Christine Jorgensen Hour Magazine Interview

This was the date in 1953 when Christine Jorgensen stepped her stylishly dressed self off an SAS plane from Denmark and ushered in the modern era of trans visibility.

Christine not only was a pioneer, she took time out of her life to educate the public about our trans lives up until her death in 1989.

To honor the day she arrived at Idlywild (now JFK Airport) 62 years ago, here's the video of her interview with Gary Collins on Hour Magazine.

The UH Trans 101 Panel

Had been back in Houston from Creating Change less than 24 hours, but crawled out of bed Monday morning to honor a commitment I'd made to head to the campus of my alma mater to appear in a Trans 101 panel.

The panel discussion was sponsored by the University of Houston Friends of Women's Studies, and took place in the MD Anderson Library Rockwell Pavilion as part of the Barbara Karkabi Living Archives Series.

It was also videotaped for posterity as part of that Living Archive series, which features public interviews with Houston women on diverse topics.  The videotaped interviews are then placed in the Corey C.Stewart Women's Archive in the UH Library's special collections.

It's also one that some of the misguided peeps in last spring's successful Tittsworth Act fight should have have had a seat in so they could learn something about the trans community.

So yeah, it's a wonderful feeling anytime this Cougar gets a chance to step back on this continually expanding and still under construction campus she once walked back in the day.   It's even more awesome to know that the video of this panel I played a role in will be viewed by future UH students and all who peruse them in the Stuart Archives.

So I joined the fabulous Nikki Araguz Loyd, UH LGBT Resource Center Director Lorraine Schroeder, UH student Skye and moderator Dr. Guillermo De Los Reyes at 11:30 AM for a well attended and fascinating discussion in which we covered a wide range of topics from being trans on a college campus to how cispeeps can be better trans allies.

The 1 PM end of the panel came way too soon, and after hanging out to talk to some of the panel attendees, it was time to head off with Nikki and Meagan to a lunch that turned into a road trip.

But I'm really looking forward to the next time I get to step onto the UH campus for an event.

Another Day, Another Groundbreaking Moment For Laverne Cox

Was delighted to hear that my sis Laverne Cox will be gracing our network TV screen this fall and making more history in the process.

Our fave Emmy nominated actress has been cast in an upcoming CBS legal drama that will air this fall called Doubt

In it she will play an Ivy League educated openly  transgender attorney who is described as competitive as she is compassionate.

And because she's trans and has experienced discrimination and injustice, she fights even harder for her clients.  

Interestingly enough, this role was always envisioned at the outset by the show creators as a trans feminine character, and loving the fact she'll be playing that trans attorney.

And yep, know a couple of kick butt trans attorneys if you need to do some research in preparation to play this as of yet unnamed character.

Congratulations for getting this groundbreaking role in a dramatic series, and break a leg.

NBJC 100 Leaders To Watch

Y'all know I have much love for National Black Justice Coalition to the point that I have collaborated with them on panel discussions, was invited to one of their retreats, Have been a panelist and participant in both of their NBJC The Black Institutes at Creating Change Houston and Denver, and like to keep up with and post news about upcoming NBJC events. 

One of the news items I missed while I was in the process of moving and trying to get my internet access back on track was the December 10, 2014 unveiling of NBJC's Black LGBTQ/SGL Leaders to Watch.

December 10 happened to be NBJC's 11th birthday, and it was that date they chose to launch this new initiative.

Two of those leaders to watch on this inaugural list, Brandon Mack and Michael C Webb, Jr come from H-town.   There are also young trans leaders on this list like L'lerret, Toni-Michelle and Cherno.

