Misinformation about Minnesota's new trans refuge bill which passed Friday was rampant, with some claiming it will take kids from their parents. This is not true.
I was horrified to read about the possibility of parents winning custody over their kids because they don't affirm their gender in some states, I'm so glad MN is doing this
I can shake my head all day - and it wouldn't change the pain of knowing how far and how fast the US descended into the dark ages... it was bad by the time January 2017 rolled around... but this decade has throttled us into a realm of ignorance and hate that I can only imagine one day will be studied by the next gen of great thinkers. They, too, will be left to shake their heads wondering - though hopefully, humanity will have grown by then (unlike now when it's dying and gasping for air)... but as we see... humans fail to learn. Sigh. Seriously, by late 2020, I was left contemplating how I could continue to be a therapist when I struggled so much to understand my fellow humans. Fortunately, though many #humanssuck, just as many don't.... and thus, the world continues. For now, at least.
The excerpt you provided in this article will also be very helpful in cases of fleeing abuse of any kind. Item number two in that list states if the child or a sibling or a parent are facing or threatened with mistreatment or abuse. This covers domestic abuse in general!
Typical but hypocritical to see outrage here because Florida went first on the opposite end. Minnesota can atleast be a refuge to these horrible custody battles. The kids are going to hate their parent from Florida and be stuck in the middle of toxicity until Minnesota clears them.
I teach Government and Economics to high school seniors in South Florida. Today, I took my career in my hands, so to speak, and had a discussion with them regarding Florida's recent legislation allowing the state to remove trans kids from their parents if the parents are providing gender-affirming treatment for their kids (under the re-definition of such care as "physical harm"). Here are my main takeaways: 1) I was utterly disgusted with the amount of fear I felt in discussing this. We're now banned from "instruction" on sex or gender issues, and I was concerned that the discussion might be overheard and/or reported to parents. The fact that I ended up feeling like some kind of underground partisan fighter disseminating top secret info in a hidden basement is just hideous. And here I thought this was America.... 2) The sheer amount of ignorance regarding anything relating to transgender issues is absoulutely astounding. These are digital native kids who have a hard time looking up from their phones, and they know next to nothing about transgender-ness, for lack of a better term.
Of course, we won't be able to change that, since we're not allowed to talk about these things in school. To 18-year-olds.
I was horrified to read about the possibility of parents winning custody over their kids because they don't affirm their gender in some states, I'm so glad MN is doing this
I can shake my head all day - and it wouldn't change the pain of knowing how far and how fast the US descended into the dark ages... it was bad by the time January 2017 rolled around... but this decade has throttled us into a realm of ignorance and hate that I can only imagine one day will be studied by the next gen of great thinkers. They, too, will be left to shake their heads wondering - though hopefully, humanity will have grown by then (unlike now when it's dying and gasping for air)... but as we see... humans fail to learn. Sigh. Seriously, by late 2020, I was left contemplating how I could continue to be a therapist when I struggled so much to understand my fellow humans. Fortunately, though many #humanssuck, just as many don't.... and thus, the world continues. For now, at least.
But crickets from right wing media on the Florida bill which is essentially state sponsored kidnapping
I love that the same paragraph that they highlighted Random words from explains what they are reading, but they all only read the stuff in yellow.
The excerpt you provided in this article will also be very helpful in cases of fleeing abuse of any kind. Item number two in that list states if the child or a sibling or a parent are facing or threatened with mistreatment or abuse. This covers domestic abuse in general!
Typical but hypocritical to see outrage here because Florida went first on the opposite end. Minnesota can atleast be a refuge to these horrible custody battles. The kids are going to hate their parent from Florida and be stuck in the middle of toxicity until Minnesota clears them.
I teach Government and Economics to high school seniors in South Florida. Today, I took my career in my hands, so to speak, and had a discussion with them regarding Florida's recent legislation allowing the state to remove trans kids from their parents if the parents are providing gender-affirming treatment for their kids (under the re-definition of such care as "physical harm"). Here are my main takeaways: 1) I was utterly disgusted with the amount of fear I felt in discussing this. We're now banned from "instruction" on sex or gender issues, and I was concerned that the discussion might be overheard and/or reported to parents. The fact that I ended up feeling like some kind of underground partisan fighter disseminating top secret info in a hidden basement is just hideous. And here I thought this was America.... 2) The sheer amount of ignorance regarding anything relating to transgender issues is absoulutely astounding. These are digital native kids who have a hard time looking up from their phones, and they know next to nothing about transgender-ness, for lack of a better term.
Of course, we won't be able to change that, since we're not allowed to talk about these things in school. To 18-year-olds.
And here I thought this was America...