Michigan State University (MSU) is now offering an
"Unconditional
Love Fund" to its young
scholars…on one condition: a student must be a member of the LGBTQ
community in order to apply for the money. The fund’s purported purpose is
to “provide LGBTQIA2S+ Michigan State University students with flexible
assistance in a timely manner to address extraordinary and unexpected financial
hardships associated with their sexual and/or gender identity.” Selected
students will be given up to $500.
“Extraordinary and unexpected financial hardships
associated with their sexual and/or gender identity?”
Like what, paying for hormone “therapy” or genital
reconstruction surgery? Multi-colored hair dye? Outrageous outfits? Piercings
on every part of one’s body?
The fund is offered through Michigan State’s Gender
and Sexuality Campus Center and LGBTQIA2S+ students can apply for assistance
twice each academic year.
The rapidly diminishing ranks of heterosexual students
need not apply, of course. Apparently, they are incapable—or undeserving-- of
“unconditional love.”
Non-heterosexual students can also apply for financial
aid through Michigan State’s "Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgendered
(LBGT) Resource Center Endowment Fund," and via its "Queering
Racial Justice Summit Fund." Heterosexual students can pound sand. Unity!
Pass it on!
MSU’s Gender and Sexuality Campus Center also houses
"Transcend," described on the school’s Gender and
Sexuality Campus Center website as “A campus-wide caucus which seeks to build a
sense of community among MSU students who are transgender, nonbinary, and/or
gender non-conforming, as well as to defend
their rights and advocate for their specific social, educational, and cultural
needs.” The site is intended to “help combat the transphobia, cissexism,
transmisogyny, and isolation that these students frequently experience.”
(Transmisogyny? I had to look it up. Turns
out it’s: “dislike of or prejudice against transgender women.”)
The Site links to seven others, six of which
are dedicated to transgender support. Toward the bottom of the site, the
following message is displayed in bold: “Are we missing something?”
Yes. “Transgender women” aren’t women. Else there
would be no need for “transgender.”
The Merriam-Webster definition of “transcend” is as
follows:
1)
A : to rise above or go beyond
the limits of
B : to triumph over the
negative or restrictive aspects of : OVERCOME
C : to be prior to, beyond, and
above (the universe or material existence)
2) : to outstrip or outdo in some attribute, quality, or power
“To rise above, to
triumph, to be above or beyond (even the universe or material existence)?”
Clearly, many in the LGBTQIA2S+
community, and particularly in the trans movement, are not just fighting for
equal justice or battling “transmisogyny.” They believe they are special, more
equal than others. And are demanding everyone else recognize this, too.
Hat
tip: campusreform.org
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