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Rep. Keith Self misgendered Sarah McBride last year and she misgendered him right back, "Thank you, Madam Speaker”! I've heard mixed ethical to the ethics of misgendering cis people (is misgendering never okay?) so I'm curious about your thoughts?
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All I can is that in my high school days if a teacher had intentionally misgendered a student all of us (and that's every student) would have misgendered that teacher right back. And it's the sort of thing that would stick thru their entire time at the school.
Rep. Keith Self misgendered Sarah McBride last year and she misgendered him right back, "Thank you, Madam Speaker”! I've heard mixed ethical to the ethics of misgendering cis people (is misgendering never okay?) so I'm curious about your thoughts? |
Rep. Keith Self misgendered Sarah McBride last year and she misgendered him right back, "Thank you, Madam Speaker”! I've heard mixed ethical to the ethics of misgendering cis people (is misgendering...
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All I can is that in my high school days if a teacher had intentionally misgendered a student all of us (and that's every student) would have misgendered that teacher right back. And it's the sort of thing that would stick thru their entire time at the school.
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He's the future King of England, and a decade ago he did something no royal had ever dared: he put his face on the cover of a gay magazine. Today Prince William turns 44.
It was 2016, just days after the Orlando nightclub massacre, when William fronted Attitude and sat down with young LGBTQ people who'd been bullied to breaking point. His message to them was simple: you have nothing to be ashamed of.
Three years later he became the first royal to visit an LGBTQ youth homelessness charity, where someone asked how he'd react if one of his kids came out. "Absolutely fine by me," he said - his only worry being how cruel the world might be to them.
When footballer Jake Daniels came out in 2022, William was there with public support. Quietly, he's become the most openly pro-LGBTQ senior royal we've got.
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It was 2016, just days after the Orlando nightclub massacre, when William fronted Attitude and sat down with young LGBTQ people who'd been bullied to breaking point. His message to them was simple: you have nothing to be ashamed of.
Three years later he became the first royal to visit an LGBTQ youth homelessness charity, where someone asked how he'd react if one of his kids came out. "Absolutely fine by me," he said - his only worry being how cruel the world might be to them.
When footballer Jake Daniels came out in 2022, William was there with public support. Quietly, he's become the most openly pro-LGBTQ senior royal we've got.
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Trans persons are real.
So is God.
Religions are artificial, irrefutably human constructs.
It's a foolish error to conflate God and religion.
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Far smarter people than anyone posting here have been trying to prove the existence of god for centuries with absolutely no success.
BTW, if we're going to claim that god is real the obvious question is "Which god?".
Proving a falsehood, no matter how desperately believed, is unachievable folly.
Demonstrating the truth may not even qualify as a challenge.
Those that do not know, as well as those that do, are free to stroll through the forest, find a stout tree, and introduce themselves.
If the tree is emblazoned with a MADE IN CHINA sticker, and a California Prop 65 Cancer & Reproductive Harm Warning Label pick another.
This error is a conflation of God and religion, the latter having little if anything to do with the former.
With that clarification the question might seem to be not "Which god", but "which religion".
Volumes have been written on this. To condense all that down to a simple enlightening paragraph or two:
In our universe there are things that are man-made, including religion, and "everything else", the planet Jupiter for example.
"Everything else" is called creation. And there can't be a creation without a creator. Some that have insinuated themselves as experts call that creator "God".
Why squabble? Those that prefer "creation" are equally free to say so.
The catastrophic divergence begins when human religious constructs are falsely tied to this natural process.
The Holy Bible is fine. BUT !
It's an artifact, a curiosity of history. Those interested in studying religion should heed it.
Those interested in studying God should stroll in the forest, with both eyes & mind wide open.
"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief." Gerry Spence, Attorney at Law
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You can add people without kids who are deeply affected by trans youths using school washrooms to that circle.
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The Texas Republican Party’s biennial convention brought about a set of anti-trans provisions that, if enacted, would be among the most draconian in the country — including a ban on all gender-affirming care up to the age of 26 that extends to legal name changes, an absolute prohibition on transgender people working or volunteering in public schools, and a ban on private businesses expressing any support for transgender people.
“Gender Identity Ideology in Schools: The official position of the Texas schools shall be that there are only two genders: biological male and biological female, which are immutable and cannot be changed. We support the total prohibition of so-called social transitioning. We oppose transgender normalizing curriculum, library materials, and pronoun use. We support the prohibition of transgender individuals from serving in any school district positions, including in volunteer roles, and mandate the exclusive use of pronouns corresponding to a person's biological sex at birth.”
Plank 116 of the platform prohibits school staff from "engaging in sexualized drag activities, crossdressing, or transgenderism."
The platform also calls for the criminal prosecution of parents of transgender youth under child abuse statutes — something Governor Abbott has already attempted, directing the Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate families of trans children in 2022.
Plank 150 states: "Any agency, individual, or other entity promoting, performing, or facilitating gender-transitioning or gender-modification of a minor child shall be criminally prosecuted for child abuse and exposed to civil actions, enjoying no immunity regardless of profession, relation, or standing." Importantly, the platform does not stop at minors.
Plank 149 extends its prohibitions to legal adults as old as 25, banning all gender-affirming "medical or mental health intervention for persons between the ages of 18 and 26," including not just surgery, puberty blockers, and hormones, but even "assigning name and/or pronoun changes.”
The platform also targets the private sector. Under the heading "Religious Freedom for Business," Plank 203 calls for removing laws that "force business owners and employees to violate their conscience, sincerely held beliefs, or core values" — providing legal cover for businesses to discriminate against
transgender people. But for businesses that want to be supportive, the platform offers no such freedom. Plank 203(c) goes further than any state party platform in the country, calling for an outright ban on businesses expressing support for transgender people.
Lastly, the platform does not just target transgender people — it targets LGBT+ people broadly. Its section on homosexuality opens with a declaration that would not be out of place in the 1950s: "Homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice."
Plank 152 endorses conversion therapy for people of "any age with identity disorder or unwanted same-sex attraction" — a practice condemned by every major medical organization in the country.
Plank 208 declares the party is "opposed to same-sex parenting, intentionally subjecting a child to the loss of their biological father or mother, and other non-traditional definitions of family."
And Plank 211 calls for nullifying Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage, stating it "has no basis in the Constitution."
Taken together, the platform reads as a blueprint for rolling back not just transgender rights but decades of LGBT+ civil rights progress.
Texans now wait to see which draconian policy from the platform gets implemented in 2027 by a party that seeks to make the conditions of life impossible for transgender people.
Source: Erin In The Morning
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