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Trans and children has become ubiquitous. Schools are flooded with it.
I think people that don't have primary school-aged children just don't know how ubiquitous it has become. It almost feels like publishers are routinely asking children's authors, "OK, but can you put a trans character in there somewhere?"
 
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Millions of children having it implanted in their minds that they're something different from reality probably isn't going to work out well for them and society in the long run.
Apply this logic to “religion”.
 
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I think people that don't have primary school-aged children just don't know how ubiquitous it has become. It almost feels like publishers are routinely asking children's authors, "OK, but can you put a trans character in there somewhere?"
Most teachers I know MIGHT read three or four of these books outside of pride week. I teach in a K-9. I have children 9 and 14. My younger goes to to a christian school and my elder does not. Neither of them have been "forced to" or frankly been offered to read any of the books you folks seem to feel are in mass hysteria mode across all of society.

I have little idea what is informing this opinion but it runs 100% counter to every teacher I know.
 
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Most teachers I know MIGHT read three or four of these books outside of pride week. I teach in a K-9. I have children 9 and 14. My younger goes to to a christian school and my elder does not. Neither of them have been "forced to" or frankly been offered to read any of the books you folks seem to feel are in mass hysteria mode across all of society.

I have little idea what is informing this opinion but it runs 100% counter to every teacher I know.
Information is available now that wasn’t available in the past and this has to be stopped (for some reason).
 
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I think people that don't have primary school-aged children just don't know how ubiquitous it has become. It almost feels like publishers are routinely asking children's authors, "OK, but can you put a trans character in there somewhere?"
They seem very detached from what's really going on.
 
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Millions of children having it implanted in their minds that they're something different from reality probably isn't going to work out well for them and society in the long run.
Why do you assume this idea was "implanted"? Why do you reject the very idea that they came to this realization all on their own?

One thing that's clear from all the unsuccessful attempts at conversion therapy is that changing someone's sexuality isn't all that easy.

Keep in mind that there's a growing trend among kids to also decide that they're a different race and even a different species. And the only argument against those notions are the same as the arguments against the milions of kids who now think they're transgender/genderfluid/nonbinary.
Gender identity is subjective, while race and species aren't. So the two issues aren't really comparable.

-- A2SG, so that's pretty much a false equivalence.....
 
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Why do you assume this idea was "implanted"? Why do you reject the very idea that they came to this realization all on their own?

One thing that's clear from all the unsuccessful attempts at conversion therapy is that changing someone's sexuality isn't all that easy.


Gender identity is subjective, while race and species aren't. So the two issues aren't really comparable.

-- A2SG, so that's pretty much a false equivalence.....
It's all a break from reality.
 
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Trans and children has become ubiquitous. Schools are flooded with it.
A significant reason for that, it seems to me, is awareness. As people hear about other's experiences, if they've had similar ones, it may make them feel less alone, and more likely to actually talk about these feelings that other parts of society claim are wrong or false.

For those who have these feelings, it can be very liberating.

-- A2SG, at least, that's what people who have gone through that have told me.....
 
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It's all a break from reality.
So people's experiences about their own sexuality isn't reality?

How about yours?

-- A2SG, how do you define reality, exactly.....
 
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A significant reason for that, it seems to me, is awareness. As people hear about other's experiences, if they've had similar ones, it may make them feel less alone, and more likely to actually talk about these feelings that other parts of society claim are wrong or false.

For those who have these feelings, it can be very liberating.

-- A2SG, at least, that's what people who have gone through that have told me.....
But, and let's be TOTALLY CLEAR here. Schools aren't "Flooded" with it. They have a few posters up, they talk about it openly and they say "it's okay".

Unfortunately, from some folks, even just that gets turned into a satanic hailstorm of fury and sex hellbent on ripping their child from them.
 
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Unfortunately that's really what's going on.
Yeah sure.
My eyes betray me and all teachers are liars.

The media you consume is not filled with talented credible journalists.
 
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Yeah sure.
My eyes betray me and all teachers are liars.

The media you consume is not filled with talented credible journalists.
Journalism isn't really necessary. Simply watching all the footage available is enough. Like watching a school board meeting where a parent is reading out loud from one of the books given to school kids, that's so sexually obscene they stop the parent from continuing. Or all the footage of lootings and carjackings etc. Or all the footage of downtown areas filled with junkies. Coupled with what I see for myself as a downtown resident. And the cops doing little about it, because they've had so many restrictions placed on them.
 
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But, and let's be TOTALLY CLEAR here. Schools aren't "Flooded" with it. They have a few posters up, they talk about it openly and they say "it's okay".

Unfortunately, from some folks, even just that gets turned into a satanic hailstorm of fury and sex hellbent on ripping their child from them.
Nope being transgender/genderfluid/nonbinary etc is now a part of the curriculum. It's gone too far to deny it any longer, you need to move into the "so what?" position.
 
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Nope being transgender/genderfluid/nonbinary etc is now a part of the curriculum.
How, exactly? What specific parts of the curriculum involve trangender or related issues? Do they cover them in math class?

It's gone too far to deny it any longer, you need to move into the "so what?" position.
Some evidence or details would help us know what you're talking about here.

-- A2SG, otherwise, it sounds like just run of the mill fear mongering.....
 
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How, exactly? What specific parts of the curriculum involve trangender or related issues? Do they cover them in math class?
Hold on, I haven't caught up on all of the other questions you've asked.
 
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