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This week, Alberta has enacted its radical forced outing law in every school of the province. This is Danielle Smith, Alberta's premier and chief transphobe, in the first frame.

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Shiftless2 said:
"This week, Alberta has enacted its radical forced outing law in every school of the province. This is Danielle Smith, Alberta's premier and chief transphobe, in the first frame." S2 #923
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It may seem I'm trying to be dismissive, or derisive on this topic. The opposite is true. A society is more accurately judged not by how it reveres its heroes, but by how it treats is vulnerable.
In the four graphic frames, the only human, Premier Smith. Addressing ... ? Anyone? No one?
The remaining 3 frames also puzzling. Frame 2, no lesson on the board, no person seen in the classroom.
Frame 3, the text is white, in the other 3 frames, black. Frame 4 also personless.

The subtext, no one is listening?
 
Shiftless2 said:
"If you don't already know, there's a reason she's not telling you.
It's you. You're the problem." Alisha #931
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Parenting cannot be easy.
Alisha may be right.
But I wouldn't be too quick to judge Emily harshly.
It's unlikely parents that go to the trouble to bear and feed their own children would simultaneously sabotage, antagonize them.

Life is tough for each of us.
Many parents have a vague if incomplete understanding of the additional complications of non-cis life.
Even for those that cannot forgive this amorphous parental aversion, it's likely to be a mistake to attribute it to malice.

There's even some slim statistical justification for such parental narrow-mindedness.
To illustrate, some may be committed unreservedly to a gender, their own, or the opposite. 100%
For some others it may be a ratio.
And since this ratio is not displayed in decimal precision on the child's forehead, the parent muddles through, presumably with the best interests of the child at heart.

We can criticize perceived parental failings.
But as Eleanor Roosevelt observed, "It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness."

Enunciating a perceived divergence from our own subjective optimal can be a constructive first step if followed with a beneficial alternative.
Without the latter, the former is merely fault-finding, a form of communication no better than gossip.
 
If SHE isn't telling the parent there's a reason.

And Emily's post points us in the right direction - she refers to her SON turning up at school as Samantha - If SHE is turning up as Samantha Emily is going to have to accept that she's got a daughter, not a son.

On a related note, some 40% of homeless youths are members of the LGBTQ community. Some were thrown out and others left because the situation "at home" was intolerable.
 
Shiftless2 said:
"If SHE isn't telling the parent there's a reason." S2 #933
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And potentially a sensible practical reason.
Living under the same roof, sharing a meal daily with such persons tends to provide insight into their potential / likely reaction, on basis of their previous reactions to conceptually similar situations.

Shiftless2 said:
"And Emily's post points us in the right direction - she refers to her SON turning up at school as Samantha - If SHE is turning up as Samantha Emily is going to have to accept that she's got a daughter, not a son." S2 #933
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That's one way of looking at it, a sensible way perhaps, for unconnected 3rd party observers.
But I'm not too quick to condemn a mother that endured the pain of childbirth, followed by a year or two of changing diapers, for basing her perception on the genitalia that have confronted her literally since day one.

My own mother was never quite able to fully abandon her perception of me as a young boy, even as I'd entered middle-age.

That's not an endorsement of gender dysphoria.
It's an acknowledgement that when humans must distinguish between a physical certitude such as unambiguous genital configuration, and a cognitive preference not their own, (how someone else feels)
we ought not be surprised that the physical, the visible has the advantage.

Shiftless2 said:
"On a related note, some 40% of homeless youths are members of the LGBTQ community. Some were thrown out and others left because the situation "at home" was intolerable." S2 #933
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a) Tragic, but good to know. ☑️
b) Presuming this to be substantially true, rather than harshly criticizing the parentally inept,
is it not more constructive to suggest a better course?

Those on the sidelines can shriek their criticism: - Hey! You're doing it WRONG ! -

- OR - Instead, how about:

"Have you considered trying this instead ...?"

note:
I, sear, a humble admin. with an abundance to be humble about, am woefully ill-equipped to provide lucid practical guidance here.
But due to the importance of what is at stake, perhaps this amateur example may be of some benefit:

To the inept parents mentioned in S2's related note in #933 can we offer this?

Inept parent:
You have no more chance of talking your child out of their own god-given gender identity than your child has of doing so to you.
In coarsest metaphor: "Don't try to teach pigs to sing. It wastes your time, and annoys the pigs."
Children can benefit from constructive parental understanding, not criticizing them for what they are not, but acknowledging what they are.

Seems vague?
Perhaps the serenity prayer may help simplify / clarify:

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference."

If you love your children, they just might love you back.
 

America's largest gun lobby speaks out as Trump admin mulls possible trans firearms ban​

Department of Justice officials are reportedly considering placing restrictions on trans people in the wake of Annunciation School shooting
By Michael Dorgan , Ashley Oliver Fox News / Published September 6, 2025 12:38pm EDT
The National Rifle Association (NRA) has sounded off on reports that the Trump administration is mulling a way of limiting transgender people’s ability to purchase firearms.
The gun lobby group, the largest in the U.S. with 5 million members according to its website, released a statement Friday reinforcing its commitment that all law-abiding Americans have a right to bear arms.
www.foxnews.com

America's largest gun lobby speaks out as Trump admin mulls possible trans firearms ban

The National Rifle Association released a statement as the Trump administration mulls a way of limiting transgender people from purchasing guns.
www.foxnews.com www.foxnews.com
 
So, depending on the citizen's location, they can have an AR-15 or an AK-47, but they can't transition?

Not deadly enough ?
 
Tax paying voters in good standing can choose either side in this debate.

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Apparently this form of misrepresentation is persuasive to MAGA-values voters.
Many of them are tuned to single source "news", and thus may never encounter
the rational counterargument.

And acceptance of discrimination against this seemingly small minority functions politically
like a toe in the door for discrimination against larger groups, for more varied reasons.
 
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