Gabriel Acevero	Malcolm "MJ" Harris	Adrian Ogle
L'lerrét Jazelle Ailith	Jonathan Paul Higgins	Casey Payton
Kye Allums	Justin L. Hill	Angela Peoples
Brandon Anderson	Keith Howard-Streicher	Jeff Perkins
Guy Anthony	Patrick Ingram	Jessica Pierce
Dr. Van Bailey	Sheila E. Isong	Ace Portis
Annanda Barclay	Romeo Jackson	Anna DeShawn Rainey
Katie Barnes	Jai...with the funny name	Faith A. Rogers
Devin Barrington-Ward	Latishia AV James	Gwen Rogers
Ms. Cherno Biko	Bakari Jones	Matthew Rose
Michael J. Brewer	Venton C. Jones Jr.	Blake A. Rowley
Kelsi Brooks King	Victoria Diane Kirby	Gabrielle Royal
Sixto Cancel	Rev. Joseph Lynn Kitchen Jr.	Brittney R. Sims
Charlene A. Carruthers	Terrance Laney	Funmilayo Solar
Bryce J. Celotto	Cedric Lawson	Lawrence A. Stallworth II
Imara Rhiannon Chester	Marcus Lee	Danielle Stevens
Kevin Claybren	Riann Lippe	Desiree Elise Stevens
Theara I. Coleman	Jonathan Lykes	Karess Taylor-Hughes
Jasmine Cornell	Brandon Mack	Marvell Terry, II
Natasha Amanda Cox	Gabriel Maldonado	Joshua Maximillian Turner
Ashlee J. Davis	Samantha Master	DaShawn Usher
Gregory K. Davis, JD	Calandra "CeCe" McGee	Shaan Michael Wade
Wazi Maret Davis	Kimberley McLeod	Jason L. Walker
Rev. E. Taylor Doctor	Trinice McNally	Sean A. Watkins
Monique Dorsainvil	Preston D. Mitchum	Michael C. Webb, Jr.
Daniel D. Driffin	Jonathan Jacob Moore	Francisco Luis White
Timothy DuWhite	Leo Moore, MD	Meico Whitlock
Branden D. Elmore	Monica Motley	Je-Shawna Wholley
Nathaniel Faulk	P.J. Moton	Toni-Michelle Williams
Michael Blair Franklin, Jr.	Rev. Whittney Murphy	Isaiah Wilson
Pamgrace Gachenge	Joshua T. Nelson	Tabias Wilson
Noël Gordon	David A. Nelson, Jr.	Lakesha K. Winley
Samantha A. Grant	Vanessa Newman	Corey Yarbrough
Dr. Kai M. Green	Rodney K. Nickens, Jr.

And  as y'all probably guessed I know and have worked with more than a few peeps on the list at different times on different projects and events.

Speaking of events, if you are in the Washington DC area or have some time to get there for it, Emerging Leaders Day at the White House is happening on February 23.

Start saving the date for OUT on the Hill.  The Black LGBTQ Leadership summit is one of my favorite events and the 2015 edition of it will take place September 16-19.

Congratulations to everyone who was named to the NBJC 100 Leaders To Watch List, and it will be interesting to see who makes the 2015 list.

Road Trip With The Gallery Girls

After my Monday Trans 101 panel discussion that included Nikki Araguz Loyd, UH student Skye, Lorraine Schroeder and myself, got an invite from Nikki and Meagan Gillett to join them on a road trip to Prairie View A&M University northwest of H-town to spread their special brand of sunshine to cheer up a young trans woman in her final semester of school on that HBCU campus.

While we have several colleges and universities in the state of Texas that cover transpeople in their non-discrimination policies, sadly Texas Southern University and Prairie View A&M aren't among that list.

TSU's Thurgood Marshall Law School is, but they need to do the same for the rest of the TSU campus

It can be lonely and tough at times for a transitioning trans woman in any space.   But those feelings of isolation can be magnified on a college campus.

And you haven't lived until you've taken a road trip with Nikki and Meagan.

After killing time at an outlet mall and scooping up some bargains, we rolled up to Prairie View and the apartment our trans sister shares with two other students around 8 PM CST to scoop her up and take her to a nearby Mexican restaurant.

She'd been a little bummed out about some personal issues, but she's handling her classroom business, is looking forward in this last semester at PV to graduating in May and getting started with her life that's so bright she'll need fashion forward shades to navigate it.

And yeah, hitting Bucee's on the way back to Houston with the Gallery Girls was the bomb.

