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Rob, Arnie & Dawn

KRXQ Anti-Trans Radio Show Apologizes

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3 years ago
by Calpernia Addams in ,

Rob, Arnie & Dawn

KRXQ’s anti-trans radio show featuring Rob, Arnie and Dawn has apologized, put up a statement of contrition on their home page and stopped broadcasting their show until further notice! After a broadcast in which hosts Rob and Arnie went on an extended rant against trans and gender-non-conforming children, the GLBT community and beyond rose up in disgust, resulting in the withdrawal of many major sponsors from the program. Initially unrepentant for describing how they would shout at, mock at “hit with a shoe” any son of theirs who dared to wear a dress or want to be a girl, they became deeply sorry once the money and sponsors began to dry up.

http://www.krxq.net/

The Huffington Post’s Michael Rowe on the KRXQ Debacle

GLAAD’s KRXQ Coverage

MP3 of the KRXQ Rant Against Trans Children

KRXQ Apology

Kid’s Science Project Dropped Because of Gender Identity Findings

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4 years ago
by Calpernia Addams in

I read about this interesting little situation yesterday… Apparently, a kid gathered results from an online survey that included male, female or “other” as gender options for the respondents, among other questions. When his presentation was made, it noted that there were some people who preferred not to identify as male or female, and the science project was dropped from the competition to assuage discomfort among “some people”. What do you think?

Full story: http://thefourthvine.livejournal.com/102417.html

via: BoingBoing.net

photo credit: mstorz

Kid's Science Project Dropped Because of Gender Identity Findings

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4 years ago
by Calpernia Addams in

I read about this interesting little situation yesterday… Apparently, a kid gathered results from an online survey that included male, female or “other” as gender options for the respondents, among other questions. When his presentation was made, it noted that there were some people who preferred not to identify as male or female, and the science project was dropped from the competition to assuage discomfort among “some people”. What do you think?

Full story: http://thefourthvine.livejournal.com/102417.html

via: BoingBoing.net

photo credit: mstorz

I Love Kids

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4 years ago
by Calpernia Addams in ,

CAUTION! LOTS OF LOUD SCREAMING IN THIS VIDEO! Turn your speakers down after the dancing! Seriously!

I sometimes used to worry about the fact that I hated kids… Maybe it’s because vanilla kids were always so horribly cruel to me growing up. Now that I’m all sparkly and glamorous, little ones and teens seem to love me, but in my early days when I began transition and people began to see that I was “one of those people”, straighties would yank their kids close when I entered the room and use the little tots as “WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN!?!” shields in every strident legal and moral argument against GLBT people. Kids were used so often as the reason GLBT people needed to be kept down (eradicated?) that I seeing one triggered an immediate flashback of whatever latest meanness I had heard coming from parents on television or in the papers, and over time I became less and less endeared of sitting through the stinky, loud tantrums of vanilla people’s larva at the airport, bus and movie theater.

But I finally realized that I don’t really hate kids at all! I LOVE kids! GLBT KIDS and GLBT FRIENDLY KIDS!

Is that elitist? Exclusionist? Sexualitist and Gender-identitist? Now that I’ve been convinced of the fact that conservative fertility worshipers will just never, never like me and now that I know I’ll never have children, I realize that I don’t have to care and we can all go our separate ways. But GLBT kids and their cool friends… I just feel that natural delight that I’m sure James Dobson experiences when he looks out over a meeting of the Young Republicans Club. I know the crud they take on a daily basis from a mean, heartless world and the ways they blossom under that pressure are so beautiful to me.

These two aren’t “kids”, per se, but they’re a lot younger than I am. They make me think of what my teenage years would probably have been like, if I’d felt more free in expressing myself. Alas, I was trapped in a Christian cult and swear-to-God felt bad for even saying “darn it!” when upset. It makes me happy to see people like Riot and Anger, with whom I correspond occasionally, acting crazy, getting in drag, dancing around and yes, even screaming into the camera.

Well, maybe not the screaming into the camera part, ha ha. But everything else.

New Blog Design

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4 years ago
by Calpernia Addams in

Hey Kids! After almost six years using the same blogging software, I was inspired to switch over to WordPress by some other work Andrea and I are doing. Basically, it’s easier to use and has lots of extra features, so hopefully I’ll be able to bring you quality, fun blog entries with ease and regularity.

If you already had a user account with my other blog, I will look into how to migrate them over, but honestly it will probably just be easier to register here if you want to leave a comment… and I hope you do! Keep it cute, and stay classy, San Francisco!

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