We write as a group of more than 300 Florida health care professionals who care for transgender and gender diverse youth. We have one common goal: to provide the best quality, evidence-based, individualized and compassionate care for our patients.
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Dear _____
I am hoping that by now you know me well enough from class to be able to trust me.
I respect you.
I support you.
I want whatās best for you.
If there were a rattlesnake under a pile of leaves on the path in front of you, Iām hoping you could easily imagine that I would run out ahead of you to warn you.
If your home were on fire, Iām hoping you could believe that I would try to help you get out.
Thatās sort of whatās happening now.
When you asked me to call your friends by masculine names and I started trying to do that, I was wrong. It was a lie.
I didnāt warn you about the rattlesnake.
I didnāt try to rescue you from your burning house.
I hope youāll forgive meāand I want to āturn things aroundā now.
And like I saidāIām hoping youāll trust me.
I realize that what you feel is saying something totally different.
But feelings are like a mirage. You donāt dare trust in them to guide you. Theyāre not an accurate reflection of reality.
So what is the reality? What is the truth? How can you know the truth for certain?
Well, biologically, every cell in your body is 
āfemaleāfeminine. Thatās the bilogical truth. The same is true for your friends.
And itās the truth that I want to encourage you to pursue. Thatās what a good teacher does, right?
The DVD will explain everything more clearly than I canāthe spiritual as well as the scientific facts. The candy is a symbol of the sweetness that hope and pray youāll discover.
Immer Alles Gute!
Dein DeutschlehrerāMr. H.
But Bruns says the above message was delivered in person on public school grounds and through public school email. The message indicates it accompanied a DVD conveying āspiritualā¦ facts.ā This teacher thus appears to have used his position in a public school to gain access to students and not only teach those students about a religion, something outside his assignment as a language teacher, but also encourage them to accept his own spiritual beliefs as fact.
So thereās something here to set off everyoneās alarm bells. Leftists can complain about Hilleslandās failure to respect individual gender identification. Republicans can freak out over the candy and grooming language. And everyone who appreciates the healthy separation of church and state can ask why a public school teacher is being allowed to proselytize on school time.
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Sadly Douglas Ross is woefully misinformed and confused on this subject, and is proposing an unlawful policy.
You donāt say.
And yet they persist in spreading all this transphobic rot.
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Thanks, though Iām not feeling bad every evening, just annoyed.
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Nope, itās not healthy, but this is where we areā¦
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I know that feeling all too well. I miss the days (not so long ago) when this thread was dormant for days at a time. Itās getting nasty out there.
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Same here. I also miss the days when links were about something shitty a TERF said vs the genocidal shit going on now.
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Melinda is back now but holy shit thatās just so wrong that it ever happened.
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Stealing joy from children is evil.
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And thatās how you get republicans
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Thatās definitely in the mix somewhere.
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Since leaving Texas in 2017 to avoid anti-trans legislation, Skyler has had recurring nightmares of being kidnapped and taken away by strangers, her mother says.
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Having spent so much of her childhood living in terror, Skyler said the fact is that she shouldnāt have to think about any of this at such a young age. āI donāt want to have to worry about what state I feel safe in,ā she lamented. āI donāt want to worry about moving out of a space that Iāve just barely got adjusted to. I just want to live my life as a regular kid, but I canāt.ā
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