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HS student answers 'true' that 'only women can get pregnant,' 'all men have penises.' Teacher marks his answers incorrect.
A Seattle high school student on a recent quiz answered "true" that "only women can get pregnant" and "all men have penises" — but his teacher marked his answers as incorrect and ultimately gave the student an F grade on the quiz, KTTH-AM reported.
What are the details?
Seattle Public Schools told KOMO-TV the quiz was given two weeks ago at Chief Sealth International High School. KTTH said the quiz — “Understanding Gender vs. Sex" — was part of a 10th-grade Ethnic Studies World History class.
KTTH said the student’s mother wrote to the radio show of conservative commentator Jason Rantz expressing “frustration and anger" over her son's answers being marked incorrect but that her concerns conveyed to the school were “met with silence.”
“I keep trying to wrap my head around how it is legal to teach inaccurate information and force students to answer against their beliefs or receive negative scores,” the mother — who asked for anonymity for fear her son would face retribution — told "The Jason Rantz Show" on KTTH.
More from the station:
The mom told the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH that she worries about the school routinely allowing teachers to bring political beliefs into the classroom. The gender identity issue is just one example. She also said her child, who is white, routinely faces scrutiny for his skin color and so-called privilege.
She said various teachers have called her son, “f****d and racist,” a “product of the patriarchy that teaches young boys not to care about anything,” and that “he shouldn’t use the term straight to identify as because it's offensive.”
What did the school district have to say?
KTTH said a Seattle Public Schools spokesperson defended the quiz as “inclusive" and argued that it was appropriate for an Ethnic Studies course.
“Seattle Public Schools is dedicated to establishing inclusive environments that allow exploration of contemporary issues, specifically examining the impacts of power systems such as racism and patriarchy,” the spokesperson told "The Jason Rantz Show" on KTTH. “This commitment extends to fostering welcoming and inclusive settings where students, staff, and families have the freedom to express their authentic selves.”
Mom 'proud' of her son
The mother told the station she's “proud" of her son "because he refused to answer against his beliefs (which are medically and scientifically accurate, or at least used to be).”
The district added to KTTH that the student's the failing grade on the quiz won’t be used against his overall grade in the class.
How are folks reacting?
It appears commenters are coming out in force, heading straight to the X account for Seattle Public Schools and making their opinions known right under an unrelated district post.
"Men can’t get pregnant," Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok responded.
Others echoed that sentiment:
- "Men can’t get pregnant," another user said. "Fail me if you can."
- "Stop the indoctrination and teach," another commenter noted. "If you believe a man can get pregnant, you should not be teaching anything."
- "Any physician can tell you the student’s answers were technically correct despite your teacher’s fantastical, but scientifically inaccurate beliefs," another user declared. "Men and women are adult human males and females, respectively. No matter how much you wish to hijack the nomenclature, that fact remains. Men are born with penises and women are born with vaginas, unless they’ve surgically transitioned, but even still, their new genitals are not genuine penises or vaginas. Less than 1% of births have congenitally ambiguous genitalia. Pregnancy is not a social construct. Idc what gender the patient aligns with. Medically they’re female, and presumably an adult, thus a 'woman.' The truth is the truth, and you can’t change that. I don’t care who the truth offends."
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Trans prisoner convicted of manslaughter impregnated two inmates, attempted to remove his testicles with a razor
A New Jersey inmate landed himself in the hospital after he recently attempted to remove his testicles with a razor.
Demi Minor, 27, who identifies as transgender, engaged in self-harm after he was transferred to a men's prison because he had impregnated two inmates while in a women's facility. According to his blog, Justice 4 Demi, Minor felt "hopeless" because prison officials doubted that he is transgender.
"I showed my medical records showing that I have been on hormones for years and awaiting gender affirming surgery (which they are delaying)," Minor wrote on August 18.
"I started cutting again, and with a razor I began making a [sic] incision to remove my testicle," Minor continued. "In my head, I just wanted the pain to stop. I just wanted out of this. THEY DON'T KNOW the hell that I'm going through."
