afro-perspectives: ONE EXTREME OR THE OTHER ON THE SAME ISSUE: While UGANDA follows many other African countries and makes the LGBTQ lifestyle a CRIME punishable by IMPRISONMENT or DEATH, the U.S. is following the EU and Canada by making it a CRIME to 'MISGENDER' someone and not call them by their 'PREFERRED PRONOUN'

🤔Some legit questions for the LGBTQ folks in 'the West'...❓

• If anti-LGBTQ views are as many have claimed to be -- exclusively a product of so-called 'Western', colonialist, white supremacist ideology -- then what is driving all these African countries with primarily black leadership to be FAR more intolerant and extreme than the West in their approach to your community?

• In light of the extreme laws Uganda and many other countries in Africa and around the world have regarding your "identity" and with a mind to the "solidarity" you surely would claim to have with what these people are suffering under such laws -- how can you seriously keep believing that people in your societies - most of whom may simply disagree with your views, but certainly don't hate you nor want to see you harmed in any way - nevertheless somehow still need to be labeled as "violent" and must have their language legislated just for supposedly "misgendering" you by not using your "preferred pronouns" or submitting to other such comparatively petty and overly entitled demands?

• Could it be possible that YOUR extreme behavior is feeding into -- and off of -- OTHER PEOPLE'S extreme behavior (such as the sort seen right now in Uganda) in regards to how different people think, feel and behave around this issue? In other words -- could you be OPPOSAMES?

Just asking! Hope y'all give these questions some serious consideration...

Uganda passes a law making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ

REUTERS

KAMPALA, March 21 (Reuters) - Uganda's parliament passed a law on Tuesday making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ, handing authorities broad powers to target gay Ugandans who already face legal discrimination and mob violence.

More than 30 African countries, including Uganda, already ban same-sex relations. The new law appears to be the first to outlaw merely identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ), according to rights group Human Rights Watch.

Supporters of the new law say it is needed to punish a broader array of LGBTQ activities, which they say threaten traditional values in the conservative and religious East African nation.

In addition to same-sex intercourse, the law bans promoting and abetting homosexuality as well as conspiracy to engage in homosexuality.

Violations under the law draw severe penalties, including death for so-called aggravated homosexuality and life in prison for gay sex. Aggravated homosexuality involves gay sex with people under the age of 18 or when the perpetrator is HIV positive, among other categories, according to the law.

"Our creator God is happy (about) what is happening ... I support the bill to protect the future of our children," lawmaker David Bahati said during debate on the bill.

"This is about the sovereignty of our nation, nobody should blackmail us, nobody should intimidate us."

The legislation will be sent to President Yoweri Museveni to be signed into law.

Frank Mugisha, a prominent Ugandan LGBTQ activist denounced the legislation as draconian.

"This law is very extreme and draconian ... it criminalises being an LGBTQ person, but also they are trying to erase the entire existence of any LGBTQ Ugandan," he said.

Museveni has not commented on the current proposal but he has long opposed LGBTQ rights and signed an anti-LGBTQ law in 2013 that Western countries condemned before a domestic court struck it down on procedural grounds.

In recent weeks, Uganda authorities have cracked down on LGBTQ people after religious leaders and politicians alleged students were being recruited into homosexuality in schools.

This month, authorities arrested a secondary school teacher in the eastern district of Jinja over accusations of "grooming of young girls into unnatural sex practices".

She was subsequently charged with gross indecency and is in prison awaiting trial.

The police said on Monday they had arrested six people accused of running a network that was "actively involved in the grooming of young boys into acts of sodomy".

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The Left has opened up a new front in the culture war over transgenderism: punishing children who do not adhere to the tenets of left-wing gender ideology.

In Virginia, the Fairfax County School Board has decided that suspension is the appropriate punishment for “malicious misgendering” and “malicious deadnaming.” In classrooms as early as the fourth grade, if students use the wrong pronoun or wrong name when referring to a classmate, they will be forced to miss valuable school days by a school board that thinks it has the right to control what students say.

This is not an issue limited to northern Virginia. In Kiel, Wisconsin, a school district opened up a sexual harassment investigation into three eighth graders who “misgendered” a classmate. Those students referred to a classmate as a girl rather than the grammatically incorrect “they/them” pronouns the student demanded to be referred to with. The school district sought to destroy those three students for not speaking the way the district demanded.

The district ended up backing down from its investigation but insisted that it was the real victim. “As we move forward, we want to acknowledge the strain on our administrators and staff who have been criticized for simply carrying out the functions of their job as set out in District policy,” the district said. NPR agreed, arguing that the backlash to accusing eighth graders of sexual harassment for “misgendering” is part of some pattern of abuse against transgender children.

With Fairfax’s decision to start suspending students over using the wrong pronouns, we are seeing a different pattern. School boards and administrators are pumping gender ideology into schools across the country. In many cases , teachers and administrators have encouraged children to begin socially transitioning to the opposite gender without their parents' knowledge. President Joe Biden has promised to enforce transgender ideology in schools and has vowed to punish states that prevent doctors from physically and chemically altering children who claim to be transgender.

Now, students who do not humor these things and commit the grave offense of saying “she” instead of “they” are being targeted, as happened in Kiel and is now punishable in Fairfax County. This is the next step for a movement that demands total compliance, and it will continue to bleed into other school districts until parents put their foot down.

☝University of Toronto professors Jordan Peterson and A.W. Peet discuss the use of alternate pronouns on campus for those who say words like 'he, she, him or her' don't represent them accurately☝

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