It begins.
This is absolutely disgusting
The mum, who works as a social worker, described how her son came out as trans just before his 13th birthday. She has supported him since.
She claimed a DFPS agent had knocked on her door last week and told her the agency has a right to âinvestigate the âabuseâ that happened prior to my son turning 18â. They reportedly told her she is a âdanger to [her] clientsâ.
The mum told Xtra that her ex-husband did not support her sonâs identity and that he repeatedly filed false child abuse claims against her in the past for affirming her sonâs identity.
As such, she said there were nine closed cases attached to her name. She recalled how DFPS told her attorney that âwhere thereâs smoke, thereâs fireâ and the closed cases meant sheâd âbeen hiding something for yearsâ.
So it looks like NASA is getting in on transphobia.
Behind closed doors, one NASA employee told Slate that NASA officials âcompared displaying pronouns to expressing public support for sports teamsâ and felt the pronouns made others âuncomfortable.â
Assholes. I suspect my trans rocket engineer friend in Florida is going to be very pissed off about this and rightly so.
Employees can and will still add their pronouns into their emails. And should as they desire.
Preventing employees from doing so will probably put them in some trouble with the OPM and Bidenâs diversity exec order.
That said - I choose not to use them personally. Iâve been very out for decades as trans and Iâd much rather know if someoneâs an asshole right upfront.
And I have a person who reports to me who in their previous position was being directed to add them and was very uncomfortable as they werenât out and hadnât begun to socially transition as non binary. They didnât want to out themselves and didnât want to lie about themselves. It was a big enough deal for them that it influenced their leaving their position to work with me.
Personal pronouns are very personal.
Yeah, âallowingâ and ârequiringâ are very different things, especially with something that personal.
The value placed on pronouns seems to be more important to people younger than me. The thing I find problematic is, they gave people the option to display their pronouns, then took it away because it made other people uncomfortable.
Absolutely. Itâs something that many find makes them feel more included and others feel expresses their desire to include and support. How can that be a problem for an employer?
There are transphobes everywhere and for them our existence is a problem.
Iâm at the Iâm not locked up here with you stage of life.
Taking away the option is awful, but I think it should be allowed as an option. It is at my workplace, and I put my more common but less preferred pronouns in my work email signature. I donât want to put my preferred pronouns in though, since I donât want to have to explain fae/faer to everyone I talk to. I reserve those for queer spaces.
Tennessee
On Tuesday, a House panel advanced a bill, HB 800, that would ban public schools from using textbooks and instructional materials that âpromote, normalise, support or address controversial social issuesâ including LGBT+ âlifestylesâ.
The bill will now move onto the full House for debate.
Cannot address controversial social issues at all. Yeah, thatâs the end goal of all of this shit. Lovely.
âLGBT+ lifestylesâ?
Who the fuck doesnât like brunch!?
I donât like brunch crowdsâŚdoes that count against me?
Iâm sure itâs just the size of the crowd, not whoâs brunching so weâre good.
Like assault weapons?
Seeing as they want them and have them already, yeah, probably.
Bigoted killjoys⌠brunch is decadent, as you should have breakfast THEN lunch, as god intended⌠you know, in the bible.
Iâm godless so I eat when I want.