More than a decade ago, Minor unleashed hell of his own. Back in 2011, he attempted to rob his former foster parents approximately nine months after he left their charge. When his former foster father, Theotis "Ted" Butts, confronted him during the break-in, Minor stabbed him to death. Butts was 69 years old.
The crime shattered Butts's family, friends, and church community.
"The young folks looked up to him," Butts's sister-in-law Joan Moore said. "I have a son who is 32 years old who really looked up to him, and he was just devastated."
Butts and his wife, Wanda Broach-Butts, had fostered seven boys total, all of whom went on to live ordinary, healthy lives, according to Broach-Butts. All except Minor.
"Ted and Wanda, unfortunately, maybe extended themselves beyond what they should have," Butts's brother-in-law Mark Broach said, "because they saw something in [Minor]."
Minor pled guilty to first-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. He was also given a 10-year concurrent sentence for an unrelated carjacking.
In 2020, Minor began to identify as trans and was removed from a men's prison into Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Union Township, New Jersey. Last year, Edna began accepting male inmates who identify as transgender. It currently houses 27 transgender prisoners.
During his stay in Edna, Minor impregnated two fellow prisoners, one of whom is also a convicted killer. Latonia Bellamy, 31, was convicted of double murder for the deaths of engaged couple Nia Haqq and Michael Muchioki back in 2010. Bellamy was just 19 at the time. She is expected to give birth to Minor's child this fall.
Minor, born Demetrius Minor, may have made a veiled reference in his blog post to his sexual relationship with Bellamy and another unnamed inmate, who reportedly elected to abort the child.
"I went through many depressive nights, and often wanted to be loved," Minor said. "I simply never knew that it could have such devastating consequences."
Bellamy wrote on the blog: "We found love in a hopeless place."
After the pregnancies were discovered in June, Minor was moved to Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, where he lives with male inmates.
His former foster mother, Broach-Butts, denies that Minor is transgender and has adamantly advocated to keep him housed in a men's facility.
"I think all this about him being transgender is a ploy," Broach-Butts told the New York Post. "He’s manipulating people to get a better situation for himself and to get attention. He’s learned the language to use. He’s dangerous and he’s a psychopath."
Placing him with women is "not a good idea," she said, "especially for the female inmates."
Minor's attorney disagrees.
"[Minor's] a force to be reckoned with, a triumph,” said attorney Derek Demeri, an advocate for the LGBTQ community. "I admire [Minor's] ability to navigate the system. [Minor's] pretty level-headed and has risen above a lot."
Male blood donor, 66, required to state on form if he's pregnant — part of new, woke UK policy. He's turned away from clinic when he refuses to answer.
A 66-year-old man in the United Kingdom who's been donating blood for nearly 50 years was turned away from a clinic last week because he wouldn't answer an apparently new question on a form that asks if the prospective blood donor is pregnant, the Daily Mail reported.
The director of the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service told the outlet that the agency has a "duty to promote inclusiveness — therefore all donors are now asked the same questions."
What are the details?
Leslie Sinclair — who has donated 125 pints of blood in his life — was told he had to answer a part of the form that asks if he's expecting a child or has been pregnant in the past six months, the Daily Mail said, adding that pregnant women must wait six months after giving birth to donate blood.
After he argued that as a man — and as a person age 66 years — the question doesn't apply to him and that he shouldn't have to answer it, Sinclair said clinic staffers replied that they couldn't accept his blood, the outlet said.
With that, Sinclair walked away over the "nonsensical" policy, the Daily Mail reported.
"I am angry because I have been giving blood since I was 18 and have regularly gone along," the father of two from Stirling in central Scotland told the outlet. "I'm very happy to do so without any problem."
Sinclair added the following to the Daily Mail:
There is always a form to fill in and that's fine — they tend to ask about medical conditions or diseases — and clearly that's because the blood needs to be safe. This time around, there was a question I hadn't seen before: "Are you pregnant, or have you been in the last six months?" which required a yes or no answer. I pointed out to the staff that it was impossible for me to be in that position, but I was told that I would need to answer, otherwise I couldn't give blood. I told them that was stupid, and that if I had to leave, I wouldn't be back, and that was it. I got on my bike and cycled away. It is nonsensical, and it makes me angry because there are vulnerable people waiting for blood, including children, and in desperate need of help. But they've been denied my blood because of the obligation to answer a question that can't possibly be answered.
