Approaching Sodom > First trans US Representative sparks fight over locker room access

 

Women’s facilities at Capitol complex reserved for

biological females, House Speaker Johnson declares as

Congress readies to swear in first trans rep

Published Nov. 20, 2024, 1:10 p.m. ET

House Speaker Mike Johnson declared Wednesday that women’s facilities in the Capitol 

complex are reserved for biological females, as Congress is poised to swear in its first 

openly transgender rep.

“All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings — such as restrooms, 

changing rooms, and locker rooms — are reserved for individuals of that biological sex,” 

Johnson (R-La.) said in a statement.

“It is important to note that each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol,” he added. “Women deserve women’s only spaces.”

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House Speaker Mike Johnson stressed that there are unisex facilities in the Capitol complex.

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The speaker later told reporters that “like all House policy, it’s enforceable” and contended that “we’re not anti-anyone, we’re pro-woman” with the policy.

The speaker’s announcement comes in response to controversy among House Republican lawmakers over transgender Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.), who represents the First State’s at-large district.

“I’m not here to fight about bathrooms. I’m here to fight for Delawareans and to bring down costs facing families. Like all members, I will follow the rules as outlined by Speaker Johnson, even if I disagree with them,” McBride, who was born a man and identifies as a woman, responded in a statement on X.

“This effort to distract from the real issues facing this country hasn’t distracted me over the last several days, as I’ve remained hard at work preparing to represent the greatest state in the union come January,” added the 34-year-old incoming lawmaker.

Back in 2016, McBride publicly crowed about flouting a policy restricting transgender access to women’s bathrooms.

“Here I am in a NC women’s restroom that I’m barred from being in. Stop this. We are good people. #ThisIsTransgender, McBride wrote on X at the time with a selfie inside the bathroom.

President-elect Donald Trump indicated that same year that Caitlyn Jenner would be allowed to use women’s bathrooms at Trump Tower.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) both publicly and privately demanded that women’s facilities at the Capitol be reserved for biological females.

She has been backed up by multiple female Republican lawmakers such as far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).

Greene has even threatened to come to blows with McBride if they had an encounter in any women’s facility.

“He’s a man. He’s a biological male. So he is not allowed to use our women’s restrooms, our women’s gym, our locker rooms and spaces that are specified for women,” Greene told reporters this week. “He’s got plenty of places he can go.”

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Sarah McBride has reportedly coached fellow Democrats on how to address the GOP criticisms.

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) blasted Republicans this week for harping on the transgender bathroom issue.

“This is the lesson you’ve drawn from the election in November … that you want to bully a member of Congress?” Jeffries moaned during a press conference Tuesday.

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Nancy Mace has demanded transgender women be kept from women’s facilities.

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Mace has drafted two resolutions to safeguard women’s facilities — one that did so in the Capitol complex and a second she announced Wednesday that applies to federal offices.

“Oh you thought threatening me would silence me? No. I just doubled down and filed a new bill to protect women and girls across the entire country on all federal property everywhere,” she proclaimed on X Wednesday.

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Wolves in the Henhouse > School Superintendent put on paid leave in Oregon

 

Handling of Child Sex Abuse cases lead to

Superintendent suspension

As acting board Chair Trinity Monahan put it, the St. Helens school community has lost faith in its district leadership, leading the school board to push out Superintendent Scot Stockwell.

Payton Mauldin, a junior at St. Helens High School, speaks about the current conditions at St. Helens High School during a protest at Columbia River Highway and Gabel Road.

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“Based off of our last meeting, it was pretty clear that at this point the community has lost faith in a number of different things,” Monahan said. “For the purposes of being able to move forward, I believe that it’s going to be in our best interest to move towards placing our current superintendent on paid administrative leave.”

During an emergency online meeting held Friday, Nov. 15, four members of the St. Helens school board voted unanimously to place Stockwell on paid administrative leave in the wake of community outrage surrounding the district's handling of sexual misconduct allegations against two teachers — one current and one former — at St. Helens High School. The board typically has five members, but former Chair Ryan Scholl stepped down and resigned following protests and a raucous school board meeting prompted by the Nov. 12 arrests of current choir teacher Eric Stearns and retired math teacher Mark Collins on several sex abuse charges.

The indictment in Columbia County Circuit Court accuses Stearns of sexually touching six minors in overlapping time frames over the course of nearly a decade from 2015 up to this year. Collins is accused of sexually touching three minors between Jan. 1, 2017, and July 25, 2023.

Safety concerns surrounding the protests also caused St. Helens High School to dismiss students early Nov. 14 and cancel school across the district the following day.

Stockwell is now in company with St. Helens High School Principal Katy Wagner, who was placed on paid administrative leave just a few hours before the impromptu meeting.

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Islam Hates Girls, Women, and Christians > Muslim rapes 6 y/o Christian girl in Pakistan; Iran - woman arrested for no hijab after attack

 

School principal threatens family

Muslim Man Rapes 6-y/o Christian Girl at School

International Christian Concern, November 15, 2024:

Earlier this month, a 6-year-old girl was raped by a Muslim security guard at her school in Lahore, Pakistan.

