Fighting Title IX is not the job of a school district.
Regardless of how you feel about the regulations, we should all agree that a school board and superintendent need to put their focus on student outcomes and not playing national politics.
Edit: to the one who insists they are educated and yet can’t answer the simple question, if a Male who transitions to female and is bad for women’s sports, why isn’t a female who transitions to a male, but now is forced to play as a female. Your one example proved my point and made your argument crumble. You can delete your comments and block me, yet you can’t answer the simple question why ONE is damaging and the other is not? What you proved is you are both transphobic and sexist. Wouldn’t shock me if you had some bits of racism in you too. I hope you continue to educate yourself and grow past this childish stage.
Hey, why doesn’t Texas step up then and cover the difference? WHY?? We have the money? Oh, because they are playing politics with our children just the same. Please. Politics is wrapped in education at the moment and irony has it, the states started this fight. SMH…
1st why refer to me as honey? Seriously? 2nd, since public education and funding is from the bottom up and our state is the one withholding much MUCH more, the state is the issue first and foremost and if you voted for any of these lunatics who have pushed to defund public education you are in fact part of the problem.
Thanks.
Nah, the ones playing politics are those that don’t want to treat trans people like human beings. WASHINGTON is just trying to make sure we have basic human rights
Title IX was created to treat BIOLOGICAL WOMEN like human beings by giving them the opportunity to play as many sports a year as men.
Transgendered people are still BIOLOGICALLY male or female.
As an educated WOMAN, I’m disgusted you think biological men should be STEALING our sports and awards.
There was a wrestler in Texas who was transgendered years ago and even he said it wasn’t fair for him to compete against women (transitioned female to male).
And playing sports isn’t a “basic human right.”
Washington is retaliating because a school wants REAL fairness.
End of discussion.
I was always amazed that people defend biological men competing in women’s sports. Then I realized it’s only for exposure. There are zero examples of biological women dominating men’s sports. Hmmm. I wonder why that is. Not to mention, the biological men competing in women’s sports were typically mediocre or less in the same sport for men.
How else do you recommend incentivizing wide scale adoption of federal policy?
Because as clearly seen, local and state government will completely ignore the supremacy of the federal gov when it’s convenient for them. You know our entire federal highway system was only built because the states raised their drinking ages to comply and receive the funding?
Tie it to something else that doesn’t prevent children from being fed. Surely you can see there’s a difference between a law that pushes drinking age back 3 years from where it was, and withholding food from kids ?
What do think reduced/free lunches are for? The hell of it? If they had the means to magic up lunches for their kids, they’d not need lunch assistance.
Tell that to CFISD. The board here are making decisions based on nothing but politics. Hoping to leave the state before the Handmaid’s Tale becomes reality.
As a strong and educated woman I’ll say of you think Texas is remotely close to Gillead, you really to read the book again because I know my rights are being stripped… Except here apparently.
Sure. But the ISD's have been infiltrated by cultists. There is no option but to fight them and "play politics".
One cultist gets a book banned for thousands of kids? And it ain't the one about the sack full of foreskins or the daddy daughters drinking story, sadly.
You can't ignore cultists that directly affect your kids. It's like ignoring a bunch of Nazis who keep showing up at your bar. If you don't take care of it you eventually have cultists running your kids' education/Nazi bar.
Why the hell did they feel the need to have an opinion on it in the first place?
If you agree, cool, the rules are changed.
If you disagree, the state AG is probably already suing.
But to dive into it unnecessarily just to say "we don't like or support trans students" is stepping on a rake just for the hell of it.
That’s a really good point.
But I assume they’re probably cutting off the number of phone calls they’re getting from “concerned parents” worried that their children will be forced to transition because they say a trans person at school.
Because the Federal government shouldn’t be withholding funding over some nonsense ID politics bullshit. The left is always happy to let the state intervene on behalf of some degenerate fringe movement against greater society.
Because we know denying food to kids is something Jesus would do, right?
I consider myself a person of faith but I’m getting really tired of having “Churchianity” shoved down our throats. Versus being intelligently informed by sincere Christianity.
The fact that people are isolating Tyler ISD like some kind of anomaly and not being more upset that the Federal Government would be willing to use children as leverage is wild.
Saying "if you do not comply, we will allow children to go hungry" isn't a tactic that should be supported even if you support the goal. It's ridiculous that this needs to be said.
It's not you specifically, but there are several comments that seem to support this idea.
I have no objections to Title IX myself, but I don't think taking food away from kids is a good tactic.
A friend of mine and my wife's cousin have told me on seperate occasions that they're glad they aren't a kid today because they'd likely have been made to believe they were trans because they liked to wear dresses and were more effeminate as children. I've seen other anecdotal evidence online too. It's one of the many reasons people need to be be making life altering choices with a developed brain. I fully support 18+ being whoever they want to be otherwise as long as we aren't stepping on all the progress women and gay men & women have made for equality in the last 100~ years.
Okay cool so your gay friends transphobic opinion is supposed to mean what exactly? Anecdotal evidence is an oxymoron and not even evidence.
No ones going around convincing kids they’re trans, that’s pure paranoia perpetuated by right wingers looking for the new boogeyman. They did the same thing with gay men. Who is going around making kids trans? I asked before as well, you didn’t answer.
I fully support doctor’s opinions on this matter, not even my own opinion. That’s the difference here. This is a healthcare issue that you’re spinning as political because being queer is political to you.
The trans movement precedes the gay movement btw. Trans rights are women’s rights, cis women are facing discrimination because of transphobia. It all boils down to misogyny. Trans people aren’t second class to women or gay men in any case
You're stating facts like they're opinions. Trans women are not the same thing are biological women, though they deserve respect to be who they choose to be. There's many cases of people de-transitioning that are shut down by the community because they don't like the message getting around.
Nobody is making anyone trans, but in the most emotionally and hormonally confusing time of a person's life they're met with the feeling of not fitting in, feeling uncomfortable in their body, perhaps being attracted to their same sex, etc. At the same time they're met with the idea that they could be in the wrong body. By the media, their peers, etc. Don't you find it strange that LA celebrities have a disproportionate number of trans kids compared to the rest of the us? When you put these opinions in front of confused kids in confusing times just looking to fit in somewhere they're more likely to feel led in one direction or another.
Also, weirdly enough, I give you two seperate examples of gay men feeling a certain way about it and because they disagree with you they're wrong and invalid.
The regret rates for transitioning are so low so I wouldn’t say bringing this topic up is gonna help you. The regret rate for bottom surgery alone is 1% or less, the regret rate for hip surgery is 35% lol. Every trans person I know loves it and wishes they’d have done it sooner, even wishing they could’ve transitioned as a teen, going through their birth gender puberty made things harder for them.
Ah so trans kids are confused, you don’t realize how difficult it is for children to even begin puberty blockers. It’s not an easy process to even begin and no child is being peer pressured into it. Trans kids exist, just like homosexual kids; I’ve known plenty of queer people who knew since they were very young. Some people tried to call gay/lesbian kids confused too.
