Day: February 13, 2018

Sanity

Администрация Трампа наносит очередной удар по достижениям сил света.
 
For the past three weeks, BuzzFeed News called and emailed Education Department officials attempting to pinpoint the agency’s position.

Finally on Thursday, Liz Hill, a spokesperson for the agency, responded “yes, that’s what the law says” when asked again if the Education Department holds a current position that restroom complaints from transgender students are not covered by a 1972 federal civil rights law called Title IX.

Asked for further explanation on the department’s position, Hill said Friday, “Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, not gender identity.”

She added that certain types of transgender complaints may be investigated — but not bathroom complaints.

“Where students, including transgender students, are penalized or harassed for failing to conform to sex-based stereotypes, that is sex discrimination prohibited by Title IX,” Hill said. “In the case of bathrooms, however, long-standing regulations provide that separating facilities on the basis of sex is not a form of discrimination prohibited by Title IX.”

 
 
Конец великой эпохи. А счастье было так возможно!

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The Future of America

Про мальчика давешнего, кстати, я еще немножко почитал. Там есть что почитать.

 
The drag queen of all drag queens told Desmond at DragCon 2017 in New York City that he was the "future of America.”
Оно куда круче, чем того же возраста специалист по косметике, хотя жанр примерно тот же. Его рекламируют не в NYT, а в Vogue и Cosmopolitan.
 
 
Desmond, a 10-year-old LGBTQIA activist and self-professed “drag kid” who loves Diana Ross and practices what he calls “kinderdrag.”

Desmond was born in 2007 in New York during Pride Week and says he came out of the closet when he was born. He first developed a penchant for wearing dresses at 6, when he dressed as Elsa from Frozen for Halloween. He has since performed in a music video for RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Jinkx Monsoon and founded the first drag house exclusively for youth, called the Haus of Amazing.

 

Само собой, у него есть Инстаграм. Помимо картинок (картинки не для слабых духом, предупреждаю) там есть его, так сказать, манифест, который выглядит так:

 

 
Hi! 👋
I’m 🌟 #desmondisamazing 🌟 from NYC #nycdrag. 🗽
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I’m a #dragkid, #dragutante, and #dragketeer doing what I like to call #kinderdrag 🍭. Yep, I’m a total #dragslayer 🐉.
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And I have the MOST amaziest 😘  fans…my #AMAZIES ! I ❤ U! You inspire me! I am so grateful for your love and support.
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I call my style "androgynously" and my looks 🎨 "avantdrag". I’m inspired by all of the  #clubkids, RuPaul 👸, Nelson Sullivan, Marsha P. Johnson, the Blitz Kids, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Commes Des Garçons, #altdrag, and do-it-yourself drag ✂ #diydrag.
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I’m also an 🦄  #LGBTQ advocate and #gayyouth. My motto is " Be Yourself, Always "  #beyourselfalways 🌈.

Вундеркинд, действительно, знает много богатых слов. Разумеется, разбирается он не только в fashion industry, но и в политике. Про Трампа решительное мнение имеет, во всяком случае.

Все-таки дети – удивительный материал, что угодно из них можно сделать. Не могу не отметить, однако, что некоторым родителям своих детей совершенно не жалко. Конкретно эти – просто компрачикосы какие-то. Будь я левым, потребовал бы, чтобы это все немедленно запретили, родителей лишили родительских прав и так далее. Но поскольку я не левый, мне остается только тихо недоумевать, как это все сочетается с испепеляющей повсеместной борьбой против педофилии.

 
 

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