Sinclair added to the outlet that his wife, Margaret, 59, also was appalled: "She just can't understand it, either."
What did a health official have to say?
Professor Marc Turner, director of SNBTS, last week told the Daily Mail about the new policy.
"We appreciate the support of each and every one of our donor community and thank Mr. Sinclair for his commitment over a long number of years," Turner told the outlet. "Whilst pregnancy is only a relevant question to those whose biological sex or sex assigned at birth is female, sex assigned at birth is not always visually clear to staff. As a public body we take cognizance of changes in society around how such questions may be asked without discrimination and have a duty to promote inclusiveness — therefore all donors are now asked the same questions."
Anything else?
The National Health Service in England launched a campaign last week to recruit a million more blood donors over the next five years due to falling numbers during the pandemic, the outlet said, adding that the SNBTS began a drive earlier in June to find 16,000 new donors in the coming year.
'Lesbian tutor'? NBC News catching flak for emphasizing sexuality of 'Jeopardy!' champion in tweet
NBC News has been getting criticized for emphasizing the sexuality of "Jeopardy!" champion Mattea Roach in a Twitter post that calls the Canadian whiz kid a "lesbian tutor."
What are the details?
Roach has been victorious in 17 consecutive games, amassing a grand prize total of $396,182 as of Wednesday, the New York Post reported.
NBC News on Monday tweeted its story on Roach and characterized her in the tweet's text as a "23-year-old lesbian tutor from Toronto."
The 23-year-old lesbian tutor from Toronto has amassed a total of $320,081, the most by a Canadian contestant in \u201cJeopardy!\u201d history.https://nbcnews.to/3vIFskv— NBC News (@NBC News) 1650926285
While the headline of the NBC News story does much the same, calling Roach the "latest LGBTQ 'Jeopardy!' phenom," the piece is actually part of the network's "Out Life and Style" section as noted in a tiny block of text to the upper left of the story's headline. So the story's angle makes more sense on the NBC News website.
However, there's no note in the Twitter post that the story on Roach is for an LBGTQ-focused department for NBC News, so some users of the social media platform were a bit annoyed by the "lesbian tutor" characterization in the tweet — such Chris Taylor, senior correspondent for Reuters, who asked, “Is her sexual orientation really relevant here?”
Others agreed:
- "I will so enjoy the day when posts highlighting someone’s sexuality are a thing of the past," one commenter wrote. "What the hell does it have to do with the show or her profession? Mattea is doing awesome and making her home town and country proud! Let’s leave it at that!"
- "Coulda left the 'lesbian' part off," another user said. "She doing great regardless of her sexuality."
- "Why did you feel it important to mention that she's a lesbian?" another commenter wondered. "Aren't we past that by now?"
- Another user wrote, "[D]on't know what her sexual orientation has to do with anything, or will you be describing the next big winner the same sort of way? 45 yr old straight man wins... 38 yr old single straight childless woman wins..."
Anything else?
As of Thursday afternoon, the NBC News tweet about Roach was still active, as was the headline above the NBC News story about her.
Here's Roach in a Thursday interview with "Good Morning America" on her historic run of wins:
‘Jeopardy!’ champ Mattea Roach talks record-breaking run l GMAyoutu.be
Bouncer to be charged with murder after allegedly punching man outside 'Gayborhood' bar in Philly; LGBTQ activists demand 'justice for our brother'
A third-degree murder charge has been approved against a bouncer who allegedly punched a man outside a bar in Philadelphia's "Gayborhood" earlier this month, and LBGTQ activists are demanding "justice for our brother," who died a week later.
What are the details?
Investigators told WTXF-TV they're looking for 24-year-old Kenneth Frye, who was allegedly caught on surveillance video punching 41-year-old Eric Pope outside Tabu Lounge & Sports Bar in the 200 block of South 12th Street in Center City.