Enjoyed meeting my trans sister, rolling up 290 and back with Nikki and Meagan, and looking forward to the next time I can spend some quality time with them.

Can't Talk About The State Of Black Houston Without Discussing Black LGBT Houstonians

Because I was committed to another event that was scheduled at the same time, I missed this The State Of Black Houston forum that took place last night.

And it was well attended and well organized

Since our legacy orgs in the NAACP, 100 Black Men and the Urban League were listed as sponsors along with the Houston Justice Coalition, I presumed going into last night's #SOBH15 event that it would once again be a heterocentric/ cisnormative one in which they ignored the fact that Black TBLGQ/SGL issues are Black community issues.

And yeah, I'm still pissed off about the kneegrow ministers doing their 21st century cooning for Dave Welch and pimping anti-trans hate in the fight to pass HERO.  That anti-trans rhetoric led to a trans woman getting attacked last November

In case you haven't gotten the memo, the Houston Black community also includes SGL, trans, lesbian, bisexual and gay members of it, and we're tired of being erased from the overall Houston African-American community narrative.  

Also tired of the cricket chirping silence coming from our legacy orgs about the slaughter of African-American trans women , the 26% unemployment rate, 20% of us being HIV+, and discrimination being aimed at us.

If you believe #BlackLivesMatter, then that also includes the lives of Black LGBTQ/SGL people. Any forum that purports to have that discussion about Black Houston needs to recognize that fact, especially when you're discussing education and media images just to name two issues discussed last night..

#WeExist, and that conversation needs to happen ASAP.  Would have been nice if it could have started last night.

You can't talk about the state of Black Houston without discussing Black LGBTIQ/SGL Houstonians.

RIP Penny Proud

New Orleans is another place I call home because I lived in Marrero for two years as a toddler and my god sister still lives there.

I am saddened to report the murder of another trans woman of color courtesy of ELIXHER,

Meet 21 year old Penny Proud of New Orleans. 

She was found dead in the 1100 block of North Claiborne Avenue in the Treme neighborhood at 1:30 AM yesterday (February 10) shot multiple times

And yes, Times-Picayune, read your AP Stylebook.  Every time you misgender a trans feminine murder victim, you send a message that Black Trans Lives Don't Matter to you and the people who wish to kill us..

She makes the fifth transperson killed across this this country in what is starting to take shape as a bloody year for trans murders.   For those of you in the New Orleans area, if you have information that will lead to the capture of the waste of DNA who killed Penny, you can call the New Orleans PD

They are asking anyone with information on this crime to contact Homicide Detective Robert Barrere at 504-658-5300 or Crimestoppers at 504-822-1111.

You could receive a cash reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to the arrest and indictment of the responsible person(s). You do not have to give your name nor testify to receive the reward. Citizens can also submit an anonymous tip online to Crimestoppers at www.crimestoppersgno.orgThere will also be a candlelight vigil tonight at the Treme corner where Penny was murdered.  Hope there is a large crowd for it.

Rest in Power Penny.   Know that your NOLA area trans sisters and the rest of us around the country will not rest until justice is served in your case.

Anyone with information about Proud’s murder is asked to contact Homicide Detective Robert Barrere at 504-658-5300, or contact Crimestoppers at 504-822-1111 or www.crimestoppersgno.org. - See more at: http://elixher.com/state-of-emergency-black-trans-woman-murdered-in-new-orleans/#sthash.UkqSaDxH.dpuf

Read Your AP Stylebook, Robert Littal

Nothing gets me more pissed off than seeing media stenographers misgender a murdered transwoman

It's even more infuriating when one of my own people does it.

The latest stenographer to try it is Ms. Robert Littal of Black Sports Online.

In this waste of bandwith article discussing the arrest of Underwood's boyfriend Carlton Ray Champion for her murder, Miss Littal misgendered Ty, disrespectfully used the dead name, and referred to our fallen sister as a 'transgendered male'

News flash for you Miss Littal.   Ty Underwood is a transgender female.  If you can't tell the difference then you need to have several seats in a human sexuality class and take copious notes when they cover Transgender 101..

