And you’re attacking a strawman here–what most people want is to delay puberty until the are of an age to adequately decide what to do.
Your claim is demonstrably false. WPATH recommends kids start cross-sex hormones at 16. There are lots of docs and gender clinics in the US that will prescribe cross sex hormones before that age. There are lots of docs that will do bottom and top surgeries on minors.
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Gender isnt a choice. There’s no such thing as being the wrong gender, unless you were in China and not wanting to waste your two allocated children on girls. A boy wanting to be a girl is no different than that boy wanting to be a firefighter, astronaut, or superhero - they can play dress-up all you want, it wont make them into one.
If you want to claim your observed gender at birth was incorrect and is not your actual gender, then simply submit a genetic test showing that is the case. No one on any side would object to a ‘transition’ based on that, at any age.
That alone is a mad scientiest caliber science experiment. Puberty is arguably the toughest stage of growing up - if it’s so safe and inconsequetial, why the heck dont we give such blockers to all kids, so they can be older and more capable when ‘forced’ to go through that stage of maturation?
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in the US, with our surveillance cameras, we already have the raw data. I wonder if the DHS misinformation bureau already collects it?
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If they don’t, the CDC can probably offer an assist …
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Missouri and Louisiana attorney generals. I hope they can keep it from being transferred to Frisco like President Trump‘s lawsuit was transferred from Florida, See next post
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The lawsuit was originally filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida before being transferred.
The ruling is by an Obama appointed judge , James Donato. Any appeal would have to go to the far left ninth circus.
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Elon Musk is planning to fire 1,000 staffers at Twitter as soon as his purchase of the social media platform is complete.
It’s believed he will fire many of the firm’s woke staff following the transfer of ownership which will take around six months, after which Musk is likely to wield the ax.
But then within the next three years, Musk anticipates making thousands of new hires, swelling the ranks to around 11,000 employees, up from 7,500 currently.
Much of the new talent is likely to be in the field of engineering.
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the events that led to her termination started when students began asking questions about her sexuality. Scott, who is married to a man, said she told her students that she is pansexual, meaning that she’s attracted to all genders.
Sounds innocent enough.
She said LGBTQ students then began asking if they could create art expressing their own sexualities and identities, and that she hung it on her classroom door
I guess my opinion on this depends on the artwork? I can’t imagine what it’d look like, where you’d know what was being expressed unless you are told what’s being expressed?
And since the report only included a brief prepared statement from the school, I assume their (the school and parents) account of the situation would sound much less innocent. There’s no way middle schoolers spontaneously asked a teacher that question in the first place, without being led into it. My guess is this was the final straw after a plethora of warnings.
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There are letter-soup students in middle school?
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And you think there’s some reason students wouldn’t ask questions?? There was probably some rumor going around.
Yes. Just like the gay middle schoolers arent just going to stand up and yell “Great! Now can I express my own sexuality in my art?”
They’ll participate in such a conversation, but it’s highly unlikely they’d initiate the conversation without a lot of prompting.
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This isn’t complicated folks. Just use some common sense.
I know kids aren’t co-workers, but teaching is a job and a school is a workplace for teachers. It would behove teachers to consider what happens to them at work in a similar light to the way the rest of us deal with stuff at work. If someone were asked about their sexuality in the workplace, that person would never be expected to answer and the person asking would be, at the very least, warned for their behavior.
Back in my day (and I’m not that old), a teacher would almost never answer a personal question from a student. Maybe if that student confided in them privately about a specific problem, they might share some personal information privately (which would allow for deniability) to help them through their issue, but they would have never proudly announced something personal about themselves in a class full of kids, especially one so far below them in age, especially on a controversial subject that they know some parents wouldn’t be happy about. I don’t even remember my teachers talking about what they did over the weekend. It wasn’t until high school that some of the girls in my class would talk friendly with some of their female teachers. But the teacher almost never responded in front of the guys in class.
So I guess I am asking, what is with so many teachers these days that feel so empowered to do and say shit at school that they know some kids and parents won’t like?
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13, 14, and even 15 year olds? Sure, they’re knee-deep in that stage when relationships of all types start to be explored. Its not the age of the students that I’m questioning, it’s the setting/context/pretense of such conversations in an art classroom. You can be certain that a lot of details were left out of this article.
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This was 100% initiated by the teacher.
Teen Vogue (which wrote an article very sympathetic to the teacher) even admitted that she had just come out to her family the day before this happened. It’s not just a coincidence that there was a conversation in class about sexuality the day after she came out. The students didn’t initiate that conversation.
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You cannot expect letter-soup teachers to close the sale without pitching to the students verbally. This is the core of their existence, after all. They want desperately to promote the product by sharing with others. The kids are a captive audience. Once the genie is out of the bottle it cannot be confined again. Return to the status quo ante is impossible. And the letter-soupers know that. In fact, they are counting on it.
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A while back I was asked for data on the red/blue distribution of virus deaths. It had already been posted and I didn’t feel like doomscrolling through a 900-post thread looking for it. I just found an even better illustration:
While the focus is on excess deaths not reported as Covid look at the two bar charts about halfway down. 2020 didn’t show an appreciable partisan effect, 2021 did.
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A while back, I think @glitch99 pointed out that republicans are older than democrats. That link you just posted didn’t weight ages of the populations in those counties at all.
I’m not sure who’s fatter, but there is a decent chance that the population of the reddest counties in the country is fatter than the population in the bluest counties in the country as well. Considering age and obesity are the biggest factors in determining the likelihood of death from COVID, without weighting those two factors, any red/blue comparison is incomplete.
I would bet that if you took those factors into account, any remaining difference is probably explained by lack of vaccine uptake in rural red counties vs urban blue counties. As far as excess “other” deaths, I agree with the author’s third explanation - more deaths in red rural counties occur at home with no positive covid test vs. in a hospital with a covid test in blue urban counties.
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I’ll leave Xerty to address the fallacy of attributing “excess deaths” as “unreported covid deaths”.
But this jumped out:
For families who have lost loved ones to causes related to the pandemic, if that death is not assigned to Covid-19, they will miss out on important benefits, including funeral aid from FEMA (up to $35,500).
Wait, I thought so many insisted that it was a myth that there were financial incentives for a death being labeled due to covid?
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This is also true.
Our results suggest that county-level obesity risk may be positively associated with established, county-level, voter preferences for Republican candidates
Admittedly in the above paper, from about 10 years ago, the largest single predictor of obesity was (lack of) education and followed closely by poverty. Being black was also fairly bad, and the political affiliation factor was 1/5-1/10 the size of these others (but statistically significant). They attributed this, without much evidence, to the kinds of anti-obesity policies used by R party local government being less effective than D party local government.
In these modern days of Fat Glorification (rather than fat shaming), I bet the gap is narrowing and we can all agree to be fat, even if we can’t agree on much else.
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