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I hate that these are usually rage bait titles, but this is legitimately terrifying
Ah yes, further diluting the term sex offender down to the point the label is meaningless.
Makes perfect sense to combine teachers who accept pronouns, with people caught publicly urinating on the same list with violent rapists and convicted pedophiles.. after all, it's all the same.
HAIRCUTS! HAIRCUTS OF THE WRONG GENDER ARE PART OF THIS BILL!!
kim jong-un approves this law
Dafuq kinda haircut is gendered?
Any haircut underneath which stands someone Republicans want to oppress.
Just ask Darryl George.
How is anyone supposed to know anyone else’s pronouns without asking them?
Are the teachers supposed to check the genitals of their students at the beginning of the year?
Naked lessons.. naked schools.. that way the sneaky trans kids also cannot change during the year.
But if everyone is naked, the poor boys will be distracted. I mean, they already veer off course when shoulders are out. I guess the only appropriate solution is to not have the girls at (naked) school. /s
I feel like that’s what the right wants. They’re weirdly interested in that
This is a blatant first amendment violation. Another pro-gamer move from the free speech party.
Devils advocate here, in some places, deliberately using the wrong pronouns with the intention to harm someone would be hate speech.
So flip it around, using the preferred pronouns is considered an attack on the child and/or their shitty parents.
Hate speech is protected by the First Amendment, so flip it around, inclusive speech is also protected by the First Amendment. I'm sure teachers can lose their jobs for hate speech but people cannot be criminally charged for hate speech alone. Prosecuting teachers as sex offenders for using pronouns is a clear and deliberate violation of their Constitutional rights.
Jesus Christ fuck these GOP assholes so hard
They probably want that, so no.
I really can't comprehend the level of hate that these motherfuckers must possess to write or support such a bill. I mean, let's say you're an incredible asshole who doesn't think that trans people exist, like you think that you know who they are much better than they actually know themselves. Even with that as a baseline, isn't it still just the polite thing to treat them with basic respect?
If I found out that someone I just met preferred to use their middle name instead of their first name, I would 100% use that person's middle name when addressing them. It's just common courtesy. The same thing goes with a person who's transitioning - I will use their preferred name, because I'm not a completely deplorable piece of shit.
But this guy is way worse than someone who intentionally antagonizes people by using their disliked name when addressing them. This guy wants to actively punish anybody who has the rock bottom bare minimum of civility by destroying their lives and livelihoods.
I just can't grasp that level of hatred. How is it that this piece of shit shares enough genes with everybody else that he's recognized as human?
I think your 3rd paragraph is off, just a heads up
How so?
You know what, it took me having to quote your words to read them correctly, my bad and well said.
In the immortal words of Romeo: "It's all gravy", baby.
Was that directed at Juliet or Mercutio? I can never remember..
It was just before he drank the poison.
That must have been some really awful gravy, 😞
Well the play WAS written by an English man so..
Missouri deliberately impoverishing themselves is par for the conservative course.
There is no "good conservative" alive today.
When the flip flopper in chief, Mitt Romney, is your only hope, or anyone named Cheney, we've got massive problems.
Not that I disagree with you.
But even as a staunch Euro leftist, I think it is okay that there are people I strongly disagree with, even strongly dislike because I think the fight for values that are against my personal morality.
Both Romney and Cheney are such people.
I don't think they should have political power over other people.
But they share at least a certain common ground with me that the fascists don't.
And for how little I actually like those people, I still value this very difference.
They complain about political correctness, and they go and do shit like this.
Political correctness: I can't say what I want!
Conservatives Later: it's now illegal for you to say what you want
As is fascist tradition.
