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Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal

The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.

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Turning the tables on an advocacy group that has long supported victims of pedophile priests, lawyers for the Roman Catholic Church and priests accused of sexual abuse in two Missouri cases have gone to court to compel the group to disclose more than two decades of e-mails that could include correspondence with victims, lawyers, whistle-blowers, witnesses, the police, prosecutors and journalists.

The group, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, known as SNAP, is neither a plaintiff nor a defendant in the litigation. But the group has been subpoenaed five times in recent months in Kansas City and St. Louis, and its national director, David Clohessy, was questioned by a battery of lawyers for more than six hours this year. A judge in Kansas City ruled that the network must comply because it “almost certainly” had information relevant to the case.

The network and its allies say the legal action is part of a campaign by the church to cripple an organization that has been the most visible defender of victims, and a relentless adversary, for more than two decades. “If there is one group that the higher-ups, the bishops, would like to see silenced,” said Marci A. Hamilton, a law professor at Yeshiva University and an advocate for victims of clergy sex crimes, “it definitely would be SNAP. And that’s what they’re going after. They’re trying to find a way to silence SNAP.”

Lawyers for the church and priests say they cannot comment because of a judge’s order. But William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, a church advocacy group in New York, said targeting the network was justified because “SNAP is a menace to the Catholic Church.”

Mr. Donohue said leading bishops he knew had resolved to fight back more aggressively against the group: “The bishops have come together collectively. I can’t give you the names, but there’s a growing consensus on the part of the bishops that they had better toughen up and go out and buy some good lawyers to get tough. We don’t need altar boys.”
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The New York Times, “Church Puts Pressure on Abuse Victims’ Group.”

William Donohue, that fucking attack dog and pig incarnate, speaks his defense of the Catholic Church with no irony whatsoever. What a vile dirtbag, just as vile as priests who sexually assault children.

(via inothernews)

Monsters are real, ya’ll.

Via Unicorn Booty: "A desperate plea from an 11-year-old transgender girl in Germany has lit up the interwebs today. Her father, backed by an anti-gay organization, intends to commit her to a mental institution in the impossible hope of changing her gender identity through internationally denounced quack medicine." Click through to sign a Change.org petition.

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(Source: inothernews)

It seems there is some confusion about the “rules” regarding reporting of child abuse/rape

myeyesarebright:

so let me clarify. These can be considered rules of the world, and they supersede the rules of whatever organization you may also be governed by.

When you personally witness the abuse/rape of a child, you should do the following, every time without exception:

Stop the abuse immediately. Use any means necessary. Get the abuser to stop what they are doing immediately via assault, screaming, hysterics, whatfuckingever you have to do.

Take the child. Physically take the child out of the presence of the abuser. Rightfuckingnow. Do not wait, do not hesitate. Scoop the child up in your arms, and leave immediately.

CALL THE POLICE. RIGHTFUCKINGNOW.

If you suspect the abuse/rape of a child, but do not personally witness it, you should do the following at the very first suspicion:

Call the police. RIGHTFUCKINGNOW.

Alert other hierarchical authorities.

Alert the child’s parents/guardians.

If you have done all of the above, and no action results, TAKE MATTERS INTO YOUR OWN HANDS. DO SOMETHING, ANYTHING.

I hope this clears up any confusion. Please remember these rules of the world supercede any other rules you may be governed by or may operate under. These are rules of decent human beings.

^^^^^^^^^

inothernews:

This one goes out to all of the fucking idiots at Penn State who are still so very much angry that Joe Paterno was fired.

Wake the fuck up, people, and stop talking about your precious JoePa’s tarnished reputation, because FUCK YOU, YOUR SCHOOL AND YOUR FOOTBALL PROGRAM PROTECTED A CHILD RAPIST AND PEDOPHILE, AND THAT IS WHAT YOU SHOULD BE RIOTING ABOUT.

Anyone defending these men automatically makes these crimes a part of their own legacy as well.

An estimated 100,000 to 300,000 American-born children are sold for sex each year.

hoaxzine:

klkocher:

Learn how organizations in Oakland are changing things: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/us/24oakland.html?ref=world

the average age of entry into sex trafficking in the US is 13. the average age of entry in sex trafficking in baltimore (where i, rachel, currently live) is 11.