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Kate, you are the Goddess *and* the Druid of gender news. Thank you, as always, for keeping us so well informed.

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I guess that's one way of looking at it.

For me, it was a tacky joke to single out "Goddess" and "Druids" from some list of many religions/spiritualities.

Couldnt access the list but there must be a "decline to state" option for those who can't sort it out.

Always good substack nevertheless.

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Another great read, Lisa! It seems the tide may be turning.... slowly but surely. I still shudder at the fact that people believe it's ok to medically and chemically change children. They are only creating a huge mental issue down the road, as well creating permanent medical patients. Out of CHILDREN! So, I guess we really should follow the money! How sad. Making money off the innocent lives of our children. Shame on them! And that book, "It Feels Good to be Yourself"?? Really? You have got to be kidding me. My grandson is five years old. He could care less about gender. These children are in the stage of make believe and role playing. It's a part of growing up. Why are we planting "gender" seeds into their heads? Seriously. In my book, it's child abuse. Plain and simple. To permanently alter a child's body is cruel and abusive. No two ways about it. That book needs to be banned. But that's a different battle. I will never understand why we're picking on children. Come on adults! Pick on someone your own size!! PLEASE LEAVE OUR CHILDREN ALONE TO GROW UP!

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It's not ony money, it's also ideological capture (which is fueled by money). The transifiers have induced true belief into almost all elected Democrats. They really truly believe that they are helping poor "trans" kids. Convincing them otherwise is close to impossible. The only solution is to vote them all out of office. Every last one.

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There is an article in kff news and medscape that says small clinics that border states that have banned minor gender medical intervention are having trouble getting medical malpractice insurance....

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/medical-malpractice-premiums-gender-affirming-care-minors/

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Good. Malpractice insurance should be very expensive for people who commit malpractice. Whether or not it's legal in the state in question, sterilizing children is still malpractice. The cost for insurance should be going through the roof; it's the only way they'll stop.

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Hm, article repeatedly referenced anti-trans activists. How about “pro-kid activists” or a more neutral descriptions of the sides.

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The MSM is almost entirely ideologically captured by the transifiers.

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Marvista Elementary is in Normandy Park, WA, not Burien. Both my kids attended that school.

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A local! Thank you--I'll update that.

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I second Suzanne! BTW, if folks are able to find video of Jonah Wheeler’s floor speech, it is impressive and well worth watching. As for the response of his D colleagues, although I am not surprised, I still find it mind-boggling that what we appear to have today is not one, but two, parties full of extremists, and the extremists are in charge.

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With regards to the Amherst-Pelham school district story: Do we have any specific examples of what the student newspaper considered "misgendering" and "mistreatment" by guidance counselors? I would like to better understand this and know if the guidance counselors engaged in behaviors that were genuinely unprofessional and harmful or the kind of things that middle schoolers and activists call dangerous and harmful? I'd also like to know more about why so many board members needed to resign and what their involvement in this issue was. If there was genuine mistreatment and bullying that needed to be addressed and was ignored, that needs to be addressed. If this is the case of middle schoolers going after adults not following all the rules of TikTok activism and successfully making people resign their jobs and essentially taking control of the adults, that is a very different situation

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I recommend reading the linked article on the Title IX report--to me, it sounds like the middle school counselors were unprofessional, but I can only speculate on the quality and tone of the student reporting [edit: see below for the link to the student article]. A lot of the other links are paywalled, unfortunately.

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I am also curious. I read the student newspaper story and was struck by how dictatorial it sounded. They would like to force all to believe in the gendered soul and thereby force all to adhere to it's tenets. It certainly looks like the punishment for thought crimes is the loss of one's job. And, of course, the counselor's Christian faith is at fault.

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Ah, I suspected it was a blend of pointing out unprofessional conduct and gender identitarianism/recycling of trendy gender beliefs. I didn't catch the link in the article originally--here it is for everyone who wants to read the student article: http://thegraphic.arps.org/2023/05/its-life-or-death-failure-to-protect-trans-kids-at-arms-a-systemic-problem/

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Was this a middle school or high school student newspaper?

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I just checked. It was the high school newspaper story.

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I watched the YouTube of that book and it's so wishy washy in it's definitions that most kids would pick non-binary to keep their options the most 'open'

and then what? once we are all non-binary, we'll need to refine the population further -mostly likely into non-binary-female and non-binary-male. guess what? we just recreated the system we've used for generations, just with new names.

everyone wants to be linnaeus.

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Great news from Alberta Canada! Premier Danielle Smith leads the way in new policies restricting sex hormones and surgeries for children, ensuring parental consent for school gender self ID and opt-in for gender ideology topics, and protecting women and girls sports!!

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/danielle-smith-alberta-transgender-pronoun-rules/wcm/bfb0319d-25aa-4942-a0b2-c1a32d495e1b/amp/

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I didn’t find the link to the form but I saw that in the Québec French news this morning, La Presse. A doctor disbarred for three months for refusing to call a patient a man. Here is the news in English.

https://thecanadian.news/disbarred-for-three-months-for-misgendering-a-trans-patient/

This will help the trans ideology cause because the old doctor seems to have acted like a jerk and lacked social skills. I wouldn’t be surprised to see politicians stand in a row to apologize.

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Thanks for this! Also to note: NH state Rep. Jonah Wheeler was harassed by his Dem colleagues after voting with 2 Independents and 11 other Dems and all of the Republicans, to ban sex trait modification surgeries. He made a compelling speech after his vote, which made the 2 men who think they're women, both elected in 2018 really "hurt." The struggle session after was so threatening that the State House Security came in to escort him. A runthrough of the speech, the Dem harassment and my thank you letter to him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I677VHSbqk

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I wondered if Wheeler would be excoriated. It makes sense, as 2 of the other legislators are men who ideate a female persona. The one I've researched, Gerri Cannon, calls himself a "parent" and I'm having a hard time finding info on whether there's a trans widow. He doesn't say he's "a spouse," so he might have fathered a child and there's now a trans orphan and trans widow. If anyone here knows, let me know in a reply!

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