Alabama official calls for firing of transgender Space Camp employee after parent speaks out
Alabama official calls for firing of transgender Space Camp employee after parent speaks out
“We would like to assure parents, teachers, and the public that the safety and security of Space Camp students is our number one priority."
Several Alabama politicians say they are concerned about children’s safety at Huntsville’s Space Camp after a parent complained about the presence of a transgender employee.
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville and Reps. Dale Strong and Robert Aderholt posted statements on X, formerly known as Twitter, after a parent posted on Facebook complaining about the gender identity of one of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center employees. The topic was also picked up by the Libs of TikTok account.
To be fair I am also concerned about children's safety in Alabama, for a multitude of reasons and non has to to with transgender people.
And all of it has to do with Republicans
Considering who their former chief justice and almost senator was, I'd definitely say they have bigger child safety problems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Moore_sexual_misconduct_allegations
“I don’t hate these people, man,” Yarbrough said.
Oh, but you do, buddy. You do.
Usual fucking rhetoric.
"They live their lives, I live mine." All while going out of their way to fuck with them.
He left out the “I would just prefer they don’t exist”
These douchebags would rather shove anyone marginally different than them into the closet rather than having to be mildly uncomfortable in public or having to have a difficult discussion with their children.
Doesn't hate them, just wants them to hide away and never encounter others. Perfectly reasonable /s
I have been searching high and low for any conservative who is a good "person", but I cannot find even one. Not one. I think it's possible that every conservative alive today is pure evil.
I was going to add “or wealthy” but the two usually run hand in hand, so you're probably right.
There was that one republican senator that recently made a speech calling out how he was forbidden from helping to pass the border security act because its an election year and would make Biden look good, I have some respect for him.
Yes, occasionally we may find a kernel of sweet corn lodged in the surface of a complete piece of shit. Occasionally.
Respect for someone driving the country in a horrible direction, and using their vote to continue allowing Texas let asylum-seeking children drown in a river lined with razor wire because they "weren't allowed" to vote differently, and they are consciously aware of their cowardice and dereliction of duty?
That's not someone I would respect.
Arnold Schwarzenegger (sp?) , is he still Republican?
The kids should be fine. They didn't identify as republican, who are known rapists and child molesters.
I've not heard of this guy. Is he someone in the Republican party?
He was an election officer or something for the GOP in the country. Not a high level person, but don't let that distract from the countless other GOP paedos like Denny Hastert.
Firing an employee for being transgender would be such a slam dunk of a discrimination/wrongful termination lawsuit. Easy fucking money.
LGBT+ are not actually a protected class in a lot of states. They kind of get covered by gender protections, but not completely, so I can definitely see this happening with no legal consequences.
Incorrect. The Supreme Court ruled that no employee in the United States can be fired on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity, enshrining LGBTQ protections as part of the Civil Rights Act. The ruling occurred in 2020.
Section 508 of the Social Security Act makes it illegal in all 50 states.
Fun fact, according to the supreme Court, the part of the civil rights act that protects from discrimination on grounds of your sex also protects gender identity and sexual orientation as both of these require taking the person's sex into consideration to discriminate in the first place.
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville and
Of course the traitor Tom Tube was going to be one of them.
I'm surprised that Katie "Craziest Bitch in the Target Parking Lot" Britt didn't join this particular lynch mob, though. She must be trying to lie low until everyone forgets about her SOTU madness..
I didn't get to see that until Jon Stewart showed clips. I read about it before that and thought, "it can't possibly be worse than Bobby Jindal a few years ago." Oh my god was it worse. Why on Earth did they choose her?
Have you seen Scarlett Johansson's SNL cold open parody of it yet? It's fucking perfect! "Craziest Bitch in the Target Parking Lot" is a direct quote from it 😁
And yeah, I've long since given up looking for logical reasons for the choices of GOP voters.. 😮💨
Someone on a podcast suggested that the repub response is a sacrifice to get rid of the ones they don't want. She seems to have done that for herself. Cited Marco Rubio and someone else as examples; I don't know how those speeches went, but they suggested they went badly.
I have concerns about complaints from stupid people.
I can see why. It's very important to teach young would-be astronauts that there are only two genders for some reason.
When the alternative is having to actually talk to your children about the world they will always choose shielding their children from reality.
That's textbook transphobia there, they are literally afraid of a trans person for no reason
Bigots got to bigot.
I would like to compare the number of trans people who have had an illegal relationship with a child to a straight person.
Better yet, members of the GOP
You've got a lot of Republicans in congress that pretend to be dumb. I think Tuberville is the genuine article.
If Trump wins, we're going to have a new Lavender Scare.
Of course I learned all about the red scare in school. They left out the persecution of homosexuals. Wonder why…
Every day I feel like I can't possibly hate these people more and every day they show me I have a larger capacity for hate than I previously assumed.
They're developing a facet about myself that I don't enjoy developing.
Now imagine the unending, visceral vitriol you'd be feeling if you also happened to be transgender, and you'll come close to understanding how I feel 24/7.
I really wish people understood the psychological toll of this shit. It sucks to wake up, read the news, and be constantly reminded that a substantial amount of people hate people who are like me.
Well I think you’re beautiful being who you truly are. So fuck those other people.
I got past hate a long time ago. Every time I see things like this now, I just think "of course" and it sucks. It's more just disappointment in how the US got here at this point. How have we allowed money to be used to control people so easily? The amount of things people manage to not know about because it goes against their position is insane. There needs to be more control over basically anything that calls itself news that requires certain things out of them.
Of course, it's Alabama
Well... Yeah. That's where space camp is.
Tommy Tuberville:
Transgender: Bad
Incest: Good
I’m extremely concerned that this article implies we are allowing people from alabama to interact with science. Sure, they need access to basic science things like fire, and electricity (questionable if they should be allowed to use breakers), but what if an understanding of critical thought, and accidentally reading the bible unsupervised, causes unexpected outcomes.
Media refuses to identify what religion those people are.
Maybe later tonight I will go on Facebook and find out who complained. Give them a call at work tomorrow.