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September 27, 2024 12:16 PM

Anti-trans laws are hurting kids: Nature (commentary from Erin in the Morning and Parker Molloy)
posted by box (4 comments total)

I can't even imagine the absolute despair that this adds on top of an already challenging period of life for kids. My wife's school has just had two kids in back to back weeks jump from the same freeway overpass. One was a popular girl - cheerleader, dance team and then just yesterday a trans boy walked out in the middle of the night and lept.

And that's here in California and at a school that's pretty damn open and accepting (unlike some of the parents in the area - it's the part of LA that is half adjacent to Trumpism).

It's been a devastating pair of weeks for the kids and the teachers and you look around and see that some of these asshole politicians and school boards want to score power points by putting vulnerable kids through hell.
posted by drewbage1847 at 12:25 PM on September 27 [1 favorite]

This is mass murder.
posted by Pope Guilty at 1:05 PM on September 27 [1 favorite]

The cruelty is the point. Getting weirdos to take themselves out is the point. If you feel like you literally can't fit in the world and it's not okay to be you and you obviously can't fake being "normal," this is where it goes.
posted by jenfullmoon at 1:07 PM on September 27 [4 favorites]

The dysfunction is the point. The goal of modern conservatives in the USA is to direct all tax revenue to private corporations. By intentionally making public schooling as stressful, dangerous and ineffective as possible, they further this goal.

If a few kids get killed along the way, well that's just the cost of doing business.
posted by kzin602 at 2:06 PM on September 27