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The bigot bus finally makes it to Boston
By adamg on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 11:00am
In response, Boston raised transgender flag at City Hall. Photo by Swirlygrrl.
Abbi Matheson is livetweeting the appearance - two days late - of the anti-trans hate bus to Boston. They started on Cambridge Street in front of City Hall, plan to navigate to the State House and then hope to rile up Harvard students - assuming they can get around the protesters.
UPDATE: Mayor Walsh responds by raising the transgender flag above City Hall Plaza at 12:30 p.m.
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Quite a turnout
from those protestors. Way to go!
I'm anti-tram too
Those catenaries make a mess of the street.
There's a solution for that
It's called conduit rail. Solves the self centered NIMBY's "problem" of "OMG - but the wires are UGLY!"
AnpacDove masterful trolling. Is there basis for comparison?
picture of neo-nazi "no race-mixing" bus: https://twitter.com/AnpacDove/status/8452533665193..."
Picture of "free speech bus": "https://twitter.com/TeaPartyUSA1/status/8475283009...
Here's the rebuttal..
It all presumes that the gender identity encoded in our brain is determined genetically. I'm neither agreeing nor disagreeing just pointing it out.
When a person whose genes say male, grows up feeling like they're really a girl, and that persists for years, it is an act of denial to say that he or she is an illegitimate person. It is a phenomenon and denying the phenomenon is an act of willful ignorance. A separate question is the policy you make as informed by the facts. If you can't agree on facts, you often can't agree on policy.
Here's a comparison
Race mixing bus needs more windows.
http://jalopnik.com/5815611/this-is-what-a-217800-1965-volkswagen-bus-lo...
AnpacDove masterful trolling. Is there basis for comparison?
Ugly?
That flag does look like a baby blanket. I'm not the first one to point that out...
Disturbing
Not the flag, but that Escher stairwell behind it.
Giving me a headache.
Pink blue and white, baby!
Is each stripe 14 by 88?
Bus
What's the point of her liveblogging a bus that few people care about.....for the glorification or her massive ego?
What's the point of you commenting here?
The irony of you taking the time to point out how little people care about something is going to be lost on you anyway, but I thought it had to be pointed out.
For those few who care, at least.
How will they be driving to Harvard?
If they should ask directions, Storrow Drive is the fastest route.
Anti SCIENCE bigots
People come in lots of different chromosome arrangements, including
45 X - Turner's Syndrome
46 XX
46 XY
47 XXX - Triple X syndrome
47 XXY - Kleinfelter Syndrome
47 XYY - 47 XYY Syndrome
46 XY with AR- also known as Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
THAT is the biology! That is the science! That is the state of nature!
Not to mention...
... for the "transgender people are sick" crowd:
So what? Would they propose:
And, for those whose answer is #1, would they propose doing the same for other "sick" individuals? People with deafness? Blindness? Crippling arthritis?
You know what Jesus would say
"Me Fucking Christ let the people be who they want, why aren't you feeding the poor with the money you spent on this fucking bus."
That, I believe, is a direct quote.
Yeah, right. Soon he'll be
Yeah, right. Soon he'll be dissin' the transgender community just like he dissed the homeless community in the end. All talk, empty promises. No green, no go.
If that bus is parked in a bus stop
Than the police should tag it or tow the bus because those spaces are for MBTA buses or tour buses.
Would you apply this parking
Would you apply this parking violation outrage to a cause you agreed with?
Walsh sends a message
From the parent website
Rationality. CitizenGO differentiates itself from other groups in seeking truth by way of reason. It does not resort to ideological dogmas or formulas to communicate the causes on which it acts. Everything CitizenGO proposes has its basis in science, law, and anthropology. Interest groups should see that CitizenGO is a rational organization that acts and communicates reasonably.
Their website has plenty of language affirming human rights and dignity. The catch however is that human rights and dignity only apply in the context of their version of a Christian perspective.
Notable is that though this is a Spanish organization their board of directors includes Brian Brown, the president of National Organization for
Bigotry Against GaysMarriage.Zero rationality
Their abuse of a genetics textbook is only rivaled by their abuse of The Bible.
I have more respect for someone who shuns the science and only relies on their religion. At least that's an honest (yet moronic) ethos.
By attempting to distort science (sorry, science has shown that just having an X and Y chromosome says nothing about a hormonal variation that might lead to someone developing a penis in the womb but develop a female identity in puberty), they do a worse disservice to science than someone who avoids science entirely. It's irrational to accept some super basic definition of genetics but then refuse the more intricate and detailed research that goes beyond X's and Y's.