"It is important to WCPSS policies regarding employee dress and appearance should protect children from being exposed to more complex and mature gender-identity questions and concepts at too young of an age."
As a trans child who would have been immeasurably helped by the visibility of myself in adults, it's offensive that this is categorized as a 'mature' topic. My suffering in the darkness of a closet that didn't even have a name when I was a child was torture and now that we have a name for it, it's called 'mature'.
Children aren't empty vessels to be filled, they're developing adults with complex identities and deserve exposure to diversity and support as early as possible.
This is one of the primary reasons I decided to be involved in the PTO board at my son's school as a trans mom! Representation is important for everyone, and that includes queer and trans students seeing adults like them living happily in their community.
Jordan, please don’t put all of us boomers in the same regressive basket. My transgender husband and I are proud boomers and we’ll fight for trans youth rights to be who they are safely, joyfully, and successfully til our last breath on this earth.
Hey! Sorry for sounding like I was grouping people together.
The term is really just a rally against the selfishness and hypocrisy of the culture of the generation at large. Generations are representative of pervading cultures and their impact on society. I don't want to think of it as a personal attack; it's a treatise against these values.
As trans people, we're familiar with receiving the first pass judgments that don't necessarily relate to our experiences. I like to think that my existence is the opportunity to prove to people that trans people aren't scary and break from their expectations and I lean into that.
I'm grateful for your message and the chance to make more contact with people like yourselves. We each contain multitude. I hope we can make a better world together.
I appreciate and agree with what you wrote - until you blamed it on Boomers. Many of the people protesting had school aged children. Probably not Boomers. Blaming only one generation for a problem is bigotry.
It's not bigotry. In the context that I wrote it, it's an adjective (I could have made it `Boomerly`). That's meaningful because it doesn't blame a person or a group of people, but the description of the group. We can blame the ethics and values of a generation that has systematically destroyed the safety nets and systems that would have helped younger generations to not be in the current economic purgatory (or hell) that many find ourselves in.
I am a millennial. We were blamed for killing a lot of things (in the "Millennials are killing..." sense of media past). Taking that personally makes no sense. That is not bigotry but in the argument above it would be.
I appreciate what your wrote as well. It's important to talk. I think it's more important to get to work fixing the above together.
If you can't admit that we have a problem and that it's related to the values and power structures associated with the generation that holds the most power and wealth in our current system, then we can't really have a conversation.
You tried, Judy. You have more patience than I do. I've resolved not to debate millenials with more than one comment.
I said millenials because their generation has bad logic. But I didn't say millenials are illogical. However, we can all agree that millenials represent illogic and thus are responsible for all illogical consequences that have negatively affected every other generation. Please don't misrepresent my generation by disagreeing with me and suggesting some of us are logical.
I have no knowledge of your generational status, nor am I, given your obvious and clueless bigotry, the least bit interested in discovering anything else about you. Before I joyfully block you, allow me to state clearly: BOOMERS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM. BIGOTS--like YOU, JORDAN--ARE. THE. PROBLEM. Kindly fuck off and i do not mean it in a nice way.
I suppose we know how this script goes, but I do hope this time it goes our way.
"But the district and the teacher had many who showed up in her defense, and the meeting finally closed with no capitulation to any of the anti-trans activists in the room." <-- Very, very good to hear!
Ahh yes, the policing of our bodies and how we dress and bring out the old and tired right-wing religious tropes, whipped up by the flames of people not even in the school district (even national anti- activists piled on as Erin pointed out). Stay strong Wake County School Board!!
I choose to focus on the fact that so many people showed up in support of our community. In this moment in history - when support for us is no longer performative and carries serious costs - certain people still came forward and stood with us as allies.
96% of all child sex abuse cases resulting in convictions in the United States are by cisgender MEN, not women of any sort. We Trans folk are so much more likely to be the victim of such attacks and we report at low rates because of the increased risks if we should be so careless as to choose to attempt justice.
In my time facilitating trans femme peer support groups it was rare to encounter a woman WITHOUT at least one experience of sexual harassment or abuse under the age of 18. I personally believe the rates of abuse for cisgender girls and women, trans female persons, and nonbinary folks are far, FAR higher and our police, reporting, and adjudication systems are all FUCKED.
Pedophilia is a cisgender disease.
