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Kids are entitled to gender-fun

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ValuePartnership · 19/04/2023 08:51

A Kansas bill to impose restrictions on access to public bathrooms and stop transgender people changing the name or gender on their driver’s licenses have passed the state legislature and will likely be passed over the governor’s expected veto. Rights advocates claimed the bills would legally erase transgender people and deny recognition to non-binary, gender fluid and gender non-conforming people.

“I am what they are scared of,” Ian Benalcazar, a 13-year-old NE Kansas transgender boy said during a recent LGBTQ rights rally outside the statehouse. “I am a human being and I deserve to be treated as such, and I deserve to be happy.” Carson Rapp, a Wichita-area 15-year-old who identifies as bigender or embracing “both more masculine and more feminine traits” said that expressing one’s gender identity does not harm others. “Why stop people from doing it if they’re just being themselves and having fun?” Carson said.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/05/kansas-republicans-majority-governor-veto-trans-bathroom-bill

What's so clear is that these kids are totally unready to decide to have their bodies deranged by experimental puberty-blockers, mutilated by mercenary surgeons, and sterilised by lifelong drug treatment. Such fun!

Kansas Republicans set to override governor’s veto of trans bathroom bill

Highly restrictive legislation clears state legislature by margins that suggest Democratic governor’s expected veto can be quashed

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/05/kansas-republicans-majority-governor-veto-trans-bathroom-bill

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Whatafool123 · 19/04/2023 09:06

Abccde · 19/04/2023 08:58

I think as with many things, the Americans take things too far.

The republicans are extreme on one side and on this occasion the Biden administration is also very extreme.

I don't know the details of the bill or any other bills in other States but I suspect I wouldn't fully agree.

In the UK we simply need the Equality clarified to make it clear that women are entitled to single sex spaces and they mean biological sex.

But America terrifies me and I am glad I don't live there.

This 100%. There is absolutely no nuance on anything of importance.

ValuePartnership · 19/04/2023 09:04

carriedout · 19/04/2023 08:58

This issue has become a culture war shitshow and it is tiring. There is no nuance to any discussion.

The alignment of many so-called feminists with the extreme right in American politics is alarming to me.

Are we really supposed to be cheering on Kansas republicans now?

If the progressive/left too up the correct positions on these issues, it would not be a Republican/right affair!

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Abccde · 19/04/2023 08:58

I think as with many things, the Americans take things too far.

The republicans are extreme on one side and on this occasion the Biden administration is also very extreme.

I don't know the details of the bill or any other bills in other States but I suspect I wouldn't fully agree.

In the UK we simply need the Equality clarified to make it clear that women are entitled to single sex spaces and they mean biological sex.

But America terrifies me and I am glad I don't live there.

carriedout · 19/04/2023 08:58

This issue has become a culture war shitshow and it is tiring. There is no nuance to any discussion.

The alignment of many so-called feminists with the extreme right in American politics is alarming to me.

Are we really supposed to be cheering on Kansas republicans now?