Police told the station that video shows Pope being escorted from the bar around 1 a.m. April 16 for being overly intoxicated. The clip also shows Pope apparently dancing just off the sidewalk. Police said Frye punched Pope, knocking him to the street unconscious, WTXF reported, adding that bouncers soon moved him to the sidewalk as a crowd gathered around Pope, who was still lying on the ground.
Pope died at a hospital Sunday, WCAU-TV reported.
Tabu's owner told WTXF the bouncer in question is not a bar employee, and the incident didn't occur on Tabu property. The bar also called 911 and is cooperating with authorities, WTXF said in a separate story.
Sources added to WTXF that Frye was employed by Main Line Private Security — and that police have received at least five complaints about the security outfit's employees in the past month.
'Justice for our brother Pope'
LGBTQ activists and allies spoke Tuesday outside Tabu and called for justice and accountability, adding that there have been problems with the third-party security company in the Gayborhood, WTXF said.
"The owner cannot throw rocks and hide his hands; he has a responsibility and has to own up to his part," Asa Khalif noted to the station. "What took place, we want the bouncer arrested immediately we want justice for our brother Pope."
Pope's family told WTXF he was from Washington, D.C., and was visiting friends in Philadelphia when the incident outside the bar took place.
LGBTQ activists and allies also expressed concerns about security related to the city's Black Pride events that start Thursday, WTXF said.
"This is a safety issue now, and it’s a major safety issue because this area is about to be influxed with our family members," Sappho Fulton added to the station.
Anything else?
A few years back, 11 Gayborhood bars were ordered to undergo bias training — and Tabu was one of them.
The city's Commission on Human Relations released a report at the time saying there was racial tension and discrimination in the Gayborhood — and that most of its businesses were owned by cis-gender white males who favor white male customers, Philly.com said.
“Racism in the LGBTQ community is a real issue. It’s a real issue in our entire society, not only just in the LGBTQ area or in the Gayborhood,” Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney said, Philly.com reported. “We need to do more to address it here in Philadelphia. We will do whatever else we need to do to see that the recommendations are adopted. And that possibly could include eliminating organizations who won’t change their ways by limiting our participation in their work financially.”
School board members claim some teachers felt 'bullied' into displaying LBGTQ rainbow flags in classrooms
Members of a Maryland public school board claimed some teachers felt "bullied" into displaying LBGTQ rainbow flags in their classrooms after an LGBTQ group donated them, Fox News reported.
What are the details?
The Westminster chapter of Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays donated the smaller-sized rainbow flags to Carroll County Public Schools, and district staff members were encouraged to display them as support for the LGBTQ community, the cable network said.
School board members said at Wednesday's meeting that some teachers felt "bullied" into displaying the flag, and that the flag violates the district’s recently revised political neutrality policy, Fox News added.
"Our students are a captive audience and as such need to be protected from all political agendas, both from the right and the left," school board member Donna Sivigny said during the meeting, the cable outlet said. "I also respect the rights of teachers to work in a non-hostile work environment, deliver an effective lesson, and support all kids in the best way that they can, but we require that they do it in a politically neutral way that creates a safe space for every student in our schools. However, many teachers have reached out to me saying that they've been pressured or bullied to put flags in their classroom, and that's a problem that needs to be addressed."
School board President Kenneth Kiler added that "these flags were shoved down teachers’ throats to put on their desk — that’s not inclusive. That’s not the way it ought to be," Fox News noted.
School board member Tara Battaglia said use of the rainbow flag in schools represents "social advocacy" and is "political," the cable network said.
However, Superintendent Steven Lockard said during the meeting that the rainbow flags were available to any staff member who wanted them, and they weren't forced upon anyone, Fox News added.
Now what?
In the wake of the controversy, the school board voted to develop a new flag policy that may allow only the U.S. flag, Maryland state flag, and Carroll County flag to be displayed in classrooms, Fox News said.
"We support the board’s decision to revisit the flag policy and fully back the recommendations by its members to restrict the use of flags/symbols to the U.S., Maryland state, and county flags," local group Concerned Parents of Carroll County said in a statement to Fox News. "The coordinated effort by our school system to make every classroom a billboard for political and social justices causes was a step too far that disrupted the learning environment and divided our community. Teachers and parents alike want a returned focus on providing an academic education to our students."
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