Meanwhile let me hip you to the pertinent section of the AP Stylebook that covers how to report on transgender people since you have demonstrated you don't have a clue about that subject.

Now pay very, very close attention.   These are the AP Stylebook guidelines that have been in place since 2001 for reporting on transgender people. .

transgender-Use the pronoun preferred by the individuals who have acquired the physical characteristics of the opposite sex or present themselves in a way that does not correspond with their sex at birth.

If that preference is not expressed, use the pronoun consistent with the individuals live publicly.

If I as a mere award winning blogger can easily grasp that concept, surely you as a grad of The Ohio State University can as well.

Robert, a male to female transperson is a transgender woman or a transwoman, NOT a 'transgendered male'.  

You also use FEMININE pronouns when referring to that trans feminine person.

But you would have known that Robert had you referred to the AP Stylebook, The National Gay And Lesbian Journalism Assn (NGLJA) guide or GLAAD's guides

But since you went for the salacious headline and misgendering story, and tried to weakly justify it by claiming you were going to follow the police report, as we say in Texas, that dog won't hunt, and I'm calling your ass out on it.

Far from being an 'unusual story', it's an all too common one when it comes to the murders of African-American trans women and some media person posthumously misgendering or disrespecting them..

I am sick and tired of Black stenographers (you don't deserve the title of journalist or reporter) murdering my fallen sisters in the media by misgendering them because of ignorance or transphobic hatred. 

There's no excuse for it when you have this marvelous invention called Google to help you out if you have questions about how to respectfully cover us.

And by not using the correct pronouns in this story, you are not only disrespecting and dismissing Ty Underwood's FEMININE life, you are feeding the anti-trans animus that has led to what is now 17 trans women that have been killed since June 2014

Houston Intersectional Justice Rally Tonight

Another day, another event for Moni.

To drive home the points that #WeExist, #LGBTLivesMatter,  #BlackLivesMatter , #BlackTransLivesMatter, and #LatinaTransLivesMatter, in Houston later tonight we'll be having an Intersectional Justice Rally at Hermann Park tonight.

I will have the honor of representing the trans community, and Pastor Lura N. Groen will kick this off with an interfaith prayer and a moment of silence for those community members who are non believers.

This rally is designed to honor women and the LGBT community, because we are continually left out of tit and give us a chance to speak on our own behalf! We will meet at the new Lake Picnic area which is located between Miller Outdoor Theater and Lake Plaza.

The speakers slated to  talk about how their lives intersect in different communities:

L - Fran Watson
G - Ashton P. Woods
B - Heather Strange
T - Monica Roberts
& Yung Mozart one of our great allies

Following the speeches we will read from a list of names of those lost in our communities (like TDOR). Finally, we will allow those who wish to speak to come up and share a few words.

It starts at 7 PM, and hope to see a nice crowd gathered there.

Arianna On The Maria Elvira Show

Made a commitment while I was at Creating Change Denver to highlight and raise the profiles of my trans Latina sisters and talk about their issues they face on the blog.

To get that started, going to post the video of my sis Arianna Lint,.  I met her when we were both going through GLAAD POC Media training in 2012, and we've been close ever since.

This is a Spanish language video from Arianna's recent appearance on the Maria Elvira Salazar show that discussed a Cuban transwoman, the Catholic Church position on trans people, and the Bruce Jenner situation

UH Trans 101 Panel

Yes, I just got off the plane for Denver and haven't been been back inside the Houston city limits for  24 hours, but I'm still heading to the University of Houston campus for a Trans 101 panel that starts at 11:30 AM CST.

Hey, gives me an opportunity to put what I learned at #CC15 into action.

For you Cougars who wish to see Moni and her fellow panelists Nikki Araguz Loyd, Lorraine Schroeder, Skye and moderator Dr. Guillermo de los Reyes, it will take place in the Rockwell Pavilion of the on campus MD Anderson Library.   The pavilion is on the second floor of it.

Looking forward to seeing y'all there.