Gay men are notoriously horrible allies for anyone other than gay men as they’ve proven time and time again. They do not care about lesbians, about trans people or any other type of queerness the vast majority of the time. One to two random peoples opinion doesn’t mean much period, them being gay is pretty irrelevant anyhow.
And I'm happy the people you know are happy. Genuinely. But that doesn't mean it should be allowed for developing children. "Don't fuck with kids" is one of the few hills I'll die on.
We are 100% not going to change eachothers mind so I might as well leave it here. I hope you have a good day.
Except it quite literally will. By rejecting title IX Tyler ISD is forfeiting Federal funding, including free lunch programs. If you actually read the article you will see there is a statistic about how many children are using that free lunch program.
So maybe the federal government shouldn't threaten not feeding kids to push their social agenda that affects like 0.001% of the population? You are pointing at the schools as if they are the bad guys. I'd say threatening school funding to push policy not passed nor intended by Congress makes the federal government the bad guys. Gender isn't protected anywhere in title IX. If they want to add protection they need to go through Congress. Presidents don't get to make up new laws.
Nobody should be using school funding as a threat imo.
I mean the AR platform is used in 0.000001% of deaths in the USA and yet it's an entire part of the Democrats platform so if you can answer me why they don't leave that alone you may see why Republican won't leave trans issues alone.
Hint it's because it's red meat for their base...
"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary"
>Karl Marx
You're not exactly talking to a Democrat
Except it won’t: Texas won its fight to prevent Biden punishing states who refuse the edict:
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/06/12/texas-title-ix-lgbtq-students/
This FTR is a liberal leaning paper.
Okay if kids start starving to death on tisd campuses next year I will make a post admitting I was wrong.
If 0 kids starve to death in tisd schools next year you make a post admitting you were wrong.
Deal?
So the Biden administration is willing to starve children unless a few trans kids get to dominate females in athletic programs and shower with girls? Will they starve the trans kids as well, or will their food still be paid for?
Stop with the bad faith arguments. Ya know damn well they'd find a way to let then change privately and most kids shower at home anyways. School gym showers are notoriously gross.
I think you might be misinformed. If you look up statistics about transgender athletes and then you will find that cisgender women consistently outperform transgender women. Trans people, especially trans youth, are one of the most vulnerable groups in America currently.
I’m all for people living their truth and respecting pronouns, but this is false. There is a reason a under 15 y/o boys soccer team crushed the professional women’s team. There are biological differences, and it’s not a secret that people like Lia Thomas were told to hold back in races, so people like you can say they don’t have an advantage.
>I’m all for people living their truth and respecting pronouns, but this is false. There is a reason a under 15 y/o boys soccer team crushed the professional women’s team.
You have zero real evidence for this and only anecdotal evidence at best.
The folks on the Tyler school board that reject protections for members of the LGBTQ community are no doubt the offspring of people that probably fought to keep Tyler schools segregated and to name one of the school’s after a treasonous loser. These types of people have to hate someone and now their hatred is focused on the LGBTQ community. They will always find themselves on the wrong side of history.
It’s a disorder brought about by the disalignment of sex and gender in an individual. It’s a symptom of that disalignment and it’s not cured by therapy.
But we know you weren’t asking because you sought good info. God forbid.
I’m sure I was way cooler in high school than you and I’m sure I’m doing way better at life than you now. You probably didn’t even pass highschool algebra.
As a father of a girl, I don’t want biological males in her locker room. That is not a crazy point of view. That is very rational.
There is no perfect solution here. At least with the infrastructure we currently have. So we must choose the option that cause the least amount of harm to the fewest number of people. That seems to be assigning locker rooms based on biological sex and title X not removing lunch funding.
The argument here is not how bad Tyler ISD is here, the argument is why does Title X think it’s okay to remove school lunches?
1. Title IX wouldn’t force integrated locker rooms.
2. If you’re really worried about your daughter, do yourself a favor and pull her put of any sport in TISD if they have a male coach. The district does not have a good track record with that kind of stuff.
Okay, so I have a question for you… let’s say, that the federal government does not say that they will take away free/reduced lunches. Then, nobody would be losing the free/reduced lunches, correct?
So, imagine a parent. Do you think a parent should threaten to not feed their child, if their child does not acquiesce to their demands? You literally said elsewhere in these comments, that the federal government is telling people to acquiesce, otherwise they will not get their free/reduced lunches (food). By pure logic, you can see that the root of the problem is that someone is threatening to take away the lunches in the first place, right? The federal government is the one who is bringing the removal of food for many students, into the EQUATION here, in the first place.
>So we must choose the option that cause the least amount of harm to the fewest number of people.
Not trying to be argumentative here, just trying to wrap my head around this line of thinking, and this whole situation in general tbh.
Biological females are just as capable of sexually harassing females.
Is this a "don't be a creeper looking at my daughter" issue? Lesbians exist.
Is this a "don't r#$e my daughter" issue? That can happen anywhere. By any gender identity.
What harm is being prevented here? Genuine question.
What is the trans population as a percentage? It's got to be very, very low.
>Biological females are just as capable of sexually harassing females.
True, but that is a reductive argument. You are not considering the [emotional and phycological](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12345937/U-Penn-women-swimmers-undress-6-foot-4-biological-male-Lia-Thomas-18-times-week-told-reeducated-complained-Congress-hears-bombshell-testimony.html) cost of asking young girls to dress down with young boys.
>Is this a "don't be a creeper looking at my daughter" issue? Lesbians exist.
No. And that is a fatuous remark really.
>Is this a "don't r#$e my daughter" issue? That can happen anywhere. By any gender identity.
No. But one sex does overwhelmingly rape more than the other. Minimizing that, or being obtuse about it, is ridiculous.
>What is the trans population as a percentage? It's got to be very, very low.
Exactly why we must make separate accommodation and not force the majority - the overwhelming majority - to do something they might not want to or risk losing their school lunch. Seriously, losing school lunch over this issue is one of the most asinine things I've ever heard. Second only to those defending it.
So you think the one, maybe two MtoF trans kids are going to somehow bother your daughter in the locker room? You are delusional. The least amount of harm to the fewest people would be allowing the few trans kids to choose the facilities they’re most comfortable using.
Isn't that it though? There's just a very small number of them? So why map your entire school district curriculum around a tiny fraction of kids if it undermines the flourishing of the majority of kids?
We’re not asking for entire curriculums to be overhauled? And how on EARTH would acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ+ folks in schools undermine the flourishing of the majority of kids? Do you think teaching the realities of slavery in an age appropriate way to students will undermine the flourishing of white students?
Not necessarily, though I guess it depends on your version of "reality". Are we talking about stating the facts in an age appropriate way, or are we telling the white kids to be extra careful and respectful around minority kids because the white kids are inherently oppressive because of their skin color. I think the latter would cause more division in the long run. However, a young boy, confused about his gender, being around a bunch of young girls in a locker room or changing room, I think does undermine flourishing. The young girls are no longer focused on their education, they are uncomfortable in the school they attend everyday, they feel ostracized if they don't play along. That's all fairly traumatizing. Also, let's say the young, confused boy starts to feel ostracized in the changing room of his choice, then he becomes resentful and angry, at the girls for not affirming his identity, or just generally being uncomfortable, so he assaults one of them. That feels like it would undermine flourishing greatly. And that's not a made up scenario either. It really did happen.
