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2020-01-28 Home Front: Culture Wars
'Billionaires and Big Pharma Are Bankrolling the Transgender-Industrial Complex
[PJ] Many Americans are absolutely flabbergasted by the sudden rise of the transgender movement. Immediately after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), Olympian Bruce Jenner was calling himself "Caitlyn" and activists were preaching a new understanding of gender that rejected age-old wisdom and basic biology. By 2016, Barack Obama was foisting this ideology on broad swaths of American society, as his Justice Department threatened North Carolina for protecting the privacy of women in public restrooms.
Useful 'Follow the Money' pyramid graphic attached.
Last week, Jennifer Bilek shed some much-needed light on the situation in a tour-de-force article published in First Things. As it turns out, the transgender movement did not come out of nowhere. In fact, this juggernaut has been bankrolled by the heir to a massive medical device fortune and helped along by veterans of notorious liberal billionaire George Soros's Open Society Foundations. Rich LGBT activists allied to turn a state blue and collaborated with the U.N. to foist transgenderism on countries across the world.

She drew attention to Jon Stryker, grandson of Homer Stryker, the orthopedic surgeon who founded the Stryker Corporation. That corporation sold $13.6 billion in surgical supplies and software in 2018. Jon, the heir to the fortune, is gay. He created the Arcus Foundation to serve the LGBT community. Between 2007 and 2010 alone, Arcus gave more than $58.4 million to pro-LGBT programs and causes. Stryker himself has given more than $30 million to Arcus in that three-year period, through his stock in Stryker Medical Corporation.

Jon's sister Ronda Stryker is married to William Johnston, chairman of the wealth management firm Greenleaf Trust, where Jon Stryker served as a founding board member. Ronda is also the vice-chair of Spelman College, which received a $2 million Arcus grant for a queer studies program. Johnston and his wife have given Spelman $30 million overall, the largest gift from living donors in its 137-year history. Ronda is also a trustee of Kalamazoo College, which received a $23 million Arcus social justice leadership grant in 2012, and a member of the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-28 05:24|| || Front Page|| [13 views ]  Top

#1 Colleges, like politicians, are easily bought.
Posted by b 2020-01-28 06:58||   2020-01-28 06:58|| Front Page Top

#2 By 2016, Barack Obama was foisting this ideology on broad swaths of American society,

I thought this was the original genesis of the whole bullshit 'transgender' movement, which is a late offshoot of the LGTBQWERTY movement. It's like disco coming after Motown and funk, which means it must be destroyed!

(or - like a forest fire that keeps going in spurts, take your pick).
Posted by Raj 2020-01-28 08:06||   2020-01-28 08:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Are there any other victim groups waiting in the wings for when the trans movement's time is up? There is always another group but i can't think of any right now, just the usual suspects.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-01-28 14:38||   2020-01-28 14:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Trannies - check
DACA - check
"Girls Who Code" - check

NeverTrumpers?
Posted by Lex 2020-01-28 15:21||   2020-01-28 15:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Raponists*?

* communists seeking to become commissioned US military officers
Posted by Lex 2020-01-28 15:22||   2020-01-28 15:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Did Herb call in? I didn't see his Volvo in the parking lot. Anyone check his quarters ?
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-28 16:47||   2020-01-28 16:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Goat Hurters?
Hurter Biden?
Posted by Lex 2020-01-28 16:48||   2020-01-28 16:48|| Front Page Top

#8 #6 -
Posted by Frank G 2020-01-28 17:55||   2020-01-28 17:55|| Front Page Top

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