CC15-Passing The Torch To Chicago

The last day of a Creating Change is always a bittersweet one for all involved.   The host committee is sad after spending nine months putting the event together. that it's come and about to be entered into the history books,.

After the last sessions concluded at 11:00 AM, the final plenary session of #CC15 started thirty minutes later.    Congrats to CeCe McDonald for winning the Paul A Anderson Youth Award!

Watch live streaming video from thetaskforce at livestream.com

Once the plenary ended, Creating Change Denver was officially over and the torch was passed to Chicago.

And yeah, Chicago, you get the same challenge I issued to Denver.   Ensure that there is trans representation on your local host committee and y'all rep the 'T'.

Goodbye Denver, Hello H-town

After a wonderful several days handling my Creating Change business, time for me to leave the Sheraton Denver Downtown hotel room that has been my home for the last few days and make the trip to DIA and back home.

I enjoyed getting to see some old friends, finally meet people I've admired for years like Kim Coco Iwamoto, and meet many new people.

And I'm bummed I didn't get to see Eden Lane while I was in the 303, or missed connections with some peeps that were also in the #CC15 house.

Oh well, maybe the next time.

Thanks Denver for a wonderful #CC15 experience.   Thanks to the National Black Justice Coalition for extending me the invitation to participate in the second annual NBJC The  Black Institute.

And megathanks to all you TransGriot readers for the hugs and kind words about the blog and its founding editor.

As to whether I'll make it three straight Creating Changes when it convenes in Chicago next year, we'll see.  

Gotta go board my flight. My barbecue awaits at Hobby.

CC15-Last Day

It's the last day of Creating Change Denver, and the most bittersweet one.   After being the center of the LGBT world for the last few days, it's time for this 27th annual edition of Creating Change to end and for Chicago to go on the Creating Change hosting clock for 2016.

And it's time for me to go back to my life in H-town without any of Colorado's newest cash crop in my luggage.

There are some seminars happening today, with Brandon Mack's Effemophobia one I'm getting up to check out.  There's also an interfaith service at 9:30 AM MST

CeCe McDonald gets her award at the closing plenary, addresses the crowd and we get to enjoy the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble  before we all make the dash to Denver International Airport.

It's been a wonderful conference for me because I actually got to sit down and talk to people instead of having to make sure everything was running smoothly for all you peeps visiting me last year for #CC14.

And getting to have lunch yesterday with an old H-town friend and dinner with my activist mentor Dainna Cicotello and her daughter Laurie really made it special.

CC15 Day 4 Recap

Since I'm done with my workshops and seminars, I decided to take this Saturday to catch up with some people who live here in the Denver area that I know.

One is an old friend of mine from Houston who moved here in 2001 and I haven't see her for years, but we made it happen over lunch at the Denver Hard Rock Cafe just up the 16th Street Mall from the hotel.

While I was marching up the street to the Hard Rock Cafe and my reunion, a protest was being held that started at 12:15 PM MST back at the hotel aimed at the Denver po-po's.  

It was still going on by the time I returned to the hotel and commenced to running my mouth with my sis Samantha Dato.   We talked about PTHC and whether I was coming for it (maybe)

My activist mentor Dainna Cicotello called me while I was talking to Samantha, and we set up a meeting for dinner at 6 PM.

I killed some time for that meeting by attending a seminar entitled The Psychology of Debunking LGBT Myths that Brynn Tannehill was an informative part of before I had to jet to meet Dainna in the lobby as we headed to a nearby restaurant.   I also got the bonus of seeing her daughter Laurie, who was celebrating her birthday

After a great meal, some peanut butter cheesecake and two hours of catching up since I hadn't seen either Cicotello in the flesh since the 2000 IFGE Conference, I was back at the Sheraton hanging out in the lobby just chilling and trying to decide what to do next.

Stacey Langley (happy birthday Stacey), Latisha, and Lynette arrived and after a few minutes, we decided the check out the 50+ Dance.    There was also a Masqueerade Ball happening., but after handing out at the dance for 30 minutes, headed back to my room after talking to Omar Narvaez about Texas politics in the bar to write up the days events and pack.

