Kristi Noem kicks up her hatred for LGBTQ+ kids another five notches with latest far-right partnership
By Graham Gremore · 51 comments· Updated on January 26, 2024
Kristi Noem’s hate and hypocrisy know no bounds.
Last week, South Dakota’s gay-hating governor signed a pledge written by the anti-LGBTQ+ group conservative PAC Moms for Liberty to “advance policies that strengthen parental decision-making.”
“In South Dakota, we’re building stronger families by protecting parents’ rights,” Noem announced on Twitter. “I’m proud to sign the @Moms4Liberty pledge to advance policies that strengthen parental decision-making. Parents should parent their kids. Not the government.”
Because nothing says “less government” than a literal governor using her platform as a government official to promote indoctrination on her campaign’s Twitter page.
In South Dakota, we’re building stronger families by protecting parents’ rights.
I'm proud to sign the @Moms4Liberty pledge to advance policies that strengthen parental decision-making.
Moms For Liberty was founded in 2021 by three Florida moms/former school board members who wanted to push their conservative values and far-right agenda onto other people’s children under the guise of “parental rights.”
According to its official website, the organization is “dedicated to fighting for the survival of America by unifying, educating and empowering parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government.”
In reality, it has spent the past two and a half years campaigning against things like school curriculums that mention LGBTQ+ rights and discrimination and advocating for banning school library books that address gender or sexuality.
Noem pledging her support for Moms of Liberty comes as no surprise given her obsession with policing other people’s private lives, as well as her recent attacks on LGBTQ+ youth.
When a reporter confronted her at a press conference last year with the statistic that nearly 90% of LGBTQ+ people in South Dakota experience depression, the highest rate in the country, she blew the whole thing off.
“Why do you think that is?” the reporter asked. To which Noem replied disinterestedly, “I don’t know. That makes me sad and we should figure it out,” before moving on to the next question.
Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD), who just signed the first anti-trans bill of 2022 into law, is asked why she thinks 90% of LGBTQ+ youth in South Dakota are diagnosed with anxiety or depression:
It hasn’t been a good week for South Dakota’s gay-hating governor.
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Can never understand how any LGBTQ person or POC or women who vote for GOP – against their own well being. GOP is a group of people dead-set on destroying the aforementioned groups.
dbmcvey….I don’t know how you do it with a few of these rightwingers. But you do it with grace and wit and insight. Your answer was correct with the right amount or aggression these stupid people can handle.
Shiver on the other hand is a passive aggressive loner. No children in his life and little knowledge of our everyday life. His talking points on the subject, well, we know where he lives 24-7.
Compromise does not appear to be in your playbook. Stay away from our children. We don’t need your help.
abfab, I’m all for compromise. How about this one, if the schoolboard does remove a book from it’s library or curriculum, the parents can go to a local library or buy the book on their own and give it to their kid? Oh and “various” and “sundry” are synonyms.
“How is giving parents a greater say in their child’s education a bad thing?”
What you mean is, “How is allowing parents to teach homophobia as a value a bad thing?”
Making kids dumber has never made a country better. And the education system in the US already has a bad global reputation. People think it’s a prank if you tell them that groups are banning material on sexuality and black history in the US. This is as close to 1984 as you can get in the western world.
Letting bigoted parents decide the limit of education is like letting an anti-vaxxer with healing crystals decide the limit of medicine.
I can’t fathom why you want little gay and lesbian children to suffer in your society.
Bosch, We’re talking about kids here. KIDS. Children. I don’t know about you but I was not thinking about sexuality as a child. I knew I wanted to be “friends” with boys more than girls but I was not thinking about sex. Parents have every right to teach their kids their own values, even if they are against yours, and the kids, once at an age where they can start to reason and rationalize, can start to form their own opinions. Why is that so difficult for you to agree with? My parents wouldn’t have raised me to be gay, but here I am. Probably yours too. And instead of teaching kids “You might be gay!” or “You might be trans!” what schools should be teaching kids is how to think and reason.
ShaverC: Your comment is dripping in ignorance. This is NOT about sexualizing kids… you obviously knew you were different in school, so why should those kids — like you — be ignored and treated differently? Why should they not have any resources afforded them that helps them through this time? Your thinking is the reason gay and trans kids kill themselves in greater number than their straight peers. So you had it easy as a gay guy growing up… good for you. But plenty of kids exist in homes and communities where they are abused because they are different and now this bitch is telling those kids that their own government hates them too.