If "we" as a society REALLY want.to keep "all children safe", cis het men would have to be prevented from any contact with them until age 18 and even then the youth should be armed with a beanbag gun, milspec pepper spray, shock gloves, and a kevlar hoodie. It's only fair, considering the strength, experience, predatoriness, privilege, and monetary advantages adult cis het males possess.
I mean...if we REALLY cared about children.
Nine EU countries have investigated citizens appearing in the Epstein Files plus the UK. Dozens have been arrested, many quit office, dynasties in disarray, jobs, CEO positions lost, several gone to PRISON.
He sounds like he would prefer critical thinking and literacy to be banned too. Possibly even higher mathematics as they could be used in ungodly ways. And the biological sciences, evolution, microbiology, virology, genetics, monoclonal antibodies, stem cell research, advanced biologics, IVF, all would I'm sure be RIGHT OUT.
Wonder how he feels about God's will vs. Viagra and Cialis?
Again, we have a group of zealot individuals and organizations pushing unfounded, bigoted, and racist fears about a transgender teacher who hasn’t even had the opportunity to step into the classroom.
They showed up at a school meeting to oppose her before she has even begun teaching. Instead of attacking a teacher based on prejudice, perhaps they should focus their energy on the budget cuts threatening their schools—cuts that can actually harm students, teachers, and the quality of education. Creating teacher dress codes is not the answer.
Thankfully, there were people who stood up and defended this teacher. That is what courage looks like: judging someone by their ability to teach, not by their gender identity.
Our children deserve better than fear, hatred, and bigotry masquerading as concern for education.
As a 67 year old trans woman who discovered herself after 63 years. These laws have nothing to do with protecting women and girls. They just want trans people to be gone. I am not going anywhere anytime soon. That's promise. I am so glad I live in Illinois. A very supportive community, a suburb of Chicago, in Illinois. I wish everyone was as lucky as I am.
I'm 73, almost 74, and last week, when I mentioned to my therapist that, starting when I was about two years old, I knew I didn't fit into the girl box that everyone insisted on putting me in. It wasn't that I lacked girl information (I had three younger sisters), and my family lived about five miles from Berkeley (California.) I was around during the Summer of Love in San Francisco; I was later involved in the anti-Vietnam War movement, and I worked in feminist organizations, wrote for a feminist newspaper, and minored in Women's Studies at a women's college. So, yeah, there was no mystery there. But I still didn't fit. My therapist asked, "What if there were people in your life who said not fitting in the box was ok, was an option?" Damned if I know. I just kept my mouth shut, as I was trained to do. Thank you, Erin, from this "still figuring it out" elder, for breaths of fresh air.
Take your time. If it’s helpful, when I realized at 50 that I had options (and that I needed options,) my doctor suggested that I just try on the identity of male for a bit. Doing so was a really weird life changer, because for me, it was like I had just had a watch repair person adjust the timing of my watch. It was instantaneous. But I took a year to get there. It started when I overheard myself say to someone else who was trans and was talking about people calling her a crossdresser, “I feel like I’m cross dressing—every time I go out in public I check to see if I pass as a woman.” I was like, oh, hey, wait a minute, did I just say that? 😂
I hope that’s helpful. Every one of us has our own story, though, so take whatever time you need.
Thank you. Actually, I've spent some of those 72 years trying on being male, at various times and in various ways. Example: you know how adults ask kids what they want to do when they grow up? At age 2, and then clear through 9th grade (when I began my unwanted, painful, and altogether horrific, female puberty) I consistently said I wanted to be a cowboy. Every adult around me told me that, "No, dear, you want to be a cow*girl*." I finally shut up because it was clear they weren't hearing what I was saying. I knew perfectly well that my birth certificate said I was female. I knew perfectly well that I had a girl's name. I knew perfectly well that I had to wear girl clothes (Or. Else. The 1950s and 60s were very harsh on people who didn't conform to gender expectations.) But--and this is something I rarely articulate--in my head, I was a cowboy, I called myself David, and I wore jeans and cowboy boots and a cowboy hat. So, yeah, I tried out being other than female--and got punished harshly for it. It's stuff like that that lead me to say now that "I'm still figuring it out." Maybe I'm too old. Maybe I'm non-binary. I honestly don't know.