Needed some beauty sleep for my last day in Denver for awhile.

Florida Republican Introduces Unjust Anti-Trans Bill

For those of you who thought that Moni was selling you woof tickets when she and others warned you that the Teapublicans and the conservafool movement were going to shift their money and anti-LGBT industry apparatus into attacking us and we'd better be ready for it, here's your wake up call coming from Florida.

Rep. Frank Artiles from the Miami area has introduced a draconian bill (HB 583) that attempts to pimp the long discredited bathroom predator myth and would require all transpeople, pre, non and post op to use only facilities that match their assigned sex at birth, not the ones that match their gender presentation.

What ALEC asshole came up with this this anti-trans caca?   

Artiles’ HB 583 bill would hold trans people who use facilities that match their gender expression liable for civil penalties and provides an avenue for civil action against operators of public accommodations who follow trans-inclusive policies.

Even more ominous is the legislation would override non-discrimination ordinances in Florida cities that have extended public accommodations protections to transgender people.

In other words, the unjust Artiles bill would if made law, legalize anti-trans discrimination in Florida.

Okay Florida trans peeps of all flavors, damned sure time to become agents of your own liberation.   This is a straight up attack on our human rights.

Time to start fighting back by signing your John and Jane Hancocks to this petition condemning HB 583.

And it's probably time to unleash pee-in protests in cities across Florida, Tallahassee and Rep Artiles' offices.

What have I been saying for a while?  The most dangerous transphobic bigot is the one with the power to write legislation. 

Well, here's Exhibit A of that. And it's dehumanizing crap like this  that feeds into the anti-trans animus that disproportionately results in dead Latina and Black trans women.

The unjust HB 583 bill must die.

CC15-Day 4

It's Day 4 of Creating Change 2015  and the last full day of activities before it closes tomorrow and the organizing torch gets passed to Chicago.

I'm done with my seminars unless I get drafted into being a panelist on another one.  I'm basically a spectator for the rest of my time here in Denver. and will probably use much of today to catch up with people I know here.

For those of you who want to find out the latest 411 on the HERO, there's a panel discussion for that topic called How Houston Got A HERO at 9:30 AM.

There's also a 3:00 PM one by Rev Kenneth Samuel entitled Battling Bigotry In The Black Church.

The vendor and organizational table area is still up, so check with those folks and see what they have to offer in terms of goods and services.   Various organizations also have information tables set up there, so this is also the time to ask them questions about the programming .

This is also the last day the suites will be open, so check those out as well.

There's also a police violence protest jumping off at 12:15 PM aimed at the Denver police for the killing of Jessica Hernandez

CC15-Day 3 Recap

Today marked the first full day of workshops and seminars, but I needed a little sleep and time to do some writing before I kept my promise to Imam Daayiee Abdullah to attend the Friday prayer service at 12:30.

I was pleased to see the attendance has grown, and Imam Abdullah announced some exciting news for the LGBT Muslim before the service started about an exciting initiative.

While that service was happening, Rea Carey's State of the Movement Address  was simultaneously taking place.



After talking to Imam Abdullah for a few moments after the service ended, I headed down to the vendor area to kill some time before my panel.  Ran into Andy Marra, Samantha Dato, Dani Heffernan , Kimberley McLeod and Kylar Broadus before we headed to Governors Square 14 for the 3:00 PM panel.

The Trans Women of Color: The Sisterhood featured Tela La'Raine Love, La La Zannell, Bamby Salcedo, Arianna Lint and some based Texas blogger y'all know breaking down the issues that impact us as trans women of color.

Afterwards I got to finally meet a shero of mine in Kim Coco Iwamoto, talk to Trudie Jackson, Bishop Tonyia Rawls, Diego Sanchez, Johanna Saavedra, Elizabeth Clair an my fave power couple in Aisha and Danielle Moodie-Mills.

