{"id":92519,"date":"2024-04-14T17:54:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T00:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92519"},"modified":"2024-04-14T17:54:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T00:54:20","slug":"hip-hop-and-trans-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/04\/14\/hip-hop-and-trans-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip Hop and Trans Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <strong>Obama <\/strong>was running for president, talk radio legend <strong>Lynn Samuels <\/strong>(a devoted <strong>Hillary <\/strong>supporter) was asked if this was progress.&nbsp; After all, he was a black man.&nbsp; \u201cYeah, but he\u2019s still a man!\u201d&nbsp; You know how we\u2019ve all been praising <strong>Pope Francis <\/strong>for his progressive views?&nbsp; Yeah, but he\u2019s still a Pope.&nbsp; And that came through loud and clear this week when the <em>Vatican<\/em> released <strong><em>Dignitas Infinita <\/em><\/strong>(or <strong><em>Infinite Dignity<\/em><\/strong>) \u2013 a 20-page document that was personally approved by Pope Francis.&nbsp; In this doctrine, the <em>Vatican<\/em> denounces gender reassignment by saying, \u201cIt needs to be emphasized that biological sex and the sociocultural role of sex (gender) can be distinguished but not separated\u201d \u2013 whatever the hell that means.&nbsp; On the flip side, Franny does maintain his support for homosexuality.&nbsp; The report condemns \u201cthe fact that, in some places, not a few people are imprisoned, tortured, and even deprived of the good of life solely because of their sexual orientation\u201d. &nbsp;The <em>Catholic Church <\/em>also continues to oppose abortion, euthanasia, and even surrogacy.&nbsp; And this got me thinking \u2013 if <strong>Jesus <\/strong>was the son of God, then wasn\u2019t Mary kind of a surrogate?&nbsp; Unless some hanky-panky went on and Joseph just bought that whole \u201cimmaculate conception\u201d story.<\/p>\n<p>You wouldn\u2019t expect a related story from <strong><em>The Beastie Boys<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; But they\u2019ve revealed that <em>Rat Cage Records <\/em>was founded by <strong>Donna Lee Parsons <\/strong>\u2013 a trans woman who wanted to get surgery.&nbsp; She signed the <em>Beastie Boys <\/em>for their first shows and recordings.&nbsp; Knowing Donna wouldn\u2019t accept charity, the band gave her money that they said was royalties from their EP.&nbsp; She used the cash for gender reassignment surgery.&nbsp; That she died of colon cancer a year later I\u2019m sure cannot be linked back to the <em>Beastie Boys <\/em>\u2013 at least not in a court of law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Obama was running for president, talk radio legend Lynn Samuels (a devoted Hillary supporter) was asked if this was progress.&nbsp; After all, he was a black man.&nbsp; \u201cYeah, but he\u2019s still a man!\u201d&nbsp; You know how we\u2019ve all been praising Pope Francis for his progressive views?&nbsp; Yeah, but he\u2019s still a Pope.&nbsp; And that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92520,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92519\/revisions\/92520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}