They have nothing better to do? The country is falling apart and this is their concern?

Has "change your name" day at school today...everyone chooses a different name and uses it all day. Sounds like fun! Oh well...we can't have that! say the creepy creeps who always think creepy things.

I can think of several fun first names to go with that.

Why should teachers lose their jobs if the parents and their own children can't communicate with one another? The teachers shouldn't be taking sides anyway, and that's what has been happening.

This bill sounds like it is meant to save the teachers from being fired ... and it puts the onus on parents and their kids to agree on the basic principle: Yes they are trans or no they aren't trans. School principals and counselors need to step up also.

I can actually see why Democrats would support this bill.

I CANNOT see why Democrats would support this bill, and I am deeply disappointed in all those who did.

The same laws, by law.

No Democrat should give their endorsement of this transphobic garbage. Republicans are going to do what they’re are going to do but Democrats don’t have to be a part of it. I really want to know why Democrats in the EQUALITY CAUCUS supported this!

All tied in with other trans laws. They are absolutely sick sick people!! It may have passed but I haven’t been arrested yet!!

But if the law were mandatory jockeying stamps…..not so many!😁🤣 lol…..jock straps auto correct 😂😁

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Children's "rights."

Pretty much we find this out in Kindergarten, the first time we're admonished for talking.

Or maybe that was just me! 🤭 🤫

Going to specify per law as to "For Americans" or "For Education," but then realized.....

EVERYTHING REPUBLICAN IS BAD OR WORSE, PERIOD.

THIS LAW HAS SEEN AN EXCEPTION EXTREMELY RARELY, TO MY MEMORY THE LAST TIME'S BEING THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ORIGIN UNDER NIXON.
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VERY disappointed in VINDMAN especially!! WTH?!

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who and what they see as easy targets to accomplish a more despicably sinister objective.

Transgenders to discriminate against the LGBTQ community,

late term abortion to outlaw all forms of birth control,

DEI to discriminate against Blacks, women and other minorites,

fake claims of voter fraud to suppress the vote and re-establish Jim Crow,

so-called violent immigrants to deport and disappear Black and brown people,

and to end birthright citizenship,

while spending millions to import white Afrikaners.

And so-called sex and violence in literature to remove books from libraries - to obliterate Black history, obscure fascism, and promote their ignorantly deluded false narrative via the suppression of or rewriting of their OWN violent history.

An insidious indoctrination, inspired by fascists, supremacists, and other associated HELLSPAWN.

Not “Transgenders” if you please.

I freaking hope so. If it does, I'm still going to side eye those Democrats who voted for it, very hard, but man, I really hope so.

Some of these people sound like they don't live in reality. Yes, of course, full and open communication between home and school is ideal, but there are times when that's just not safe, because some parents suck. Keeping kids safe should come first. Next thing you know, they'll be passing laws to require teachers (who are mandated reporters) to notify parents before reporting suspicions of parental child abuse to authorities. Because gods forbid schools keep ANYTHING secret from parents, right?

Oh, and they just HAD to put in that part about banning books that include transgender characters or even address the existence of transgender people! Will ALL school libraries be required to get rid of every book that so much as hints at the possibility that trans people exist? As a former librarian who still fiercely supports intellectual freedom, the idea of actively denying children access to information that some of them may desperately need makes my blood boil. Yes, public libraries exist, but not all kids have access to them. (In my case, the public library was a long way from where we lived and my mother didn't have a driver's license. It was a great day for me when the bookmobile started to make a weekly stop in my neighborhood, even though what it offered was only a fraction of what was available in that big building that I never got to visit.)

What we need is this country right now is a MASSIVE public education program to combat all the lies and distortions about trans people and trans issues that are being spread by the right. More and more people are being brainwashed by those lies and distortions every day, and I don't see anything being done to counter it.

I know it sucks, but until election results change, it makes no sense to give fascist Retrumplicans issues they can beat Dems over the head with.

This kind of "outrage" posting is what causes Dems to lose elections.

Retrumplicans support a fucking pedophile rapist demented clown. That clown won't lose a single vote for being a pedophile.

Whenever a Dem doesn't support someone's issue, we should ask ourselves

" Do I want Henry Cuellar (Texas), Donald Davis (N.C.), Cleo Fields (La.), Laura Gillen (N.Y.), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), Marcy Kaptur (Ohio), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.) and Eugene Vindman (Va.) writing legislation and setting domestic policy, or do I want Boebert, Blackburn, Comer, Higgins, Fine and Johnson doing it?

I don't know any of the Dems personally, but I do KNOW this:

- they aren’t going to support sending armed goons into blue cities to violently assault Americans

- they aren’t going to vote for the racist "Save our Retrumplican Asses bill.

