Hello,Mimi wrote: ↑12 May 2023, 1:11pmHe looks like a mormon missionary.JennyB wrote: ↑12 May 2023, 11:59amIt's unfortunately gotten really bad for queer kids in red states, especially trans kids. Missouri just passed two bills - one that would ban gender affirming care for minors (and believe me, they aren't going to stop with minors) and one banning trans kids from playing on sports teams as the gender in which they identify. For some reason, these legislators think that kids are having gender reassignment surgeries, when, really, the most they are getting is puberty blockers (which cis kids also use and are reversable). Gender affirming care for little kids is literally just buying clothes aligning with their gender and/or cutting/growing their hair. They are also using "groomer" rhetoric as a slur against the parents. It's so infuriating and sad. One of the dads who is in Jeff City a lot to testify (and is a friend of mine and dad at VH, Jr.'s school) said that his trans son is not being bullied by his peers, family or school, but is being bullied by his state legislature. These people think they know better than the American Medical Association and the NCAA on these issues. So while the achievements are definitely notable and nobody makes AIDS jokes/says the F word anymore, it's still really, really bad. And it's not just old people, unfortunately. In the MO legislature, one of the most egregious bigots is like 25. Just look at this asshole: https://www.house.mo.gov/MemberDetails. ... strict=056Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑12 May 2023, 11:09amThis is tangentially related, but my punk course has always attracted a number of queer kids (using that as an umbrella term). And during discussions around violence against queer people—physical and symbolic—I've pushed back a little by saying that, growing up in the 1980s, to see the kind of recognition of gender and sexual diversity and fluidity by huge numbers of straights (or, apparently the cool kids call us cis-hets) now is dizzying. It's not to belittle the challenges and the horrible abuses, especially by state actors, that they face today but the achievements are notable and shouldn't be minimized. Canada's had same-sex marriage for about 20 years, and now it's only the obvious bigots who talk about it. I'm still amazed by that cultural shift. So a camp like that being a thing is amazing to see.JennyB wrote: ↑12 May 2023, 10:54amI was at an event last night to support this awesome summer camp for LGBTQ+ kids (mainly trans) and I ran into one of VH, Jr.'s preschool teachers. So I am now having an existential crisis.
(If you are interested in learning about the summer camp, click here: http://www.campindigopoint.org/
I hesitate to make judgements on physical appearances but he looks like someone hoping to be a career politician because all the good sales jobs were taken.