#Lyman High School yearbook

[zinniajones]

Gender Analysis present our remarks at the Seminole County Public Schools board meeting addressing the censorship of LGBTQ+ students in the Lyman High School yearbook.

This is the two-page spread at issue. Several speakers from Moms for Liberty, Turning Point Action, and other extremists called the school staff pedophiles, called trans children demons, said their parents are groomers, and accused the board of advancing the agenda of Satan. Those were their objections to the following two pages, which are now censored and removed:

Our remarks are reproduced below. Also refer to www.floridaban.com for the referenced materials.

HEATHER: Hi, I'm Heather McNamara. I'm a parent of two Seminole County children. One's a graduate, very proud of him. I want to talk about the past for a second, because none of this is new, it's old trash. I really hope the kids here know that -- this is not new.

I grew up as many of us here did in the 80’s and 90’s, and back then, adults did not talk about LGBT stuff with kids. They were so worried about our freaking innocence, okay, and when Ellen DeGeneres came out on network television there was a huge outcry. The homophobic Defense of Marriage Act was passed, I don't even want to talk about that. Parents and children cheered. Adults said ‘God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve’, and ‘you're not gay, everyone gets curious’. Trans people weren't even discussed except on Jerry Springer, which was horrible.

I didn't know many queer kids growing up. At my high school, there was only one openly gay kid and his life was a living hell. We had a gym teacher that we were all pretty sure was a lesbian, but nobody was allowed to talk about that, especially not her. I think she was afraid for her job. Is that what we want to do again?

It was a dark time, so most of us hid ourselves. And you know what, I was exactly what some of you want your kids to be. I was afraid even to think about what I might be. I left high school believing I could live as a straight person – I think most of the rest of us did.

20 years passed, and I was able to reconnect with a lot of kids I went to high school with on social media. Scores of us have come out, because it didn't work. Because whatever you complainants may think, whatever your parental disapproval, just isn't powerful enough. Threats of hell and demons are not scary enough, and an old stupid book, a thousand times translated, and even a government isn't convincing enough to change who somebody is. Don't be your kid's first bullies. Thank you.

BOARD: Order. Order, please. Next speaker.

ZINNIA: Hi, I'm Zinnia Jones, she/her – sorry for the bad handwriting. Heather McNamara is my wife, she's crying right now because of this. I'm a proud mother of a child at SCPS and a graduate. And I'm a transgender woman. I'm 34 years old, I've been doing this for a decade. You call that a phase? I am the ‘gender ideology’ – here I stand. We are many.

We are many!

Board members, restore the censored pages of your LGBT students to their yearbook. Make this right. Calling us groomers is a historical blood libel that leads to pogroms of minorities. To kids and parents everywhere, I'll show you exactly how to stop this. Extremist groups are lying to you here about trans people being too mentally incompetent to know our own genders, and they were lying about us when they said that being trans is a contagion we're spreading to other people. That's genocidal rhetoric.

Who is responsible? The Christian nationalist legal group Alliance Defending Freedom just ordered those talking points as a legal argument from a hate group in Gainesville called the ‘American College of Pediatricians’. They are a fake group, they are not the American Academy of Pediatrics. They are not mainstream, they are about a hundred people – about 12 core members.

The Alliance Defending Freedom ordered those talking points. The talking points came first, the evidence was an afterthought, just like Big Tobacco hiring experts to manufacture doubt that smoking causes cancer. Go read the Southern Poverty Law Center today. Go read FloridaBan.com today, to see their actual documents we uploaded where they planned and workshopped these anti-trans talking points themselves.

This ends now!

I want these queer and trans kids busting open these conspiracies against their lives in the pages of that yearbook. That's journalism. You're only coping with the fallout of this because of a governor who's faced allegations of committing acts of torture against detainees at Guantanamo who were later freed. That is not political, that's the Geneva Convention. Torture is a war crime. [mic is cut] Committing torture would make someone a war criminal. Is he even following the law?

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Florida school district caves to anti-LGBTQ+ group over yearbook pages

A Florida school district is facing backlash for offering to remove or refund yearbooks that featured two pages dedicated to LGBTQ+ students and their gender identity terms. The yearbook staff at Lyman High School in Seminole County said they intended to be more inclusive and fair by highlighting the experiences and perspectives of queer students in their 256-page publication. The two pages…

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LONGWOOD, Fla. (AP) — Yearbooks at a central Florida high school won't be distributed until images of students holding rainbow flags and a “love is love” sign while protesting the state's so-called “Don't Say Gay” law can be covered up.