I thought I was "too old" in my twenties, and I still regret ever listening to that internalized 𝘭𝘪𝘦 as I turn the corner on forty. There is no such thing as "too old." That's just another cruel thing that the people who'd rather we not exist put in our heads so we never dare to follow our dreams. And as for still figuring it out... I once knew a man who didn't know he was gay until he was fifty years deep in a heterosexual marriage with children and grandchildren in the picture. I don't think there's a timeline on muddling through the layers of obfuscation society erects around our queer identities. You learn what you learn when you learn it, and you process that into a sense of self... well, however long it takes, it takes. We always wish for sooner, but there's no shame in finding yourself simply whenever and however you do.
What I can say for sure, beyond even the hint of a shadow of a doubt, is that I'd rather figure out who I truly am in the very last hour of my life, than never learn the answer at all. I rather think you've long since earned the right to do whatever suits you, wherever your journey leads... explanation owed only to the face in your bathroom mirror. I'm certain everyone in this comment section will happily raise a glass to whosoever you find in yourself at the end of that journey.
I had similar experiences. I’m 62. I had two older brothers; we were each 1 1/2 years apart in age. My mom always admonished me for competing with my brothers, made me wear dresses (in the 70’s!?), etc.. My earliest memory is of declaring that I was a boy. On and on. It was always, “stop trying to be somebody you’re not,” really all of my life. I had understood early on that male or female was about genitals whereas gender roles were a ridiculous old fashioned carryover from days gone by. How my mom could insist that I not pursue a career that was predominantly female because she didn’t want me to be trapped like she was and yet refuse to allow me to wear jeans or play sports, or even guitar!, was so confounding. I was like, okay, whatever, I’m female, but that doesn’t have to be a barrier to anything. It all made sense years later when I transitioned. She was fighting me about being a boy long after I had repressed it. It’s the only way I can make sense of a feminist mother who refuses to let her daughter live her own life. I think that Dr Spock book or maybe our family doctor had advised her to prevent me from doing anything remotely boyish. It was an extremely oppressive environment.
What I meant by trying on being male when I did at age 50 was more like *allowing* myself to be male. At the time, trying it on was how I saw it. Allowing it was what it became. Truly liberating.
Addendum: I forgot to say that for all of those years of people complaining about me trying to be someone I’m not, I kept saying and thinking I’m just being me. As a child, as an adult, without the notion that I had an option to be male, I was simply being myself. I hadn’t realized that there was whole other level—that of actually being a man or that that in itself would make a difference. For me, it does.
Thank you. I didn't have older brothers to model myself on. Plus, there was the additional complication that I had a late-diagnosed orthopoedic disability (it's usually caught at birth now; I was diagnosed at 2). I was saying last week that, for me, it was a combination of factors, over a long period of time: "just being me", not learning or liking girl stuff/clothes/toys, religious trauma, abuse (of myself as a non-conforming and disabled kid), and lots more. All of that lands me, happily or not, in the "still figuring it out" category now. Thanks for the encouragement. The nicest thing is that every day I learn something new, so every day is well-spent. At almost 74. Go figure.
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Oh yay. Further regression in to forced gender roles. Which is i am sure part of rhe point. Besides having someone to collectively hate and general policing of how people are allowed to exist in public.
If these people truly cared about children, they would be screaming for accountability for perpetrators named in the Trump-Epstein files. But their concern for children is fake. What they want is patriarchal control and power of anybody who doesn't conform to their white male entitlement narrative.
I absolutely love that both Christine Jorgensen and Marsha P. Johnson were listed as community speakers. I’m guessing most at the meeting missed their significance. I agree with others here: Stay strong Wake County School Board!
This isn’t about trans people. Any power the government is given, they apply to everyone sooner or later. This is rich white people feeling entitled to tell EVERYONE how to dress, abusing a fake issue to make precedent for it. They’re mentally very, very sick people.
"It is important to WCPSS policies regarding employee dress and appearance should protect children from being exposed to more complex and mature gender-identity questions and concepts at too young of an age."
As a trans child who would have been immeasurably helped by the visibility of myself in adults, it's offensive that this is categorized as a 'mature' topic. My suffering in the darkness of a closet that didn't even have a name when I was a child was torture and now that we have a name for it, it's called 'mature'.
