No consequence for teaching CRT

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Anonymous wrote:To the enthusiastically religious and right wing leaners who now look at the world through a binary lens of good vs. facist and Marxist liberals let me help here:
1. There are actual standards in journalism. Journalism requires fact telling, with an enormous amount of litmus testing to make sure that what is reported is factual.
2. There's also opinion reporting. Opinion reporting within journalism still has standards,opinions have to have relevancy, receipts, and academic peerage and viability.
3. We have entered the age of entertainment news, not reflective of any journalism standards, because it doesn't have to be. Mostly this occurs online, cable networks, but we see issues now in mainstream outlets, such as Fox News- but they must prepare to be sued as tabloids often are- because there are no receipts.
Someone like Shriner exists only in the tabloid world of her own doing, just like Joe Rogan, Prager U ( not a university), and so many others. It's hard to perhaps discern fact from opinion in outlets liks these, especially if you've come from a fair amount of confirmation bias and are unwilling or unable to use litmus testing to your sources of information. But, then, this is what these outlets are hoping for. It's a billion dollar industry.
Yes, evangelical Christians can get academic degrees, but they aren't exempt from Journalistic standards because of those degrees. Josh Hawley is a great example. He does have an Ivy degree, yet legislates through a biblical lens, and of course, like Shriner, who has a following of Christians and maybe other orthodox religious groups, hope they seem to have credibility. But they don't. Their religious opinions still have to have academic peer reviewed standards.
That goes for Moms of Liberty, Joe Rogan, the anti vaxxers, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Hillsong, Liberty University ( yes, it is a university, but it is quite suspect with regard to how they can even be accredited and they've been under fire for many issues) outlets, It's entertainment, not news, not research, not fact. That's why it's opinion. Universities in Florida will soon not pass the same lens. Religion is opinion, not academia.

Oh, and the terms facist, Marxist, and socialism are also nomenclature that you might not understand at all. These are thrown around like pieces of paper without any real understanding of what is being discussed.
No, gender affirming medicine isn't Big Pharma. Sorry, nothing to do with it.

I could write almost exactly the same thing as it applies to the far left.

No, you absolutely cannot. Did you read the part about journalistic integrity, peer reviewed research? That is what has been missing on the right. Just because you don't like what you hear or read doesn’t mean it's wrong. Accurate reporting requires accurate research. And there is no " far left." For you this applied to everyone who disagrees with your stance, undubstantiated stance, regarding education, medicine, racism, literature, politics, etc.

This isn't a " whattabout" thing.
Journalism is journalism, medicine is medicine, research is research. Then there is religious opinion.

I was not the poster you were responding to earlier in the thread. I don't have a stance, other than my belief that your angry rants will do little to foster understanding on the part of those who disagree with you. Many of the issues being discussed in this thread are not "facts" at all.

OP and other RWNJs choose ignorance.

There is nothing we can say that would change their minds.

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Anonymous wrote:To the enthusiastically religious and right wing leaners who now look at the world through a binary lens of good vs. facist and Marxist liberals let me help here:
1. There are actual standards in journalism. Journalism requires fact telling, with an enormous amount of litmus testing to make sure that what is reported is factual.
2. There's also opinion reporting. Opinion reporting within journalism still has standards,opinions have to have relevancy, receipts, and academic peerage and viability.
3. We have entered the age of entertainment news, not reflective of any journalism standards, because it doesn't have to be. Mostly this occurs online, cable networks, but we see issues now in mainstream outlets, such as Fox News- but they must prepare to be sued as tabloids often are- because there are no receipts.
Someone like Shriner exists only in the tabloid world of her own doing, just like Joe Rogan, Prager U ( not a university), and so many others. It's hard to perhaps discern fact from opinion in outlets liks these, especially if you've come from a fair amount of confirmation bias and are unwilling or unable to use litmus testing to your sources of information. But, then, this is what these outlets are hoping for. It's a billion dollar industry.
Yes, evangelical Christians can get academic degrees, but they aren't exempt from Journalistic standards because of those degrees. Josh Hawley is a great example. He does have an Ivy degree, yet legislates through a biblical lens, and of course, like Shriner, who has a following of Christians and maybe other orthodox religious groups, hope they seem to have credibility. But they don't. Their religious opinions still have to have academic peer reviewed standards.
That goes for Moms of Liberty, Joe Rogan, the anti vaxxers, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Hillsong, Liberty University ( yes, it is a university, but it is quite suspect with regard to how they can even be accredited and they've been under fire for many issues) outlets, It's entertainment, not news, not research, not fact. That's why it's opinion. Universities in Florida will soon not pass the same lens. Religion is opinion, not academia.

