Brody's Scribbles... TVC Executive Director Andrea Lafferty Launches Ad hominem Attack On Bilerico Project's Dr. Weiss

By Brody Levesque (Washington DC) Apr 23rd | As a journalist, I have long maintained that my personal opinions, bias, and perspectives should never colour my reporting. The standards & ethics of my profession are things that I hold dear and am of the mindset are crucial to rendering service to the public when I am covering the news.  Op-Eds, on the other hand, are fair game for me whipping out my crayons & going to town in the colouring books of debate, discussion & discourse, especially on the subject of LGBT equality rights. Afterall, I am Gay.

To say that I am offended by the response by Traditional Values Coalition director Andrea Lafferty to an Op-Ed run in the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call to Dr. Jillian Weiss's brilliantly argued and articulate piece would be massive understatement.

I'm past offence at this stage working towards shaking in anger at the unwarranted ad hominem attack on Weiss by Lafferty. Rather than engage in a discussion of pro's & cons, facts, figures, and historically substantiated details with Dr. Weis, Lafferty resorts to transphobic/homophobic discourse that has no place in the arena of public debate on issues that affect citizens of the American republic.

Earlier today I published Dr, Weiss's thoughtful Op-Ed essay, now, please compare hers to this from Lafferty on the TVC website:

'Transgender' Man Attacks TVC

April 22, 2010 – It seems that the Traditional Values Coalition's expose of what the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) actually does has upset a few people.

Dr. Jillian Weiss is a man who has lived as a woman since 1997. This is a truly troubled individual. Whether he has actually gone through a complete surgical procedure to remove his genitals is a mystery. He may be living as a she-male hybrid. However, readers would never know he is a transgender based on his published bio.
He is also a writer for the LGBT Bilerico Project, which regularly tracks TVC's opposition to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender political agenda. In addition, he's a professor of law and society at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Weiss has a mental disorder known as a Gender Identity Disorder, which the American Psychiatric Association lists in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders. One of his most recent rants against Traditional Values Coalition was over TVC Executive Director Andrea Lafferty's commentary published in Roll Call on April 20.
In that commentary, Lafferty pointed out that if the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is signed into law, 38 state laws will be overridden putting transgender teachers in classrooms, and every public school will have to use the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to prevent parents from knowing if their students are being taught by transgender teachers. HIPAA protects the "privacy" of these individuals, but not the children who will be victimized by them.

The use of HIPAA has already occurred in California, which has an ENDA-like law that makes sexual orientation and gender identity into protected classes. In 2008, students and parents were outraged to learn that a female music teacher at Foxboro Elementary School in Vacaville, California, underwent mutilating surgery and returned to school as a man.

What Weiss failed to report is that parents were not informed about the bizarre so-called sex change in advance so they could remove their kids from her class. In addition, the kids were required to refer to her as "Mister."

The school district said that it could not tell parents about this she-male's so-called sex change because of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
"Privacy" trumps parental rights. Yet, a so-called transition from one sex to another is not a private act. It is a public act and parents should have the right to be informed about it before a male teacher returns to school wearing a dress – or a female teacher comes back to school sporting a mustache or beard.
HIPAA was created to protect the health privacy records of individuals. It includes confidentiality on mental health issues. Mental health privacy is exempted when it involves the abuse of children or when law enforcement needs to identify a suspect.
Fortunately, 23 students from 15 different families transferred out of the music class into a physical education class.

Removing a child from a class taught by a she-male hybrid will not always be permitted if ENDA passes. In fact, children will most likely be trapped in classes taught by she-males or female-to-male transgenders.
The mentally disordered woman's "right" to operate under the delusion that she is a male was protected by the California school district; the right of the children to be taught by real men and real women was violated.

In another case in Batavia, New York, parents had to battle school officials in order to get their children out of the class of a she-male hybrid. Weiss describes the school officials as being cooperative with parents, providing them with the option of removing their children. In fact, they were hostile to parents from the beginning. They only relented when threatened with legal action. Weiss is misrepresenting this serious case. TVC has inside knowledge of this case; Weiss does not.

The plan truth is that individuals who think they are the opposite sex, have the mental illness, Gender Identity Disorder (GID). Weiss clearly has this disorder as do others who claim to be the opposite sex.

Weiss claims there's nothing in HIPAA that prevents schools from notifying parents of a teacher's so-called sex change. But, as noted, HIPAA has already been used in California as the reason why parents weren't notified.
School districts will err on the side of caution to avoid being sued or fined by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) if they reveal the so-called sex change of a teacher or transfer a cross-dressing teacher out of a classroom away from children. Now that lesbian lawyer Chai Feldblum is on the EEOC, she will enforce ENDA with a vengeance. Why? Because she was the primary author of ENDA.

ENDA will make it impossible for schools to consider parents or children in their policies involving teachers with Gender Identity Disorders (transvestites, cross-dressers, transsexuals, she-male hybrids).

The best Weiss and his allies can do to defend ENDA is trying to link Traditional Values Coalition as a hate group. In his argument against TVC, Weiss brings up the red herring that our organization is listed as a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

This leftist group has also listed Rep. Michele Bachmann (MN), and Fox News hosts Glenn Beck and Judge Andrew Napolitano as "haters." SPLC has gone after Latin Mass Catholic groups as being haters. TVC nor any of these individuals are on any FBI watch list as dangerous to society.

This charge is supposed to carry some sort of credibility among leftists, but the fact is that the SPLC is long known to be a leftwing hate group that smears any organization opposed to liberalism, illegal immigration or the LGBT agenda. Suggesting the SPLC has any credibility is as absurd as quoting members of the Flat Earth Society.
The SPLC can't seem to locate leftist hate groups. They don't list the Communist Party, USA, the Workers World Party, Code Pink, MoveOn.org, Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, People for the American Way or other leftist groups as spewing hatred from their web sites or from their leaders. Several of these groups openly seek the violent overthrow of our nation.

The SPLC is the group that wrote a memo used by Obama's Homeland Security Department claiming that veterans and pro-lifers were dangerous to national security.

Actually, it is a badge of honor for TVC to be listed by the SPLC as a "hate group." It proves we're effective in challenging liberalism, socialism, and the LGBT agenda.

On April 22, Weiss wrote a letter to the editor to Roll Call over my article. In it, he rehashed his previous misinformation and claim that TVC is a hate group. Tragically, Weiss will continue to live under the delusion that he is a woman, while pushing his political agenda on our nation's children.

The entire gist of Lafferty's arguments & rhetoric is all based on genital rage and religious claptrap fueled by phobic behaviours that are designed entirely to degenerate the entire sum into a lengthy tirade against Dr. Weiss personally. 

Lafferty offered virtually not one iota of respect for Dr. Weiss's professional credentials, education, or standing in the community. Instead, she denigrated Dr. Weiss in a completely disreputable and borderline libelous way.

I have personally spoken to Dr. Jillian Weiss on numerous occasions and have found her to be quite the opposite of the portrait painted by the TVC director. In fact, if Dr. Weiss is suffering from a so-called mental disorder, as a veteran journalist of over thirty years, that's news to me as I'm fairly proficient at spotting something that is so obvious.

Lafferty has in effect consigned Dr. Weiss to the ashbin of the freaks of society without even a modicum of decorum nor any even small drop of so-called "Christian" compassion & understanding. No, instead we're treated to the 'real' face of these so called "Family-Friendly" Christian advocates, they are hateful, spiteful, and unable to express themselves in any other way other than by launching personal attacks as apparently, intelligent articulate argument & discussions are beyond them and their rather limited capabilities to be decent human beings.