Glenn calls trans activist chant 'the worst strategy of all time'



Released video footage of a recent Pride celebration in New York shows a large crowd of trans activists chanting the lines: “We're here; we’re queer; we’re coming for your children.”

Glenn and Stu assume these activists don’t mean that literally and are using the crass statement to push back against what trans activists call “evil right-wingers [who] are always accusing [them] of coming after their children.”

“I assume they wouldn’t say they’re walking into a kindergarten to actually steal children,” Stu laughs.

Regardless of their intentions, it’s not a good look.

Glenn gives an analogy:

“People who are conservative should just go the streets and say, ‘Hey, we’re here, and we really are Nazis.”’

Except “nobody would do that as a joke; nobody would do that to taunt the media because that’s horrible — we are not Nazis. So why would they say ‘we’re coming for your children’ when half the country thinks you are coming for our children? That’s the worst strategy of all time,” he criticizes.

Glenn is disappointed because he thinks the gay community is suffering unjustly as a result of the trans agenda.

Some of “the T people,” specifically the ones who “are running ... some sort of crazy media,” he says, “are making the LGBQ people look crazy and dangerous.”

Watch their full conversation here:


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Gay cop blasts LGBTQ group for banning NYPD officers from city's Pride March: 'Maddeningly absurd'



A gay New York City police officer blasted an LGBTQ group for banning NYPD cops from the city's annual Pride March and related events — a move that will be in effect until at least 2025.

What's the background?

Over the weekend, NYC Pride announced the police ban as part of an effort to make LGBTQ individuals feel "safer" and challenge officers to "acknowledge their harm." The group's press release argued that the move would "create safer spaces for the LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities at a time when violence against marginalized groups, specifically BIPOC and trans communities, has continued to escalate."

What did the police officer who disagrees have to say?

The ban didn't sit well with Ravi Satkalmi, a gay man who's deputy director of intelligence analysis for the NYPD's Intelligence Bureau.

So Satkalmi penned an op-ed for the New York Daily News, noting that in June 2019 — while delivering the first-ever security brief to the LGBTQ community in preparation for Pride — he "took the opportunity to publicly acknowledge my identity as a gay man, knowing I had the support of my colleagues and my leadership."

He added, however, that he didn't expect that "just two years after NYPD welcomed me out of the closet ... Heritage of Pride would effectively try to shove me back in."

Noting that Heritage of Pride is the organizing body of NYC Pride, Satkalmi said the group "indefensibly decided to ban law enforcement from its events — including the flagship Pride March — until at least 2025. The move makes absolutely clear that one has to choose between being gay or being in law enforcement, recreating for queer officers the unconscionable conundrum that we have fought decades to banish. The irony would be laughable if it wasn't maddeningly absurd."

Satkalmi added in his op-ed that previous to that day in 2019, he was involved with the Gay Officers Action League, which "advocates for and implements law enforcement reforms responsive to the needs of LGBTQIA+ officers and public. GOAL's leadership and support allowed me to finally reconcile my public service with my private self. I took to the stage in 2019 to pay it forward."

More from Satkalmi's Daily News op-ed:

I had assumed then that Heritage of Pride, which had been a close partner of GOAL and which relied on the NYPD for the security of their highest-profile event, would support us. Instead, with this ban, it drastically undercut our ability to encourage LGBTQIA+ law enforcement members to stand up and be counted. For a new gay officer or recruit who is struggling with whether to come out, the message is unmistakable: The LGBTQIA+ community will not support you.

The move is self-defeating. There is no progress without people willing to do the work inside of organizations whose cultural inertia makes them resistant to change. Those people, in turn, need the support of the larger LGBTQIA+ community. I know such support exists more broadly. For several years, I've marched with GOAL for Pride alongside uniformed and civilian professionals representing a number of domestic and international law enforcement agencies. Each time our presence on the route has been met with deafening cheers, high-fives, and sincere embraces from the community. Given that support, the ban is a bewildering move by Heritage of Pride to drive apart natural partners in change. In an age of meme-derived capital valued in likes, shares and views, the decision is yet another example in which performative politics is mistaken for thoughtful deliberation and real effort.

Satkalmi concluded his piece by declaring that he's a "gay, non-Christian, person of color, and first-generation American serving with NYPD. People like me exist: those whose personal identity may fly in the face of activists' expectations of what our role in change should be."

He added that efforts by Pride officials to keep him "hidden" are "enraging": "I've spent far too long coming out of the closet to be put back in now."

NYC Pride bans police from events until 2025 in effort to 'create safer spaces'



NYC Pride, the group in charge of New York City's annual Pride March, announced over the weekend that it has moved to ban police from events until at least 2025 as part of an effort to make LGBT individuals feel "safer" and challenge officers to "acknowledge their harm."

What are the details?

In a press release on Saturday, the group argued its decision to prohibit police from events would "create safer spaces for the LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities at a time when violence against marginalized groups, specifically BIPOC and trans communities, has continued to escalate."

"The sense of safety that law enforcement is meant to provide can instead be threatening, and at times dangerous, to those in our community who are most often targeted with excessive force and/or without reason," the group stated, adding it is "unwilling to contribute in any way to creating an atmosphere of fear or harm for members of the community."

"Effective immediately, NYC Pride will ban corrections and law enforcement exhibitors at NYC Pride events until 2025. At that time their participation will be reviewed by the Community Relations and Diversity, Accessibility, and Inclusion committees, as well as the Executive Board," the press release continued.

Under the new guidance, all law enforcement officers — reportedly including members of the Gay Officers Action League (GOAL) — will be called on only when "absolutely necessary as mandated by city officials" and even then will be required to keep "at least one city block away from event perimeter areas."

According to NYC Pride, replacing New York City police and other law enforcement at events will be a combination of "trained private security, community leaders, and volunteers."

What else?

In the statement, the group also challenged law enforcement to "acknowledge their harm" and correct their course moving forward in order to perhaps begin to make "impactful change."

But in a statement responding to the news, the president of GOAL called the group's decision to ban police from events "shameful" and "demoralizing."

"Their response to activist pressure is to take the low road by preventing their fellow community members from celebrating their identities and honoring the shared legacy of the Stonewall Riots," Detective Brian Downey said in a statement ahead of NYC Pride's announcement, Fox News reported.

Other members of New York City law enforcement reportedly referred to the move as "misguided" and "disheartening."

"The idea of officers being excluded is disheartening and runs counter to our shared values of inclusion and tolerance," Detective Sophia Mason added. "That said, we'll still be there to ensure traffic safety and good order during this huge, complex event."