Oh, and the terms facist, Marxist, and socialism are also nomenclature that you might not understand at all. These are thrown around like pieces of paper without any real understanding of what is being discussed.
No, gender affirming medicine isn't Big Pharma. Sorry, nothing to do with it.

I could write almost exactly the same thing as it applies to the far left.

No, you absolutely cannot. Did you read the part about journalistic integrity, peer reviewed research? That is what has been missing on the right. Just because you don't like what you hear or read doesn’t mean it's wrong. Accurate reporting requires accurate research. And there is no " far left." For you this applied to everyone who disagrees with your stance, undubstantiated stance, regarding education, medicine, racism, literature, politics, etc.

This isn't a " whattabout" thing.
Journalism is journalism, medicine is medicine, research is research. Then there is religious opinion.

I was not the poster you were responding to earlier in the thread. I don't have a stance, other than my belief that your angry rants will do little to foster understanding on the part of those who disagree with you. Many of the issues being discussed in this thread are not "facts" at all.

OP and other RWNJs choose ignorance.

There is nothing we can say that would change their minds.

A great illustration of "pot meet kettle."

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Teens have gotten breast reduction surgery and nose job surgeries for decades. Funny you never complained about those. Funny in a bigoted kind of way.

Not either PP. But, those surgeries are for true health reasons.

Yeah, they aren’t. They are for cosmetic reasons.

I realize that you are partly right. But, you are wrong about breast reduction. That is not a cosmetic issue, but a physical comfort issue. In some cases, rhinoplasty may also be physical--but I agree it is likely mostly cosmetic.

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Anonymous wrote:These articles explain how CRT and gender ideology are correlated and already a part of our school culture at FCPS:

1. https://fee.org/articles/critical-race-theory-and-gender-ideology-are-ubiquitous-in-us-schools-new-study-shows/

2. https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/critical-race-theory-and-gender-ideology

How are these concepts taught at FCPS?
1. Boys and girls are now officially referred to as male and female assigned at birth.
2. FCPS is pushing for penalizing students and staff who don’t use the correct gender pronouns of those who choose to use them to identify themselves at school.
3. Privilege Bingo
4. Back in the fall of 2020, my child’s high school in FCPS distributed a book on Racism and Antiracism to every single 12 grader during virtual learning.

Abigail Shrier? The anti-trans MAGA?

Hard pass.

Shrier is brilliant - a classic liberal with degrees from Columbia, Oxford, and Yale. Her book belongs in school libraries more than the soft-core porn peddled in FCPS libraries.

She’s also a bigoted RWNJ.

She’s not bigoted. She’s calling attention to what many believe with good reason is now government-enabled child abuse.

She is absolutely a RWNJ bigot.

Oh, look. Left-wingers who only know how to call other people names.

What more do you want?

She’s a RWNJ bigot and her writings are harmful to others. She has no place in a discussion about FCPS.

Her writings save troubled teens from being mutilated and might save more but for the fact that FCPS kowtows to trans activists when making appointments to advisory committees, etc.

Her writings are crap, not fact/data-based, and exist purely to push RWNJ anti-trans agenda.

She has no place in FCPS discussions. Or anywhere, frankly.

You demonize her because she urges caution before cutting off the breasts and penises of confused adolescents, which you and your allies think is fine if it bolsters your ranks (those who regret their decisions are just collateral damage).

