{"id":6879,"date":"2017-03-25T10:03:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T04:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=6879"},"modified":"2017-03-25T10:04:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T04:19:41","slug":"anti-lgbtiq-hate-bus-tours-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/anti-lgbtiq-hate-bus-tours-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-LGBTIQ hate bus tours the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kathmandu (Pahichan) March 25 – The so-called FreeSpeechBus, is currently spreading its hateful message through the streets of New York City. The organizers behind the bus include the International Organization for the Family, labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the notoriously anti-LGBTI\"\"<\/a>Q group National Organization for Marriage. The bright orange bus is covered in the message, \u201cIt\u2019s Biology: Boys are boys\u2026and always will be. Girls are girls\u2026and always will be. You can\u2019t change sex. Respect all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jessica Stern of OutRight Action International commented,<\/p>\n

\u201cFree speech is a constitutional right, but language has consequences. Trans youth already have an extremely high risk for violence, discrimination, and suicide. Broadcasting a message that erases and denies the reality that transgender and intersex children and youth exist is irresponsible, factually misleading, disrespectful, and dangerous. This vehicle is part of the reason trans youth are driven to suicide.<\/em>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A group of individuals and organizations advocating for the human rights of LGBTIQ people have banded together calling attention to the bus\u2019s harmful message. They are asking New York City\u2019s political and civil society leaders to join them in speaking out against the harmful, untrue and discriminatory message it promotes and the violence against trans individuals it will likely encourage.<\/p>\n

Gillian Kane, Senior Policy Advisor at Ipas, an international women\u2019s reproductive health and rights organization, a member of the coalition, stated,<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call on politicians everywhere that the bus is traveling to take a stand for diversity and respect for all people\u2014including intersex, transgender, and gender non-conforming people\u2014 and to speak out against the hate and transphobia propagated by this bus.<\/em>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A similarly styled bus received strong pushback in Spain earlier this year and was recently banned in Madrid on the premise that it was discriminatory<\/a> and could incite hate crimes. After the bus was banned, it received high-profile attention from the likes of Chelsea Clinton who Tweeted<\/a>, \u201cPlease don\u2019t bring these buses to the U.S. (or anywhere).\u201d<\/p>\n

Kimberly Zieselman, JD Executive Director of \u201cinterACT: advocates for intersex youth, commented,<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t biology\u2013this is hatred rooted in an entirely false understanding of the human body. Being a girl or a boy isn\u2019t about biology, it is about gender. The reality is that biological sex is on a spectrum, and no amount of argument will prove otherwise. Approximately 2% of children are born intersex, meaning they transcend typical notions of what the \u201cFreeSpeechBus\u201d says is \u201cboy\u201d and girl.\u201d This bus attempts to erase the lived realities of the incredibly brave young people I work with every day who do not fit into this binary. In the same way that gender is not limited to strict male and female categories, neither is our biological sex.<\/em>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Haven Herrin, Executive Director of Soulforce, an LGBTQI social justice organization that challenges Christian Supremacy through spiritual healing, radical analysis, and strategic direct action, added their perspective commenting,<\/p>\n

\u201cReligion that denies the sacred being of trans and intersex children is no religion at all \u2013 it\u2019s a gross abuse of power. We need to send the message to trans and intersex youth that they are cherished just as they are and that they don\u2019t have to conform to pressure from hateful ideologies.<\/em>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The bus will also be stopping in New Haven, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

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Kathmandu (Pahichan) March 25 – The so-called FreeSpeechBus, is currently spreading its hateful message through the streets of New York City. The organizers behind the bus include the International Organization for the Family, labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the notoriously anti-LGBTIQ group National Organization for Marriage. The bright orange bus is covered in the message, \u201cIt\u2019s Biology: Boys are boys\u2026and always will be. Girls are girls\u2026and always will be. You can\u2019t change sex. Respect all.\u201d
\nJessica Stern of OutRight Action International commented,
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