Carla Lewis is a transgender woman from Antioch Tennessee. She was discharged from the Air Force in 2010 for being gender dysphoric.
The 44-year-old's Facebook selfie from Friday has gone viral, with 11,000 likes and 14,000 shares.
The sentiment seems perfect for this Veterans Day.
This is a solemn moment in America. Things have gotten quite serious. We're on the verge of losing not only democracy but the battle to leave a viable ecosystem for future generations. And I'm talking about the near, not distant, future.
Monday 11/09/2015 Open Thread
There are now only 52 days left in the year, so whatcha wanna talk about?
Numbah 9, Numbah 9, Numbah 9? --
The Jersey number worn by the inimitable Ted Williams.
Fluorine.
Organic: Five-digit produce PLU codes that begin with 9 are organic.
When the sky falls softly
And the heavens roar
Don't forget to say goodbye
As you wander the earth
Wearing only your soul
Every time the LGBT community suffers a significant political loss, such as HERO in Houston or California's Prop 8, or ENDA in the US Congress, one can count on a campaign to drop the T from the end of LGB.
This time it takes the form of a Change.org petition. The petition so far has 1229 signatories.
We are a group of gay/bisexual men and women who have come to the conclusion that the transgender community needs to be disassociated from the larger LGB community; in essence, we ask that organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD, Lambda Legal and media outlets such as The Advocate, Out, Huff Post Gay Voices, etc., stop representing the transgender community as we feel their ideology is not only completely different from that promoted by the LGB community (LGB is about sexual orientation, trans is about gender identity), but is ultimately regressive and actually hostile to the goals of women and gay men.
So far there have been public rejections from GLAAD, HRC, and the Advocate.
Good morning 99percenters!
Morning news dump and music by William Clarke.
As Mission Creeps in Iraq and Syria, Lawmakers Ask: Will We Ever Vote on War?
A group of 35 bipartisan House Reps. issued an open letter calling for a Congressional vote on war authorization "as quickly as possible."Amid intensifying U.S. military operations in Iraq and Syria, a group of 35 bipartisan House lawmakers issued an open letter on Friday calling for Congress to fulfill its responsibility by voting "as quickly as possible" on whether to authorize a war that is well over a year old.
What's a yacht-owning billionaire to do when he wants to take part in the booming buy-to-let market that has created an enormous rent affordability crisis? Why turn to the federal government, of course.
There is a six-year-old boy in Katy, TX who is transgender. His parents, who happen to be a gay couple, informed the Children's Lighthouse Learning Center that their child now should be referred to as a boy and disclosed his new name.
The school administrators were okay with that. Indeed, they appear to have been prepared for their first transgender child. A set of guidelines entitled How to Handle Transgender Students was distributed to staff members.
Two "Christian" staff members objected. They were fired.
As you might imagine, this has caused an uproar from certain sources.
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Morning news dump and music by Rory Black.
TPP Trade Pact Would Give Wall Street a Trump Card to Block Regulations
Banks and other financial institutions would be able to use provisions in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership to block new regulations that cut into their profits, according to the text of the trade pact released this week.
On November 2, 1920, something happened that had never happened before in history and is never likely to happen again: a federal prisoner received nearly 1 million write-in votes for president, including 22% of the New York vote.
This wasn't just any prisoner. This was a legendary union leader who was now a political prisoner.
This was Eugene Debs.