Top and bottom surgery isn't as common as you think for kids. You are made to believe it's happening wholesale and encouraged and promoted. Trans care is decades long, well assisted and managed by a team of medical professionals, and surgery in and of itself is never the first procedure or even a procedure in someone under 18. Parents of these kids will tell you about a very long trajectory of care before that is even discussed. Kids don't just say " I wanna be a boy." Teachers are promoting it, hiding it, encouraging it. You are being fed lies. Yes, I am a teacher. I've seen 4 trans kids over 25 years, different ages. These were long processes that started when these kids were toddlers, and no surgery until many years later, and in one case, no surgery ever- the kid is now about 30. This is just something you are uncomfortable with, don't understand, and somehow it's wrapped up in your religious lens, but non binary and trans people have always existed in time, and there are many cultures where this has been accepted as normal forever. You live in a very insular closed minded bubble and you aren't willing to educate yourself.

That's just not true. Surgeries are recommended for 15+

https://apnews.com/article/gender-transition-treatment-guidelines-9dbe54f670a3a0f5f2831c2bf14f9bbb

Yes, after years and years of care. No teenager just wakes up and decides this. You missed my entire point, but not surprised.

You said surgeries were only happening in 18+. I point out that they're happening much younger. Why would you be correct about the "years and years of care" part? Did you mean "years and years of care" minus three years?

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I read the first 8 pages of this thread and then skipped to the last three.

And I'm a little confused as to how a thread on CRT morphed into being about trans issues. These things are not the same.

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Anonymous wrote:I read the first 8 pages of this thread and then skipped to the last three.

And I'm a little confused as to how a thread on CRT morphed into being about trans issues. These things are not the same.

Welcome to DCUM. Posts normally veer to the same Top 10 topics.

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Anonymous wrote:These articles explain how CRT and gender ideology are correlated and already a part of our school culture at FCPS:

1. https://fee.org/articles/critical-race-theory-and-gender-ideology-are-ubiquitous-in-us-schools-new-study-shows/

2. https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/critical-race-theory-and-gender-ideology

How are these concepts taught at FCPS?
1. Boys and girls are now officially referred to as male and female assigned at birth.
2. FCPS is pushing for penalizing students and staff who don’t use the correct gender pronouns of those who choose to use them to identify themselves at school.
3. Privilege Bingo
4. Back in the fall of 2020, my child’s high school in FCPS distributed a book on Racism and Antiracism to every single 12 grader during virtual learning.

Abigail Shrier? The anti-trans MAGA?

Hard pass.

Shrier is brilliant - a classic liberal with degrees from Columbia, Oxford, and Yale. Her book belongs in school libraries more than the soft-core porn peddled in FCPS libraries.

She’s also a bigoted RWNJ.

She’s not bigoted. She’s calling attention to what many believe with good reason is now government-enabled child abuse.

She is absolutely a RWNJ bigot.

Oh, look. Left-wingers who only know how to call other people names.

What more do you want?

She’s a RWNJ bigot and her writings are harmful to others. She has no place in a discussion about FCPS.

Her writings save troubled teens from being mutilated and might save more but for the fact that FCPS kowtows to trans activists when making appointments to advisory committees, etc.

Her writings are crap, not fact/data-based, and exist purely to push RWNJ anti-trans agenda.

She has no place in FCPS discussions. Or anywhere, frankly.

You demonize her because she urges caution before cutting off the breasts and penises of confused adolescents, which you and your allies think is fine if it bolsters your ranks (those who regret their decisions are just collateral damage).

Top and bottom surgery isn't as common as you think for kids. You are made to believe it's happening wholesale and encouraged and promoted. Trans care is decades long, well assisted and managed by a team of medical professionals, and surgery in and of itself is never the first procedure or even a procedure in someone under 18. Parents of these kids will tell you about a very long trajectory of care before that is even discussed. Kids don't just say " I wanna be a boy." Teachers are promoting it, hiding it, encouraging it. You are being fed lies. Yes, I am a teacher. I've seen 4 trans kids over 25 years, different ages. These were long processes that started when these kids were toddlers, and no surgery until many years later, and in one case, no surgery ever- the kid is now about 30. This is just something you are uncomfortable with, don't understand, and somehow it's wrapped up in your religious lens, but non binary and trans people have always existed in time, and there are many cultures where this has been accepted as normal forever. You live in a very insular closed minded bubble and you aren't willing to educate yourself.

