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Grey Area's avatar

The only gender ideology at work here is the one that says "thou art your plumbing arrangements."

I suppose removing any reference to historic soldiers who might have been trans is in keeping with banning trans soldiers in the present. Heaven forbid that anyone learn that a trans person not only existed, but lived a disciplined, honourable, truthful, humble and selfless life, 150 years before trans people were even supposed to have existed.

Funny how it’s the right who are the real thought police afoot in the world today.

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Slack System's avatar

Huh. "Discriminatory equity" they say. The biggest oxymoron I've heard in quite some time. Also, isn't removing a book about a likely trans service member tacit admission that trans people do, in fact, exist in history, like we've always said, and that their claim of transness being a new thing is false? I mean, if trans people "didn'" exist in history, why remove the book at all? I feel so sorry for any trans or other marginalized kids in those schools (and other schools that have implemented similar policies).

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Joan the Dork's avatar

Targeting the children of military families seems like a 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 way to end up with a mutiny- or, at the very least, a critical shortage of personnel as they retire early or decline to re-enlist.

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Ianto West's avatar

Thanks for your reporting Mira

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Johnny's avatar

Fuck. I hate this. This is terrifying.

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David's avatar

"Don't ask don't tell" was just window dressing. I learnt there were ways around bad leadership in the army. In the Vietnam war an incompetent officer might have a fragmentation grenade 'accident'. It was called fragging.

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Christopher Krull's avatar

This is a great article but I found the headline confusing. To me “Military schools” are like the Citadel or other private schools, not the schools run by the DoD for kids of soldiers/sailors/etc. Just my two cents.

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Theresa Hadden-Martinez's avatar

So how are the parents reacting to this or do they not have an opinion?

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David's avatar

I enlisted for a short time, decades back. The military doesn't have to seek diversity too hard, though I'm glad they do now. If you're working closely with people and preparing for difficulties, you at least get along. The rainbow isn't rare, either.

This administration has already alienated LGBTQ+ and that never works out well.

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NobodysHero2112's avatar

🎶They say there are strangers who threaten us:

our immigrants and infidels.

They say there is strangeness too dangerous,

in our theatres and bookstore shelves.

Those who know what's best for us

must rise and save us from ourselves🎶

That song is 24 years old and has never rang truer than it does today!

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SunflowerP's avatar

Probably a typo (or perhaps an 'it can't possibly be that long' matho): 44 years. But, yes, timelessly true.

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NobodysHero2112's avatar

[Facepalm] Yes, that must have been either a typo or brainfart because I'm well aware that Rush's Moving Pictures album came out in 1981. Thanks for catching that!

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Kelley Clink (they/she)'s avatar

Wrote a little script you can use with your reps for this one:

Thanks to the reporting of Erin Reed, it has come to my attention that DoDEA is banning books, disbanding LGBTQ+ and women in STEM clubs, eliminating cultural awareness months, and attempting to enforce bathroom and sports bans on transgender students, as well as misgendering students in school documents and systems. This is unacceptable, and I know it's not what you what for our service people and their families. Please fight to stop discrimination in the military, and speak out against what's happening in military schools.

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Gyula Bujdosó's avatar

"Gender Ideology" what the heck is that?

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Tristan Ash's avatar

This is heartbreaking. I went to DoD schools as a kid (military brat). I had some of the best teachers in the world. I bet this memo breaks their hearts, too.

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Tammye (she/they)'s avatar

This makes me nearly physically sick to hear this. Sending love and hugs to you. Madness.

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