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Why is Facebook Silencing the Voices of Former LGBT People?
Anyone dissenting from the LGBT movement, including those who have left the LGBT lifestyle, are increasingly being silenced. Facebook has recently joined this trend, enforcing a new “hate speech” policy to remove posts fromorganizations that offer counseling to people dealing with gender dysphoria or unwanted same-sex attraction from Facebook and Instagram. After a targeted campaign from pro-LGBT groups, Facebook decided to remove posts from two non-profits, Core Issues Trust (CIT) and Restored Hope Network, and announced that it would be introducing a new policy classifying content that promotes “conversion therapy” as hate speech under their community guidelines, explaining that they would be doing so because they “don't allow attacks against people based on sexual orientation or gender identity.”
The counseling that Facebook is targeting under this new policy is not an “attack” on anyone, but voluntary talk therapy for people facing gender dysphoria or unwanted same-sex attraction. Ryan T. Anderson pointed out that under Facebook’s new approach, “Content about therapy to help a teen with a body-image struggle due to anorexia would be allowed, but content on the same therapeutic techniques to help a teen with a body-image struggle due to gender dysphoria would be removed.” Family Research Council noted that if Facebook was really interested in free expression, as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently told Congress, they would immediately reverse the decision to engage in this viewpoint discrimination.
Not only is Facebook moving forward to implement a policy that would discriminate against certain viewpoints, but by removing posts when these new guidelines have not yet been finalized or released, they are enforcing a “policy” that does not yet exist in their community guidelines. Furthermore, most of the posts that they removed were videos of people sharing their stories and saying that these stories constitute a hateful “attack.” Facebook is redefining “hate speech” in order to silence the voices of those who have chosen to leave the LGBT movement.
Read the whole piece at The Family Beacon
Wisconsin Parents Fight Back Against School District Encouraging Children to "Transition" Behind Parents' Backs
Schools in Madison, Wisconsin have decided to adopt a policy that allows children with gender dysphoria to secretly “transition” at school behind their parents’ backs. Under the policy, teachers are prohibited from informing parents if their student chooses to adopt a new name and pronouns and gain access to restrooms and locker rooms designated for members of the opposite sex. This policy was adopted in 2018 and was challenged by parents living in the Madison Metropolitan School District in December of last year when they sent a letter informing the district that they would sue if the policy was not changed. After the district refused to back down, the parents filed a lawsuit against the school district with the help of Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) and the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).
The school district’s guidance and policies handbook explains to teachers that, unless a student gives the school permission to inform their parents, the school should not do so. Madison Metropolitan School District has adopted a policy that deliberately deceives parents and keeps important information about their children from them. The policy also finds a loophole the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act by telling teachers to file students’ “Gender Support Plans” under their personal notes rather than in the student’s records so that the support plans can legally be hidden from parents.
The parents’ lawsuit points out that this policy is not in the best interest of children who are struggling with gender dysphoria, and that it is also a violation of parents’ rights to raise their children as they see fit and in accordance with their religious beliefs, rights that have been affirmed by the Supreme Court.
[Read the whole piece at The Family Beacon]
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2020 Protecting Children Summit (Online) - August 12th
International and domestic activists have increased their efforts to introduce graphic sex education curricula, sexual orientation and gender identity ideology, and promotion of abortion in public schools. Last year, the House of Representatives passed the Equality Act, which could pave the way for the imposition of similar curriculum at the national level—forcing its implementation in every state.
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Educating and Equipping Parents on the Transgender Trend
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