Also ran into my NFL prognostication partner Michael Watts, and that started an almost two hour conversation in which we discussed everything from what was transpiring in our lives, football and politics to the movie Blazing Saddles.  Ran into Myles Brady, who thanked me for the engagement post I wrote about him and his now fiancee.

And the thing I'm really enjoying is running into all the people here at #CC15 who let me know how much they love the blog.  A writer always loves to hear that what they put out there is the universe for you to peruse and ponder is not only read, it's appreciated.

And the feeling is mutual TransGriot readers.

One last Slurpee run, and then I've got to shut it down for the night.

President Obama's Message To The 2015 Grammys

I didn't get to see them (not that I cared anyway) because I was making my way back home from the  27th edition of Creating Change in Denver.

President Obama had a message for the peeps watching the event that address rape culture, and you need to see this.

Shut Up Fool Awards-Rocky Mountain High Edition

As many of you TransGriot readers are well aware of, I'm in Denver for Creating Change 2015. 

I'm having a wonderful time connecting with all my peeps in the movement while getting my learn on about stuff that will make me an even better human rights advocate when I return to the Lone Star State.

And naw, I haven't hit the dispensaries selling Colorado's newest cash crop while I been up here, but I am aware that other attendees have.

I have my own Slurpee addiction I'm satisfying to the point the clerks at the 7-Eleven across the street from the hotel know me by name. 

But this is also Friday, and that means I have my usual TransGriot business of calling out the fool, fools or group o fools that have kept this staple feature of my blog going for six years and counting.

So let's get to this week's fools

Honorable mention number one is Rafael Cruz, daddy of the junior fool senator from Alberta,  Daddy Cruz parted his lips to say in attacking the HERO that allowing transpeeps to use public restrooms will bring on the Apocalypse.

Um Rafael, transpeople have been using public restrooms for 54 years now, so your comment if it were on Politifact would be rated Liar Liar Pants on Fire.

Honorable mention number two is Bud Roth.  He is the Franklin County VA official who seems to think his religious beliefs trump the law and have no right to get married

I guess your next step to bring back the good old days of pre Loving v Virginia and bar interracial couples from getting married, too

Honorable mention number three is Alex Jones.  In another episode of white male conservafool gone off the rails, while trying to defend Sen. Rand Paul's disastrous performance on reporter Kelly Evens CNBC show when he shushed her on air, he called her a slut and a whore for simply doing her job of calling him out over his anti-vaccine pandering.

Honorable mention number four is a group award to all the conservafools who went batturd cray-cray over President Obama's remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast that reminded the christobigots that Christianity also has a violent streak in terms of the Crusades

Honorable mention number five is ATLAH pastor James David Manning.   In his January 30 message contaminating YouTube he asserted that Justin Bieber was a girl who cut off her breasts because the POTUS' evil spirits misled him.

Hey, I'm just reporting. You decide how idiotic it is.   




Aww, you mad because you ain't Justin Bieber's type?   Why don't you give Donnie McClurkin a call if you're itching to go out on a date with some masculine company?  

Honorable mention number six is Dr Jack Wolfson, the anti-vaxx idiot who said in a CNN interview that he didn't care if his unvaccinated kids gave others preventable communicable diseases that made them gravely ill.

Umm Arizona, can we revoke his medical license please?

Honorable mention number seven is Utah state rep Brian Greene (R) who questioned during a Utah House debate on a bill sponsored by Rep Angela Romero (D) to make having sex with an unconscious person a crime if it was actually rape.



I'll answer that question for you Rep. Greene.   If she doesn't or can't give consent, it's rape.

I'll bet if your daughter was the unconscious woman who was not in a position to consent to have sex, you'd be singing a different tune about that

This week's Shut Up fool winner is West Virginia state Delegate Brian Kurcaba.   This Republifool went into Todd Akins mode and asserted that rape can be beautiful if a child come out of it.

Time for me to go into Maya Wilkes mode.

Bet your ass wouldn't think it was so beautiful if you were the one who was sexually assaulted and you were forced to carry your rapist's child.

And these are the type of idiots y'all gave the power to write legislation in West Virginia.

Delegate Brian Kurcaba, shut up fool