- they aren’t going to give a blank check to a drunk ass christofascist Secretary of Defense.

Not to mention the most important point...

IF DEMS HAD GOTTEN JUST A LITTLE MORE SUPPORT IN A HANDFUL OF DISTRICTS, THIS LEGISLATION WOULD HAVE NEVER MADE IT TO THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE!

None

Again, I think it sucks, but it's politics.

I am going to say something very unpopular.

I love Pete Buttigieg. He would be a great president, but he doesn't stand a chance in 2026....hell, maybe not until 2050 or 60.

The Returdlicans would simply run an ad on a loop that just showed him kissing his husband, and he'd lose 40 states.

We need to stop thinking we can just will something into reality, because we want so desperately for it to be so.

Unfortunately, if Retrumplicans get their asses handed to them this November, they will learn that supporting racism, fascism, misogyny hatred and white supremacy is a "losing" strategy, but that is THE ONLY thing that will teach them that lesson!

It's not that he's a pedophile.
It's not that he's a rapist.
It's not that he's every vile thing that ever existed in America, scraped up and stuffed in a wrinkled sausage-casing.
It's not that he's vile, evil and corrupt...

It will take losing elections to teach Retrumplicans a lesson.

I am NOT wrong. We all know that if gas was $1.50 a gallon, his approval rating would be 55%.

That is the saddest, but truest thing of all.

Got it.

I also find it slightly amusing that you think the midterms are going to go down without a hiccup. But, that is just me.

They will not 'lose' elections if they refuse to accept said elections, now will they?

Of course, we could just stop playing politics. Why we think that this is not a good idea is a bit beyond me. By advocating for 'keeping things the same', by continuing to operate within a corrupted and biased system we are just making sure that they do stay the same... in all regards. Is that what we want?

Is power worth the pile we will have to stand on to get it? Because, to be honest, the answer I am seeing is very disconcerting.

(By the way, don't be concerned about being 'unpopular' for your posts. We need some 'unpopular speaking' around here. It might spark some ideas and some action beyond what is already being done. Maybe.)

But we better realize that the Retrumplican Party is an organized crime family, and the Democratic Party is NOT.

Not one single one of the issues regarding the LGBTQ community, or minority communities would be a frickin issue if Dems held the majority!

John Roberts-E-Lee, Beer Boy Biff, the Handmaiden and Conservabot wouldn't be on the Supreme Court if Dems held the majority.

Kegsbreath wouldn't have his drunk-ass hands on the DOD if Dems held the majority.

RFK Jr wouldn't be killing people and snorting cocaine off Health Department toilets if Dems held the majority.

AG?
FDA?
EPA?
EDUCATION?

JFC! None of those incompetent morons would warrant one single serious thoughts if Dems held the majority.

At some point, you vote for the party that won't fuck you over, even when they don't hug you.

So, what was the excuse for the lack of real change when we had the majority?

- the Affordable Care Act is real change.
- the first Infrastructure Bill in 80 years is real change.
- the Inflation Reduction Act is real change.
- Justice Jackson on the Supreme Court is real change.

Secretary of State: Antony Blinken instead of Marco Rubio is real change

Secretary of the Treasury: Janet Yellen instead of Scott Bessent is real change.

Secretary of Defense: Lloyd Austin instead of Pete Hegseth is real change.

Attorney General: Merrick Garland instead of Pam Bondi is real change.

Secretary of the Interior: Deb Haaland instead of Doug Burgum is real change.

Secretary of Agriculture: Tom Vilsack instead of Brooke Rollins is real change.

Secretary of Commerce: Gina Raimondo instead of Howard Lutnik is real change.

Secretary of Labor: Marty Walsh instead of Keith Sonderling is real change.

Secretary of Health and Human Services: Xavier Becerra instead of RFCocaine Jr is real change.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Marcia Fudge instead of Scott Turner is real change.

Secretary of Transportation: Pete Buttigieg instead of Sean Duffy is real change.

Secretary of Energy: Jennifer Granholm instead of Chris Wright is real change.

Secretary of Education: Miguel Cardona instead of Linda MacMahan is real change.

Secretary of Homeland Security: Alejandro Mayorkas instead of Kristi Noam is real change.

But, speaking of change, how you like the current "change" our country is going through?

But I have a better question for you; "would the lives of the LGBTQ community be better, or worse under a Democratic administration, or the current one?"

Think of it instead as Democrats opposing 100 percent of the hateful, bigoted right.

Opposing Republican racism, bigotry, and hate is who Democrats are.