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[moominmuppet]

A possible attempt to enstate a gag order within the US similar to what we have outside the US -- I'm not seeing enough backup on this to be sure about what's going on, and I'm on every reproductive rights list known to maude. My suspicion is that they're trying it (because they're constantly trying this crap), but that it'll come up against the same legal barriers it has in the past (as I understand it, and anyone feel _very_ free to correct me if I'm wrong, these attempts have been successfully fought on First Amendment grounds in the past, at least within the US). Again, this is from hazy recollections of mine, and I'm posting this as much to get feedback from other folks on my friends list as to "pass the alert".

According to The Advocate, statistics show that lesbian and bi female teens are 2-3 times as likely to get pregnant as straight girls. Likewise, almost twice as many gay and bi male teens have gotten a girl pregnant than their straight counterparts.
Which shows that sexuality in the younger LGBT generation is very fluid and labels... are only labels.
Callen Lorde's free program, Health Outreach to Teens (HOTT) is now receiving federal funding for free STD testing and contraception for queer girl teens who feel much more comfortable receiving GYN services in an LGBT setting than in a place like Planned Parenthood or by a family doctor. Callen Lorde is an LGBT Health Center in Chelsea http://www.callen-lorde.org/

Nifty things we can learn from the Platypus genome

Pretty scary WTFery on the work group assigned to review gender identity disorder for the DSM-V

Interesting little snippet from SciAm: How is the gender of some reptiles determined by temperature? (the info about interaction of genome and temperature was news to me, although I knew about the basic phenomenon)

And as long as I'm posting links, this is an older post of Heron's, but the studies and results are fascinating enough to be worth a relink

Comments

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

If I'm not misreading the stats here, is this queer on queer "magic gay"ing?

I've been trying to make sense of this, but I think I'm humor-impaired. Help? I do understand the framing, just not how it applies in this case.

[calebbullen.livejournal.com]

well it doesn't really hold up since I was misreading the stats. It looked like the initial mention was reporting the total number as if it was percentage greater than the heteros which would be a gross exaggeration.

To me it looked like both populations were actually about the same.

A complaint about the magic ___ trope and prejudice in general is that it makes ____ out to be astoundingly different. Normally this is thought of as a bad thing.

So if the advocate was making it seem like its target audience was wildly different and it wasn't, and it looked like that's what they were doing, that's a bit of the magic gay from a place one wouldn't expect.

I'm sure some part of that didn't need to be over explained but I wasn't sure which part I wasn't clear about the first go round.