"’Amanda’ is a biological male in every cell of his body, and no amount of surgical mutilation is ever going to change that," AFA President Tim Wildmon said in a press release circulated Thursday. "It’s a mistake for our president to appoint such a sexually confused individual to a position of public responsibility."<\/font><\/p>\n Wildmon went on to say that "gender is assigned by the Creator at the moment of conception, and no healthy society should ever regard sexual mutilation<\/strong>, even if it’s self-inflicted, as something that’s normal and merits approval."<\/font><\/p>\n He ended by saying the "appointment should be rescinded immediately<\/strong>."<\/font><\/p>\n Throughout the press release, Simpson is referred to as "he" and the name Amanda is put in quotation marks<\/strong>. That appears to be a tactic now employed by opponents of Simpson’s appointment. Media watchdog MediaMatters<\/font> pointed out<\/a> that the conservative WorldNetDaily did the same thing in an article [ideologue de-linked<\/em>] about Simpson that stated she ("he") had spent $70,000 on sex-change operations since 2000.<\/font><\/p>\n The<\/font> gay-issues Queerty blog<\/a> warns that the rumblings in the right-wing media about Simpson’s appointment could be a prelude to a "slime" campaign a la<\/span><\/font> Kevin Jennings<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n Her real worry should be with groups like MassResistance and Fox News, which have spearheaded efforts to slime other LGBT Obama appointees<\/strong>, including Kevin Jennings. These radical right-wing mouthpieces don’t care about the substance of your work nor your job qualifications, but about what makes you different<\/strong>. And we fully expect an assault on Simpson’s character, disguised as her "work ethic" or "prior missteps."\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <Raw Story<\/a>><\/p>\n Personally I only know a couple of transgender women, both through dealing with them through their jobs. Both served me professionally and efficiently, and I will be happy to deal with them again. I applaud Barack Obama for this appointment, not because she is transgender, but because he did not exclude a competent candidate on the basis of sexual identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The GOP hate machine never rests. The conservative American Family Association is calling on President Barack Obama to fire Amanda Simpson, Obama’s transgender appointee to the Commerce Department, because the appointment "puts the weight of the federal government behind the normalization of sexual deviancy." "’Amanda’ is a biological male in every cell of his body, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"amandasimpson\"](\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202010\/J-M\/AFAWantsAmandaSimpsonFired_3A8F\/amandasimpson.jpg\" "\\"amandasimpson\\"")
<\/a> The conservative American Family Association is calling on President Barack Obama to fire Amanda Simpson, Obama’s transgender appointee to the Commerce Department, because the appointment "puts the weight of the federal government behind the normalization of sexual deviancy<\/strong>."<\/font><\/p>\n