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Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Thu Apr 07, 2022 10:50 pm

Volkonski wrote: ↑Thu Apr 07, 2022 12:56 pm

If it's intended not to be discriminatory, then it should specifically state that NO teacher is allowed to mention any aspect of their personal life to or in front of any students, including marital status or status of any non-work-related relationship, existence or number of children, personal history, family heritage, faith or religious affiliation or other information not immediately pertinent to the cause of providing children with an education meeting the curriculum standards set by the state.

Volkonski wrote: ↑Thu Apr 07, 2022 10:59 pm

Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Thu Apr 07, 2022 10:50 pm

Volkonski wrote: ↑Thu Apr 07, 2022 12:56 pm

If it's intended not to be discriminatory, then it should specifically state that NO teacher is allowed to mention any aspect of their personal life to or in front of any students, including marital status or status of any non-work-related relationship, existence or number of children, personal history, family heritage, faith or religious affiliation or other information not immediately pertinent to the cause of providing children with an education meeting the curriculum standards set by the state.

Yep. Nor should teachers tell students what their (the teachers') gender are. All teachers to be addressed only as "Professor XXX" where XXX is an identifying number.

Robbie 🌮🦝 @Robbiepierce wrote: Well that didn't take long. We decided to take a trip on Amtrak with the kids for spring break. 9 hours into a pleasant ride, a man was suddenly standing next to me, shouting across me at my 6yo son, "Remember what I told you. They stole you. They're pedophiles."

I stood between the stranger and my son, whose life has already been so hard, who carries traumas larger than his whole small, fierce frame. I was immovable. "Get away from my family." [2/10]

"Family!? That's not a family! You're rapists. You steal black & Asian kids." My son and my 5yo daughter were both now openly crying, petrified. He yelled right at them, unmoved: "These guys aren't natural. Homosexuals are an abomination. They steal and rape kids." [3/10]

It was suddenly no longer an absurd, abstract attack in an online comments section or a distant legislative session. These horrors were being screamed @ my sweet bewildered son, who's worked so hard to process his grief & control his feelings, who only wants love & safety. [4/10]

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC wrote: NEW: The Florida Department of Health just issued guidelines telling doctors to medically de-transition all transgender youth and banned them from social transition treatment, including “name, pronoun, and clothing changes.”

Here is the memo from the Florida Department of Health saying that “social gender transition” should NOT be an option for youth, including “name, pronoun, and clothing changes.”

Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 21, 2022 2:03 pm I don’t completely understand the trans movement, but I don’t judge.

Lani wrote: ↑Fri Apr 22, 2022 4:30 am When was I was pregnant, I was told told my baby was intersex. I was pushed to abortion. I refused. My partner left me. It turned out that the amniocentesis included my dna & the fetus. So I had a male baby. But the I remember my of love baby no matter what.

Heartland Signal @HeartlandSignal wrote: Missouri State Rep. Pollock (R) presents her anti-trans "Save Adolescents from Experimentation" bill, saying youth questioning their gender is like an "infection that becomes septic" and that autism may be an underlying cause.

Reps. Weber (D) and Ingle (D) call her out.

Willie @WillieETCarver wrote: I'm a proud gay man, I am the 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, and I'm afraid to return to the classroom.

I want kids to see me and feel hope, but I am tired. I've been doing this for a long time, and things are getting worse.

This is painful and I am sorry.

Penn Quakers swim team members show support for transgender athlete Lia Thomas

Members of the University of Pennsylvania women's swimming and diving team released a statement Tuesday in support of transgender teammate Lia Thomas.

"We want to express our full support for Lia in her transition," the athletes said. "We value her as a person, teammate, and friend. The sentiments put forward by an anonymous member of our team are not representative of the feelings, values, and opinions of the entire Penn team, composed of 39 women with diverse backgrounds."

Since Thomas' record-setting performance at the Zippy Invitational in December, multiple outlets have published anonymous critical comments attributed to members of the Penn swimming and diving community, including swimmers and parents. Outside of Tuesday's statement, no members of the swimming team or the coaching staff have made official comments to the media.

Said the athletes in the statement, "We recognize this is a matter of great controversy and are doing our best to navigate it while still focusing on doing our best in the pool and classroom."

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Wed May 18, 2022 7:51 pm Love it, too bad it won't be in general circulation. I'll have to order one.

Soldiers Facing Discrimination from State Laws Could Request Transfers Under Draft Army Policy

The Army is circulating a draft policy tweak that would specify that soldiers can request to move if they feel state or local laws discriminate against them based on gender, sex, religion, race or pregnancy, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the plans.

The guidance, which would update a vague service policy to add specific language on discrimination, is far from final and would need approval from Army Secretary Christine Wormuth. But if enacted, it could be one of the most progressive policies for the force amid a growing wave of local anti-LGBTQ and restrictive contraception laws in conservative-leaning states, where the Army does most of its business.

The policy would ostensibly sanction soldiers to declare that certain states are too racist, too homophobic, too sexist or otherwise discriminatory to be able to live there safely and comfortably.

"Some states are becoming untenable to live in; there's a rise in hate crimes and rise in LGBT discrmination," Lindsay Church, executive director of Minority Veterans of America, an advocacy group, told Military.com. "In order to serve this country, people need to be able to do their job and know their families are safe. All of these states get billions for bases but barely tolerate a lot of the service members."

If finalized, the new rules would clarify what situations would entitle a soldier to a so-called compassionate reassignment. Right now, those rules are vague but are mostly used for soldiers going through family problems that cannot be solved through "leave, correspondence, power of attorney, or help of family members or other parties," according to Army regulations.