District officials said they don't want anyone thinking that the school supported the students' walkout.

#stopthestickers

#WeWillNotBeErased

Lyman High School, Seminole County, Florida

[phlve]

Myers on Introverted Feeling Types

Value, above all, harmony in the inner life of feeling.

Are best at individual work involving personal values — in art, literature, science, psychology, or the perception of needs.

Have feelings that are deep but seldom expressed, because inner tenderness and passionate conviction are both masked by reserve and repose.

Maintain independence from the judgment of others, being bound by inner moral law.

Direct judgment inwardly toward keeping all lesser values subordinate to the greater.

Have a strong sense of duty and faithfulness to obligations, but no desire to impress or influence others.

Are idealistic and loyal, capable of great devotion to a loved person, purpose, or cause.

May use thinking judgment occasionally to help in winning a thinker's support of feeling aims, but is never permitted to oppose those aims.

Introverted Feeling Supported by Intuition

INFPs excel in fields that deal with possibilities for people, such as counseling, teaching, literature, art, science, research, and psychology.

The inclusion of science may be a surprise. It was to me. My father, Lyman J. Briggs, was director of the National Bureau of Standards, and we fully expected research scientists to be mainly INT like him, certainly not INF like my mother and myself. As it turned out, the INFs among the top researchers at the Bureau were indeed fewer than the INTs, but no less distinguished. Perhaps the enthusiasm generated by the feeling of an INF spurs intuition to reach a truth that analysis by thinking will confirm in due course.

INFPs usually have a gift for language. The high school senior class that was analyzed during the early validation of the Type Indicator included four INFP women. One was the editor of the school magazine and was voted by the class "most likely to succeed." One was editor of the yearbook, literary editor of the magazine, and valedictorian. The third was the winner of a four-year open scholarship and became the editor of her college paper. The fourth, who had the same combination of imagination and language but less ability to use it in the outer world, wrote haunting poetry in which she spoke for the "dreamers" who "drift across the horizons of the living.'

The literary tendency evident in this type derives from the combination of intuition and feeling. Intuition supplies imagination and insight, feeling supplies the urge to communicate and share, and the command of language is apparently a joint product of intuition's facility with symbols and feeling's artistic discrimination and taste. Thus, all four NF types should have the aptitude. However, the extravert types, ENFP and ENFJ, and even the introverted intuitives who extravert with feeling, INFJ, are likely to take a shortcut and do their communicating by the spoken word, as teachers, clergy, psychologists, and so on. Introverted feeling in INFPs is so reserved that they often prefer the written word as the way to communicate what they feel without making personal contact.

Introverted Feeling Supported by Sensing

ISFPs see the realities — the needs of the moment — and try to meet them. ISFP is one of only two types, out of all sixteen, who strongly prefer general medical practice, which involves them with the widest variety of human ills. They may also find a satisfactory outlet in fields that value taste, discrimination, and a sense of beauty and proportion. They excel in craftsmanship. They seem to have a special love of nature and sympathy for animals. They are much less articulate than the INFPs, and the work of their hands is usually more eloquent than anything they say.

They may be particularly fitted for work that requires both devotion and a great adaptability, as is the case of visiting nurses, who can never count on standard conditions but must grasp each new situation and revise their instructions to fit the present circumstances.

They consistently tend to underestimate and understate themselves. Probably ISFP is the most modest type. Anything ISFPs do well, they take for granted as no great achievement. They do not need St. Paul's injunction "not to think of themselves more highly than they ought to think." In most cases, they ought to think more highly than they do.

Source: Gifts Differing

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Florida School Board Reverses Plan to Censor “Don’t Say Gay” Page in Yearbook

Florida School Board Reverses Plan to Censor “Don’t Say Gay” Page in Yearbook

A Florida school board has decided that photos depicting student-led protests against an anti-LGBTQ law in the state will not be censored from a high school yearbook, reversing an action from the county superintendent. A page of the Lyman High School yearbook, located within the Seminole County School District, showcased how students left classrooms earlier this year to voice their collective…

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Lyman High School students claim victory in battle over ‘Don’t Say Gay’ yearbook photos

Lyman High School students claim victory in battle over ‘Don’t Say Gay’ yearbook photos

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – The yearbook controversy has come to an end. Lyman High School students will receive a complete yearbook — without covered photos and captions. The Seminole County Public Schools board voted unanimously Tuesday night to put disclaimer stickers in the yearbook instead of covering three photos from a student-led walkout with stickers. The Seminole County Public Schools…

[zinniajones]

Trigger warning for genocidal and exterminationist rhetoric by anti-LGBT extremists and hate groups in Seminole County, Florida.