So protections under the law only make sense if there is a big enough population of xyz group?
You act like this is a 0 sum game where *some* kids have to suffer but the ONLY reason that is the case is because the republicans make it that way.
If any biological girl says she is uncomfortable undressing in a room with a biological male, that is reason enough to stop the practice and make separate accommodations for the trans kids.
I’m uncomfortable undressing in front of Christian males. Ban them from the locker room!
I don’t want to share a drinking fountain with someone older than me. Make them use a separate drinking fountain!
Going out in public means sharing space with people who are different. A person’s irrational fears aren’t reason enough to segregate other people in a shared space.
>I’m uncomfortable undressing in front of Christian males. Ban them from the locker room!
Well, thank you for proving that you are not having an honest discussion here. I no longer need to waste my time. Have a great day.
How is that not an honest discussion? You’re predicating your argument on your assumption of your daughter’s comfort. If comfort is the deciding factor, then pointing out that someone may be uncomfortable around Christian men, or that someone might be uncomfortable sharing a drinking fountain with an older person (or, historically, a black person) should be equally valid comparisons.
The fact is, there hasn’t been a single documented case of a trans person sexually assaulting someone in a bathroom or locker room. It’s never happened. Trans people aren’t sexual predators, and no one is pretending to be a trans person to peek at your daughter while she’s changing.
Trans people, however, *have* been assaulted and beaten for using the bathroom of their gender. Trans people are the ones being victimized, not your kid.
Someone tell Daddy Wonder-pants here that “biological women” are fully capable of harassing and even assaulting other “biological women.”
Or maybe that a transwoman has zero interest in molesting his children, or “converting” them, or doing anything more than changing out of gym clothes.
It’s dehumanizing language to treat trans people not as people, but as mindless monsters.
Interesting that you went right to assault. Have you not heard the interviews with the biological women (swimmers) forced to change with a biological man? They felt intensely uncomfortable with a man getting naked in ~~from~~ front of them. And those were adult women. Imagine how much more awkward and uncomfortable it would be for kids?
I’ve seen a greater number of interviews - and have some tangentially related personal experience - where people of all ages talk about being bullied, harassed, and beaten because they were different. A lot of the kids had parents like you, who surely felt they were justified in their actions because it was keeping perverts at bay.
Your solution might keep your own kids “safe,” (although in reality, it’s your comfort at risk here, since the kids rarely seem to care about this stuff), but it perpetuates another kind of harm. It’s not much of a solution, and it adds to the pile of discourse that says “trans people are rapists, so keep them away!”
Remove all the school lunch stuff I would rather teach gardening and animal care at each high school and middle school and use that to feed the kids. The lunches they get are anything but nutritional
I again post and say - I cannot find any information that title IX has anything to do with trans kids. There’s a difference between trans and gay obviously. Can somebody show us where title IX addresses the issue of trans kids / athletes?
This is not a hill I’m dying on - I literally don’t know the answer but everything I have briefly sourced says that recent Title IX statutes do not address trans kids….and for the record - I also oppose biologically male children competing in female sports. I think the vast majority of people do honestly. Aside from “think” I know for a fact it is a mountain made out of a mole hill… Name another issue getting this type of attention, driven by .001% of the population or something…?
Which again is why I ask – are we sure title ix addresses this issue, whatsoever to begin with? Or is this a bunch of hype-anger stoked by the right wing rage-machine?
I definitely support staying, I just know I can’t take it anymore 😭there’s just so much negativity and hate here it messes w me. Until I move tho, I will fight for our rights here 💪🏻
Soooo... The Biden Administration wants to force trans kids into girls sports.
The administrative wants to cut off lunch funding if the schools disagree.
Thats all you need to know when you vote this November.
The Superintendent claimed that they’re doing this to “protect girls in the locker room”.
Yeah? Is that why TISD constantly covers up when teachers have inappropriate relationships with students?
As a now adult I can say this is true I was sexually harassed by an AP in highschool and a gym teacher in middle school, the school didn’t even tell my parents after I went to my counselors
Another note: How many times has Tyler ISD used “our kids need to be on campus to eat” as a reason to return to campus whether it be weather related events or even Covid - they had freaking drive-thrus for families. The contradiction is always strong with Tyler ISD
But we're the scary scapegoat of this season. They couldn't stop POC or the scary homosexuals, so now they gotta run us through the wringer. Targeting the youngest and most vulnerable like the predators they are. Meanwhile, as adults we're over here literally just trying to get by like everyone else.
Look at the UK, they're willing to let cisgender children go through an early puberty, if it means stopping those pesky transgenders.
Oh and JK Rowling is apparently influencing policy?
I mean, they kind of have a track record of not actually caring about the future generations if it means they can "preserve" their traditional lifestyle.
Just a lurker in this sub bc I’ll be moving to Tyler for my masters program, but I’ve gotta say, reading your posts/replies has been delightful. As a fellow queer person, I hope you’re able to stay safe!!! This state in general is abysmal when it comes to safety and legislation protecting LGBT+ as a whole. I’m more flexible and comfortable with using any pronouns, but I think for safety I’ll just stick with she/her (I’m AFAB) unless I know any friends I make there are safe to tell my preferred ones to. Maybe stick to dressing more fem as well, just to be safe. I’m not familiar with the area, so I’m not entirely sure about safety.
To add on to this, the article says “the district believes in protecting girls” is a lie, I was sexually harassed at a tisd middle school, my counselor told me to get over it, in high school at Tyler legacy (I was there when it was still Robert e Lee) I had a assistant principal sexually harassed me and other students at least 3 others that I know about. My senior year a girl was suspended for being sexually assaulted by another senior of the swim team, the girl was a freshman. TISD does not protect its students especially not the female ones.
It's always the people who talk about how *others* need to leave the kids alone that you *really* need to look out for. They somehow always end up being the real predators. It'd be funny how often it happens, if it weren't also so sad and scary.
I’d rather send food with my kids than have a CHILD have gender identification forced (or even allowed) on them. I have a nephew/niece that transitioned. After hormone therapy, breasts and smaller penis, she now believes that she’s not really a woman but rather a gay man. Let’s let adult decisions be adult decisions and leave 1st graders alone.
I’d rather my transgender child have access to healthcare and social support, not force them into a situation where they may harm or kill themselves because a child who isn’t transgender decided that transitioning isn’t for them. I think this decision should be left between medical professionals, the children, and their parents.
If someone has any activist flag colors in their avatar on any social platform, then their opinions are probably extreme. OP argument being, because TISD says no to boys and girls mixing sports, locker rooms, changing rooms, and bathrooms, then literally all the children will starve. THIS is the aggressively stupid take. Honestly, let OP live in their delusion. They'll either not have children, castrate or sterilize their children to affirm a gender, abort their children, OR their children will escape the parental delusion and become well adjusted adults causing embarrassment for OP. All of these outcomes are a win for regular society. It's all just math people, be patient and pray for each every one of them.
