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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Echoing some PPs, I am open to voting for any candidate, no matter the party endorsement.

Issue that I care the most about: the quality of academics at FCPS. (Doing something about the lack of quality.)

Caveats: 
*I do not care about punishing people who closed the schools during the pandemic. Move on. 
*I will NOT vote for someone who makes a priority of creating a hostile environment for LGBTQ kids. 
(And for those who make assumptions about me based on this statement: I have ordered the two books mentioned and will read them with an open mind. But even if I find them wholly inappropriate, I cannot imagine making two books in high school library shelves into a catalyst issue. I haven't read every post but, from what I have, this thread has covered: a couple controversial books, a proposed but not implemented plan to refer to kids by their "gender assigned at birth," and the notion that referring to gay people at all might be considered in elementary school as reference to sex and therefore inappropriate. I am by no means a political activist nor a nutty liberal, but any candidate who underlines these three points as their big identifying issues has lost me.)

Please tell me which candidates are genuinely invested in working to raise academic standards without emphasizing those particular gender/sexuality points.[/quote]
Other books banned by activists that are worth reading to understand the genuine concern of parents at FCPS about gender ideology activism at our schools, particularly because of its effect on kids who identify as experiencing body dysmorphia:

1. Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness by Miriam Grossman, MD.
2. Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans: Tales from the Home Front in the Fight to Save Our Kids by Josie A. and Dina S. 
3. [b]Irreversible Damage[/b]: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier. 
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This book isn't based on data -- it's an opinion piece by someone who is anti-trans. 
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So it should be banned?[/quote]

Banned where? By whom? [/quote]
ttps://www.thefp.com/p/the-books-are-already-burning[/quote]

A library in Canada that doesn’t want to support anti-LGBTQ bigots? Ok…
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You must have lack reading comprehension skills. The library does support the book. Activists with your attitude want to ban it from that library, removed it from Amazon and Target in the past, and will continue to do anything not to see it in our libraries in FCPS. [/quote]

Oh. So the books aren’t actually banned then?

The book is not data-based. It’s an opinion piece by an anti-trans activist. [/quote]
[b]The book is not data-based. It’s an opinion piece by an anti-trans activist. [/b]
You realize this is just your opinion on a well researched book based on a topic with very limited data, right?

Likewise, please do share what libraries in FCPS have copies of Irreversible Damage available.

At a recent School Board meeting, a member of the community brought up the book and author to be considered in our schools. What have the school librarians done about it? How about the advocates for students who identify as LGBTQ? And do Civics teachers include discussions about censoring in the U.S. as described in the article? 
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It’s objectively not a “well researched” book.

My kids learned about censorship AND misinformation in Civics class. 
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…On Tuesday, one of the blog’s long-time contributors, Dr. Harriet Hall — a family physician and flight surgeon in the Air Force with dozens of publications to her name — posted a favorable review of my book. She examined the scientific claims as well as the medical ones and wrote that the book “combines well-researched facts with horrifying stories about botched surgeries, people who later regret their choices and therapists who are not providing therapy but just validating their patient’s self-diagnosis.” Dr. Hall not only shared my criticisms of “affirmative care” — that is, immediately agreeing with a teen’s self-diagnosis of gender dysphoria and proceeding to hormones and surgeries — but also noted that many physicians and therapists feel the same way but are afraid to say so…

…[i]How have we gotten here? How have we gotten to the point where having conversations about important scientific and medical subjects requires such a high level of personal risk? How have we accepted a reality in which Big Tech can carry out the digital equivalent of book burnings? And why is it that so few people are speaking up against the status quo?
I can’t think of a person better situated to answer these questions than Abigail Shrier, the author of today’s guest essay[/i]…

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https://www.thefp.com/p/the-books-are-already-burning[/quote]

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