The girl is from Faisla town B Block and attends a local private school, according to an International Christian Concern (ICC) staffer. Her family and members of the local Christian community said the staff member, named Husnain, sexually assaulted her because of her family’s Christian faith.

When the girl returned home from school that day in late October, her family noticed blood stains on her clothes and bruises on her body. The girl shared what had happened and identified the school’s security guard, Husnain, as the attacker. She said that he had covered her mouth to silence her during the assault.

The girl’s mother and father met with the school’s principal, who initially told them the girl had fallen. When the parents shared what their daughter had told them, the principal threatened them, saying they would face problems if they took any action.

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Turkey’s directorate of religious affairs (Diyanet) said in January 2018 that under Islamic law, girls as young as nine can marry.

“Islam has no age barrier in marriage and Muslims have no apology for those who refuse to accept this” — Ishaq Akintola, professor of Islamic Eschatology and Director of Muslim Rights Concern, Nigeria

“There is no minimum marriage age for either men or women in Islamic law. The law in many countries permits girls to marry only from the age of 18. This is arbitrary legislation, not Islamic law.” — Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-‘Ubeidi, Iraqi expert on Islamic law

There is no minimum age for marriage and that girls can be married “even if they are in the cradle.” — Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, prominent cleric and member of Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council

“Islam does not forbid marriage of young children.” — Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology

Islamic Republic of Iran: Woman arrested for not 

wearing hijab while being attacked by man on street

Nov 19, 2024 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

The Qur’an says: “O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.” (33:59) The implication there is that if women do not cover themselves adequately with their outer garments, they may be abused, and that such abuse would be justified.

Woman arrested for not wearing a hijab while being attacked by a man on street

by Gergana Krasteva, Metro, November 13, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A woman has been detained for not wearing a hijab while being harassed by a man in Iran’s capital of Tehran.

Footage circulating on X and seen by Metro shows a motorcyclist ambushing the victim on a street in the middle of the day.

She has been identified as Roshanak Molaei Alishah, a Turkish woman from Tabriz in the East Azerbaijan Province.

In a CCTV video, the 25-year-old is seen trying to push off her attacker from his bike, shouting at him and berating him for his actions.

What it also shows is that she was not wearing a head covering made mandatory as part of the Islamic Republic’s draconian laws dictating the lives of women and girls in the country.

Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, a Norway-based Kurdish NGO, revealed that Roshanak has since been detained by security forces, and her fate remains unknown.

She was previously also arrested and imprisoned for participating in the protests for the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ movement following the killing in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa (Jina) Amini.

Separately, the Center for Human Rights in Iran said that the victim was detained on November 3 after posting the video in which she confronted her harasser.

In the days to follow the video has been deleted while her account suspended….

Canadian Justice > B.C. Indo-Canadian claims he's entitled to rape women - Gets wrist slapped by judge for child rape/sodomy/video

 

Canadian, 56, who raped a teen and 'bragged'

that she 'took it like a champ' jailed 3 years

B.C. man told court ‘he never needs to seek the consent of a female to have sexual relations with her’

Author of the article:

Kenn Oliver, National Post

Published Nov 13, 2024  •  4 minute read

A B.C. man who sought to have his conviction for sexually assaulting a teenager overturned had his bid denied and was sentenced to more than three years in prison. Photo by Cliff MacArthur /provincialcourt.bc.ca

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A 56-year-old B.C. man who confessed to documenting the sexual assault of a teenage girl and told the court he didn’t need consent to have sex with women, has been jailed after a judge rejected his request to have the case tossed over court delays.

Prakash Lekhraj, who shared images of the rape in a group chat and told members that the girl “took it like a champ,” was convicted of sexual assault and making or publishing child pornography in a November 2023 trial.

The B.C. prosecution service told the National Post he’s been sentenced to more than three years in prison for the crime, details of which were recently made public in a decision from provincial court Judge Ellen Gordon on Sept. 18.

“In the early morning hours of August 23, 2020, Prakash Lekhraj sexually assaulted the complainant, then a teenaged girl, by, among other acts, both vaginal and anal penetration. He photographed her and via a group text message bragged to his friends,” reads Gordon’s ruling.

During his three-day trial, Lekhraj admitted to the assault and told “the Court that he never needs to seek the consent of a female to have sexual relations with her.”

The question which the writer of this article doesn't ask or answer is 'why does Lekhraj think he doesn't need consent to have sex with a woman? Did the judge ask this question? Was his attitude considered in his sentencing? It sure doesn't look like it! He will be out in two years and raping more girls, and whose hands will be covered with their blood?

And, why are there no photos of this creep who can only be described as a predator? We need more answers here!

Lekhraj has since appealed his convictions, his second attempt to escape prison time.

His first came nearly five months after the trial ended and days before sentencing this April, when his new lawyer filed a Jordan application, arguing that too much time had passed since he was charged and the conclusion of his trial.