That isn’t the role of government-run schools. If mass prayers became mandatory in schools (it’s not), you would be falling all over yourself in white-hot rage. Why is it any different for the opposing side? Here’s how we solve this culture war issue. People should shut the hell up and teach fundamentals. Because as we’ve seen, American kids are slipping far behind their Chinese counterparts in basic math. Teaching kids about drag queens does not help at overcoming that gap. It doesn’t. We live in reality.
DBMC, Very original. Don’t forget my internalized homophobia. Of course there were issues growing up, but all teens have angst even straight people. Everyone has to grow up and go through the pains of trying to find themselves, what they want to do, who they want to love, how they want to live. And when we’re older, we shouldn’t be dwelling on what happened in the past. I think a lot of people on here are still angry about how their parents treated them, or getting bullied, but that was a long time ago and you have to get over it.
Shaver wasn’t thinking about sex when he was a child. His parents certainly should have noticed that abnormailty and put him into some sort of treatment. How strange, dear! Our child is NOT like the others, what ever should we do?
Kristi Noem is just our slutty gov. She doesn’t get far with her policies even with the Republican held state house & senate…so don’t think alot will change. She holds little chance of going elsewhere…but does match other Republican ethics being a slut even a child out of wedlock and other nasties when a college kid. So don’t worry about her getting to the Whitehouse other than a bed slut for possibly Trump…but let’s hope not.
Healthcare “equity” related to medical gender transitions? What sort of “equity” are you referring to? Or is that just a word you dislike that you tossed in there?
Current detranser here.
I speak from (gasp!) lived-in experience. See also: the current number of trans people on my social media feed preoccupied with faux concern trolling on this issue from liberal armchair activists. Kristi Noem is pulling the same crap WeHo gays like to pull. ‘Isn’t it awful? Whatever will we do about this issue?’ When y’all do it, it’s somehow a benevolent gesture.
Thirty percent of trans people live in poverty. So yes, equity. Go back to pretending you give a crap about the trans community (kinda like Kristi Noem.) I de-transed and now work for conservatives on this issue
(Shrugs)
As for the FBI? Crazy. Is it any crazier than Biden’s trans youth medicalization edict after the horrorshow gender transition I went through while liberals clapped like circus seals? Not really, no. We take the political leaders we have in this two-party duopoly. Lesser of two evils. It’s a tale as old as time, Taylor Swift.
Of TRANS people. That’s my point
Uncle Joe can shuck and jive all he wants. A significant chunk of trans people live in extreme poverty
Tell little Johnny that stat before pumping him full of puberty blockers. That’s my point.
Interesting how you pivoted on my point about not providing children with the FULL CONTEXT. That goes to the heart of this debate. Your lack of a sound argument is noted.
And also: Be sure to provide your same snarky comment about Uncle Joe to the aggrieved trans people on my social media feed. That will go over like gangbusters.
Vivek is terrible, but he has no chance of winning so go ahead and vote for him. I don’t think Jared is being honest. He’s coming up with the story as he goes along.
My Medium is @notesfromagenderdetransition. JaredNorthcutt30 was my Craigslist booty call name. I am a real person. I’ve been through real trauma in Gavin Newsom’s trans safe haven in California. A recurring theme we hear time and time again on the left: The government has the solutions to all of our problems. In my experience, I’ve found that it isn’t so. So yes, after two years, I questioned my belief system on a fundamental level. In fact, The Daily Wire contacted me about working with their investigative reporter for the Vanderbilt Transgender Clinic article. Why do de-transitioners work with conservatives? Because they don’t have safe spaces to talk about their medicalization trauma within the LGBTQ+ community. A snake eating its tail, gang.
If y’all want to converse about what I went through off the Internet, I’m more than willing. Being snarky and cute about it? That’s cool, too. But realize I’m a real person who had severe psychological problems with estrogen. And with a “confirm everyone’s gender hooray!” mentality, you’re putting gay and bisexual men on paths to unnecessary medicalization that causes real harm. This is America. So yeah, I do monetize my pain and life story with the conservatives. A real person who became a “Log Cabin” based on life experiences. Hi, everyone. My old birth dead name is JD Hood, and I’m currently working on getting that name back.
