Man destroys transgender argument

“They think they’ve figured out how to define sex without transgender people,”  Keisling tells Rolling Stone. “The flaw in that comes because you cannot define transgender people without sex. If I’m fired from my job because I’m transgender, or if an eighth grader is thrown out of school because they are transgender, or somebody is denied health care because they’re transgender, it is because of their sex. It is because you think I’m the wrong kind of woman, or not a woman, or you think I’m a man, or too much of a man — whatever it is you think, it is still about ‘man and woman.’ They’re trying to define sex as just ‘man and woman,’ but we’re still included in the that.” … [Read more...] about Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services Seeks to Erase Transgender Protections

In the lawsuit, the ACLU says that the Pentagon concluded last year that “there was no basis for the military to exclude men and women who are transgender from openly serving their country,” aside from standard fitness requirements. The ACLU cites a study by Pentagon-commissioned 2016 RAND Corporation, under Carter, which found that there would be “minimal” readiness impacts from allowing transgender individuals to serve openly in the military and that health care costs would represent “an exceedingly small proportion” of overall Department of Defense health care costs, between 0.04 to 0.13 percent, or $2.4 million and $8.4 million a year. For comparison, the ACLU says the military spends ten times as much on erectile dysfunction medicines, at $84 million. … [Read more...] about ACLU’s Trans Military Ban Lawsuit: What You Need to Know

The prestigious ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Award, given to a film that best reflects Mahatma Gandhi's ideals of peace, tolerance and non-violence, has been awarded to Ameen Nayfeh’s 2020 Arabic film 200 Meters, which tells the moving story of a Palestinian father living in the Occupied Territories of the Middle East, who is trapped on the other side of the separation wall and desperately tries to reach the hospital for his son. The Award consists of a certificate and a medal and is given as part of IFFI’s collaboration with the International Council for Film, Television and Audiovisual Communication (ICFT) Paris. … [Read more...] about Danish World War II Drama Into The Darkness Bags Golden Peacock Award At 51st IFFI