In order of appearance:

Michael "Mikey" Sciarrino (Turning Point Action, Gays Against Groomers Florida, former secretary of Turning Point USA at UCF)

Mishelle Minella (Moms for Liberty Seminole County Chapter)

Joy Amy Stricker (Moms for Liberty Seminole County Chapter)

Zinnia Jones (Gender Analysis of Seminole County)

What this video is: This is the June 6, 2023 meeting of the Seminole County school board, with public comment on the ongoing issue of anti-LGBT hate groups in our community.

The extremist group Moms For Liberty recently complained to Seminole County Public Schools about a two-page yearbook spread by the LGBT students of Lyman High School.

The SCPS school board responded by recalling the yearbook, offering refunds, and blanking out the spread with white pages in its place.

That action, and the groups whose complaints led to that action, are now widely criticized by students, teachers, and parents as aggressively intolerant and disruptive to the harmony of our community. This is because the yearbook spread was neutral and inoffensive, containing definitions of words like "gay" and "transgender" that high school students would commonly see when reading any news outlet.

Regardless, a small number of outside extremists appeared at this meeting, and continued to make indefensible and disgusting attacks against students and their parents and teachers. The remarks excerpted in this video are transcribed below.

Transcript

MICHAEL SCIARRINO: Gender ideology is vastly inappropriate for school settings, which does have potential long-term ramifications down the road for a child. And conversation should only be had with their parent.

MISHELLE MINELLA: It's about schools encouraging the sexualization of minors. The number of individuals seeking treatments for gender identity and related issues has increased dramatically in recent years. The rates of identifying as non-binary appear linked to the abundance of local cultural enthusiasm as seen in the data, tremendous spikes in certain regions, far beyond what most social scientists feel is enduring. In other words, some of the identification is merely transitory and temporary.

JOY STRICKER: I hope that parents pull their children out of SCPS and consider school choice or homeschool options, because there are too many groomers and pedophiles working here. In conclusion, they/them is derived from Satan and demons. It originates from "my name is Legion, for we are many". Another fun fact is that Baphomet is a transgender Satanic deity.

ZINNIA JONES: I'm a proud mother of a child at SCPS and a graduate. And I'm a transgender woman. I'm 34 years old, I've been doing this for a decade. You call that a phase? I am the ‘gender ideology’ – here I stand. We are many.

We are many!

Board members, restore the censored pages of your LGBT students to their yearbook. Make this right. Calling us groomers is a historical blood libel that leads to pogroms of minorities. To kids and parents everywhere, I'll show you exactly how to stop this. Extremist groups are lying to you here about trans people being too mentally incompetent to know our own genders, and they were lying about us when they said that being trans is a contagion we're spreading to other people. That's genocidal rhetoric. Who is responsible?

The Christian nationalist legal group Alliance Defending Freedom just ordered those talking points as a legal argument from a hate group in Gainesville called the ‘American College of Pediatricians’. They are a fake group, they are not the American Academy of Pediatrics. They are not mainstream, they are about a hundred people – about 12 core members. The Alliance Defending Freedom ordered those talking points. The talking points came first, the evidence was an afterthought, just like Big Tobacco hiring experts to manufacture doubt that smoking causes cancer. Go read the Southern Poverty Law Center today. Go read FloridaBan.com today, to see their actual documents we uploaded where they planned and workshopped these anti-trans talking points themselves.

This ends now!

I want these queer and trans kids busting open these conspiracies against their lives in the pages of that yearbook. That's journalism. You're only coping with the fallout of this because of a governor who's faced allegations of committing acts of torture against detainees at Guantanamo who were later freed. That is not political, that's the Geneva Convention. Torture is a war crime. [mic is cut] Committing torture would make someone a war criminal. Is he even following the law?

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(Oh, and this was my first time going to one of these circus sideshows)