Talking Transparency

On this continuation of the last episode, Melissa, Cody, and Thea start by talking about MTG’s blow up over Jasmine Crockett’s comments at “The importance of protecting female athletics and Title IX” hearing, and go on to discuss the new film Lady Ballers, and an article from the Washington Examiner about Florida’s horrible laws and practices leading directly to the outing of a trans child. We also finally settle the issue of whether sex is, in fact, great.

Sources

https://www.pride.com/gay-movies/lady-ballers-daily-wire

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/12/marjorie-taylor-greene-rages-at-dem-congresswoman-for-calling-out-hate-group-at-anti-trans-hearing/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/florida-mother-accuses-district-of-outing-transgender-child-during-sports-probe

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Hosted By Cody Conner, Melissa Lukeson and Thea Ross. Brought to you by the Calos Coalition, a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit - Donate and support Trans Joy @ www.caloscoalition.com

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Melissa and Cody sit down with Thea Ross to discuss the Calos Coalition and the local community events for Trans people in the Hampton Roads area. Next week, we'll be releasing Part Two where the trio will be discussing the news and get to the root of the problem with incels. 

Intro and Outro Music by SKS (https://soundcloud.com/sksdj)

Hosted By Cody Conner and Melissa Lukeson. Brought to you by the Calos Coalition, a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit - Donate and support Trans Joy @ www.caloscoalition.com

https://www.patreon.com/TalkingTransparency

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Melissa and Cody sit down with Kim and her son Mick about their experiences with the implementation of Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s model policies for transgender students, which were recently adopted by Virginia Beach City Public Schools. Kim shares her experiences as the parent of a transgender teenager, and Mic shares what it is like in VBCPS with his peers, as transgender rights become the headline of the right wing parental rights movement. Governor Youngkin’s model policies are a reversal of former governor Northam’s previous model policies, which honored trans student’s dignity and respect by allowing them to use pronouns and name of choice without parental involvement or permission. Conversely, Governor Youngkin’s newer policy directs students to use school facilities that match biological sex, and require parental notification and approval if a student wants to use a different name and/or pronoun. To understand how ridiculous this policy is, you should know that schools are not required to notify a parent if a student is pregnant, but they are required to notify the parent if a child wants to use they/them pronouns? Hmmm…

Sources:

The Virginia Beach School Board Model Policies

https://www.pilotonline.com/2023/10/11/virginia-beach-school-board-adopts-version-of-gov-youngkins-transgender-model-policies/

Florida students stage walkout after reassignment of staff who allowed trans athlete to compete

https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/4333338-florida-school-walkout-trans-athlete/

A Daily Wire article on the justified outrage against the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

https://www.dailywire.com/news/non-binary-and-transgender-extravaganza-tens-of-thousand-boycotting-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade-department-store

Op Ed: Parental Rights being “Chipped Away” in California

https://www.newsmax.com/michaeldorstewitz/california-newsom-parents/2023/11/03/id/1140888/

Intro and Outro Music by SKS (https://soundcloud.com/sksdj)

(This is our first experiment recording a podcast so please excuse the rough audio!)