This evening's music features Texas blues guitarist and singer T-Bone Walker. Enjoy!
T-Bone Walker w/ Jazz At The Philharmonic - Woman You Must Be Crazy
NJ.com reported that trans girl Jae Irizarry was crowned homecoming queen last Saturday at Trenton Central High School.
I wanted to make a difference, to show not only the city and world that it's 2015 and things are changing and progressing. I am so happy that I won, it's been amazing.
Jae credited the friends and teachers who convinced her to run and a supportive school community.
They're making my dreams come true.
But there were some who doubted the outcome could happen legitimately ot that it shold have been allowed to happen.
Penny Rae, writing for the Trentonian on Sunday reported that "sources with intimate knowledge of activities at the school say the vote was a fraud."
Penny wrote that an anonymous source who feared retribution said the teacher in charge of the voting process "failed to properly oversee the votes, which allowed students to stuff the ballot box as an alleged practical joke."
Then Penny wrote
But other sources say the teacher was involved in stuffing the ballot box and did so because she wanted to “make history.”
Because, you know, how else could the tranny have won?
The terms of Obama’s proposed TPP ‘trade’ treaty with Asian countries won’t be made public until the treaty has already been in force for at least four years.
Good Morning, 99%'ers! Today's Open Thread is what I started to write about last week and then let the Floridiots distract me. Enjoy.
By any standard measure the suicide of Wesley Everest should be considered unusual.
Everest had only recently returned from the front lines of WWI France, so a suicide isn't all that shocking. However, the circumstances of his death on Veterans Day 1919, should have raised questions with the coroner. That is, if the coroner had bothered to examine the body before declaring it a suicide.
This evening's music features jump blues singer from Atlanta Billy Wright. Enjoy!
Billy Wright - Live The Life
The World Medical Association held is annual Assembly this past weekend in Moscow.
If you are like me, you've barely heard of the WMA, if at all. Established in 1947, the WMA's purpose is "to serve humanity by endeavoring to achieve the highest international standards in Medical Education, Medical Science, Medical Art and Medical Ethics, and Health Care for all people in the world." The organization had 106 constituent members and 1013 Associate members as of 2014.
Delegates from 60 national medical associations voted on Sunday to adopt new guidelines for physicians to increase their knowledge about, respect to and sensitivity towards "transgender people and the unique health issues they face."
The delegates from nearly 60 national medical associations adopted guidelines saying that being transgender is “not a disorder”, that “everyone has the right to determine their own gender, and that the WMA rejects “coercive treatment or forced behavior modification.”
Furthermore the WMA agreed that "every effort" should be undertaken to make available "individualized, multi-professional, interdisciplinary and affordable transgender healthcare."
The guidelines were proposed by the German Medical Association, which said they acknowledged the inequities faced by the transgender community and the crucial role played by physicians in advising transgender people and their families about treatment.
Delegates said they were aware of the cultural sensitivities in some parts of the world about this issue, but also said it was important for the WMA to stress that cultural, political or religious considerations must not take precedence over the rights, health and well-being of transgender people.
This site has the same problem as the Catholic Church: not enough priests, who can be trusted to stay out of the communion wine and the altar boys, to daily say morning mass. JtC has of late been donning the vestments twice a week, on Sundays and Tuesdays, but he can't do that no more, because he has too many Other Masters. So I am, for the nonce, assuming the Tuesdays. But this cannot long continue.
This evening's music features blues singer Lee "Shot" Williams. Enjoy!
Lee Shot Williams - You're welcome to the club
Vanessa Baird, co-editor of the New Internationalist. has created a video intended to promote that magazine's October issue. I decided to bogart it for my own purposes, because the video provides a fairly good summary of where the transgender community stands at this particular time.
