The city council of Palm Springs, California will be
entirely comprised of LGBT community members after two new candidate-elects are
installed in December. Lisa Middleton, a publicly trans “woman,” and Christy
Holstege, an acknowledged bisexual woman, won the two open seats on the City
Council in the field of six candidates in Tuesday’s election. Middleton made
history as the first openly trans candidate elected to a nonjudicial office in
California’s history. Both women were endorsed by entities called Equality
California and Victory Fund.
Rick
Zbur, executive director of Equality California, stated: “By becoming the first
out transgender person to be elected to a nonjudicial office in California,
Lisa is paving the way for others to follow in her footsteps in California and
across the nation. Her first place finish out of a field of 6 candidates
demonstrates that a glass ceiling for transgender people who want to serve in
elected office was not only broken, but was shattered in Palm Springs. With the
election of Lisa and Christy Holstege, the city of Palm Springs will now be
represented by a city council that is 100 percent LGBTQ.” He added, “Tonight’s
wins by Lisa Middleton in Palm Springs and other transgender candidates in
Minneapolis and Virginia are a beacon of hope that voters have embraced values
of equality and inclusion.”
Aisha
Moodie-Mills (!), president and CEO of Victory Fund, issued a press release
stating: “Trans people remain severely underrepresented in government nationwide,
so Lisa’s victory is important not just for Palm Springs or California, but for
the entire country. Now more than ever, we need trans voices in the halls of
power because they humanize our lives, change the debate and move forward more
inclusive legislation. Lisa’s historic election victory will be remembered as
an important milestone in the movement for LGBTQ equality, and will undoubtedly
inspire other trans people to run for office and win.”
The
Palm Springs City Council will now include three gay men, one transgender woman
and one bisexual woman. This is where we are headed as a nation. There is so
much diversity now, there isn’t any diversity. Diversity has become ubiquitous. In so doing, it has revealed
itself to be a lie. Certain minority groups have been so successful in their
fight for acceptance that certain other groups are no longer accepted.
Progressives
often claim that various organizations, occupational groups, and the like,
should “look like America” when they bemoan the fact that fewer blacks or women
or gays may be head coaches or Supreme Court justices than their proportionate
share of the population at large. (Of course, if a black or woman or gay
Supreme Court nominee happens to be conservative, they will fight tooth and
nail to keep them from getting the job).
Yet, they are never concerned about the fact that Caucasians are drastically
underrepresented in the National Football League or the NBA, for example. Nor
are they upset that conservatives make up only five to ten percent, or less, of
college professors, journalists or Hollywood types, even when it is well
documented that they have been the victims of deliberate discrimination in this
regard. Shouldn’t there be roughly the same percentage of conservative
professors, “journalists,” and actors in these institutions, publicly funded or
not, as there are conservatives in the overall population? That would be about thirty percent.
What is
certain is that the Palm Springs City Council is no longer representative of the town as a whole, unless every last
citizen is gay, transgendered, or bisexual. And, if that’s the case, we’re
going to have to start calling straight people “queer.”
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