Tea at Trianon: Gender-Confusion Month Ends But Is Never Over

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Sunday, June 30, 2024

Gender-Confusion Month Ends But Is Never Over

From The Patriot Post:

First, we confirmed that the woke commander of the Osan Air Force base in South Korea has authorized “pride patches” to be worn on uniforms while performing official duties. Got that? The greatest external threat to the United States is Red China, which is currently threatening an invasion of Taiwan to enforce reunification. Our frontline of defense in the region includes Osan, and I bet the ChiComs are terrified of those pride patches.

Of course, that pandering AF commander may have just been taking a cue from the CIA, which made sure to prioritize it’s “pride month” celebrations. House Select Committee on Intelligence member, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), a former Green Beret concluded: “It just shows where this administration’s priorities continue to be, which is a virtue signal to the progressive Left, rather than staying focused on lethality, effective intelligence collection, and keeping America safe. It’s just a total misplacement of priorities, and it comes from the top, and it comes from highly politicized political appointees, by political appointees that are pushing an agenda.”

It’s not just the Air Force. Each of the service branch chiefs is dutifully appeasing the Biden administration’s political gender-confusion agenda with such virtue-signaling nonsense. Yes, even the Navy SEALs got in on the act, with their own rainbow social media post.

Next news in, after defacing the White House by putting rainbow colors on its columns, Kamala Harris hosted the cast of “Queer Eye,” and concluded the gay affair by thanking them for “meaningful conversation” and “giving my office your stamp of approval.” So special! Perhaps the failed “Border Czar” should host the families of Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, and 12-year old Jocelyn Nungaray at the White House, the latest torture/murder victims of Biden’s swarms of illegal immigrants. Harris could have painted the columns red in remembrance of the tens-of-thousands of American citizens assaulted by violent illegal immigrants.

Then we learned that SCOTUS will hear legal challenges to what the Demos and their Leftmedia parrots call a “gender-affirming care ban” for children — or, more accurately, a “ban on gender mutilation of children.” This comes on the heels of U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle ruling in which he asserts: “Florida has adopted a statute and rules that ban gender-affirming care for minors even when medically appropriate. The ban is unconstitutional.” Just when exactly is so-called “transgender” chemical alteration and physical mutilation of children “medically appropriate”?

Apparently Biden approves. His official pride month proclamation objects to states protect children from gender mutilation: “These bills and laws attack our most basic values and freedoms as Americans: the right to be yourself, the right to make your own medical decisions, and the right to raise your own children.” In fact, we also just confirmed evidence that Biden’s “transgender” groomer-in-chief at the Department of Health and Human Services, Richard “Rachel” Levine, advocated for removal of age limit guidelines for genital mutilation surgeries on children. That is the same miscreant who wanted to declare a whole “summer of pride.” (Read more.)

Resistance works. From USA Today:

Bud Light, owned by beer giant Anheuser-Busch, is still struggling after last year’s conservative blowback over a social media campaign with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
“The goal is to make ‘pride’ toxic for brands,” conservative commentator Matt Walsh wrote on X, formerly Twitter, at the time. The strategy worked. Activists rallied supporters using hashtags and slogans like “go woke go broke” and held boycotts and other actions they called “Bud Lighting.” Not only did sales suffer, some in the LGBTQ+ community turned away from Target and Bud Light, too, for bowing to conservative pressure. Now brands are navigating the volatile political climate more gingerly. Expect fewer rainbow logos, Skallerud says. (Read more.)

From The Federalist:

Tractor Supply announced Thursday it is no longer implementing neo-Marxist initiatives throughout the company, marking a rare win for conservatives seeking to restore sanity to American institutions.

“We work hard to live up to our Mission and Values every day and represent the values of the communities and customers we serve,” a company press release reads. “We have heard from customers that we have disappointed them. We have taken this feedback to heart. Going forward, we will ensure our activities and giving tie directly to our business.”
The announcement came after conservative filmmaker and former congressional candidate Robby Starbuck unearthed the company’s infatuation with so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI),” a poisonous left-wing framework that dismisses merit and instead discriminates based on characteristics such as skin color and sex. Individuals who qualify for a certain position on merit but don’t meet the discriminating entity’s goal of being more “diverse” are often passed over in favor of those who meet institutionally preferred identitarian standards. (Read more.)

Meanwhile, in Georgia...From The Georgia Record:

Blue states are passing laws to allow children to become “transgender” without parental consent, to punish those who use “wrong” pronouns, and to shield “gender” doctors from lawsuits for harms caused to kids. Red states are passing laws to outlaw transgender medical “treatments” on minors, to protect children from sexually explicit schoolbooks, and banning males from female sports.

Disagreements over the definition of biology, sex, sexuality, and truth – and the safeguarding of children. I never expected to be thinking about such things when I got involved in gay rights, in 1993. No one was talking about any of the things “LGBTQ+” activists are talking about today.

It’s 2024 in Georgia and a once rare psychiatric disorder affecting primarily men has become today what we call “transgender.” What were formerly known as transsexuals and transvestites have morphed into a host of different things, real and imaginary. Today’s queers, nonbinarys, pansexuals, asexuals, demiboys, and gender-fluids - with xemself, perself, and verself pronouns. What remains a diagnosis in the Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-5) is now used to tell kids they can be “born in the wrong body.” A condition trans activists insist be included under The Americans with Disabilities Act is proselytized to kids as healthy social and biological development. (Read more.)