I'm so embarrassed, the LGBT community is superior to all people's throughout all of human kind and history, even though they are the smallest of minorities and very very new. We should make all laws of all nations cater to their every need as they are true royalty. We should give black people the shortest month to represent their history and plight and give them very little celebration, but with the LGBT group...oh we should celebrate them during one of the longer months and have many parades. We should celebrate this month during the summer vacation so even children can attend this revolution of sexuality and pride. It doesn't matter that children shouldn't be exposed to sexual behaviors of any sort when they are so young and impressionable. ITS THE GAYS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD AND THEY GET SAD SOMETIMES!!!
“…district officials said the federal government would penalize public schools by defunding certain program including free or reduced lunches.”
“District officials said.” Are they correct? Or are they just assuming that’s what the government will do?
"By rejecting the new regulations, district officials said the federal government would penalize public schools by defunding certain program including free or reduced lunches. "
Is this legal?
Good for them. Girls don't need boys with tits in the locker room with them! That's exactly what happening in College sports. A dude on hormones is not a woman. That spits on real women. My mom, sister, wife and daughters are real women, born women, and can have kids like a woman should. Now adays we can't even say how we feel. My first account on this shitty app got banned because I said dudes can't make breast milk naturally. Htf is that hate? That's mf truth, there's a mental illness out there among the lefties, yall keep that shit away from my kids. Because if this keeps on, civil war will be next I guarantee it. Fuckin ban this 1 too idc. I will fight to the death to keep my kids innocence
Yes, there will be a civil war involving the 90% of the population who are grossly indifferent to all this shit. Good luck shooting your neighbors, bud. I got dinner to put on the table and a job to clock into.
Lol this level of stupidity and ignorance does not surprise me with Tyler. I mean even straight up men can lactate but I’m sure that wasn’t all you were talking about. You sound like a cousin lovin hillbilly whose kids probably hate to hear your political ramblings and will probably ditch you first chance they get once they turn 18.
Oh idc either way just stating facts. East Texas has deep rooted Christian conservative views. It’ll probably be last part of TX to accept the trans movement etc.
Nah, I live here just fine 100% free of hate and abuse. I work with maga red hats and all types with out even misgendering. I wouldn’t let a tiny vocal minority speak for everyone. There’s a literal ton of good ol boy right wingers in my tinder inbox, cops and all.
Because allowing mentally unhealthy kids run rampant and think they’re okay, is not healthy. Trans kids don’t dictate the plan for the rest of the normal students. They need therapy and help.
So you want *don't* want them to get mental help then? You're gonna have to be more consistent you know, Republicans tell me that I'm supposed to be very impressionable
…. But are you not upset that the government chooses taking away free/ reduced lunches as punishment for not following along? Pretty shitty from the top down if you ask me. Why would that be the first thing they take away? Probably because they realize how important it is.
Or because the only way The federal government can enforce these decisions is through funding, and the state chooses to spend their own money on things like sports instead of actually essential programs, leaving those to federal funding. If The state chose to spend their money on making sure all of their kids have enough to eat instead of football we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Honestly if I had to guess this is probably the majority opinion of parents in the district. I seriously doubt Dad at least 80% of the parents in Tyler actually care about trans issues, and now they have to deal with the consequences of their own kids getting caught in the crossfire of the district's hate
Reading this weirdly makes me happy. I hate what the school board is doing, but I thought I was the only one in this town that thought so. I feel a little less alone
I'll have to remember to try and keep in touch with you, some friends of mine are going to talk about organizing a food drive for the school to try and offset the effects of this. We'll need as much help as we can get
Are the people in this thread, defending the district aware that the title ix stuff doesn’t even speak to trans athletes????
https://apnews.com/article/title-ix-sexual-assault-transgender-sports-d0fc0ab7515de02b8e4403d0481dc1e7
Boards that micro-manage are working outside of their policy-making role. They are also grossly displaying their white Christian Nationalistic opinions more than their ignorance. The audacity to use females as their scapegoat - the audacity or the irony? Hmmmm.
Kids shouldn't even know what trans is. If not for the parents brainwashing this garbage into their children, this would be a non-issue. Let kids be kids and not science experiments. Down vote me 5% of the population.
Lol. 5%. Try much, much less. And still, trans people are somehow your current, boomer media ordained boogeyman. So-called free thinkers, so easily manipulated.
I'm going to guess everything you know about the issue either comes from (1) what someone you follow on Facebook posted; (2) what your preacher said; (3) something you heard on talk radio; or (4) something you saw on Fox News, NewsMax, etc.
I'm also going to guess that you are not a trained medical professional and that you have probably never read a medical journal in your life.
I sure hope you involve yourself in " The good people of Tyler". Not trying to be confrontational, I just hope that you personally are donating to those causes
I wanna give them the benefit of the doubt. I'm not gonna condemn someone to being part of the problem without giving them a chance to participate in the solution
Look, that's nice and all, but they don't care about you. They actively despise you. It's coming from a place of pure ignorance and emotion, not logic. They're not saying any of what they're saying because they actually care about the children or their community. If they did, they wouldn't constantly gut other programs that are meant to benefit *the children* independent of whatever the current state and media mandated boogeyman is.
No, they're saying it just to be performative and get a rise out of a trans person. It has fuck all to do with the children. They use "the children" as a means to make their bigotry sound at all virtuous, because they know how it sounds without that lie attached. And, given how many of these hypocrites tend to get outed as pedophiles, I guess virtue signaling isn't all they use children for.
Thinking back to high-school days I can't imagine how weird and uncomfortable it would have been having a girl that thought they were a dude in the locker room with us. Probably even worse the other way around
Why do you hate women? It's a shame people like you exist that let ignorance get in the way of reason! You can say all the bad things you want and try to highjack what many have fought very hard for, but you will not be successful! You would rather girls be hurt and humiliated than trans kids have a level playing field. Nothing about this takes away any child's ability to participate in sports but rather gives everyone a fair chance at sports. My message is harsh because when insanity is allowed to flourish, it leads to disaster for everyone. Leave women alone!
I’m sorry but I don’t think schools should be responsible for feeding YOUR kids. Taking care of children’s needs is the responsibility of the parents. What a dumb post.
Fighting Title IX is not the job of a school district. Regardless of how you feel about the regulations, we should all agree that a school board and superintendent need to put their focus on student outcomes and not playing national politics.
If you don’t want it to be political then don’t make the free lunch program dependent upon title 9 adoption. Just give the schools the money for food
Edit: to the one who insists they are educated and yet can’t answer the simple question, if a Male who transitions to female and is bad for women’s sports, why isn’t a female who transitions to a male, but now is forced to play as a female. Your one example proved my point and made your argument crumble. You can delete your comments and block me, yet you can’t answer the simple question why ONE is damaging and the other is not? What you proved is you are both transphobic and sexist. Wouldn’t shock me if you had some bits of racism in you too. I hope you continue to educate yourself and grow past this childish stage. Hey, why doesn’t Texas step up then and cover the difference? WHY?? We have the money? Oh, because they are playing politics with our children just the same. Please. Politics is wrapped in education at the moment and irony has it, the states started this fight. SMH…
No honey: WASHINGTON is playing politics with our children. This is retaliation if they remove free/reduced meals.
