Hand holding a paper sheet with transgender symbol and equal sign inside. | Getty
As President Joe Biden signed a flurry of executive orders on his first day in office, Christian and conservative groups are criticizing one of his moves to unilaterally enact one of the more controversial aspects of the progressive social agenda.
The executive order that has received the most pushback from Christian conservative organizations and individuals prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The critics of the executive order take issue with its implications for religious liberty and women’s sports.
“Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports,” Biden wrote in the executive order. The aforementioned statement implies support for allowing biological males who identify as females to use restrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identi
Kelly Loeffler. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Voters in Georgia were targeted with a blitz of anti-trans adverts before the crucial Senate run-off elections, which could shift the balance of power in the US Senate from Republican to Democrat.
There has been record-level turnout for the two crucial run-off elections, state election officials say, the first of which has been won by Democrat challenger and Baptist pastor Raphael Warnock.
Warnock beat Republican Kelly Loeffler, who was supported in her campaign by anti-trans propaganda paid for by The American Principles Project.
One of the adverts claimed that Republican incumbent Loeffler, who has sponsored bills to bar trans students from playing school sports, is “giving our daughters a fighting chance”.
Social media platforms have a major anti-LGBTQ disinformation problem that enables myths, lies, and misleading content to spread to large audiences and earn high engagement. These platforms have occasionally shown that they are capable of quelling disinformation and removing or flagging misleading content, but they are not consistent in enforcing their own policies and protecting LGBTQ people. There are several actions that they can take to do so in 2021.
In July, a Media Matters study found that during a year-long time period, right-wing sources earned nearly two-thirds of total Facebook interactions on trans-related content that had more than 100,000 interactions (reactions, comments, shares). In particular, over one-third of content that met the criteria for the study was content about trans athletes and medical care for trans youth published by right-leaning outlets.
December 22, 2020
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The Daily Caller spoke to David McIntosh, president of Club for Growth Action, an independent expenditure-only political action committee, about its 11-day bus tour to encourage turnout among conservative voters in the Jan. 5 Georgia runoffs.
Club For Growth Action wrapped up the 11-day bus tour, the first of two legs, on Dec. 21. The group has also pledged $10 million and committed to knocking on 1 million doors in Georgia to ensure conservative voter turnout in an election that will determine which political party controls the Senate. McIntosh told the Caller about Club for Growth Action’s multifaceted messaging strategy in order to accomplish its mission that has been complicated by infighting among Republicans surrounding the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Here s the best and worst of 2020 politics
David Weigel, The Washington Post
Dec. 22, 2020
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Outside Georgia - and apparently the Oval Office - the political year is over. Here are the highlights.
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Campaign of the Year: Joe Biden for president
No way around it. If you were reading The Washington Post one year ago, you knew about Joe Biden s weakness in New Hampshire and Iowa, the worries Democrats had about nominating an old White guy, and the grass-roots organizers who d lapped the former vice president on the ground. In mid-February, Biden was in the weakest position of any perceived front-runner since Howard Dean; by mid-March, he was about to wrap up the nomination faster than any Democrat since John Kerry.