Tito Montes, head of the Hawaii Republican Assembly, is making ad hominem statements about Hinaleimoana Wong, a kumu hula and OHA candidate. Hawaii News Now reports:
Montes remarks were part of his criticism of the state’s Pono Choices sex education program. Montes and other Republicans say the program is too graphic for middle school students and is not medically accurate.
Wong-Kalu appeared in a Pono Choices skit about HIV risk and here’s how Montes described her:
“‘Kumu’ is the video short story of a transvestite drag queen who wears lipstick, eye liner, a dress, a padded bra and earrings,” Montes wrote.
And while we’re on the subject of far-right voices, here’s the take from from Hawaii Free Press:
Tranny Asserts Absolute Right to Promote Himself to 6th Graders
HNN: Tito Montes, president of the Hawaii Republican Assembly, is under ‘fire’ for calling (pointing out that) a respected Hawaiian leader and cultural practitioner (dude in a dress is) a “transvestite” and a “drag queen.”
(Mr.) Hina Wong-Kalu—who considers herself (sic) a transgendered female—says the name calling borders on hate speech. (Censorship: Unless you accept the lie that gender is changeable, you are a hater.)
“To utilize words transvestite and drag queen in any political debate is taking a cheap shot,” Wong-Kalu said. (Translation: I tell you what you may say and you bow before my authority.)
Montes remarks were part of his criticism of the state’s Pono Choices sex education program. Montes and other Republicans say the program is too graphic for middle school students and is not medically accurate. (Yes. Among other things, it asserts that gender is a choice and sexual orientation is not.)
Wong-Kalu appeared in Pono Choices skit about HIV risk and here’s how Montes described her (sic):
“‘Kumu’ is the video short story of a transvestite drag queen who wears lipstick, eye liner, a dress, a padded bra and earrings,” Montes wrote.
Wong-Kalu, who is the chair of the Oahu Burial Council, shot back:
“A transvestite is someone who puts on clothes, a man who puts on women’s clothes in the middle of the night for once in a while but this is not temporary for me. This is an everyday element of my life,” she (sic) said.
(And this is what your 6th grader is learning now that gay marriage is the law. Changing the family unit is not enough, they will now attempt to browbeat you into acquiescing to the lie that gender is changeable.)