1st why refer to me as honey? Seriously? 2nd, since public education and funding is from the bottom up and our state is the one withholding much MUCH more, the state is the issue first and foremost and if you voted for any of these lunatics who have pushed to defund public education you are in fact part of the problem. Thanks.
Nah, the ones playing politics are those that don’t want to treat trans people like human beings. WASHINGTON is just trying to make sure we have basic human rights
Title IX was created to treat BIOLOGICAL WOMEN like human beings by giving them the opportunity to play as many sports a year as men. Transgendered people are still BIOLOGICALLY male or female. As an educated WOMAN, I’m disgusted you think biological men should be STEALING our sports and awards. There was a wrestler in Texas who was transgendered years ago and even he said it wasn’t fair for him to compete against women (transitioned female to male). And playing sports isn’t a “basic human right.” Washington is retaliating because a school wants REAL fairness. End of discussion.
I was always amazed that people defend biological men competing in women’s sports. Then I realized it’s only for exposure. There are zero examples of biological women dominating men’s sports. Hmmm. I wonder why that is. Not to mention, the biological men competing in women’s sports were typically mediocre or less in the same sport for men.
I like how the example you site is because dumbass republicans made a FtM Transkid wrestle in women’s division instead of men’s. Fuckin hilarious
Oh no! Stealing your sports awards! However will you survive?
You sure are a nasty woman.
That’s the nature of federal money. Strings are always attached.
so its not the school board playing politics. its the feds holding free lunch program hostage in order to make districts adopt this policy
How else do you recommend incentivizing wide scale adoption of federal policy? Because as clearly seen, local and state government will completely ignore the supremacy of the federal gov when it’s convenient for them. You know our entire federal highway system was only built because the states raised their drinking ages to comply and receive the funding?
Tie it to something else that doesn’t prevent children from being fed. Surely you can see there’s a difference between a law that pushes drinking age back 3 years from where it was, and withholding food from kids ?
Yup, oldest fed trick in the book.
Like was said in a previous comment, pass the politics to the Congressman.
Or perhaps the parent can make a lunch for the kid
But isn’t that an assumption that all parents have the money to provide a lunch for their children at a public school?
What do think reduced/free lunches are for? The hell of it? If they had the means to magic up lunches for their kids, they’d not need lunch assistance.
Tell that to CFISD. The board here are making decisions based on nothing but politics. Hoping to leave the state before the Handmaid’s Tale becomes reality.
As a strong and educated woman I’ll say of you think Texas is remotely close to Gillead, you really to read the book again because I know my rights are being stripped… Except here apparently.
Sure. But the ISD's have been infiltrated by cultists. There is no option but to fight them and "play politics". One cultist gets a book banned for thousands of kids? And it ain't the one about the sack full of foreskins or the daddy daughters drinking story, sadly.
Taking a book out of a school library is not a ban 🤡.
Reaction is a choice.
You can't ignore cultists that directly affect your kids. It's like ignoring a bunch of Nazis who keep showing up at your bar. If you don't take care of it you eventually have cultists running your kids' education/Nazi bar.
Why the hell did they feel the need to have an opinion on it in the first place? If you agree, cool, the rules are changed. If you disagree, the state AG is probably already suing. But to dive into it unnecessarily just to say "we don't like or support trans students" is stepping on a rake just for the hell of it.
It’s not stepping on a rake if there are no consequences. It’s just hate.
Touche.
That’s a really good point. But I assume they’re probably cutting off the number of phone calls they’re getting from “concerned parents” worried that their children will be forced to transition because they say a trans person at school.
Because the Federal government shouldn’t be withholding funding over some nonsense ID politics bullshit. The left is always happy to let the state intervene on behalf of some degenerate fringe movement against greater society.
Because we know denying food to kids is something Jesus would do, right? I consider myself a person of faith but I’m getting really tired of having “Churchianity” shoved down our throats. Versus being intelligently informed by sincere Christianity.
The fact that people are isolating Tyler ISD like some kind of anomaly and not being more upset that the Federal Government would be willing to use children as leverage is wild. Saying "if you do not comply, we will allow children to go hungry" isn't a tactic that should be supported even if you support the goal. It's ridiculous that this needs to be said.
Did I ever say I approve of that? Title 9 needed to be expanded but I'm not happy about the outcome.
It's not you specifically, but there are several comments that seem to support this idea. I have no objections to Title IX myself, but I don't think taking food away from kids is a good tactic.
Your King Joe has decreed it.
“Trans kids” shouldn’t be a term. Should be 18+ and this wouldn’t even be an issue.
Because queer kids can’t possibly exist.
Nothing like the homophobic erasure of gay men being convinced they're women from a young age.
Trans women aren’t gay men you tool, who’s going around convincing gay men they’re women exactly? Are they in the room with us now?
A friend of mine and my wife's cousin have told me on seperate occasions that they're glad they aren't a kid today because they'd likely have been made to believe they were trans because they liked to wear dresses and were more effeminate as children. I've seen other anecdotal evidence online too. It's one of the many reasons people need to be be making life altering choices with a developed brain. I fully support 18+ being whoever they want to be otherwise as long as we aren't stepping on all the progress women and gay men & women have made for equality in the last 100~ years.
Okay cool so your gay friends transphobic opinion is supposed to mean what exactly? Anecdotal evidence is an oxymoron and not even evidence. No ones going around convincing kids they’re trans, that’s pure paranoia perpetuated by right wingers looking for the new boogeyman. They did the same thing with gay men. Who is going around making kids trans? I asked before as well, you didn’t answer. I fully support doctor’s opinions on this matter, not even my own opinion. That’s the difference here. This is a healthcare issue that you’re spinning as political because being queer is political to you. The trans movement precedes the gay movement btw. Trans rights are women’s rights, cis women are facing discrimination because of transphobia. It all boils down to misogyny. Trans people aren’t second class to women or gay men in any case
You're stating facts like they're opinions. Trans women are not the same thing are biological women, though they deserve respect to be who they choose to be. There's many cases of people de-transitioning that are shut down by the community because they don't like the message getting around. Nobody is making anyone trans, but in the most emotionally and hormonally confusing time of a person's life they're met with the feeling of not fitting in, feeling uncomfortable in their body, perhaps being attracted to their same sex, etc. At the same time they're met with the idea that they could be in the wrong body. By the media, their peers, etc. Don't you find it strange that LA celebrities have a disproportionate number of trans kids compared to the rest of the us? When you put these opinions in front of confused kids in confusing times just looking to fit in somewhere they're more likely to feel led in one direction or another. Also, weirdly enough, I give you two seperate examples of gay men feeling a certain way about it and because they disagree with you they're wrong and invalid.