And you’re right. I’m not too sure about Vivek winning. He has the traits of Obama and Trump, which could prove to be a winning combination for a segment of voters. However, I think his success depends on the political winds with Trump and DeSantis. His comms team is angling for a dark horse sleeper candidate. If comes down to Trump versus Biden, I’ll probably vote for the libertarian candidate or not vote. This country has a history of picking terrible candidates for president. A recurring theme of the years I’ve been alive on this planet from Bill Clinton to Dubya. This country can’t pick a decent presidential candidate to save its life. We’re living in a tragicomedy. Truly.
Vivek is an equal opportunity alienator. He’s a terrible candidate pretending to stand for something. Not that anyone could figure out what that’s supposed to be.
abfab & db: JaredNorthcutt30 says he/she is de-transitioning. Why aren’t you taking his/her experience into account? Do you not think that many people have been urged to transition when that was really not the best thing for them to do?
Why can’t the fascist (and bordering) states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming just leave the US and form their own country. Together, they make up 1.5% of the entire U.S. population. There’s plenty of land. Let the Republican’s all move to Shitlandia. They will all shoot each other within a week.
I’m sorry, but let’s keep Montana, which is quite beautiful, and Wyoming, which is even more beautiful. Montana actually comprises a sizable number of people who sometimes vote reasonably about things–they have repeatedly elected Democratic governors and Senators, including one of their two current US Senators and several progressive governors in the last 20 years. Wyoming is full of extreme right-wing people but it is one of the most beautiful states in all of the 50 states. So I’d say they could be the conservative outlier.
Kristi is anothe pissed off right wing witch with too many injectibles .She looks like she’s had “work” done and possibly is a trans person. Or she’s just a bitch who ain’t getting any dick..like a LOT ot gop women !! They’re always pissed off and angry@ the world..
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Can never understand how any LGBTQ person or POC or women who vote for GOP – against their own well being. GOP is a group of people dead-set on destroying the aforementioned groups.
dbmcvey
Agree. But there are a lot of gay conservatives. Many of them posting regularly on this site–assuming they’re not all the same person.
abfab
This one and MTG and the various and sundry log cabin creeps should start a summer camp. Camp Diplomat!
abfab
Chaquita Santos has been posting here for years but has now morphed into correctio. Remember Mario?
ShaverC
How is giving parents a greater say in their child’s education a bad thing?
dbmcvey
Because, Shaver, they’re not. They’re deciding about everyone else’s children, not just their own.
ShaverC
dbmcvey, Then the other parents should get involved as well and the two sides can come up with compromises and rules together.
abfab
dbmcvey….I don’t know how you do it with a few of these rightwingers. But you do it with grace and wit and insight. Your answer was correct with the right amount or aggression these stupid people can handle.
Shiver on the other hand is a passive aggressive loner. No children in his life and little knowledge of our everyday life. His talking points on the subject, well, we know where he lives 24-7.
Compromise does not appear to be in your playbook. Stay away from our children. We don’t need your help.
ShaverC
abfab, I’m all for compromise. How about this one, if the schoolboard does remove a book from it’s library or curriculum, the parents can go to a local library or buy the book on their own and give it to their kid? Oh and “various” and “sundry” are synonyms.
abfab
Oh fantastic. I threw you a bone and you caught it. Good boy.
ShaverC
LOL . Good one. I throw you many bones but you continue to fail to get any of them. Is it my aim or yours?
Bosch
“How is giving parents a greater say in their child’s education a bad thing?”
What you mean is, “How is allowing parents to teach homophobia as a value a bad thing?”
Making kids dumber has never made a country better. And the education system in the US already has a bad global reputation. People think it’s a prank if you tell them that groups are banning material on sexuality and black history in the US. This is as close to 1984 as you can get in the western world.
Letting bigoted parents decide the limit of education is like letting an anti-vaxxer with healing crystals decide the limit of medicine.
I can’t fathom why you want little gay and lesbian children to suffer in your society.
ShaverC
Bosch, We’re talking about kids here. KIDS. Children. I don’t know about you but I was not thinking about sexuality as a child. I knew I wanted to be “friends” with boys more than girls but I was not thinking about sex. Parents have every right to teach their kids their own values, even if they are against yours, and the kids, once at an age where they can start to reason and rationalize, can start to form their own opinions. Why is that so difficult for you to agree with? My parents wouldn’t have raised me to be gay, but here I am. Probably yours too. And instead of teaching kids “You might be gay!” or “You might be trans!” what schools should be teaching kids is how to think and reason.
cc423
ShaverC: Your comment is dripping in ignorance. This is NOT about sexualizing kids… you obviously knew you were different in school, so why should those kids — like you — be ignored and treated differently? Why should they not have any resources afforded them that helps them through this time? Your thinking is the reason gay and trans kids kill themselves in greater number than their straight peers. So you had it easy as a gay guy growing up… good for you. But plenty of kids exist in homes and communities where they are abused because they are different and now this bitch is telling those kids that their own government hates them too.
