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Sounds like "Jim'll Fix It" Jimmy Saville. Not a good precedent. Look it up, it has all kinds of facets you'll love like grooming and pedophilia

too bad the D's can't capitalize on any of this.... unified party with strong political skills plz

Well what would you WANT the leading cause of kids' deaths to be? Cancer??! Furk you buddy

^^^ yep, and it's crazy to contemplate. Similarly, a friend of mine said teachers would slap her parents when they were kids in school, for speaking Spanish. The shame was ingrained and so her parents never taught her Spanish. I wonder if any of the Hispanics voting R internalized that kind of self-loathing when they rail against new immigrants. Progress is good.

Oh my god... can I take back my negs, I am so, so sorry, I didn't realize

Wait, what about tyranny of the majority? I thought you right-wingers were all about individual rights and freedom ... but now you're all for passing laws about speech?

He's the Don Huffines of shitty ballad singers

Kids have families. This fact happens to come up at school. It doesn't have to even be about marriage. And marriage doesn't equal "sex." As some well know. So no one should be mentioning their parents I guess, since some kids have same-sex parents? Or are just the kids in an LGBT family not ok for the teacher to engage with t on these topics that casually come up all the time? Public schools are for everyone. Every kid. Every family. Every student should feel safe and welcome. Private school or home is the place to indoctrinate kids otherwise. My son has two moms. Ever since he's been of school age, I have never wanted him to feel shamed, singled out, stigmatized, less than, or othered due to that fact. Imagine that.

Fucking over good teachers is more than a happy byproduct of the Republican anti-gay agenda. Their ultimate goal of course, as stated by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, is to defund/deligitimize public schools. There are still quite a lot of conservatives who don't directly agree because they have no recourse to educating their young'uns apart from public schools, but they are happily being used as pawns toward this end in the whole "parental rights" movement.

Once again. If a kid talks about their mom and dad, no one will think twice. Do you think otherwise? But if a kid mentions their mom and other mom and any questions or comments arise, you're square in the target zone of this law. It's about setting heteronormative people as the default, the "normal" ones, for whom talking about their family is acceptable, and sending the message that anyone not within the norm creates a "sexuality" discussion that can't be had. It's purposely vague and purposely insidious.

they are intentionally conflating "sex"/gender/orientation with teaching sexuality. The fact of a person's identity doesn't include specific sexual information but they rely on the rubes to be unable to think that logically.