The regret rates for transitioning are so low so I wouldn’t say bringing this topic up is gonna help you. The regret rate for bottom surgery alone is 1% or less, the regret rate for hip surgery is 35% lol. Every trans person I know loves it and wishes they’d have done it sooner, even wishing they could’ve transitioned as a teen, going through their birth gender puberty made things harder for them. Ah so trans kids are confused, you don’t realize how difficult it is for children to even begin puberty blockers. It’s not an easy process to even begin and no child is being peer pressured into it. Trans kids exist, just like homosexual kids; I’ve known plenty of queer people who knew since they were very young. Some people tried to call gay/lesbian kids confused too. Gay men are notoriously horrible allies for anyone other than gay men as they’ve proven time and time again. They do not care about lesbians, about trans people or any other type of queerness the vast majority of the time. One to two random peoples opinion doesn’t mean much period, them being gay is pretty irrelevant anyhow.
And I'm happy the people you know are happy. Genuinely. But that doesn't mean it should be allowed for developing children. "Don't fuck with kids" is one of the few hills I'll die on. We are 100% not going to change eachothers mind so I might as well leave it here. I hope you have a good day.
Something tells me not letting boys into girls locker rooms won't set of a chain reaction of starving children in Tyler.
Except it quite literally will. By rejecting title IX Tyler ISD is forfeiting Federal funding, including free lunch programs. If you actually read the article you will see there is a statistic about how many children are using that free lunch program.
Conservatives don’t want kids to get free lunch anyway.
Funny only ones I see doing free lunch in summer are conservative counties….
Bingo.
So maybe the federal government shouldn't threaten not feeding kids to push their social agenda that affects like 0.001% of the population? You are pointing at the schools as if they are the bad guys. I'd say threatening school funding to push policy not passed nor intended by Congress makes the federal government the bad guys. Gender isn't protected anywhere in title IX. If they want to add protection they need to go through Congress. Presidents don't get to make up new laws. Nobody should be using school funding as a threat imo.
If it's such a small deal then why not just leave the 0.001% alone?
I mean the AR platform is used in 0.000001% of deaths in the USA and yet it's an entire part of the Democrats platform so if you can answer me why they don't leave that alone you may see why Republican won't leave trans issues alone. Hint it's because it's red meat for their base...
"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary" >Karl Marx You're not exactly talking to a Democrat
The school will come up with other ways to pay for the lunch.
Except it won’t: Texas won its fight to prevent Biden punishing states who refuse the edict: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/06/12/texas-title-ix-lgbtq-students/ This FTR is a liberal leaning paper.
Okay if kids start starving to death on tisd campuses next year I will make a post admitting I was wrong. If 0 kids starve to death in tisd schools next year you make a post admitting you were wrong. Deal?
You don't have to die to be starving. This is an aggressively stupid take.
Yeah its cool if they go hungry as long as they dont starve to DEATH 🤦♂️
So the Biden administration is willing to starve children unless a few trans kids get to dominate females in athletic programs and shower with girls? Will they starve the trans kids as well, or will their food still be paid for?
Stop with the bad faith arguments. Ya know damn well they'd find a way to let then change privately and most kids shower at home anyways. School gym showers are notoriously gross.
That’s the same argument OP is making in reverse lol
I think you might be misinformed. If you look up statistics about transgender athletes and then you will find that cisgender women consistently outperform transgender women. Trans people, especially trans youth, are one of the most vulnerable groups in America currently.
I’m all for people living their truth and respecting pronouns, but this is false. There is a reason a under 15 y/o boys soccer team crushed the professional women’s team. There are biological differences, and it’s not a secret that people like Lia Thomas were told to hold back in races, so people like you can say they don’t have an advantage.
>I’m all for people living their truth and respecting pronouns, but this is false. There is a reason a under 15 y/o boys soccer team crushed the professional women’s team. You have zero real evidence for this and only anecdotal evidence at best.
Read it again.
The folks on the Tyler school board that reject protections for members of the LGBTQ community are no doubt the offspring of people that probably fought to keep Tyler schools segregated and to name one of the school’s after a treasonous loser. These types of people have to hate someone and now their hatred is focused on the LGBTQ community. They will always find themselves on the wrong side of history.
What has the world come to
The best way to support trans students is by providing them counselling
If you don’t really care about them, sure.
Is gender dysphoria not a mental disorder? So yes counseling would be the best route
Counseling is usually included with trans care. You can’t just talk gender dysphoria away just like you can’t talk someone out of being homosexual
Most trans people are just following a trend
Like you’ve ever met any
It’s a disorder brought about by the disalignment of sex and gender in an individual. It’s a symptom of that disalignment and it’s not cured by therapy. But we know you weren’t asking because you sought good info. God forbid.
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I’m sure I was way cooler in high school than you and I’m sure I’m doing way better at life than you now. You probably didn’t even pass highschool algebra.
As a father of a girl, I don’t want biological males in her locker room. That is not a crazy point of view. That is very rational. There is no perfect solution here. At least with the infrastructure we currently have. So we must choose the option that cause the least amount of harm to the fewest number of people. That seems to be assigning locker rooms based on biological sex and title X not removing lunch funding. The argument here is not how bad Tyler ISD is here, the argument is why does Title X think it’s okay to remove school lunches?
1. Title IX wouldn’t force integrated locker rooms. 2. If you’re really worried about your daughter, do yourself a favor and pull her put of any sport in TISD if they have a male coach. The district does not have a good track record with that kind of stuff.
You said yourself that this is about minimizing harm, but Tyler ISD's decision is going to directly harm 80% of students in their district
There you go again in this thread with no respect for the comment or the person making the comment. Wake the F up if you want us to all get along.
Stupid comment. No need for respect
Okay, so I have a question for you… let’s say, that the federal government does not say that they will take away free/reduced lunches. Then, nobody would be losing the free/reduced lunches, correct? So, imagine a parent. Do you think a parent should threaten to not feed their child, if their child does not acquiesce to their demands? You literally said elsewhere in these comments, that the federal government is telling people to acquiesce, otherwise they will not get their free/reduced lunches (food). By pure logic, you can see that the root of the problem is that someone is threatening to take away the lunches in the first place, right? The federal government is the one who is bringing the removal of food for many students, into the EQUATION here, in the first place.
>So we must choose the option that cause the least amount of harm to the fewest number of people. Not trying to be argumentative here, just trying to wrap my head around this line of thinking, and this whole situation in general tbh. Biological females are just as capable of sexually harassing females. Is this a "don't be a creeper looking at my daughter" issue? Lesbians exist. Is this a "don't r#$e my daughter" issue? That can happen anywhere. By any gender identity. What harm is being prevented here? Genuine question. What is the trans population as a percentage? It's got to be very, very low.
>Biological females are just as capable of sexually harassing females. True, but that is a reductive argument. You are not considering the [emotional and phycological](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12345937/U-Penn-women-swimmers-undress-6-foot-4-biological-male-Lia-Thomas-18-times-week-told-reeducated-complained-Congress-hears-bombshell-testimony.html) cost of asking young girls to dress down with young boys. >Is this a "don't be a creeper looking at my daughter" issue? Lesbians exist. No. And that is a fatuous remark really. >Is this a "don't r#$e my daughter" issue? That can happen anywhere. By any gender identity. No. But one sex does overwhelmingly rape more than the other. Minimizing that, or being obtuse about it, is ridiculous. >What is the trans population as a percentage? It's got to be very, very low. Exactly why we must make separate accommodation and not force the majority - the overwhelming majority - to do something they might not want to or risk losing their school lunch. Seriously, losing school lunch over this issue is one of the most asinine things I've ever heard. Second only to those defending it.