JaredNorthcutt30
That isn’t the role of government-run schools. If mass prayers became mandatory in schools (it’s not), you would be falling all over yourself in white-hot rage. Why is it any different for the opposing side? Here’s how we solve this culture war issue. People should shut the hell up and teach fundamentals. Because as we’ve seen, American kids are slipping far behind their Chinese counterparts in basic math. Teaching kids about drag queens does not help at overcoming that gap. It doesn’t. We live in reality.
DBMC
I think Shaver is only pretending to be gay. It’s hard to imagine someone who grew up gay would be as ignorant of the issue as he is.
ShaverC
DBMC, Very original. Don’t forget my internalized homophobia. Of course there were issues growing up, but all teens have angst even straight people. Everyone has to grow up and go through the pains of trying to find themselves, what they want to do, who they want to love, how they want to live. And when we’re older, we shouldn’t be dwelling on what happened in the past. I think a lot of people on here are still angry about how their parents treated them, or getting bullied, but that was a long time ago and you have to get over it.
abfab
Shaver wasn’t thinking about sex when he was a child. His parents certainly should have noticed that abnormailty and put him into some sort of treatment. How strange, dear! Our child is NOT like the others, what ever should we do?
ShaverC
abfab, What are you talking about? Did you think about sex when you were a child?
dbmcvey
It’s not internalized Shaver, it’s just homophobia.
WillParkinson
Bigots gonna be bigots.
sdpleasures4u
Kristi Noem is just our slutty gov. She doesn’t get far with her policies even with the Republican held state house & senate…so don’t think alot will change. She holds little chance of going elsewhere…but does match other Republican ethics being a slut even a child out of wedlock and other nasties when a college kid. So don’t worry about her getting to the Whitehouse other than a bed slut for possibly Trump…but let’s hope not.
abfab
Thank you!
dario717
See you next Tuesdays….Every.Single.One.Of.Them.
dbmcvey
I like “Klanned Karenhood.”
abfab
The 700 Club…………….. for old tired worn out political bag ladies form red states. Starring KRISTI! Co- starring MTG and the Log Cabin Choir.
JaredNorthcutt30
“I don’t know. That makes me sad and we should figure it out,” before moving on to the next question.
This is basically how white gay liberals deal with healthcare equity related to medical gender transitions. Whatever. I’m voting for Vivek, anyway.
Kangol2
Good luck with that. He wanted to replace the FBI…with the FBI. Not a good look for a Harvard grad but he’s the new shiny thing on the right.
still_onthemark
Healthcare “equity” related to medical gender transitions? What sort of “equity” are you referring to? Or is that just a word you dislike that you tossed in there?
JaredNorthcutt30
Current detranser here.
I speak from (gasp!) lived-in experience. See also: the current number of trans people on my social media feed preoccupied with faux concern trolling on this issue from liberal armchair activists. Kristi Noem is pulling the same crap WeHo gays like to pull. ‘Isn’t it awful? Whatever will we do about this issue?’ When y’all do it, it’s somehow a benevolent gesture.
JaredNorthcutt30
Thirty percent of trans people live in poverty. So yes, equity. Go back to pretending you give a crap about the trans community (kinda like Kristi Noem.) I de-transed and now work for conservatives on this issue
(Shrugs)
JaredNorthcutt30
As for the FBI? Crazy. Is it any crazier than Biden’s trans youth medicalization edict after the horrorshow gender transition I went through while liberals clapped like circus seals? Not really, no. We take the political leaders we have in this two-party duopoly. Lesser of two evils. It’s a tale as old as time, Taylor Swift.
abfab
TMFI…….too much false information.
Over 30 per cent of the world’s population live in poverty. What is your point?
JaredNorthcutt30
Of TRANS people. That’s my point
Uncle Joe can shuck and jive all he wants. A significant chunk of trans people live in extreme poverty
Tell little Johnny that stat before pumping him full of puberty blockers. That’s my point.
abfab
Oh right….Uncle Joe. I knew somebody had to be responsible for your personal life and decision making.
