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Bangpound has noted that there's no evidence tying teen suicides to national legislation, as LGBT rights organizations jump on the recent string of suicides by homosexual teen boys. This is true, and focus should be on things that actually help kids (which are likely to be things that would help all minority, bullied, disadvantaged, different youth).

The way I heard the story is that Romney shut down the William Weld initiated Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth when they tried to expand their formal charge, and name, to include transgender youth.

I can't find a news article that verifies this explicitly, but that certainly sounds like what was happening behind the scenes.

And I interpret that as an attempt, reportedly somewhat successful, to cause fighting within the movement.

In the last paragraph of these notes I go off on a tanget about economic injustice and oppression and sex and gender injustice and oppression that I think is worthwhile.