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Twit Awards for the Week 9/25/23

ceciliab | Sep 25, 2023

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Tristan Young on the right.

Tristan Young was elected Homecoming Queen at Oak Park High School in Kansas City, Missouri. She is transgender. She is the second transgender girl to be selected Homecoming Queen. The first was Landon Patterson, eight years ago. As you might expect, several right-wing types took to social media to announce their opposition to the decision. Chaya Raichik, who writes on the Libs Of TikTok account on X, and everyone who took to social media to insist that they should have a say despite having no connection to the school gets a Twit Award. The Advocate has this story.

Mike Pence was asked a question at a town hall forum about how best to protect transgender youth from violence. He turned it around to how to protect transgender youth from “radical gender ideology.” For not caring about violence towards transgender children, and for twisting the topic of gender to insert it into the Bible in ways that it is not there in the original, Mike Pence gets a Twit Award. This story comes from The Advocate.

Marjorie Taylor Greene took to social media to encourage a group of students who overreacted to support a fellow student who thought she saw a transgender female in the girls’ restroom. The student who originally reported the incident has said that she is not sure of the identity of the person whom she saw, who may not be transgender. Nonetheless, Greene praised a video of hundreds of students walking out of Perkiomen Valley High School in Pennsylvania as a result of this incident. For encouraging prejudice, Marjorie Taylor Greene gets a Twit Award. LGBTQ Nation has this story.

When then-President Trump was interviewing General Mark Miley, before offering him the job as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he said that Secretary of Defense James Mattis “says you’re soft on transgenders. Are you soft on transgenders?” First off, “transgender” is not a noun, and therefore should not be pluralized. For asking not if he would follow an order forbidding transgender people from joining the military but instead asking if he harbors prejudice towards them, and for showing his own prejudice in the question he asked, former President Donald Trump gets a Twit Award. This story comes from The Advocate.

Two librarians in Kansas were fired when local politicians objected to what they described as a Pride display in the library. It turns out that the display in question was actually themed around autism awareness. For opposing the awareness of autism and neurodiversity because it seems to be too close to LGBTQ+ pride, the politicians behind this get a Twit Award. The Advocate reports that the librarians are suing to get their jobs back.