That's just not true. Surgeries are recommended for 15+

https://apnews.com/article/gender-transition-treatment-guidelines-9dbe54f670a3a0f5f2831c2bf14f9bbb

Yes, after years and years of care. No teenager just wakes up and decides this. You missed my entire point, but not surprised.

You said surgeries were only happening in 18+. I point out that they're happening much younger. Why would you be correct about the "years and years of care" part? Did you mean "years and years of care" minus three years?

If they start early on, then their legal guardians are approving the surgery, covering the cost. That is not on FCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:To the enthusiastically religious and right wing leaners who now look at the world through a binary lens of good vs. facist and Marxist liberals let me help here:
1. There are actual standards in journalism. Journalism requires fact telling, with an enormous amount of litmus testing to make sure that what is reported is factual.
2. There's also opinion reporting. Opinion reporting within journalism still has standards,opinions have to have relevancy, receipts, and academic peerage and viability.
3. We have entered the age of entertainment news, not reflective of any journalism standards, because it doesn't have to be. Mostly this occurs online, cable networks, but we see issues now in mainstream outlets, such as Fox News- but they must prepare to be sued as tabloids often are- because there are no receipts.
Someone like Shriner exists only in the tabloid world of her own doing, just like Joe Rogan, Prager U ( not a university), and so many others. It's hard to perhaps discern fact from opinion in outlets liks these, especially if you've come from a fair amount of confirmation bias and are unwilling or unable to use litmus testing to your sources of information. But, then, this is what these outlets are hoping for. It's a billion dollar industry.
Yes, evangelical Christians can get academic degrees, but they aren't exempt from Journalistic standards because of those degrees. Josh Hawley is a great example. He does have an Ivy degree, yet legislates through a biblical lens, and of course, like Shriner, who has a following of Christians and maybe other orthodox religious groups, hope they seem to have credibility. But they don't. Their religious opinions still have to have academic peer reviewed standards.
That goes for Moms of Liberty, Joe Rogan, the anti vaxxers, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Hillsong, Liberty University ( yes, it is a university, but it is quite suspect with regard to how they can even be accredited and they've been under fire for many issues) outlets, It's entertainment, not news, not research, not fact. That's why it's opinion. Universities in Florida will soon not pass the same lens. Religion is opinion, not academia.

Oh, and the terms facist, Marxist, and socialism are also nomenclature that you might not understand at all. These are thrown around like pieces of paper without any real understanding of what is being discussed.
No, gender affirming medicine isn't Big Pharma. Sorry, nothing to do with it.

I could write almost exactly the same thing as it applies to the far left.

No, you absolutely cannot. Did you read the part about journalistic integrity, peer reviewed research? That is what has been missing on the right. Just because you don't like what you hear or read doesn’t mean it's wrong. Accurate reporting requires accurate research. And there is no " far left." For you this applied to everyone who disagrees with your stance, undubstantiated stance, regarding education, medicine, racism, literature, politics, etc.

This isn't a " whattabout" thing.
Journalism is journalism, medicine is medicine, research is research. Then there is religious opinion.

I was not the poster you were responding to earlier in the thread. I don't have a stance, other than my belief that your angry rants will do little to foster understanding on the part of those who disagree with you. Many of the issues being discussed in this thread are not "facts" at all.

OP and other RWNJs choose ignorance.

There is nothing we can say that would change their minds.

A great illustration of "pot meet kettle."

Again, no “both sides”.

Some of us do use facts to inform our opinions.

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Anonymous wrote:I read the first 8 pages of this thread and then skipped to the last three.

And I'm a little confused as to how a thread on CRT morphed into being about trans issues. These things are not the same.

It’s all part of the RWNJ attack on FCPS. They are shrieking about anything they can spin up.

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Anonymous wrote:These articles explain how CRT and gender ideology are correlated and already a part of our school culture at FCPS:

1. https://fee.org/articles/critical-race-theory-and-gender-ideology-are-ubiquitous-in-us-schools-new-study-shows/

2. https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/critical-race-theory-and-gender-ideology

How are these concepts taught at FCPS?
1. Boys and girls are now officially referred to as male and female assigned at birth.
2. FCPS is pushing for penalizing students and staff who don’t use the correct gender pronouns of those who choose to use them to identify themselves at school.
3. Privilege Bingo
4. Back in the fall of 2020, my child’s high school in FCPS distributed a book on Racism and Antiracism to every single 12 grader during virtual learning.

