8 Democrats Help Pass GOP Bill Forcing Teachers To Out Transgender Students
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8 Democrats Help Pass GOP Bill Forcing Teachers To Out Transgender Students
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/8-democrats-pass-bill-forcing-teachers-to-out-trans-students_n_6a0f2d3ee4b084c012e3b6d4
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Gluesenkamp Perez has been the Fetterman of the House
>It also bars teachers from talking about transgender people or issues in the classroom, which means books that include transgender characters or that address the existence of transgender people would be banned. It would also ban LGBTQ+ school groups.
>Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.), chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus and a 24-year educator, said the bill puts transgender youth at serious risk. He noted that 40% of homeless youth are LGBTQ+, and it’s largely because they’ve been rejected by their families.
>“Republicans claim to be the party of small government, but they have no problem bringing the full force of the federal government down against children,” Takano said in a statement. “The GOP thinks they can legislate transgender people out of existence with this inhumane ‘Don’t Say Trans’ bill, but all they’re doing is making life worse for a small minority of already-vulnerable children.”
>Tyler Hack, executive director of the Christopher Street Project, which helps elect transgender people to office, said the House vote simply marks “yet another escalation in Republicans’ sick obsession with criminalizing queer people and trans youth.”
>“Every student deserves the dignity and freedom to decide when — and to whom — they share who they are,” Hack said in a statement. “At a time when politicians should be focused on lowering costs and supporting working families, they are instead targeting queer and trans people — using them as political props in a cynical strategy to divide the country.”
Correction: 8 Democrats signed on to imperiling trans kids, placing them in the crosshairs of potential abuse.
Christian nationalists know darn well this bill will lead to many trans kids being abused by their parents, and they are glad to make this happen.
Christian nationalists would rather kids be dead than live happily in their authentic selves. They think they are “saving kids souls”, by having kids be abused by their parents, as if they are having themselves abused out of being queer.
Democrats that signed off on this should be ashamed of themselves. This is such a tragedy, the trans genocide in America.
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People sent to concentration camps:
“Undocumented” people <- you are here
Trans people
The rest of the queer community
Racial minorities
Anyone who is deemed insufficiently republican
The party of ‘small government’ and ‘local control’ has no problem using the full power of the federal government to mandate the surveillance of middle schoolers.
Won’t this still have a tough time in the Senate as it requires 60 votes and even with Fetterman’s vote, they are no way close.
There are always just enough Democrats voting with Republicans on bills that really matter. If one vote is needed, then one Democrat changes sides. If eight are needed, then eight step up. What should we understand from this?
Primary Primary Primary. Democrats have to be ruthless with traitors.
“Democratic Reps. Henry Cuellar (Texas), Donald Davis (N.C.), Cleo Fields (La.), Laura Gillen (N.Y.), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), Marcy Kaptur (Ohio), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.) and Eugene Vindman (Va.) all voted for this bill.”
Bro wtf
Second time I’ve seen that Vindman character pop up supporting trash GOP stuff.
Souless pieces of shit
As a Washingtonian with trans family, Marie GP can suck a bag of fucks.
the fact this is happening is such a disgrace. I fall into the category of straight white dude so I cant even imagine what it must feel to live in a first world country and actively fear for my freedom or safety over just being different than what some people have decided is the only acceptable way of being or being lucky enough to be a sex that doesnt get told what to do with your own body. Like the fear some people must have felt when they woke up one morning in ( cant remember the state ) and found that your driving licence is now invalid because it has your name on it or there is going to be detransitioning camps ( like what the actual fk) or reading any sort of the repulsive language that comes out of the whitehouse and its other departments constantly and realising that the government that “should” be protecting you as a citizen of your country is now actively hostile to you. I hope all this shit gets reversed if and when the government changes and its not too late and people have the foresight to enshrine this stuff in laws that dont just seem to rely on casual agreements that the law wont be turned on people of at risk communities to damage them. Stay safe.
Evil.
Interesting priority for the house that does sweet fuck all lately.
As a teacher, I would never.
If you don’t know your kid, I won’t inform you
Genuinely what the fuck do democrats stand for? This party is fucked.
That’s it, pas laws that discourage people to become or continue to be teachers. That’s one way to kill public education.
Americans thrive on cruelty.
This will put so many kids deep in a terrible closet or deeply in danger.
That’s disgusting!! I will vote out anyone who agrees to this bullshit. And if these kids commit suicide as a result… their blood will be on these people’s hands.
I have students who are seriously neglected and there are no laws protecting them. I’m talking malnourished, chronic lice, diapers in third grade, physical abuse… not shit we can do about it legally; the laws get looser and looser. Damn these effers worried about outing said children.
The trans kids outing is the headline, but it also bans LGBTQ+ student groups. Goodbye Gay-Straight Alliance for us millennials (just adding for context).
And they can all burn with the rest of the maga trash.
Maybe parents should try having a better relationship with their kids before violating their privacy.
Republicans – fuck that kids and women have no privacy!
We need to start calling the platform of people targeting trans kids “Pro Child Suicide”
Who’s paying their bills? Disgusting people
Literally wtf
“Over 200 Democrats stand with transgender students against Republican bill forcing teachers to out them”
Can’t wait to primary the fuck out of Laura Gillen. What a disgrace to the state of NY.
I’m 100% surprised to not see Jarden Golden as one of them
This will help people afford rent surely
Good luck enforcing it
to what end??? leave those people the fuck alone.
Crazy that people are talking about the fact it literally BANS DISCUSSION OF TRANS PEOPLE FROM TEACHERS.
Why is that not the headline??? This is some dystopian bullshit
It’s always fucking Cuellar. Fuck Vindman. What a fraud.
With everything going on in the world, this is what Congress is doing? AOC was right- you are obsessed! Take this nonsense to the NCAA. Adults are talking.
As a teacher, I’d very much like to know how anyone could “force me“ to reveal any information I choose not to reveal.
oh this is so pathetic
I, as a teacher, should not be involved in how you raise your children. It is not my place to insert myself into your family’s discussion on gender and gender identity. I am not trained nor am I equipped to handle such a discussion. If and when that discussion happens, it should be between the parent and the child (and possibly a mental health professional, but that’s your decision but I do recommend it if you are unsure).
My one (and really only) comment on this to parents is this: If you are concerned that your child is not telling you about their gender identity, sexuality, or how they want to express either of those, you might want to look inward as to WHY they are making that decision rather than force other people to make that decision for your child.
The current political problem we have is that the Nationalists are trying to take over from the Corporatists and were looking to the Coporatists to save us when they are just as bad.
This is why voting for centrist or even right-leaning democrats is not a better more electable solution. “Electability” means nothing if the folks you elect don’t do shit.
Cleo Fields, licking the boot and trying to fit in even as our MAGA governor redraws his district out from under him.
It sounds like we need another option. The mamdani party maybe?
100. FUCK THIS
Vote them out.
“Vote Blue No Matter Who”
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I’m a teacher. They can’t “force” me to do shit. If a kid is trans and I know it…no I don’t. Fuck these stupid swipes at civil rights. Why would I follow rules made by obvious morons?