In New York City, fire department employees are lectured about “The Genderbread Person”—a cartoon that is part of mandatory diversity, equity, and inclusion training that is meant to explain the “spectrum of countless identities” people can have. In the fire department’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’s training video, which employees are required to view by December, firefighters are presented with the Genderbread cartoon explaining the differences between gender identity, gender expression, sex, and sexual orientation. A screenshot from the New York City Fire Department Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’s training video showing “The Genderbread Person.” The Daily Signal has obtained a copy of the video. “This is a giant sick joke. No one takes it seriously,” an active New York City fireman told The Daily Signal. “The Genderbread Person looks like the FDNY got a contract with some activist group who specializes in children’s propaganda.” The FDNY source added that “it’s scientifically inaccurate, and having it explained to you as if you were a 4-year-old in a condescending manner by a cartoon gingerbread man is insulting, weird, and wrong.” The Genderbread Person was originally created by feminist and self-described “social justice comedian” Sam Killermann, according to his website It’s Pronounced Metrosexual. The training video also features slides of transgender “Orange Is the New Black” actor Laverne Cox, black Atlanta firefighter Anaré Holmes discussing how he is in “the affirmation business,” and a segment where unseen speakers discuss “penises and vaginas” when trying to explain the difference between gender identity and gender expression. A screenshot from the New York City Fire Department Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’s training video featuring transgender actor Laverne Cox. “So, let’s talk about penises and vaginas, shall we? Let’s just go right there,” exclaims a female voice. A male voice responds, in an attempt at a humorous tone, that “if you haven’t already talked about penises and vaginas, we need to talk about penises and vaginas.” The female voice says, “The bottom line is, your external genitalia does not dictate your gender.” The FDNY source explained that there are more important things to discuss than his fellow firefighters’ genitals. “If Johnnie is forcing a door and he gets his penis hit by a maul, maybe that would be a good time to talk about penises and vaginas, but until it comes up, we actually don’t have to talk about it,” said the source. “Why don’t we see if the junior members can force a door or put the rig in pumps first?” A screenshot from the New York City Fire Department Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training video. The video also features a series of multiple choice questions for the firefighters to answer, one of which asks, “What two words does the Q stand for in the LGBTQ+ acronym?”  The answers offered are A. “Quartet, Queer,” B. “Queen, Quiet,” C. “Queer, Questioning,” and D. “Quiet, Quartet.” “As far as questioning who you are, I would suggest seeking therapy,” said the source. “This is serious business for serious people. We don’t care who you are, as long as you can do the job.” New York City Fire Commissioner Robert Tucker was hired by Mayor Eric Adams in August. At the commissioner’s swearing in ceremony, Adams said that Tucker would “put out the flames that are actually burning inside the agency.” Amanda Farinacci, an FDNY spokeswoman, told The Daily Signal that “The fire commissioner supports the work of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Office, and trainings like the one for LGBTQ+ are required pursuant to Executive Order 16. The FDNY offers such trainings to promote awareness and understanding for our members.” Executive Order 16 mandates that all New York City agencies ensure access to single-sex facilities based on an individual’s chosen gender identity or expression rather than his or her actual sex as determined by one’s DNA. Official identification, medical proof, or gender verification are not required. The FDNY source said that he won’t speak out publicly for fear of losing his job. “No one will say anything because we’re not allowed to have opinions that differ from this odd narrative,” the source said. Michele Fitzsimmons, a battalion chief who was featured in the video giving a history of gay rights, told The Daily Signal that she “had nothing to do with the production of the video.” “I was basically given a clip that I talked in, and that’s all I had to do with it, really. I wasn’t involved with developing it or anything like that,” said Fitzsimmons. (Editor’s note: This article uses the convention of referring to unnamed sources using male pronouns, but this editorial decision should not be taken as revealing the actual sex of the individual.) The post ‘A Giant Sick Joke’: FDNY’s Gender Identity Training Sparks Internal Pushback appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Denver Democratic Mayor Mike Johnston said there would be mass public resistance if President-elect Donald Trump implemented a mass deportation effort of illegal immigrants from federal forces, likening it to a “Tiananmen Square moment.” On June 3, 1989, after weeks of student moments in Beijing, China, the Chinese communist government declared martial law and sent troops to Tiananmen Square. Government troops entered central Beijing on June 4; many people — estimates range from hundreds to thousands — were killed, including demonstrators, bystanders, and soldiers. “About 42,000 migrants have arrived in the Denver metro area since December 2022, about 1,800 of which have now been authorized to work as a result of city-led efforts,” Common Sense Institute Colorado reported in May 2024. “The Common Sense Institute estimates city, education, and healthcare organizations have spent an estimated $216 million to $340 million on the response to feed, clothe, shelter, and provide educational and healthcare services. … The uncompensated care to migrants in Denver area hospitals is estimated to cost $123 million to providers for care received at emergency departments. … To date, the City of Denver has spent an estimated $70 million in migrant response goods and services.” CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Asked by The Denverite if pressure from the incoming Trump administration would change how Denver treats immigrants, Johnston answered, “The short answer is, we won’t change that, because those are one of our core values. And we’re not going to sell out those values to anyone. We’re not going to be bullied into changing them. … I think we are gonna continue to be a welcoming, open, big-hearted city that’s gonna stand by our values.” Johnston insisted that taking the right to work away from illegal immigrants would “cripple the American economy.” He said of the idea that Trump might elect to use federal forces to round up illegal immigrants, “I do not believe that our governor is going to let them use our [Colorado] National Guard at the state level. Unless they were planning on bringing national guards mobilized from Texas or Alabama to come invade Colorado, I don’t know where they would find the forces to begin to do that.” “More than us having DPD stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there,” Johnston continued. “It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun, right?” You’d have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants. And you do not want to mess with them.” Johnston may have conflated the Tiananmen Square massacre, where there was no evidence of someone confronting soldiers with a rose, to a moment on October 21, 1967, when roughly 100,000 people marched on Washington, D.C., to demonstrate against the war in Vietnam. Then a Magnum photographer, Marc Riboud documented proceedings. A famed photograph showed 17-year-old Jan Rose Kasmir holding a chrysanthemum flower up to a group of National Guard soldiers.

It is so very important to stay healthy… but actually taking the steps needed to be our best selves? Yeah, that part is not so easy. Thanks to the Internet, there are a lot of resources out there when it comes to fitness. For many of us, this includes losing weight. But more times than not, the problem isn’t our lack of access to information. In fact, it feels like the exact opposite, at times. That’s why this mom, whose account is called Big Time Adulting, took the time to share some fitness advice. You know, the kind of advice that is 100% genuine and not sarcastic at all. She’s definitely not finding humor in the way women are constantly given contradictory advice when it comes to our health. Confused? See what I mean straight from Mom herself in the video below! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Caitlin Murray (@bigtimeadulting) Okay, so to be super clear, this Mom is very much being sarcastic. The wild part about this video, however, is the fact that the nonsense she gives us is not far from what women are actually told. So, if you’ve been stressing lately over all of the ways you feel like you’re doing fitness “wrong,” may this serve as a (hilarious) reminder that you’re not alone. This Hilarious Mom’s Fitness Advice is Making Women Laugh and Feel Seen “I get extra protein by chewing off all my cuticles with all that extra [perimenopause] anxiety,” one woman shares in the comment section of this relatable video. “Got it. Cortisol is bad and everything creates it,” a second person chimes in, with a third adding what we’re all thinking, “How dare you serve us this diabolical accuracy and satire simultaneously.” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Mom’s Sarcastic Take On Fitness Advice Is Too Funny — And Too Relatable! appeared first on InspireMore.