Darryl George: Texas judge rules school district can restrict the length of male’s natural hair
CNN
This is what white heteroactivism gets you. Your very hair follicles are policed. White heterosexuality demands that all people must be in compliance with regulated sex and racial boundaries -- and those boundaries are set by white heterosexuals.
"Stenquist said it’s difficult to define “neutrality” in state code, "
Yeah no shit, ya dingus. Heteroactivism is when heterosexuals insist that cisgender heteronormative ways of being are best, and other ways of being must be rendered invisible, unintelligible, or irredeemable.
Family Values: The Ethics of Parent-Child Relationships
by Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift (2014)
"Family Values provides a major new theoretical account of the morality and politics of the family, telling us why the family is valuable, who has the right to parent, and what rights parents should—and should not—have over their children."
Activists link US nonprofit to anti-LGBTQ laws in Africa. The group says it’s only promoting ‘family values’ | CNN
"Groups like Galck+, an LGBTQ+ umbrella organization in Kenya, are inundated with distress calls day and night."
"Family Watch International ... campaigns against teaching young people about LGBTQ issues, sexual health, other areas it regards as a threat to the 'natural family' "
"Focus on the Family—it's hard to overstate its influence in global Evangelicalism"
"It was these relationships with authority and submission that were the key way that people learned to live out their lives as Christians within this world. It meant that defending that family in the political sphere became widely understood as a way to defend God as well."
Training the Porous Body: Evangelicals and the Ex‐Gay Movement
Bjork‐James, 2018
American Anthropologist
"evangelical rejection of LGBT individuals and practices is rooted not simply in prejudice but also in a culturally specific notion of personhood that requires Christian bodies to orient themselves to the divine."
The American Right Hasn’t Adopted Children’s Rights — They’ve Redefined and Weaponized Them
R. L. Stollar for Religion Dispatches (2023)
"a new approach to children’s rights has emerged. While portions of the American Right have begun to embrace the language of children’s rights, they are using that language to promote their anti-child agenda. These efforts have been successful on many fronts..."
Christian Indoctrination in Homeschooling
A Bit Fruity by matt bernstein
"The number of kids being homeschooled today is more than double of what it was four years ago, and nobody is making the rules. While the religious right is convinced that political indoctrination is rampant in public schools, we take a look at where teaching is actually flying off the rails."
"...defending the heteropatriarchal family provides valorized gendered identities for their participants along with a moral justification for prejudice, particularly through a discourse of defending women and children from feminism and queerness."
Xi says China's women must start 'new trend of family' | Reuters
Doing a good job in women's work is not only related to women's own development, he said but also related to "family harmony, social harmony, national development and national progress".
From the left, the best attempts to date to explain conservatives’ rigorous opposition to trans rights have largely highlighted the strain that trans identity places on the family unit. Writing in Parapraxis, Max Fox spelled out the tension: “In the crisis of children’s gender self-determination,” he writes, “the family is stripped of its pretension to cohere the totality of social meaning.” And it’s true that the anti-trans crusaders portray themselves as defenders of the family, particularly in their strategic use of the term “parental rights.” But if the organic tension between trans self-determination and family control over social life could have come to a head at any point, it’s not clear why political actors with deep pockets and meticulous plans for power chose to gin up moral outrage at the particular moment they did. In fact, the posture that Moms for Liberty and likeminded organizations adopt—defending the family—disguises the actual offensive maneuver that the right is undertaking. A close look at the anti-trans bills across the US demonstrates that the purpose of defending “parental rights” isn’t, in fact, to empower parents at all: it’s to disempower educators, health-care workers, and the other adults who make the lives of trans children more possible.
The strategic slippage at the heart of the anti-trans campaigns—from trans child to protective caretaker to adult worker—clarifies why and for what purpose the architects of the panic organized their crusade. The anti-trans panic is part of a calculated political campaign, assembling a coalition of disparate forces with overlapping interests and plans. Those plans include destabilizing bulwarks of working-class power, obliterating free and universal public education, privatizing critical elements of social life, reinforcing racial segregation, and pulverizing institutions that can and often do produce oppositional political consciousness. And, because our opponents know what they’re doing, it starts with attacks on organized workers.
“The recurrent theme seems to be local government using the wealth of the private family home to attack the private family, channeling money to teachers, librarians, etc. who want to undermine the authority of parents.”
Trying to follow these connections lands you in a human-centipede chain wherein Russian oligarchs dump dark money into U.S. evangelical think tanks and the evangelicals send that money back over the Atlantic to fund TERFs. A law banning teachers from mentioning homosexuality in the classroom appears first in Hungary then in Florida.
"These lawsuits were never really intended as malpractice suits at all. They articulate no legal justification for treating gender-affirming care differently, or even any acknowledgement that this is what they’re proposing to do."
"The oppositions ... reveal how Israeli heteroactivist discourses invoke familism, pro-natalism, religious sentiments, Zionist narratives, and collective trauma, in their attempts to recentralise the heteronormative Jewish family."
The parent's rights movement is no longer just white supremacy, it's heteroactivism.
Here's an example. This is a group of Muslim parents who demand religious control over their children at all times to the extent that they demand a right for their children to practice ostracism against LGBTQ+ people, even though the Muslim children may themselves be queer.
"care, love and gratitude for the shared home are core elements used in heteroactivist negotiations, with contextually established notions of gender equality and sexual rights as national values."
"The home as an exclusive and exclusionary space."
If you want to understand the parent's rights movement, you should read this ⬆️.
Abstract snippet:
"The analysis reveals how care, love and gratitude for the shared home are core elements used in heteroactivist negotiations, with contextually established notions of gender equality and sexual rights as national values. It also demonstrates how the home, which these actors seek to cherish and protect, takes shape as an exclusive and exclusionary space."