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Susan Scheid's avatar

Kate, your round-up is top of the line, as always. It’s come to the point where, as soon as I see it’s available, I stop reading any other morning news and go right for it, so thank you, thank you, thank you! I was very interested in your perspective on the election outcomes, particularly as to school board races. I would love to hear more from you about what is at issue here, with your deep knowledge of school boards and the issues you’re seeing from that vantage point. You note, for example, that voters were not keen on “restrictions on LGBT curricula.” I’d be interested in learning more about what kinds of things were being proposed. I worry, for example, that schools are infested, among other things, with DEI consultants who are promoting things like the genderbread person and the gender spectrum and are generally confusing children by conflating issues of self-expression with issues of biological fact. I wonder what you’re seeing, whether you share these concerns, and what you think is the right way to go about addressing them?

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Suzanne's avatar

Thanks, Kate - I'm with Susan, always so many great updates. I appreciated Leor Sapir's "golden mean fallacy" tweet, which unpacks why "be like Europe" may oversimplify what we want to demand of our medical system as regards "gender affirming care". I'm grateful that political scientists, and activists like Corinna Cohn, are offering ways to think through where we are and how to effect change.

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