Abigail Shrier? The anti-trans MAGA?

Hard pass.

Shrier is brilliant - a classic liberal with degrees from Columbia, Oxford, and Yale. Her book belongs in school libraries more than the soft-core porn peddled in FCPS libraries.

She’s also a bigoted RWNJ.

She’s not bigoted. She’s calling attention to what many believe with good reason is now government-enabled child abuse.

She is absolutely a RWNJ bigot.

Oh, look. Left-wingers who only know how to call other people names.

What more do you want?

She’s a RWNJ bigot and her writings are harmful to others. She has no place in a discussion about FCPS.

Her writings save troubled teens from being mutilated and might save more but for the fact that FCPS kowtows to trans activists when making appointments to advisory committees, etc.

Her writings are crap, not fact/data-based, and exist purely to push RWNJ anti-trans agenda.

She has no place in FCPS discussions. Or anywhere, frankly.

You demonize her because she urges caution before cutting off the breasts and penises of confused adolescents, which you and your allies think is fine if it bolsters your ranks (those who regret their decisions are just collateral damage).

Pretty sure adolescents aren’t getting surgery, just you causing fear through lies.

Of course they are. What's wrong with that? You should celebrate that they can now be their true authentic selves.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/health/top-surgery-transgender-teenagers.html

Teens have gotten breast reduction surgery and nose job surgeries for decades. Funny you never complained about those. Funny in a bigoted kind of way.

Huh? I wasn't complaining. I said it should be celebrated. You're clearly uneducated about trans, and I've pointed out the inconsistency that you believe there's nothing wrong with surgically transitioning kids, but that it doesn't matter because they're not doing it anyway. That is obvious bigotry, and I have just pointed out your transphobia. If there is nothing wrong with transitioning kids, there is nothing wrong with them getting surgery to transition. You can't claim to be for surgical transition because you don't believe it exists. Either celebrate it or GTFO.

No, you’re pushing a RWNJ talking point.

No one should be “celebrating” other people’s medical care. That is between them and their doctor.

Yes, trans kids should be celebrated. That's not right wing at all. You're a transphobe.

The kids? Yes, let’s celebrate them.

The medical care they choose with their doctor? Nobody’s business.

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Anonymous wrote:These articles explain how CRT and gender ideology are correlated and already a part of our school culture at FCPS:

1. https://fee.org/articles/critical-race-theory-and-gender-ideology-are-ubiquitous-in-us-schools-new-study-shows/

2. https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/critical-race-theory-and-gender-ideology

How are these concepts taught at FCPS?
1. Boys and girls are now officially referred to as male and female assigned at birth.
2. FCPS is pushing for penalizing students and staff who don’t use the correct gender pronouns of those who choose to use them to identify themselves at school.
3. Privilege Bingo
4. Back in the fall of 2020, my child’s high school in FCPS distributed a book on Racism and Antiracism to every single 12 grader during virtual learning.

Abigail Shrier? The anti-trans MAGA?

Hard pass.

Shrier is brilliant - a classic liberal with degrees from Columbia, Oxford, and Yale. Her book belongs in school libraries more than the soft-core porn peddled in FCPS libraries.

She’s also a bigoted RWNJ.

She’s not bigoted. She’s calling attention to what many believe with good reason is now government-enabled child abuse.

She is absolutely a RWNJ bigot.

Oh, look. Left-wingers who only know how to call other people names.

What more do you want?

She’s a RWNJ bigot and her writings are harmful to others. She has no place in a discussion about FCPS.

Her writings save troubled teens from being mutilated and might save more but for the fact that FCPS kowtows to trans activists when making appointments to advisory committees, etc.

Her writings are crap, not fact/data-based, and exist purely to push RWNJ anti-trans agenda.

She has no place in FCPS discussions. Or anywhere, frankly.

You demonize her because she urges caution before cutting off the breasts and penises of confused adolescents, which you and your allies think is fine if it bolsters your ranks (those who regret their decisions are just collateral damage).

