.

In a world where women will cross the street rather than be alone on a sidewalk with a man? I don’t even think a male victim would feel safe in the circumstances EM was in. I can only imagine that if courts use a reasonable man/woman standard in SA cases they don’t consider power dynamics at all.

Yep. How is it not considered intimidation that after a man has sex with a woman he invited 4 of his besties, without asking her, into the room with the expectation of sex? How does that not undermine her meaningful ability to feel safe dissenting to sex?

I was thinking about if parents with progressive faiths can sue… But this ruling seems to create a one-way ratchet favouring trad faiths views in 🏫 . Defending inclusive content will be framed as ideological, while removing it is ‘neutral’. 🏫 start implicitly endorsing trad faith views by omission.🫠

And any context that even imply that gay and trans people exist is somehow clearly somehow both anti-thetical to faith🙄, but if said by someone of faith, it will be too religious to be put in a classroom🥴… Instead of a simple statement of fact… That gay and trans people exist.

I imagine if anyone brought up church-state separation (if that even meaningfully exists under the precedents set by this court) I could see it being framed as we are taking things religiously objectionable out of school (or allowing opt-outs), but not putting in explicitly faith-based content 🫠

I was thinking about if parents with progressive faiths can sue… But this ruling seems to create a one-way ratchet favouring trad faiths views in 🏫 . Defending inclusive content will be framed as ideological, while removing it is ‘neutral’. 🏫 start implicitly endorsing trad faith views by omission.🫠

I was thinking about if parents with progressive faiths can sue… But this ruling seems to create a one-way ratchet favouring trad faiths views in 🏫 . Defending inclusive content now appears ideological, while removing it is ‘neutral’. 🏫 start implicitly endorsing trad faith views by omission. 🫠

How is Church & State separate if a public school can’t do anything that might ‘offend’ religious sensibilities… that could be construed as too pro-pluralism and pro-equality for their version of their faith?

"if the President signs an order to send everybody named Jimmy to Guantanamo Bay there's nothing a court can do to stop it unless someone files a class action lawsuit including every Jimmy in America"

-six Supreme Court justices

Bigotry based on a trait one doesn’t share with all/most of one’s fam may mean less support.
LGBTQ+ kids can be born into any fam…Black kids oft have Black fams that’ve dealt w/ racism & there can be solidarity in that.
LGBTQ+ kids’ interests does not align w/ their parents’ anti-LGBTQ+ values.

Do you think SCOTUS imagine children having any rights/interests separate from their parents at all?*

*Barring severe examples like physical neglect/abuse & medical neglect *if it is not birth control, abortion, or trans-affirming care being denied*

I suspect Alito would likely side with parents suing their child’s school for using school’s discipline policy to ‘stomp on’ their child’s 1A right to tell their fellow students that they or their gay parents are going to hell for being gay…🥴 Or, say, quoting Lev 20:13 every time they pass them😒

Friends & Family Support Systems for LGBTQ+ Youth Discover ways to support LGBTQ+ young people through FAQs and educational resources for friends and family members.

The news really sucks today.

Instead of boosting a harmful Supreme Court decision, here’s something better:
a practical guide on how to support the LGBTQ+ youth in your life.

Because they deserve our attention, our protection, and our love. 💖🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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When the heck does self-defence apply to women (or girls!)?

We would not know Bishop Marianne Budde if the church did not ordain women or gay folk. Consider the prophets your church has discarded. #Narthex

*hugs* ❤️

Just days after Trump returned to the White House, Instagram is censoring abortion content. This is what Aid Access' account looks like right now - posts about how to get abortion medication has been blurred out.

Text along top of image: “There is no lever to stop the trolley, but you can shoot the person who tied the others to the track.” The image appears to be a modified trolly-problem. Poster is assuming it has likely been inspired by the assassination of the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Image show five people tied to a train track, will a trolly headed for them. Near the track it shows two people, instead of one and a level. Standing person has a gun pointed at person tied up on ground.

Doesn’t answer my ?. Also, sexually active teens is not a new phenomenon. My relatives were teen having sex in the 50s. Even if all states raised age of consent to 18, teens should not be criminally charged for putting X in their body IF not illegal for adults. Adults enabling it, sure, not teens.

Do you feel parents should be able to block health care for their teen? Do you feel they should be able to block their teen from getting an abortion or staying pregnant? Using BC/birth control? Should parents be able to block BC if teen is using it for contraception, but not if for dysmenorrhea?

Ha! Maybe, IF it could *accurately* indicate if an article/writer is biased towards/against human rights, oligarchies & billionaires, it could be worthwhile. I don’t think he is interested in that kind of bias being revealed tho 😗🎶 😆

Rice: "We think that's a request for a substantive right to engage in non-conforming behavior."

What? WHAT?
A: YOU ALREADY HAVE A RIGHT TO NOT CONFORM
B: The question here is whether you have a right to equal protection.

And I would feel less sour toward the conservative justices if they did not also jump in to override states' decisions about, say, gun safety laws and non-discrimination protections. What we're seeing is a HIGHLY selective and hypocritical application of deference to the democratic process.

Gender-Affirming Care Gets Its Day at SCOTUS The Supreme Court will decide if Tennessee can ban gender-affirming care for trans minors.

In this episode of #BoomLawyered, @hegemommy.bsky.social and I breakdown this morning's arguments in #Skrmetti.

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Kav asks if it would be best to leave the medical questions to the "democratic process."

Prelogar responds by trying to remind Kavanaugh that the democratic process cannot take away people's rights to equal protection under the law.