Children aren't empty vessels to be filled, they're developing adults with complex identities and deserve exposure to diversity and support as early as possible.
Regressive, Boomer nonsense.
This is one of the primary reasons I decided to be involved in the PTO board at my son's school as a trans mom! Representation is important for everyone, and that includes queer and trans students seeing adults like them living happily in their community.
Thank you for stepping up and leaning in!
Jordan, please don’t put all of us boomers in the same regressive basket. My transgender husband and I are proud boomers and we’ll fight for trans youth rights to be who they are safely, joyfully, and successfully til our last breath on this earth.
Hey! Sorry for sounding like I was grouping people together.
The term is really just a rally against the selfishness and hypocrisy of the culture of the generation at large. Generations are representative of pervading cultures and their impact on society. I don't want to think of it as a personal attack; it's a treatise against these values.
As trans people, we're familiar with receiving the first pass judgments that don't necessarily relate to our experiences. I like to think that my existence is the opportunity to prove to people that trans people aren't scary and break from their expectations and I lean into that.
I'm grateful for your message and the chance to make more contact with people like yourselves. We each contain multitude. I hope we can make a better world together.
We'll struggle for these rights together. 🫶
I appreciate and agree with what you wrote - until you blamed it on Boomers. Many of the people protesting had school aged children. Probably not Boomers. Blaming only one generation for a problem is bigotry.
I hear you.
It's not bigotry. In the context that I wrote it, it's an adjective (I could have made it `Boomerly`). That's meaningful because it doesn't blame a person or a group of people, but the description of the group. We can blame the ethics and values of a generation that has systematically destroyed the safety nets and systems that would have helped younger generations to not be in the current economic purgatory (or hell) that many find ourselves in.
I am a millennial. We were blamed for killing a lot of things (in the "Millennials are killing..." sense of media past). Taking that personally makes no sense. That is not bigotry but in the argument above it would be.
I appreciate what your wrote as well. It's important to talk. I think it's more important to get to work fixing the above together.
Jordan! Stop! You literally admitted that you consider people my age regressive except maybe for a rare few like me? Stop.
This comment misrepresents what I've said above.
If you can't admit that we have a problem and that it's related to the values and power structures associated with the generation that holds the most power and wealth in our current system, then we can't really have a conversation.
But you're telling me to stop, so I'll stop. 👋
Reluctant truce
You tried, Judy. You have more patience than I do. I've resolved not to debate millenials with more than one comment.
I said millenials because their generation has bad logic. But I didn't say millenials are illogical. However, we can all agree that millenials represent illogic and thus are responsible for all illogical consequences that have negatively affected every other generation. Please don't misrepresent my generation by disagreeing with me and suggesting some of us are logical.
I think alike to that.
I have no knowledge of your generational status, nor am I, given your obvious and clueless bigotry, the least bit interested in discovering anything else about you. Before I joyfully block you, allow me to state clearly: BOOMERS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM. BIGOTS--like YOU, JORDAN--ARE. THE. PROBLEM. Kindly fuck off and i do not mean it in a nice way.
Thank you for the reporting, Erin.
I suppose we know how this script goes, but I do hope this time it goes our way.
"But the district and the teacher had many who showed up in her defense, and the meeting finally closed with no capitulation to any of the anti-trans activists in the room." <-- Very, very good to hear!
Ahh yes, the policing of our bodies and how we dress and bring out the old and tired right-wing religious tropes, whipped up by the flames of people not even in the school district (even national anti- activists piled on as Erin pointed out). Stay strong Wake County School Board!!
I choose to focus on the fact that so many people showed up in support of our community. In this moment in history - when support for us is no longer performative and carries serious costs - certain people still came forward and stood with us as allies.
As a mother, my immediate thoughts went to the students. Adults willing to express their bigoted, hateful, opinions at the expense of the students.
Release the Epstein Files.
96% of all child sex abuse cases resulting in convictions in the United States are by cisgender MEN, not women of any sort. We Trans folk are so much more likely to be the victim of such attacks and we report at low rates because of the increased risks if we should be so careless as to choose to attempt justice.
In my time facilitating trans femme peer support groups it was rare to encounter a woman WITHOUT at least one experience of sexual harassment or abuse under the age of 18. I personally believe the rates of abuse for cisgender girls and women, trans female persons, and nonbinary folks are far, FAR higher and our police, reporting, and adjudication systems are all FUCKED.
