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Good heavens!!!!
And there we were worrying about a reddit ban...
The thought of 30 yrs in the slammer kinda puts that in perspective
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I wonder what the enticement for that was...
Note that the United States is consistently one of the biggest donors of bilateral aid to Dominican Republic, and such aid commonly comes with strings attached. Ten or so years ago the UK tried to tie aid to LGBT equality legislation (not sure how far that went... it seemed to die out of the news quite quickly)
This is how I fear gender ideology will begin to creep into Caribbean nations. There's been no public conversation about it according to the article so seems like it really is being driven mostly by foreign powers. I've noticed that Egale Canada and others are already in the English-speaking Caribbean trying to capture institutions. I've been trying to raise the alarm to friends and family there but they probably think I'm overreacting. Seeing this now, apparently anything is possible.
Sorry to say that creep is already well underway, in the Carribean as elsewhere... Check out ILGA World (https://ilga.org/), funded by Jon Stryker's ARCUS foundation. It's one of the fastest growing and now most extensive funding networks seeding small grants to NGOs everywhere (including the Carribean) as enticement to add "trans" to their agendas.... The organisation presents itself as something long-historied, but nearly all of its membership growth has occurred over the past 5 years. What it is actually is a once-respectable UK Gay and Lesbian Rights organisation (used to be based in Brighton, as ILGA it's now headquartered in Geneva) that's been taken over by global funders of the gender identity / queer agenda (much like Stonewall was, but now with a global remit). The website lists ILGA "member organisations" by country
Wow that really scares me now, thank you for the info and I'll look more into it. I hope this topples before they manage to get anything written into laws in more countries.
This is how a Hungary-tier backlash happens, forcing all this on an unwilling public with no public debate.
I know that the administrators of U.S. aid to Africa have had a history of denying women abortion or even contraception as a condition of receiving that aid.
Interesting point; thank you
I read the article and thought: WTF - Why ffs?
And you have offered a potential answer to the "why" q
Which does seem kinda plausible
I have friends who work in international development who say donor conditionalities related to SOGI are creeping in everywhere. SOGI = sexual orientation and gender identity, the acronym increasingly used in place of the old LGBT terminology in the development "aid" context. Like the "T" in the LGBTQI+ umbrella, it seems the main SOGI focus is the "gender identity" part.
Bev Jackson takes SOGI apart quite nicely in an article written last month
https://thecritic.co.uk/who-took-the-so-out-of-sogi/