Do not obey in advance. Believe in truth. Be as courageous as you can.
Sep 17 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Tide turning in the captured Bay Area? 🌊
Three school board members backing female athletes and now progressive teacher Arienne Adamčíková lands a stunning letter in @smdailyjournal.
Full text & link ⬇️
A Teacher’s Call for Honesty and Parental Involvement
By Arienne Adamčíková
I am a mother, a Spanish teacher in the San Mateo Union High School District, and a longtime lesbian and gay rights activist. At the Sept. 10 board meeting, where trustees debated policy updates on gender identity, I spoke not only as a longtime progressive educator but as the parent of a son who once identified as transgender.
The Daily Journal’s recent coverage reduced this debate to a single trustee’s concerns. In reality, the board delayed its vote because women’s rights advocates raised legitimate questions. To their credit, trustees ultimately rejected two troubling recommendations from the California School Boards Association: removing parents entirely from the process, and reclassifying a student’s sex as “private information.” Both would have undermined trust between families and schools.
I urged the board to require parental involvement in any future updates to gender policies. Schools must not take the place of families in making decisions with life-altering consequences for children.
I have spent decades fighting homophobia and sexism. It pains me to see students taught to view their personalities through the narrow lens of “gender identity.” Sensitive or creative children, especially those struggling with body issues, are told they were “born in the wrong body.” That message is not liberating. It is regressive and homophobic.
In my son’s case, school affirmation of his “trans girl” identity deepened his distress and echoed the bullying he had endured. Thankfully, he has since desisted, but the harm remains real. Families must never be cut out of this conversation.
Sep 15 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
“Go suck a sawed-off shotgun.”
“You’re a Nazi piece of shit.”
“We kill Nazis”
That’s Connor Wolfe’s response to women holding “No males in female cycling” signs
Wolfe is notorious for threatening women, celebrating Kirk’s death & vowing to burn the US flag on the Olympic podium
I want to be @XxtraEstroGenny when I grow up.
The nasty man raged and gnashed his teeth, calling her a Nazi, a fascist, and telling her to off herself. All it took to cut him down to size was stating a simple truth, women know he’s a man and we do not accept him.
Jul 21 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
“This is a massive scandal, and it’s causing tremendous harm. It is time for our legislators to wake up and understand what is truly going on here.”
@marli_ca of @CAcause25 speaks off the cuff & from the heart against a dangerous bill that almost slipped past us.
Details ⬇️
CA lawmakers already stuffed “gender” into history, English, health, and more, yet only 31% of districts have fully bent the knee. Solution?
Pass compliance bills
AB 908 hands the @CADeptEd new audit powers to police LGBTQ content & tighten the screws, all out of public view.
Mar 18 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Spa hosts 1 day/month for women.
A man wishes to attend but is told to cover his penis.
The man wants to take his pants off around women.
He organizes a protest & invites his rapist buddy Dakota.
Convicted rapist is interviewed by @KelsiThorud on @KPIXtv
Spa caves and allows the rapist in.
Local news refuses to report on this story & women are left uninformed that a rapist now has access to their spa.
Full story reduxx.info/exclusive-tran…
Jan 30 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
“I'm not going to be silenced, even though the experience was actually really scary for me.”
Michelle speaks about being labeled a “Creepy Perverted Bigot” by a school 𝕏 account due to her advocacy.
A treat: Steve Sell, the man likely behind the 𝕏 account, was present. 🧵
What’s the deeper story behind Michelle’s speech?
td;lr If you come for the TERFs, you best not miss.
Part 1: May 2023
Women hold signs at the Track & Field State Championship meet. The signs say things like, “Protect Female Athletes” or “Speak Up 4 Girls.
Sep 25, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Cathleen Quinn is a political prisoner held by the state of CA for daring to say she didn’t feel safe being housed with intact men. She was 3 weeks away from her release. And the state revoked her parole.
It’s important that folks understand Cathleen was punished so harshly because she and Tomiekia Johnson were the first incarcerated women to speak against SB 132. The state needed to make an example of these two women. They needed to show ALL the other women housed in prison that they better shut up or they too would lose their job, their honor dorm housing, their parole, their everything.
This tactic has been highly effective. But it is crumbling. I’ve waited so long to share Cathleen’s story and I am so proud that her bravery now has allowed her story to be shared in front of US Senators.
#FreeCathleen
9/25/24 @kelseybolar testimony before Senate Judiciary Committee, subcommittee on Criminal Justice & Counterterrorism
Link to full hearing
3rd grade girl at @PaloAltoUnified expresses her concerns over sharing bathrooms with boys.
Stay until the end of the video to see the lackluster response from the school board.
Why is it up to girls to advocate for their safety? She’s not even tall enough to reach the podium.
change.org/p/for-inclusio…
Jul 8, 2024 • 9 tweets • 19 min read
If #AB1955 becomes CA law it will do 3 things
1 Allow schools to continue to keep secrets from parents
2 Protect teachers who keep secrets
3 Prevent school districts from passing policies to inform parents
Call 916-445-2841 & tell @GavinNewsom to veto
How did we get here? 🧵
⚠️ We are REALLY going into the weeds here, so feel free to just stick with the 280 characters in the first post. The first post is accurate.
But for those readers with an obsession, please join me down the rabbit hole.
First and foremost, California schools are ALREADY secretly transitioning students and have been for years. If you want to know when and how this happened, keep reading. (The ‘why’ is above my pay grade. Plenty of people are descending that rabbit hole elsewhere.)
But before I begin, I must emphasize how disingenuous it is for California lawmakers like @AsmChrisWard and @AMuratsuchi to say AB1955 doesn’t prohibit disclosure to parents. AB1955 doesn’t need to prohibit disclosure, because there is ALREADY statewide guidance in place that tells schools, teachers, counselors NOT to disclose to parents without the student’s permission.