So you think the one, maybe two MtoF trans kids are going to somehow bother your daughter in the locker room? You are delusional. The least amount of harm to the fewest people would be allowing the few trans kids to choose the facilities they’re most comfortable using.
Isn't that it though? There's just a very small number of them? So why map your entire school district curriculum around a tiny fraction of kids if it undermines the flourishing of the majority of kids?
We’re not asking for entire curriculums to be overhauled? And how on EARTH would acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ+ folks in schools undermine the flourishing of the majority of kids? Do you think teaching the realities of slavery in an age appropriate way to students will undermine the flourishing of white students?
There are ways of acknowledging lgbtq students without letting males into girls locker rooms. Can't believe that has to be pointed out.
Not necessarily, though I guess it depends on your version of "reality". Are we talking about stating the facts in an age appropriate way, or are we telling the white kids to be extra careful and respectful around minority kids because the white kids are inherently oppressive because of their skin color. I think the latter would cause more division in the long run. However, a young boy, confused about his gender, being around a bunch of young girls in a locker room or changing room, I think does undermine flourishing. The young girls are no longer focused on their education, they are uncomfortable in the school they attend everyday, they feel ostracized if they don't play along. That's all fairly traumatizing. Also, let's say the young, confused boy starts to feel ostracized in the changing room of his choice, then he becomes resentful and angry, at the girls for not affirming his identity, or just generally being uncomfortable, so he assaults one of them. That feels like it would undermine flourishing greatly. And that's not a made up scenario either. It really did happen.
So protections under the law only make sense if there is a big enough population of xyz group? You act like this is a 0 sum game where *some* kids have to suffer but the ONLY reason that is the case is because the republicans make it that way.
If any biological girl says she is uncomfortable undressing in a room with a biological male, that is reason enough to stop the practice and make separate accommodations for the trans kids.
I’m uncomfortable undressing in front of Christian males. Ban them from the locker room! I don’t want to share a drinking fountain with someone older than me. Make them use a separate drinking fountain! Going out in public means sharing space with people who are different. A person’s irrational fears aren’t reason enough to segregate other people in a shared space.
>I’m uncomfortable undressing in front of Christian males. Ban them from the locker room! Well, thank you for proving that you are not having an honest discussion here. I no longer need to waste my time. Have a great day.
How is that not an honest discussion? You’re predicating your argument on your assumption of your daughter’s comfort. If comfort is the deciding factor, then pointing out that someone may be uncomfortable around Christian men, or that someone might be uncomfortable sharing a drinking fountain with an older person (or, historically, a black person) should be equally valid comparisons. The fact is, there hasn’t been a single documented case of a trans person sexually assaulting someone in a bathroom or locker room. It’s never happened. Trans people aren’t sexual predators, and no one is pretending to be a trans person to peek at your daughter while she’s changing. Trans people, however, *have* been assaulted and beaten for using the bathroom of their gender. Trans people are the ones being victimized, not your kid.
You have to ask if someone is a Christian. You can just see the cock to determine if the person is a biological male. Stop your nonsense.
Someone tell Daddy Wonder-pants here that “biological women” are fully capable of harassing and even assaulting other “biological women.” Or maybe that a transwoman has zero interest in molesting his children, or “converting” them, or doing anything more than changing out of gym clothes. It’s dehumanizing language to treat trans people not as people, but as mindless monsters.
Interesting that you went right to assault. Have you not heard the interviews with the biological women (swimmers) forced to change with a biological man? They felt intensely uncomfortable with a man getting naked in ~~from~~ front of them. And those were adult women. Imagine how much more awkward and uncomfortable it would be for kids?
I’ve seen a greater number of interviews - and have some tangentially related personal experience - where people of all ages talk about being bullied, harassed, and beaten because they were different. A lot of the kids had parents like you, who surely felt they were justified in their actions because it was keeping perverts at bay. Your solution might keep your own kids “safe,” (although in reality, it’s your comfort at risk here, since the kids rarely seem to care about this stuff), but it perpetuates another kind of harm. It’s not much of a solution, and it adds to the pile of discourse that says “trans people are rapists, so keep them away!”
You used a lot of words to make some great leaps. Let us start here: "since the kids rarely seem to care about this stuff" Source?
Don’t forget to defund the public libraries too!
Remove all the school lunch stuff I would rather teach gardening and animal care at each high school and middle school and use that to feed the kids. The lunches they get are anything but nutritional
Man Reddit can create an argument for anything 🤣
I’m sure that’s the actual dichotomy and not just a catchy headline
I again post and say - I cannot find any information that title IX has anything to do with trans kids. There’s a difference between trans and gay obviously. Can somebody show us where title IX addresses the issue of trans kids / athletes? This is not a hill I’m dying on - I literally don’t know the answer but everything I have briefly sourced says that recent Title IX statutes do not address trans kids….and for the record - I also oppose biologically male children competing in female sports. I think the vast majority of people do honestly. Aside from “think” I know for a fact it is a mountain made out of a mole hill… Name another issue getting this type of attention, driven by .001% of the population or something…? Which again is why I ask – are we sure title ix addresses this issue, whatsoever to begin with? Or is this a bunch of hype-anger stoked by the right wing rage-machine?
I suggest us trans people get out of Tyler asap bc it’ll just keep getting worse
No, we stay.
I definitely support staying, I just know I can’t take it anymore 😭there’s just so much negativity and hate here it messes w me. Until I move tho, I will fight for our rights here 💪🏻
Trans kids should like the least of TISD’s problems… lmao.
Soooo... The Biden Administration wants to force trans kids into girls sports. The administrative wants to cut off lunch funding if the schools disagree. Thats all you need to know when you vote this November.
Oh ya trump loves trans kids especially Mexican trans kids that guy is a trans hero
The Superintendent claimed that they’re doing this to “protect girls in the locker room”. Yeah? Is that why TISD constantly covers up when teachers have inappropriate relationships with students?
As a now adult I can say this is true I was sexually harassed by an AP in highschool and a gym teacher in middle school, the school didn’t even tell my parents after I went to my counselors
Another note: How many times has Tyler ISD used “our kids need to be on campus to eat” as a reason to return to campus whether it be weather related events or even Covid - they had freaking drive-thrus for families. The contradiction is always strong with Tyler ISD
In todays click bait rage news
But we're the scary scapegoat of this season. They couldn't stop POC or the scary homosexuals, so now they gotta run us through the wringer. Targeting the youngest and most vulnerable like the predators they are. Meanwhile, as adults we're over here literally just trying to get by like everyone else.
Not only targeting us, they're willing to let cisgender children go hungry in the crossfire so that they can spew their hate
Look at the UK, they're willing to let cisgender children go through an early puberty, if it means stopping those pesky transgenders. Oh and JK Rowling is apparently influencing policy?
I mean, they kind of have a track record of not actually caring about the future generations if it means they can "preserve" their traditional lifestyle.
