Category Archives: Transgender

March 2023 Newsletter

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“They” Want Drastic Culture Change!
What do “They” want changed?

S. R. 109 Marriage, the Union of Two Adult Persons by Senator Gloria Butler (D-55), proposes the following amendment to the Constitution of the State of Georgia:
“Paragraph 1. Recognition of marriage.

(a) This state shall recognize as marriage any union between two adult persons, regardless of race, gender, or biological sex, who are of sound mind, who have no living spouse from a previously undissolved marriage, and who are not related to their prospective spouse by blood or marriage within the prohibited degrees.”

(b) Georgia would give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other state or jurisdiction respecting a relationship between interracial persons or persons of the same gender or biological sex that is treated as marriage under the law of the other state or jurisdiction. The courts of this state shall have jurisdiction to grant a divorce or separate maintenance and to consider or rule on any of the parties’ respective rights arising from interracial or same-sex marriage unions.” If this passes voters would decide the following:

“Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended so as to recognize marriage as any union between two adult persons eligible to marry under Georgia law regardless of race, gender, or biological sex?”

ACTION – Oppose. Contact Judiciary Committee Senators Strickland, Ch., 404 463-6598; Cowsert, V-Ch., 463-1366; Hodges, Sec.,463-1309; Gooch, Ex-Officio, 656-9221; Hatchett, 656-7454; Jones II, 656-0036; Kennedy, 656-6578; Parent, 656-5109; Rhett, 656-0054; Setzler, 656-0256; Watson, 656-7880.

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May 2022 Newsletter

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Georgia General Primary Election May 24th

The General Primary Election will be May 24, 2022. Advance voting begins May 2nd and ends May 20th. An absentee ballot may be requested by mail through May 13th.

NONPARTISAN Ballot – Statewide Candidates
Nonpartisan ballots do not list candidates for governor, Congress or the State Legislature.
Justice of the Supreme Court – SHAWN ELLEN LAGRUA, INC.
Justice of the Supreme Court – CARLA MCMILLIAN, Incumbent
Justice of the Supreme Court – VERONICA BRINSON or VERDA M. COLVIN-Incumbent
Judge of the Court of Appeals – ANNE ELIZABETH BARNES-Incumbent
Judge of the Court of Appeals – CHRIS MCFADDEN-Incumbent
Judge of the Court of Appeals – TREA PIPKIN-Incumbent

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February 2022 Newsletter Extra Edition

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Committees are the Best Place to Amend, Stop or Pass Legislation

Recently, someone asked why should anyone be interested in what happens in the Georgia General Assembly. Simply put, legislators determine how we are governed. They pass bills and resolutions that become laws that affect our lives, hopefully for the better, sometimes not so much or, perhaps, they diminish our liberties and increase the power of government.

When introduced, bills are given numbers, so they can be identified and tracked as they proceed through committees and, possibly, onto the House and Senate floors for passage or defeat. All legislators are assigned to committees (many to several committees) where bills are debated, amended, rewritten and passed as substitute bills or favorably reported in the original version. Committees are the best place to get legislation passed, stopped, or amended. Members are especially accessible when they have public hearings for speakers to present the pros and cons.

However, the House and Senate have a major committee stop-gap or gate-keeper, their Rules committee that works as a clearing house to decide which bills live or die. Rules Committees may amend a piece of legislation or hold it in committee (kill it), or pass it onto the House or Senate floor for passage or defeat. Committees are keys to the legislative process.

The master keys are the (a) Senate Rules Committee – one of 29 standing committees in the Senate – and (b) the House Rules Committee – one of 42 standing committees in the House. The list of Senate Rules Committee members remained the same from last session, while the House Rules Committee added three members, dropped one and the vice chairman switched positions with another member.

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January 25, 2019 Weekly Commentary

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“Misgendering,” “Deadnaming,” and True Pronouns

Georgia Insight’s Weekly Commentary, January 25, 2019 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

You’ve heard about the Decatur City School superintendent’s July 2016 mandate that preferred transgender pronouns will be used, regardless of biological sexual identity or whether or not using the opposite-sex pronoun to refer to an individual is okay with students, faculty, parents, school board or community. To be clear, he mandated that any boy who identifies as a girl shall be identified as a female; will use intimate facilities girls use, try out for girls’ sports, and room with other girls on field trips.

Six months later, parents learned of the superintendent’s policy on Facebook and, appropriately, took their complaint to the local school board that had a public hearing, then upheld the policy.

After implementation of that policy, a “gender fluid” boy assaulted a five-year-old girl in Oakhurst Elementary School restroom for girls in 2017. Although that incident had no effect on the school district’s transgender policy, the USDOE Civil Rights Office has opened an official investigation since Decatur schools receive federal funding.

A Virginia high school French teacher fired in December for not using a transgender student’s preferred pronouns said this in a television interview, “I used the new name, I avoided feminine pronouns, but male pronouns were a bridge too far. I did everything in my power to accommodate and show respect towards this student and this student’s choices.” Continue reading →