It seems transgender children are the easiest target for the self-righteous rightwing parties to target, so it's good to read a positive story for once. It may only be a drop in the ocean of hate that seems to exist these days, but it made me feel glad that someone is trying.Here is a link to the Guardian report:https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/29/tran...
At Last Something Uplifting About US Transgender kids
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- Life imitates art, ahem, the bit I wrote about bees in Bike last night
- Making a point about dress codes and hot weather.
- Interesting article about remembering consequences of biological sex.
- An interesting article about a woman with a non-binary child.
- Interesting report in the Guardian about GD in children
Comments
Support For Kids
Sport for any child who hasn't gone through puberty is the same release no matter if they are transgender or not. Even later there is still a great deal of misrepresentation regarding the supposed advantages that a TG child actually has, particularly if blockers are used to neutralise and postpone the effects of puberty.
It's HATE, and political advantage, not science, that drives this discrimination.
The Usual From The Guardian
Following your link, they wanted me to pay. I don't give out the information that they want.
Gwen
Yes, they *want* you to pay -
Yes, they *want* you to pay - but you don't have to. Just click on the "x" and the advert goes away, leaving just the article.
Thank you.
Got distracted by the 'high stakes' court cases here in the US where one of our enemies was found guilty on 29 felony charges.
34, Actually...
(I was going to say "...but who's counting?" but it didn't quite seem to fit.)
Eric
The Guardian website ...
... doesn't have a paywall. I have it on a tab all the time on my desktop PC (We also subscribe to the paper version and I've read it daily for over 50 years). It's one of the very few non-Tory supported news outlets in the UK and is run by a trust rather than a billionaire.
We attempt the so-called Quick Crossword daily and rarely complete it :) Perhaps we're stupid.
And...
Their DC reporter, Hugo Lowell has got a very good reputation for digging where US MSM fear to tread.
Samantha
MSM == Mainstream Media inc MSNBC, CNN, NYT, WAPO WSJ etc.
Meanwhile (SIGH)
HuffPost
Tennessee Enacts First-In-The-Nation Law To Stop Adults From Helping Minors Access Gender-Affirming Care
https://yahoo.com/news/tennessee-enacts-first-nation-law-000...
Texas has a similar statute. I have an online friend whose minor transgender daughter argued unsuccessfully against that before the Texas Legislature. leaving the family to relocate out of state for the girl to receive gender-affirming treatment.
Or like Pete Seeger sang years ago, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsNVzwuJeVk
Love, Andrea Lena
Tennessee...?
Ah yes, the state where elected reps are regularly silenced in their House because they are 1) Not Republican 2) Not white or 3) Not male.
Jim Crow is alive and kicking down there.
The Tennessee Three have shown more guts than any of the shower on the GOP side in DC ever has.
Samantha
Is it just my imagination
or is The Guardian more sane than most of the UK print media?
Probably
At least it is not :-
1) Controlled by News Corp (aka Murdoch)
2) Rabidly Right wing (aka Daily Mail)
3) A voice of the Labour Party (Daily Mirror)
IMHO, it is probably left of centre when compared to other rags in the UK and the UK political scene in general.
Samantha
For what it is worth, the
For what it is worth, the site allsides.com (which classifies hundreds of news websites based on political bias) has The Guardian tagged as "Lean Left".