VOTE VIVEK!
VOTE VIVEK!
JaredNorthcutt30
Interesting how you pivoted on my point about not providing children with the FULL CONTEXT. That goes to the heart of this debate. Your lack of a sound argument is noted.
JaredNorthcutt30
And also: Be sure to provide your same snarky comment about Uncle Joe to the aggrieved trans people on my social media feed. That will go over like gangbusters.
DBMC
Vivek is terrible, but he has no chance of winning so go ahead and vote for him. I don’t think Jared is being honest. He’s coming up with the story as he goes along.
abfab
Northcutt is playing a part. It’s his own little trial balloon. She is making it up.
DeeBee. We should start THE RED LIST. Actors who can’t stand being Gay or Queer because of the Republican Doctrines. I’m sure I’ve left a few out…..
Shaver
correctio
Mario
Northcutt
Georgette Santos
winemaker
neoprine
JaredNorthcutt30
My Medium is @notesfromagenderdetransition. JaredNorthcutt30 was my Craigslist booty call name. I am a real person. I’ve been through real trauma in Gavin Newsom’s trans safe haven in California. A recurring theme we hear time and time again on the left: The government has the solutions to all of our problems. In my experience, I’ve found that it isn’t so. So yes, after two years, I questioned my belief system on a fundamental level. In fact, The Daily Wire contacted me about working with their investigative reporter for the Vanderbilt Transgender Clinic article. Why do de-transitioners work with conservatives? Because they don’t have safe spaces to talk about their medicalization trauma within the LGBTQ+ community. A snake eating its tail, gang.
JaredNorthcutt30
If y’all want to converse about what I went through off the Internet, I’m more than willing. Being snarky and cute about it? That’s cool, too. But realize I’m a real person who had severe psychological problems with estrogen. And with a “confirm everyone’s gender hooray!” mentality, you’re putting gay and bisexual men on paths to unnecessary medicalization that causes real harm. This is America. So yeah, I do monetize my pain and life story with the conservatives. A real person who became a “Log Cabin” based on life experiences. Hi, everyone. My old birth dead name is JD Hood, and I’m currently working on getting that name back.
JaredNorthcutt30
And you’re right. I’m not too sure about Vivek winning. He has the traits of Obama and Trump, which could prove to be a winning combination for a segment of voters. However, I think his success depends on the political winds with Trump and DeSantis. His comms team is angling for a dark horse sleeper candidate. If comes down to Trump versus Biden, I’ll probably vote for the libertarian candidate or not vote. This country has a history of picking terrible candidates for president. A recurring theme of the years I’ve been alive on this planet from Bill Clinton to Dubya. This country can’t pick a decent presidential candidate to save its life. We’re living in a tragicomedy. Truly.
dbmcvey
Vivek is an equal opportunity alienator. He’s a terrible candidate pretending to stand for something. Not that anyone could figure out what that’s supposed to be.
ShaverC
abfab & db: JaredNorthcutt30 says he/she is de-transitioning. Why aren’t you taking his/her experience into account? Do you not think that many people have been urged to transition when that was really not the best thing for them to do?
JaredNorthcutt30
Most politicians pretend to stand for something. You’re acting like this is a new plot development.
Eternal.Cowboy
“Parents should parent their kids. Not the government.”
Then who is going to parent the government?
Jack
Why can’t the fascist (and bordering) states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming just leave the US and form their own country. Together, they make up 1.5% of the entire U.S. population. There’s plenty of land. Let the Republican’s all move to Shitlandia. They will all shoot each other within a week.
abfab
You forgot Texas and Arkkkansaw and Florida and Oklahoma, most of Arizona and 1/2 of Virginia.
Kangol2
I’m sorry, but let’s keep Montana, which is quite beautiful, and Wyoming, which is even more beautiful. Montana actually comprises a sizable number of people who sometimes vote reasonably about things–they have repeatedly elected Democratic governors and Senators, including one of their two current US Senators and several progressive governors in the last 20 years. Wyoming is full of extreme right-wing people but it is one of the most beautiful states in all of the 50 states. So I’d say they could be the conservative outlier.
Invader7
Kristi is anothe pissed off right wing witch with too many injectibles .She looks like she’s had “work” done and possibly is a trans person. Or she’s just a bitch who ain’t getting any dick..like a LOT ot gop women !! They’re always pissed off and angry@ the world..
abfab
Imagine the people who voted for her. Yikes!