Pedophilia is a cisgender disease.
If "we" as a society REALLY want.to keep "all children safe", cis het men would have to be prevented from any contact with them until age 18 and even then the youth should be armed with a beanbag gun, milspec pepper spray, shock gloves, and a kevlar hoodie. It's only fair, considering the strength, experience, predatoriness, privilege, and monetary advantages adult cis het males possess.
I mean...if we REALLY cared about children.
Nine EU countries have investigated citizens appearing in the Epstein Files plus the UK. Dozens have been arrested, many quit office, dynasties in disarray, jobs, CEO positions lost, several gone to PRISON.
But NOT in the USA.
Weird, hunh?
Shaking my head at the ridiculous word salad by Aaron Driver. Maybe it helps that anti-trans activists sound so goofy?
He sounds like he would prefer critical thinking and literacy to be banned too. Possibly even higher mathematics as they could be used in ungodly ways. And the biological sciences, evolution, microbiology, virology, genetics, monoclonal antibodies, stem cell research, advanced biologics, IVF, all would I'm sure be RIGHT OUT.
Wonder how he feels about God's will vs. Viagra and Cialis?
Again, we have a group of zealot individuals and organizations pushing unfounded, bigoted, and racist fears about a transgender teacher who hasn’t even had the opportunity to step into the classroom.
They showed up at a school meeting to oppose her before she has even begun teaching. Instead of attacking a teacher based on prejudice, perhaps they should focus their energy on the budget cuts threatening their schools—cuts that can actually harm students, teachers, and the quality of education. Creating teacher dress codes is not the answer.
Thankfully, there were people who stood up and defended this teacher. That is what courage looks like: judging someone by their ability to teach, not by their gender identity.
Our children deserve better than fear, hatred, and bigotry masquerading as concern for education.
As a 67 year old trans woman who discovered herself after 63 years. These laws have nothing to do with protecting women and girls. They just want trans people to be gone. I am not going anywhere anytime soon. That's promise. I am so glad I live in Illinois. A very supportive community, a suburb of Chicago, in Illinois. I wish everyone was as lucky as I am.
I'm 73, almost 74, and last week, when I mentioned to my therapist that, starting when I was about two years old, I knew I didn't fit into the girl box that everyone insisted on putting me in. It wasn't that I lacked girl information (I had three younger sisters), and my family lived about five miles from Berkeley (California.) I was around during the Summer of Love in San Francisco; I was later involved in the anti-Vietnam War movement, and I worked in feminist organizations, wrote for a feminist newspaper, and minored in Women's Studies at a women's college. So, yeah, there was no mystery there. But I still didn't fit. My therapist asked, "What if there were people in your life who said not fitting in the box was ok, was an option?" Damned if I know. I just kept my mouth shut, as I was trained to do. Thank you, Erin, from this "still figuring it out" elder, for breaths of fresh air.
Take your time. If it’s helpful, when I realized at 50 that I had options (and that I needed options,) my doctor suggested that I just try on the identity of male for a bit. Doing so was a really weird life changer, because for me, it was like I had just had a watch repair person adjust the timing of my watch. It was instantaneous. But I took a year to get there. It started when I overheard myself say to someone else who was trans and was talking about people calling her a crossdresser, “I feel like I’m cross dressing—every time I go out in public I check to see if I pass as a woman.” I was like, oh, hey, wait a minute, did I just say that? 😂
I hope that’s helpful. Every one of us has our own story, though, so take whatever time you need.
Thank you. Actually, I've spent some of those 72 years trying on being male, at various times and in various ways. Example: you know how adults ask kids what they want to do when they grow up? At age 2, and then clear through 9th grade (when I began my unwanted, painful, and altogether horrific, female puberty) I consistently said I wanted to be a cowboy. Every adult around me told me that, "No, dear, you want to be a cow*girl*." I finally shut up because it was clear they weren't hearing what I was saying. I knew perfectly well that my birth certificate said I was female. I knew perfectly well that I had a girl's name. I knew perfectly well that I had to wear girl clothes (Or. Else. The 1950s and 60s were very harsh on people who didn't conform to gender expectations.) But--and this is something I rarely articulate--in my head, I was a cowboy, I called myself David, and I wore jeans and cowboy boots and a cowboy hat. So, yeah, I tried out being other than female--and got punished harshly for it. It's stuff like that that lead me to say now that "I'm still figuring it out." Maybe I'm too old. Maybe I'm non-binary. I honestly don't know.
