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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see us making any progress on this front.  There are two things the sides would have to agree with.

1. There is no such thing as hate speech.
2. Gender dysphoria is a mental illness.

Until there is common ground on these two topics there is very little that can be done.

I attended the school board meeting last night, and was deeply saddened to observe parents who are unwilling to teach their children these facts but go beyond basic negligence and teach the opposite.  It is child abuse at the very least.

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Am I understanding correctly -- you think "there is no such thing as hate speech"? You consider that a "fact"? 
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Apparently.

I still want someone to explain why anyone should give a crap what the Arlington Parent Coalition says, or make me believe the "coalition" represents the viewpoint of more than one person.

I will grant them this: they are good at hoodwinking the local media: 
https://wtop.com/arlington/2019/06/parents-students-react-to-arlington-public-schools-proposed-transgender-policy

"A member of the Arlington Parent Coalition shared a survey, showing most students feel their concerns are not being adequately heard in regards to the policy.

Of the 90 students surveyed, 87% said they oppose or strongly oppose the policy due to religious beliefs, the impact this could have on women’s athletics and the possibility of students who disagree with being stigmatized."

I'd love to see the methodology on THAT survey.... If it's not simply completely made up, I'm guessing they surveyed their fundamentalist church's kids...[/quote]

I'm not the PP but I'll explain it to you. Those kids who answered the survey, regardless of how they were identified or whether they're influenced by their parents, count too. Okay, they're misguided or wrong or too religious or whatever. The fact is, they're students in APS too and they're NOT saying trans kids don't have a right to exist or should be bullied or mistreated. They're presumably just trying to understand how this policy fits with their own conceptions of privacy, religion, competition, and expression of their viewpoints. Why do they deserve to be run over in favor of the other set of kids demanding the policy that flies in the face of what the first kids belief in?

I assume your answer is, because they're bigoted. Well, that pretty much proves their point about being stigmatized if they disagree with the policy. You can think they're flat wrong and the new generation of racists if you want, but you can't deny that anyone who raises any question about this policy is slandered as a bigot.

You all can tell yourselves you're on the front lines of the new civil rights movement to validate your efforts here, but this is a difficult and nuanced issue. Treating people who disagree or simply don't have the experience with these issues as pariahs is not helping.[/quote]

+1 million[/quote]

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