Take a look at this exchange from the recent Education Committee where a teacher said she would use “generalized pronouns” to hide information from a parent.
Alright, I've got that off my chest; let's take a trip back in time.
Jun 25, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Why are the people willing to defend the practice of male rapists housed in women’s prisons?
Watch a CA citizen with experience working in prisons ask @AsmMuratsuchi if he regrets supporting men in women’s prisons.
The brazen dismissal of women’s safety is 😤🤯😡
Here’s the guy that raped 2 women while he was housed in women’s prisons. Al Muratsuchi voted for the law that supports this practice. foxnews.com/us/third-strik…
Jun 14, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“If gender is to liberate us, why can't I, as a lesbian, have a dick-free space? A space that is for women only, without penises?”@AmandaKovattana asks Judith Butler.
“I think you can do that in your home.”
Yes, Butler literally told lesbians to stay home & the audience cheered
Bay Area lesbian activist @AmandaKovattana asked this question in front of hundreds of Judith Butler fans during a City Art & Lectures event on June 13th in San Francisco. Check out her most recent book:
The Unexpected Penis: Conversations On The Gender Trail a.co/d/4EewqnP
Jun 10, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“But when he said, it looks like I'll have to identify as a lesbian, it just like opened my eyes. Like, wait a minute, what?”
@AmandaKovattana explains her shock after hearing a man describe himself as a lesbian for the first time.
Full interview by @SourPatches77 in 🧵
@Alisonellis27
@annie_nonimouse @LesbianOwl33
@akabeth10
@formerleftwingr @my_real_name
@Docstockk
@ActiveLesbians
See full interview here.
Here is the beginning of SB 132, which went on to became the 2021 California law allowing men to be housed in women’s prisons. It is to our great shame that this has been law for three years now. Three years! Three years of housing convicted male rapists and murders in locked cells with women.
Despite rapes & pregnancies, despite the humiliation & degradation of women, California organizations founded to “help” incarcerated women have abandoned women in their time of need in order to placate the feelings of rapists and murderers.
Women have started to build anew and fight for the rights of incarcerated women:
@WomensLibFront
@WDI_USA
@iwf
@womaniiwomaninc
@NoXY_USA
But it is truly a daunting fight as we square up against some of the most powerful & well funded nonprofits in the country. Below I list all the organizations that appear as supporters of SB132. They are all responsible for the humanitarian disaster unfolding in CA prisons.
I call on every organization that is named to find their integrity and publicly rescind their support of this monstrous law!
Author: @Scott_Wiener
Supporters:
@ACLU
@ACLU_NorCal
@ACLU_SoCal
@ACLU_CalAction
Equality California @eqca
@LambdaLegal
TGI Justice Project @tgijp
@TransLawCenter
@TransLatina_C
@apiequalityla
API Equity Nor Cal (now Lavender Phoenix) @lav_phoenix
@CalCivilLiberty
@CURBprisons
@ellabakercenter
@EmpoweredPI
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Bay Area
@lccrsf
@NCLRights
@TidesAdvocacy
Access Women’s Health Justice
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Root and Rebound
Initiate Justice
Women’s Foundation of CA
🧵 Some of the men currently housed in women’s prison. It is by no means an exhaustive list, just a small sample. They include rapists, murderers & pedophiles.
Around 40 men have been transferred with 100’s pending review.
Despite the #CassReview and #WPATHfiles, California lawmakers are busy building up capacity to sterilize children & house those wishing to seek hormones and surgeries against their parents’ wishes.
🧵 In this week alone CA has these bills moving through committee:
AB2442
Fast-tracks the licensure for medical professionals providing gender affirming care
AB2007
Establish “Unicorn Homes” for LGBTQ youth
And there are more!!
Listen to Craig Pulsipher of Equity California say the quiet part out loud. They anticipate more and more children will seek hormones and surgeries due to CA laws and policies.
Here’s Craig (again) speaking on behalf of AB2007 to establish “Unicorn Homes”
Why are there a growing number of homeless LGBTQ youth, Craig?
Maybe all those laws we’ve passed making it easier for kids to leave their homes? Or runaway from other states?
Nov 19, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Male runner Athena Ryan placed 17th in the Girls North Coast Section Cross Country.
This qualifies him for the State Championships, displacing a deserving girl.
He would have placed 412th in the boys.
This is a record of our dissent.
👀 what happens! 🧵
#SaveWomensSports
This same boy stole a spot from a girl last spring in Track & Field. Women were also there to bear witness to the injustice.
CA regularly transfers men into women’s prisons. The requests of these men can’t be denied based on physical anatomy (such as intact genitalia) or crimes committed. There is no requirement to take hormones or surgery.
🧵 A tale of 15 upper middle class students (almost all white, 1 Asian, 1 Latino) and their white teacher reading MLK’s “Integrated Bus Suggestions” during Black History Month.
tl;dr summary:
1) Several students end up implying MLK dehumanized black people.
2) All the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Background: My son has seen the power nonviolent direct action has to make change several times. Most notably when I took him to the Standing Rock reservation for a week during the massive Dakota Access Pipeline protests. He remembers the unarmed Native people standing strong… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Nov 27, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Long 🧵 with examples of the confusion and harm that can come when we do not (maybe cannot) categorize people by sex. I present to you the following paper thelancet.com/journals/lance…
“The cohort comprised 62 trans women, 69 cis women, and five non-binary individuals (who were, because of small numbers, grouped with cis women to form a category of people assigned female at birth for the purpose of comparison).”