I thought I was "too old" in my twenties, and I still regret ever listening to that internalized 𝘭𝘪𝘦 as I turn the corner on forty. There is no such thing as "too old." That's just another cruel thing that the people who'd rather we not exist put in our heads so we never dare to follow our dreams. And as for still figuring it out... I once knew a man who didn't know he was gay until he was fifty years deep in a heterosexual marriage with children and grandchildren in the picture. I don't think there's a timeline on muddling through the layers of obfuscation society erects around our queer identities. You learn what you learn when you learn it, and you process that into a sense of self... well, however long it takes, it takes. We always wish for sooner, but there's no shame in finding yourself simply whenever and however you do.
What I can say for sure, beyond even the hint of a shadow of a doubt, is that I'd rather figure out who I truly am in the very last hour of my life, than never learn the answer at all. I rather think you've long since earned the right to do whatever suits you, wherever your journey leads... explanation owed only to the face in your bathroom mirror. I'm certain everyone in this comment section will happily raise a glass to whosoever you find in yourself at the end of that journey.
I had similar experiences. I’m 62. I had two older brothers; we were each 1 1/2 years apart in age. My mom always admonished me for competing with my brothers, made me wear dresses (in the 70’s!?), etc.. My earliest memory is of declaring that I was a boy. On and on. It was always, “stop trying to be somebody you’re not,” really all of my life. I had understood early on that male or female was about genitals whereas gender roles were a ridiculous old fashioned carryover from days gone by. How my mom could insist that I not pursue a career that was predominantly female because she didn’t want me to be trapped like she was and yet refuse to allow me to wear jeans or play sports, or even guitar!, was so confounding. I was like, okay, whatever, I’m female, but that doesn’t have to be a barrier to anything. It all made sense years later when I transitioned. She was fighting me about being a boy long after I had repressed it. It’s the only way I can make sense of a feminist mother who refuses to let her daughter live her own life. I think that Dr Spock book or maybe our family doctor had advised her to prevent me from doing anything remotely boyish. It was an extremely oppressive environment.
What I meant by trying on being male when I did at age 50 was more like *allowing* myself to be male. At the time, trying it on was how I saw it. Allowing it was what it became. Truly liberating.
Addendum: I forgot to say that for all of those years of people complaining about me trying to be someone I’m not, I kept saying and thinking I’m just being me. As a child, as an adult, without the notion that I had an option to be male, I was simply being myself. I hadn’t realized that there was whole other level—that of actually being a man or that that in itself would make a difference. For me, it does.
Thank you. I didn't have older brothers to model myself on. Plus, there was the additional complication that I had a late-diagnosed orthopoedic disability (it's usually caught at birth now; I was diagnosed at 2). I was saying last week that, for me, it was a combination of factors, over a long period of time: "just being me", not learning or liking girl stuff/clothes/toys, religious trauma, abuse (of myself as a non-conforming and disabled kid), and lots more. All of that lands me, happily or not, in the "still figuring it out" category now. Thanks for the encouragement. The nicest thing is that every day I learn something new, so every day is well-spent. At almost 74. Go figure.
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Oh yay. Further regression in to forced gender roles. Which is i am sure part of rhe point. Besides having someone to collectively hate and general policing of how people are allowed to exist in public.
If these people truly cared about children, they would be screaming for accountability for perpetrators named in the Trump-Epstein files. But their concern for children is fake. What they want is patriarchal control and power of anybody who doesn't conform to their white male entitlement narrative.
I absolutely love that both Christine Jorgensen and Marsha P. Johnson were listed as community speakers. I’m guessing most at the meeting missed their significance. I agree with others here: Stay strong Wake County School Board!
This isn’t about trans people. Any power the government is given, they apply to everyone sooner or later. This is rich white people feeling entitled to tell EVERYONE how to dress, abusing a fake issue to make precedent for it. They’re mentally very, very sick people.
Gawd again. The contagion spreads.