AFA of PA ACTION ALERT     

February 27, 2009

TransAction Day is Today!

If your school has a Gay Straight Alliance or GSA, the parent organization -- the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN) -- has an opportunity for that club to participate today.  It’s their newest ‘Day of Action’ – TransAction Day which is to ‘encourage dialogue’ on transgender issues.  Click here for more details and be sure to follow the “Resources” links on that page’s left sidebar.  Your reading will be a true eye opener as to what this organization’s agenda is. 

Political activism anyone?  Another agenda of GLSEN is to use the GSA for creating activists to further the homosexual/transgender cause.  This was taking place in central PA yesterday at Dickinson College.  Following is an article that was in the Patriot News.  And by the way, our tax dollars helped fund this activity and teachers who attended got Act 48 credit!  Click here to view the registration packet. 

Gay-Straight Alliance student summit in progress at Dickinson College

by RICK SELTZER, Of The Patriot-News

Thursday February 26, 2009, 2:27 PM

The LGBT Center Coalition of Central Pennsylvania and Dickinson College are holding a Gay-Straight Alliance Student Leadership Summit today at the college in Carlisle. Approximately 160 high school and college students from across Central Pennsylvania are attending along with faculty members from their schools.

The summit is broken into a series of workshops designed to help high school and college students who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning their own sexuality, and those who support them. The workshops included "Allies & Advocacy" sessions, panel discussions on religion and sexuality, and a workshop on HIV.

"Central Pennsylvania is a challenging place for LGBTQ youth," said Louis Marven, the director of administration and youth services at the LGBT Center Coalition. "We want to work toward being a culture where sexual preference, gender identity and expression are valued as components of diversity."

This is the second year the LGBT Center Coalition, which is based in Harrisburg, has held a student leadership summit. Harrisburg Area Community College hosted it last year.

"We became involved because we felt that we needed to advocate and be seen as an important resource for the LGBT community," said Paula Lima, the director of the Office of Diversity Initiatives at Dickinson College.

The summit is scheduled to end at 3:15 today.

ACTION NEEDED:

1.)    If your school has a GSA, click here for a list of Pennsylvania GSAs check to see if it plans on participating in the TransAction Day.  If so, ask the school what materials will be handed out (request copies of the materials be set aside for you to pick up) and whether any class time will be used to discuss transgenderism.

2.)    This USA Today article “explains” this convoluted issue of ‘gender identity’ – turns out they are confused too. 

3.)    If you don’t think giving your tax dollars to a homosexual activism training seminar is a good idea, contact your State Senator and State Representative and let them know.  Click here  for contact information – if you don’t know who your elected officials are, key in your nine-digit zip code in the upper right hand corner of this webpage.