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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rives spoke out against the APS policy implementation procedure that guaranteed rights and protections for trans kids. Disqualifying. [/quote]

Link please [/quote]

https://www.apsva.us/post/school-board-meeting-june-18-2019/ at 3:26:40[/quote]
Though I support the implementation of the PIP I don't find that to be a damning response. I am voting for Bethany Sutton because I am familiar with her work due to my time at Randolph and feel that she put a lot of hard work into the schools and community already.[/quote]

I'm not saying it's damning. I'm saying it's disqualifying. The mere fact that Rives didn't speak up in favor of the policy implementation procedure is disqualifying on its own. That he went further and spouted a bunch of pseudo-science on the medical dimensions of issues faced by many trans kids is even more so, even if he did it in an understated way that didn't bash trans kids expressly. It shows he can't be trusted to protect trans and nonbinary kids from ongoing attacks by our governor and his administration.[/quote]

I believe the policy solution is more complicated than people like to think. [b]Those full-on supporting everything based on gender identity do not consider the feelings of others who may be uncomfortable in open locker rooms and restrooms, for example.[/b] I also believe it takes an actual open conversation to really understand Rives' position. He doesn't deny transgenderism per se and I don't think what he says is disqualifying. I think he'll bring a more thoughtful approach to policy-making rather than the knee-jerk all-or-nothing approach the hive mindset board always takes on everything.[/quote]

Literally an argument used during the civil rights era against integrating bathrooms. Most lynchings in the South were predicated on the claim that black men had violated/threatened the "virtue" of white women, and support for Jim Crow laws, which controlled black people post-slavery, were based on the idea that free black men sexually desired white women and therefore needed to be controlled. This is just the updated version of that same idea, except swap in trans people for black people. Instead of being people just living their lives, they are, just by existing, treated as a threat--mainly to women--to justify segregation and regulation. It is any surprise that the governor is against both CRT and trans-inclusionary policies? [/quote]

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