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Trans woman awarded $1.5 million after she was jailed on charges

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A federal jury awarded a transgender black woman $1.5 million after she spent six months in prison because Atlanta police arrested her for dummy cocaine, according to reports. Ju’Zema Goldring spent six months in prison after she was arrested in October 2015 when two policemen stopped her for roaming downtown Atlanta, According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. According to her lawyer, the two officers – Vladimir Henry and Juan Restrepo – found a “stress ball” in her bag, opened it and tested it for cocaine. Despite the negative test result, Goldring…

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Waking up hysterical can’t handle a post-Trump, post-COVID world

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Hysteria kept the Democrats in business for nearly six years. It all started with Trump. For the Democrats and their “mainstream” media, he wasn’t just a bad president. No, his arrogant manner with facts (which he’s never heard of in politics!), mean rhetoric (for the first time in history!) and rush to rein in organizational excesses (lock him up!) made him a threat to democracy before he even took office. Mania – including mania Russia Russia Russia And the misconception that Trump colluded with Putin to win the presidency —…

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Swimmer Leah Thomas wins 500 free yards at the Ivy League

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Leah Thomas, a transgender swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania won the women’s 500-yard freestyle race at the Ivy League Championships Thursday — setting a new pool record. Thomas, who went from male to female, became the Ivy League champion with At 4:37.32 KSA time Best time ever recorded at Harvard University’s Blodgett Pool. Thomas’ competitors kept close until about halfway–when she advanced big and snapped three seconds off her best, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported,. Pennsylvania sophomore Katherine Booker came second, while Ivy League defending champion—Princeton sophomore Ellie Marquardt—third. Thomas,…

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Lea Thomas ranked 3rd in the Ivy League

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Leah Thomas and Ben Quakers got their first taste of the Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships Wednesday night. While there were no individual races during the night, Thomas was part of the 800-yard freestyle relay with Margot Kaczorowski, Anna Sofia Kalandadze and Bridget O’Leary. Thomas, a senior, swam in his first relay match and got some challenge from Yale’s Isaac Hennig, who goes from female to male. Thomas swam behind Hennig for most of the first leg before the next Pennsylvania swimmer jumped into the water. Thomas was barely…

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Virginia School Board Brings Back a Physical Education Teacher Who Doesn’t Use Preferred Pronouns

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A Virginia County school has agreed to permanently reinstate a physical education teacher after he was suspended for refusing to refer to transgender students by their preferred pronouns. “Just today, the court issued a final injunction permanently preventing the Loudoun County Public School Board from sanctioning me for freely expressing my views,” Byron “Tanner” Cross told reporters after Monday’s settlement. Fox News reported. “I can now confidently continue teaching at Leesburg Primary School without fear of retribution for expressing my views,” he added. In June, the county said it would…

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Aaron Sorkin Defends Netflix Over Dave Chappelle Controversy

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Being Ricardos Director and writer Aaron Sorkin has defended Netflix’s decision to keep controversial Dave Chapelle private on its streaming platform, despite the comedian’s anti-transgender statements. “My play, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, had to close with everyone else a year ago, when COVID came along, and during that year and a half, five different school districts in the country banned the teaching of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ along with With The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “Of Mice and Men,” Sorkin said in an interview published in The Hollywood Reporter…

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Jim Banks says a tweet should spark the transgender conversation

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Representative Jim Banks is resuming his Twitter comment, arguing that his controversial tweet calling the nation’s first four-star transgender officer “the man” should spark an “important debate about sex and human nature,” he told the newspaper. The Indiana Republican’s novel has been paused since October 24 due to his position on Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, “the title of the first four-star female officer to be taken by a man.” Banks — who serves as chair of the Republican Study Committee, the largest conservative grouping in Congress — was…

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Transgender workers at Netflix sues B Bagels Minor and Tera Fields over Dave Chappelle special

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Two transgender Netflix employees have filed labor complaints against the streaming service, claiming the company retaliated against them for speaking out and organizing a protest against comedian Dave Chappelle’s controversial new special. The charges brought Wednesday to the National Labor Relations Board allege B. on October 20, according to the complaint obtained by USA Today. Fields then faced “retaliation and threats” for speaking out against the Pagels-Minor launch in a viral Twitter thread. “This charge is not just about Bee and Terra, and it’s not about Dave. It is about…

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Kansas school condemns ‘unicorn sex’ worksheet

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A Kansas school has apologized for a “Gender Unicorn” worksheet given to students after hearing it from angry parents. The post asked Olathe High School students about their gender identities and the gender they are attracted to, According to The Kansas City Star. Do you know your identity or are you still in the identity confusion stage? Give me three reasons why you might or might not verify your identity,” the worksheet reportedly asked of teens in the Human Growth and Development class. State Representative Adam Thomas was one parent…

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