Press Release via Georgetowntxpride.org
October 27, 2023 (Georgetown, Texas) – “Well, if Taylor can do it, and Round Rock can do it, why can’t Georgetown?” stated Jo Ivester, one of the founders and the president of the recently formed non-profit organization Georgetown TX Pride.
Round Rock, Taylor and Georgetown Texas Pride.
Now officially in the books as Georgetown’s first Pride celebration, the inaugural Georgetown TX Pride Festival was held Thursday, October 26, 2023 at the Georgetown Public Library complex.
About 500 people attended the event. The evening kicked off at 6:30pm with a lecture on Religion and Queerness by Rev. Milo Grant inside the library, while in the parking lot across the street the festival was just beginning.
A Talk about Religion and Queerness by Rev. Milo Grant
The Southwestern University Jazz Band began the entertainment for the evening. With the support of Southwestern University’s Pirates for Pride, the celebration continued with a drag show with local performers from Austin, along with student talent from the Southwestern University.
Local businesses and support organizations were on hand, including Austin Counseling and Trauma Specialists, Dulce Frida Italian Ice, Family Medicine, Flow Yoga, Goodfolks, Georgetown Palace Theater, Georgetown Winery, Karadwynn Bradshaw Medic, Lark and Owl Bookstore, League of Women Voters, PFLAG Georgetown, Summers Made, Tanya’s Soul Food, Thundercloud Sub, Wag Heaven Pet Supplies, Wellspring United Methodist Church, The Williamson County Sun Newspaper, and Veterans for Equality, to support the event.
Attendees were able to find resources to help with ongoing counseling and support.
The festival’s drag performance was the first public drag show to take place after the passage of Texas Senate Bill 12 that sought to criminalize some drag performances, which was to take effect September 1st of this year, but was then struck down by a federal judge as unconstitutional.
“The event was very touching, welcoming, and inclusive” said Jeff Manley, one of the founders of the Georgetown TX Pride. “It certainly illustrated the wonderful diversity of Georgetown.”
“We are so grateful for the support of Round Rock Pride and Taylor Pride, who attended and cheered us on” continued Jo Ivester. “They serve as our mentors and advisors, and their encouragement was crucial to the success of our event.”
It would have been nice to see some “inclusion” of the views of the majority in Georgetown, regarding celebrating a the incursion of a dangerous ideology that seeks to sterilize and mutilate children in the name of “LGBTQ.” Many of the organizers involved in this event, including the Reverend Milo Grant, support the pharmaceutical industry and medical establishment disfiguring children and making them lifetime customers and medical patients, with no regard for the well-being of children or acknowledgment of the growing number of destransitioners who are now filing lawsuits (as they should) against doctors and hospitals for medical malpractice and fraud. Children cannot consent to sterilization (one possible side effect of taking cross-sex hormones, and one possibility that children are being asked to consent to and acknowledge in the “consent forms” required by these quacks). Children cannot consent to mastectomy. Children are protected in our society from a variety of things we allow adults to do – because we collectively acknowledge they are developmentally different than adults. They are not allowed to have sex with adults, drink, smoke, buy a gun, drive a car, or get a tattoo. And yet, we are witnessing in real time a mass delusion with devastating lifetime effects on children, preying upon kids who are gender nonconforming, autistic and many times with histories of child sexual abuse or with comorbidities including previous diagnoses of personality disorders, depression, and histories of self-harm. There is a reason why more progressive countries like Finland, Norway, Sweden and the UK (countries who have had systematic studies conducted by independent medical review boards on “gender affirming care”) have recommended against medical and surgical intervention on kids who present gender dysphoria. I was at the Georgetown “pride” event, and spoke with many people (none of whom were trans themselves) who unquestioningly support allowing the medical machine and Big Pharma to sterilize and mutilate children. Interestingly enough, the two transwomen I spoke with were the only two I talked with who oppose transitioning kids one opposed outright, one leans towards opposing it, having lived with a destransitioner). If you really cared about diversity and inclusion, you’d talk to people who oppose this kind of child abuse, *especially* to gays, lesbians and trans people who oppose it. Quit ignoring them and pretending that radical woke activists speak for these groups. They speak only for themselves.If you’d like to meet some LGBT people who oppose woke ideology and specifically oppose pushing genedr ideology on children, I’m happy to make introductions for you. Expand your social circle.