Top and bottom surgery isn't as common as you think for kids. You are made to believe it's happening wholesale and encouraged and promoted. Trans care is decades long, well assisted and managed by a team of medical professionals, and surgery in and of itself is never the first procedure or even a procedure in someone under 18. Parents of these kids will tell you about a very long trajectory of care before that is even discussed. Kids don't just say " I wanna be a boy." Teachers are promoting it, hiding it, encouraging it. You are being fed lies. Yes, I am a teacher. I've seen 4 trans kids over 25 years, different ages. These were long processes that started when these kids were toddlers, and no surgery until many years later, and in one case, no surgery ever- the kid is now about 30. This is just something you are uncomfortable with, don't understand, and somehow it's wrapped up in your religious lens, but non binary and trans people have always existed in time, and there are many cultures where this has been accepted as normal forever. You live in a very insular closed minded bubble and you aren't willing to educate yourself.

That's just not true. Surgeries are recommended for 15+

https://apnews.com/article/gender-transition-treatment-guidelines-9dbe54f670a3a0f5f2831c2bf14f9bbb

It bothers me that the PP purports to be a teacher yet would spread such misinformation. There are too many teachers in FCPS promoting non-binary and trans lifestyles among impressionable youths who are led to believe typical teenage angst may require radical changes to their bodies.

Misinformation? GFTO, troll.

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This is not a thread about guns. I guess you are deflecting because you cannot defend your position.
People are throwing around the term "Nazi" on here. Maybe you need to look in the mirror. Ever heard of Dr. Mengele and his "experiments" on children in the camps?

You’re equating the Nazis with 2A nutters/Republicans because of how both groups treat children?[

No. I'm suggesting those who suggest that child mutilation is a good thing consider what Nazi Dr. Mengele did.

Right. Like the mutilation of 20 children at Sandy hook.

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Anonymous wrote:These articles explain how CRT and gender ideology are correlated and already a part of our school culture at FCPS:

1. https://fee.org/articles/critical-race-theory-and-gender-ideology-are-ubiquitous-in-us-schools-new-study-shows/

2. https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/critical-race-theory-and-gender-ideology

How are these concepts taught at FCPS?
1. Boys and girls are now officially referred to as male and female assigned at birth.
2. FCPS is pushing for penalizing students and staff who don’t use the correct gender pronouns of those who choose to use them to identify themselves at school.
3. Privilege Bingo
4. Back in the fall of 2020, my child’s high school in FCPS distributed a book on Racism and Antiracism to every single 12 grader during virtual learning.

Abigail Shrier? The anti-trans MAGA?

Hard pass.

Shrier is brilliant - a classic liberal with degrees from Columbia, Oxford, and Yale. Her book belongs in school libraries more than the soft-core porn peddled in FCPS libraries.

She’s also a bigoted RWNJ.

She’s not bigoted. She’s calling attention to what many believe with good reason is now government-enabled child abuse.

She is absolutely a RWNJ bigot.

Oh, look. Left-wingers who only know how to call other people names.

What more do you want?

She’s a RWNJ bigot and her writings are harmful to others. She has no place in a discussion about FCPS.

Her writings save troubled teens from being mutilated and might save more but for the fact that FCPS kowtows to trans activists when making appointments to advisory committees, etc.

Her writings are crap, not fact/data-based, and exist purely to push RWNJ anti-trans agenda.

She has no place in FCPS discussions. Or anywhere, frankly.

You demonize her because she urges caution before cutting off the breasts and penises of confused adolescents, which you and your allies think is fine if it bolsters your ranks (those who regret their decisions are just collateral damage).

Top and bottom surgery isn't as common as you think for kids. You are made to believe it's happening wholesale and encouraged and promoted. Trans care is decades long, well assisted and managed by a team of medical professionals, and surgery in and of itself is never the first procedure or even a procedure in someone under 18. Parents of these kids will tell you about a very long trajectory of care before that is even discussed. Kids don't just say " I wanna be a boy." Teachers are promoting it, hiding it, encouraging it. You are being fed lies. Yes, I am a teacher. I've seen 4 trans kids over 25 years, different ages. These were long processes that started when these kids were toddlers, and no surgery until many years later, and in one case, no surgery ever- the kid is now about 30. This is just something you are uncomfortable with, don't understand, and somehow it's wrapped up in your religious lens, but non binary and trans people have always existed in time, and there are many cultures where this has been accepted as normal forever. You live in a very insular closed minded bubble and you aren't willing to educate yourself.

