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Edited by Mrph1 on Dec 1st 2023 at 6:53:59 PM

Thesegougou from Earth-1218 (Don’t ask) Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
#21326: May 7th 2023 at 3:37:16 PM

The bill says "human sexuality", maybe teachers can work around it by teaching about gay animals.
Not only that, but assuming that you have to define human as homo sapiens, if there's any prehistoric proof, teachers can also try to teach about neanderthalian or homo erectus/habilis/etc homosexual relationships.

Edited by Thesegougou on May 7th 2023 at 12:37:56 PM

I'm not crazy, just creatively different.
NesClassic Meh-meh!? from Flyover Country Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: In another castle
Meh-meh!?
#21327: May 7th 2023 at 3:44:32 PM

As funny as that'd be I think that'd just... expedite? smacking evolution out of school curriculums.

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Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#21328: May 7th 2023 at 3:46:26 PM

Trying to rule lawyer it is pointless, these laws are so vague so they can be used to crush queer people.

Republican dominated courts and legislatures aren't going to just smile and nod when people try to use its words against them. They'll just send the police and drag you away.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#21329: May 7th 2023 at 3:55:55 PM

"Aw, darn it, they found the clever workaround!"

Nope, they're just going to doxx some poor kindergarten teacher and mail her rape threats.

It's been fun.
PresidentStalkeyes Eats moldy bread and flies into windows from United Kingdom of England-land Since: Feb, 2016 Relationship Status: Do you like me? (Yes ⎕ Definitely ⎕ Absolutely!!! ⎕)
Eats moldy bread and flies into windows
#21330: May 7th 2023 at 4:13:57 PM

This gets me curious on how teachers - as a professional demographic - fall on LGBT issues. Or just progressive positions in general. I know the GOP likes to whine and moan about 'liberal bias' in college-level education, but does that filter down to lower levels of education?

I know that teachers in my country have no love lost for a right-wing government that keeps cutting them at every opportunity (hence the recent strikes), but that might not be a universal thing.

Edited by PresidentStalkeyes on May 7th 2023 at 12:14:36 PM

Those sell-by-dates won't stop me because I can't read!
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#21331: May 7th 2023 at 4:14:37 PM

You get some absolutely horrible teachers, but teachers in general tend to be more prone to seeing the students as actual people and not just extensions and/or property of their parents.

Forenperser Foreign Troper from Germany Since: Mar, 2012
Foreign Troper
#21332: May 10th 2023 at 1:42:50 AM

Seems like not only Conservatives are boycotting Bud Light now. Gay bars do so now too due to the company's treatment of Mulvaney

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/08/lgbtq-bars-boycott-bud-light-dylan-mulvaney/

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Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#21333: May 11th 2023 at 12:06:57 AM

If you're going to pick a side like this, you've gotta pick a side. Trying to simultaneously advertise to both demographics will just get both to turn on you.

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#21334: May 11th 2023 at 5:17:22 PM

FDA updates blood donation policy to include gay, bisexual men.

Whereas previous policy required all men who have sex with men to abstain three months before donating, it's now shifted towards individual risk-based assays regardless of gender.

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Wheatleyfangirl White Lily Dawnbreaker from Crispa Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: SEDUCE ME!
White Lily Dawnbreaker
#21336: May 11th 2023 at 6:03:38 PM

[up][up]

I approve of this

Beast Yeast episode 12 was peak. Everyone in that episode was great. Especially White Lily.
fredhot16 Don't want to leave but cannot pretend from Baton Rogue, Louisiana. Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Too sexy for my shirt
Don't want to leave but cannot pretend
#21338: May 13th 2023 at 11:22:28 AM

That’s good to hear, really!

…I’m going to guess the previous rule was made with a basis in the “HIV” pandemic and it’s association with gay people (despite it being transmissible in more ways then sexual contact and how nobody bothered to be concerned about heterosexual transmission) and prepare to be disappointed but not surprised.

Edited by fredhot16 on May 13th 2023 at 11:23:23 AM

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AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#21339: May 13th 2023 at 11:43:26 AM

Essentially. But even after scientists made it clear that AIDS wasn't just a "gay disease" and could be transmitted via PIV or oral sex, tainted needles, and all sorts of other methods that don't care about gender differences so much as behavioral ones, it took a long time for the health organizations to catch up in policy.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#21340: May 13th 2023 at 12:10:49 PM

dirty blood from blood transfusions is the biggest one everyone misses,partly because blood transfusions are such a routine procedure we take for hospital cleanliness for granted,but there are there are hospitals out there that cut corners and didn't exactly screen the blood and the results were unspeakable tragic

Edited by Ultimatum on May 13th 2023 at 8:14:34 PM

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#21341: May 13th 2023 at 1:26:36 PM

There is also the issue that you can't detect unknown viruses and pathogens in blood. Until they are discovered and judged dangerous (there are lots of viruses we let spread as they are innocuous), they can spread freely.

Thus instead excluding a large group was easier.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Khudzlin Since: Nov, 2013
#21342: May 13th 2023 at 1:53:01 PM

[up][up] There was a big scandal about that in France 40 years ago.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#21343: May 13th 2023 at 1:56:04 PM

The United Kingdom has also had its share of dirty blood scandals

its disturbing how widespread contaminated blood scandals are

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speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#21344: May 27th 2023 at 6:59:16 AM

So maybe this has been going on for a while and I've just been in the dark, but I heard a bigot radio host repeatedly call the month of June "Groom", a slam at LGBTQ. What a douchebag.

Anyway, just wondered if that's been a common thing to call it that.

Edited by speedyboris on May 27th 2023 at 7:34:02 AM

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Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#21346: May 27th 2023 at 9:00:59 PM

[up][up]Apparently it's new. It's a slam at Pride Month.

speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#21347: May 28th 2023 at 7:27:17 AM

So it is new. Glad I'm not behind the times for once. And I really hope this doesn't catch on, but I'm sure it will, and they'll be using it until the end of time. 'Cause you know, it's soooo clever.

JethroQWalrustitty Since: Jan, 2001
#21348: May 30th 2023 at 1:51:10 AM

in some nicer news for a change, Louisiana blocks anti-trans youth transition bill, a rare move for a red state.

fredhot16 Don't want to leave but cannot pretend from Baton Rogue, Louisiana. Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Too sexy for my shirt
Don't want to leave but cannot pretend
#21349: Jun 1st 2023 at 10:40:35 AM

[up]Finally, a reason to feel good about my state being in the news.

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