How much better the world would be if policies weren't based on pure ignorance and fear. By the way, gender identity typically develops in children between the ages of 3 and 5. So the hysterical shouting that depicts trans kids as having some fantastical delusion is flat wrong. Give this piece a read, I thought it was pretty well done... In four years of medical school, three years of residency training, and nearly 30 years in practice as a family physician I have never been asked “what is the definition of a woman?” Seems obvious that one could just look at the genitalia. You’re either a boy or a girl, right? Well, not always. Although it’s rare, many people are born with ambiguous genitalia. The OB/GYN and the pediatrician are simply unable to determine the sex. Historically, in consultation with the family, a sex would be assigned. Turns out that often as not the child would ultimately identify with the sex they were not assigned. So it must be the chromosomes. The 23rd pair in humans is designated XX in females and XY in males. The Y chromosome determines male characteristics, so you are either a boy or a girl, right? Well, not always. In embryology the default setting is female. The Y chromosome normally triggers male development. Ever heard of testicular feminization syndrome, now more properly referred to as androgen insensitivity syndrome? A normal XY baby is born with essentially normal female external genitalia. The body simply does not respond to androgens associated with the Y chromosome. As the child grows and enters puberty there will be normal female breast development and other feminine characteristics. Unless genetic testing has been done at some point, the abnormality is not discovered until the teenage daughter presents to the doctor with concerns that menstruation has not started. Examination will reveal that the vagina ends in a blind pouch, no uterus, and undescended testes. They are often very feminine - cheerleaders, beauty pageant contestants, etc. Nearly everybody is a normal XX or XY, has anatomy to match, and is perfectly at peace with themselves. But not everybody. Several studies have identified how the sexual diversity between men and women does not exclusively involve the genitals, but also the development of different brain areas. And just as genitals can be ambiguous, or not match what XY would predict,so can the brain in some instances develop in a different direction than the genitals. Animal studies suggest this is likely due to atypical levels of sex hormones in the womb. Studies in the human brain have involved an area of the limbic system known as the nucleus of the terminal stria. The volume of this area appears to be influenced by the stimulation of sex hormones during brain development, and in men the volume of this area is greater than in women. Scans of this area in transgender women (genetic/anatomic men who identify as females) resemble that of non transgender females. In this matter gender identity develops from the complex interactions between sex hormones and brain during its development; moreover, this appears to be genetically predetermined and is not influenced by hormonal stimuli during the adult phase. Gender dysphoria often begins in childhood and can lead to severe distress, depression, and suicide. Treatment includes thorough psychological and medical evaluation and psychotherapy. Hormonal treatments in children are designed to delay puberty until decisions about appropriate gender characteristics can be made. The treatments are not permanent and are REVERSIBLE. Sex change (gender reassignment) operations are not done on children. (Rare exception might be in the case of ambiguous genitalia where surgery may be done to make genital appearance more consistent with the genetic sex). Unfortunately there are many people who cannot or will not understand that someone different from themselves might really be different for a real reason. I recently watched a video of a Fox News personality guffawing, in an arrogant and grotesque display of not knowing what one does not know, about how "woke liberals" were looking into the science of what makes someone a man or a woman. I hope the information provided here explains why that question is not quite as simple as it sounds. It is also unfortunate in Texas that people with political power seem to think that trans people just want to get on the girls' track team to win a lot of medals or get in the girls' rest room to watch them pee. Governor Abbott, Lt Gov Patrick, and AG Paxton have shown profound ignorance and cruelty in decreeing treatment for these kids to be child abuse. Even right wing columnist Mona Charen called Abbott's behavior "malice masquerading as policy making". It is really no different than lunchroom bullies knocking the food tray out of the little autistic kid's hand and having a big laugh over it. And the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, AMA, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the Endocrine Society have expressed outrage. I would hope that someone will share this with a conservative friend. For most of us it seems ridiculous that a guy would think he is a woman, or a woman to think she is a man. The human brain and human body are complex and wondrous and get it right almost every time, but sometimes they get it different. And different should not be wrong, and different people and their families should not be attacked by their own government. - Joe McCreight, MD

Back to Rudy....some mouth breather (a whole lot, actually) on a FB thread was butthurt that Jeong walked out because Rudy is "a great American." I went for the low-hanging fruit (heh) of asking if great Americans try to get with girls they think are 15... he had NO idea what I was talking about...that's what we're dealing with... I'm sure Fox et. al. never even mentioned the whole Rudy-with-hands-down-his-pants fiasco.

and will the D's have an ounce of messaging strength to get this to the public at large?? They're getting steamrolled every which way.

linky pls?

I feel like I lived the nightmare, basically. Freshman year, final exam in classic civilizations (Prof. Gareth Morgan for the win). Had partied all night for some stupid reason and finally fell into bed at an ungodly hour. Woke up to daylight streaming in and was like wtf? Saw that my alarm didn't go off because I set it for 8 PM instead of AM. The exam had already started. I sprinted across campus in my pajamas and some kind of shower shoes, looking like a freak. Got to Hogg Auditorium and flung open a side door. Well, that door opened up onto the frigging stage. So I burst in on stage in front of everyone, dragging ass and feeling like shit but also confused, not least because I was probably still drunk and hadn't fully hit the hangover stage yet. Got a good amount of applause, at least. Prof. just silently hands me the exam. Got a B!!

Cause a crisis, "solve" a crisis = winning formula for the do-nothing R's

He was the voice of the spongmonkeys?? I loved them. THEY GOT A PEPPER BAAAR

Decision in Crystal Mason case (lady who got 5 yrs for "illegal voting" in TX) going to drop pretty soon, you didn't hear it from me.

and you just know that Hunter Biden was involved, that sleazy mf'er

but they indicted the NY lt. gov with a serious quickness. Hmmmm

This is sad and I seriously want to know if the lizard is ok, or if it's dead. I loathe people who are mean to animals.

ever seen Dancer in the Dark?

They're going to keep taking it further and further until the people rise up and stop them. If we ever do.

Federalist society dismantling the administrative state is proceeding apace.