May 18 Reads

I hope the Detroit News doesn't back down from the trans lobby going apeshit over publication of "Aimee" Stephens' birth name.  His birth  name was Anthony Stephens, and he grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Stephens grew up as Anthony Stephens in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Stephens initially wanted to become a pastor and spent a year in seminary, but felt a calling to the funeral home industry and comforting families through their most difficult hours, she said in an interview last year.

She married and divorced, then married again after reconnecting with a childhood friend, Donna. She moved to Michigan 20 years ago to be with her, settling in Metro Detroit.

Donna supported Stephens through her transition, as did most of her extended family, she said last year.

Michigan’s Aimee Stephens, flanked by wife Donna at left and ACLU attorney Ria Tabacco Mar, greets well-wishers outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday after the justices heard arguments in her case. Rally-goers outside the court chanted her name as she left the building.Buy Photo
Michigan’s Aimee Stephens, flanked by wife Donna at left and ACLU attorney Ria Tabacco Mar, greets well-wishers outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday after the justices heard arguments in her case. Rally-goers outside the court chanted her name as she left the building. (Photo: Melissa Nann Burke, The Detroit News)

But Stephens had difficulty finding work in the funeral home industry after her 2013 firing. She eventually got a position as an autopsy technician at the Detroit Medical Center's Sinai-Grace Hospital. She worked through the end of 2014, when her kidneys failed, and then retired.

Other publications have backed down, fearing the wrath of the Alphabet Soup lobby:

Following the death of Aimee Stephens — the transgender woman at the center of a high-profile LGBTQ discrimination case pending before the Supreme Court — a different name appeared in several news articles announcing that she had died Tuesday.

The New York Times, The Associated Press and the Detroit News were among the media outlets that published Stephens’ former legal name, the male name she had used prior to her gender transition in 2013. The publication of her previous name, colloquially referred to as “deadnaming,” drew swift and fierce reaction from LGBTQ rights groups and advocates.

These are truly People of the Lie.  If you dare publish anybody's birth name and that person claims to be the opposite sex, you are "deadnaming" them.

It's bullshit.
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A bunch of religious idiots conned a judge into granting an injunction against Oregon governor Kate Brown's COVID-19 policies.
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