That's just not true. Surgeries are recommended for 15+

https://apnews.com/article/gender-transition-treatment-guidelines-9dbe54f670a3a0f5f2831c2bf14f9bbb

It bothers me that the PP purports to be a teacher yet would spread such misinformation. There are too many teachers in FCPS promoting non-binary and trans lifestyles among impressionable youths who are led to believe typical teenage angst may require radical changes to their bodies.

Misinformation? GFTO, troll.

PP posted an accurate article and you still decided to have a hissy fit? Hope you are nowhere near a classroom, you pathetic twit.

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Anonymous wrote:To the enthusiastically religious and right wing leaners who now look at the world through a binary lens of good vs. facist and Marxist liberals let me help here:
1. There are actual standards in journalism. Journalism requires fact telling, with an enormous amount of litmus testing to make sure that what is reported is factual.
2. There's also opinion reporting. Opinion reporting within journalism still has standards,opinions have to have relevancy, receipts, and academic peerage and viability.
3. We have entered the age of entertainment news, not reflective of any journalism standards, because it doesn't have to be. Mostly this occurs online, cable networks, but we see issues now in mainstream outlets, such as Fox News- but they must prepare to be sued as tabloids often are- because there are no receipts.
Someone like Shriner exists only in the tabloid world of her own doing, just like Joe Rogan, Prager U ( not a university), and so many others. It's hard to perhaps discern fact from opinion in outlets liks these, especially if you've come from a fair amount of confirmation bias and are unwilling or unable to use litmus testing to your sources of information. But, then, this is what these outlets are hoping for. It's a billion dollar industry.
Yes, evangelical Christians can get academic degrees, but they aren't exempt from Journalistic standards because of those degrees. Josh Hawley is a great example. He does have an Ivy degree, yet legislates through a biblical lens, and of course, like Shriner, who has a following of Christians and maybe other orthodox religious groups, hope they seem to have credibility. But they don't. Their religious opinions still have to have academic peer reviewed standards.
That goes for Moms of Liberty, Joe Rogan, the anti vaxxers, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Hillsong, Liberty University ( yes, it is a university, but it is quite suspect with regard to how they can even be accredited and they've been under fire for many issues) outlets, It's entertainment, not news, not research, not fact. That's why it's opinion. Universities in Florida will soon not pass the same lens. Religion is opinion, not academia.

Oh, and the terms facist, Marxist, and socialism are also nomenclature that you might not understand at all. These are thrown around like pieces of paper without any real understanding of what is being discussed.
No, gender affirming medicine isn't Big Pharma. Sorry, nothing to do with it.

Meet Abigail Shrier:
https://www.thefp.com/p/abigail-shrier-on-freedom-in-an-age

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Anonymous wrote:These articles explain how CRT and gender ideology are correlated and already a part of our school culture at FCPS:

1. https://fee.org/articles/critical-race-theory-and-gender-ideology-are-ubiquitous-in-us-schools-new-study-shows/

2. https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/critical-race-theory-and-gender-ideology

How are these concepts taught at FCPS?
1. Boys and girls are now officially referred to as male and female assigned at birth.
2. FCPS is pushing for penalizing students and staff who don’t use the correct gender pronouns of those who choose to use them to identify themselves at school.
3. Privilege Bingo
4. Back in the fall of 2020, my child’s high school in FCPS distributed a book on Racism and Antiracism to every single 12 grader during virtual learning.

Abigail Shrier? The anti-trans MAGA?

Hard pass.

Shrier is brilliant - a classic liberal with degrees from Columbia, Oxford, and Yale. Her book belongs in school libraries more than the soft-core porn peddled in FCPS libraries.

Being privileged and rich doesn't make you intelligent.

Please explain how is Abigail Shrier’s story one of privilege? And, after reading her speech at Princeton, what part do you consider unintelligent? Please enlighten us:
https://www.thefp.com/p/abigail-shrier-on-freedom-in-an-age