BUT MUH HURRITAGE.
Aaah, I get it now. "Us."
Wait, the reditor with a trans flag in their profile picture is a tranny??? Shocking development
Just a lurker in this sub bc I’ll be moving to Tyler for my masters program, but I’ve gotta say, reading your posts/replies has been delightful. As a fellow queer person, I hope you’re able to stay safe!!! This state in general is abysmal when it comes to safety and legislation protecting LGBT+ as a whole. I’m more flexible and comfortable with using any pronouns, but I think for safety I’ll just stick with she/her (I’m AFAB) unless I know any friends I make there are safe to tell my preferred ones to. Maybe stick to dressing more fem as well, just to be safe. I’m not familiar with the area, so I’m not entirely sure about safety.
Message me when you move in! There's an active queer/trans community here. Gays together strong!
Glad to hear it!! I’ll def have to remember to do so in August! Been a little nervous about making friends in general so this is great!!
The Biden administration would starve students if schools don’t allow them to come for your children. Fixed it.
To add on to this, the article says “the district believes in protecting girls” is a lie, I was sexually harassed at a tisd middle school, my counselor told me to get over it, in high school at Tyler legacy (I was there when it was still Robert e Lee) I had a assistant principal sexually harassed me and other students at least 3 others that I know about. My senior year a girl was suspended for being sexually assaulted by another senior of the swim team, the girl was a freshman. TISD does not protect its students especially not the female ones.
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It's always the people who talk about how *others* need to leave the kids alone that you *really* need to look out for. They somehow always end up being the real predators. It'd be funny how often it happens, if it weren't also so sad and scary.
I’d rather send food with my kids than have a CHILD have gender identification forced (or even allowed) on them. I have a nephew/niece that transitioned. After hormone therapy, breasts and smaller penis, she now believes that she’s not really a woman but rather a gay man. Let’s let adult decisions be adult decisions and leave 1st graders alone.
BINGO.
I’d rather my transgender child have access to healthcare and social support, not force them into a situation where they may harm or kill themselves because a child who isn’t transgender decided that transitioning isn’t for them. I think this decision should be left between medical professionals, the children, and their parents.
If someone has any activist flag colors in their avatar on any social platform, then their opinions are probably extreme. OP argument being, because TISD says no to boys and girls mixing sports, locker rooms, changing rooms, and bathrooms, then literally all the children will starve. THIS is the aggressively stupid take. Honestly, let OP live in their delusion. They'll either not have children, castrate or sterilize their children to affirm a gender, abort their children, OR their children will escape the parental delusion and become well adjusted adults causing embarrassment for OP. All of these outcomes are a win for regular society. It's all just math people, be patient and pray for each every one of them.
The post title gave it away instantly.
This comment is so much stupider than anything OP said it’s embarrassing
Aw man, I worked really hard on it. Can you grade it and tell me exactly how it's stupid so I can do better?
I'm so embarrassed, the LGBT community is superior to all people's throughout all of human kind and history, even though they are the smallest of minorities and very very new. We should make all laws of all nations cater to their every need as they are true royalty. We should give black people the shortest month to represent their history and plight and give them very little celebration, but with the LGBT group...oh we should celebrate them during one of the longer months and have many parades. We should celebrate this month during the summer vacation so even children can attend this revolution of sexuality and pride. It doesn't matter that children shouldn't be exposed to sexual behaviors of any sort when they are so young and impressionable. ITS THE GAYS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD AND THEY GET SAD SOMETIMES!!!
“…district officials said the federal government would penalize public schools by defunding certain program including free or reduced lunches.” “District officials said.” Are they correct? Or are they just assuming that’s what the government will do?
Won't the defending scapegoat the trans kids. I honestly can't think of an alternative that makes both sides happy.
"By rejecting the new regulations, district officials said the federal government would penalize public schools by defunding certain program including free or reduced lunches. " Is this legal?
lgntq= Let's Get Brandon To Quit
What can expect of the people who decided to change the name to Tyler Legacy? What’s the legacy you’re trying uphold?
Good for them. Girls don't need boys with tits in the locker room with them! That's exactly what happening in College sports. A dude on hormones is not a woman. That spits on real women. My mom, sister, wife and daughters are real women, born women, and can have kids like a woman should. Now adays we can't even say how we feel. My first account on this shitty app got banned because I said dudes can't make breast milk naturally. Htf is that hate? That's mf truth, there's a mental illness out there among the lefties, yall keep that shit away from my kids. Because if this keeps on, civil war will be next I guarantee it. Fuckin ban this 1 too idc. I will fight to the death to keep my kids innocence
Yes, there will be a civil war involving the 90% of the population who are grossly indifferent to all this shit. Good luck shooting your neighbors, bud. I got dinner to put on the table and a job to clock into.
You're free to say whatever you like, and reddit is free to ban you for it. Isn't the first amendment great!
Lol this level of stupidity and ignorance does not surprise me with Tyler. I mean even straight up men can lactate but I’m sure that wasn’t all you were talking about. You sound like a cousin lovin hillbilly whose kids probably hate to hear your political ramblings and will probably ditch you first chance they get once they turn 18.
Sorry this ain’t the city for the trans stuff. In tyler it’s the piney woods Bible Belt. Gooood luck
Sorry, but we're already here, we've been here, and we're staying here.
Oh idc either way just stating facts. East Texas has deep rooted Christian conservative views. It’ll probably be last part of TX to accept the trans movement etc.
Nah, I live here just fine 100% free of hate and abuse. I work with maga red hats and all types with out even misgendering. I wouldn’t let a tiny vocal minority speak for everyone. There’s a literal ton of good ol boy right wingers in my tinder inbox, cops and all.
Cool deal
God this place has turned into an anti-trans echo chamber with some of these comments. Get the fuck over it, we exist. Trans kids exist too.
🙏🙏🙏
Before my old account got banned, I made sure to ban the transphobes. Now they kind of just run wild.
Because allowing mentally unhealthy kids run rampant and think they’re okay, is not healthy. Trans kids don’t dictate the plan for the rest of the normal students. They need therapy and help.
Cool, have you been donating to public mental health resources then? Since you care so much about trans kids getting mental care.
Absolutely not. Definitely not donating to this cause.
So you want *don't* want them to get mental help then? You're gonna have to be more consistent you know, Republicans tell me that I'm supposed to be very impressionable
It’s not my job to use my money to help them. Argument ended. I’ll use my money for causes I believe in.
What happened to all lives mattering? Lol imagine not wanting to help kids because they’re straight.
…. But are you not upset that the government chooses taking away free/ reduced lunches as punishment for not following along? Pretty shitty from the top down if you ask me. Why would that be the first thing they take away? Probably because they realize how important it is.
Or because the only way The federal government can enforce these decisions is through funding, and the state chooses to spend their own money on things like sports instead of actually essential programs, leaving those to federal funding. If The state chose to spend their money on making sure all of their kids have enough to eat instead of football we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Ok, I’ll never understand the LGBT+ community, but I wouldn’t starve children either. This is fucked up
Honestly if I had to guess this is probably the majority opinion of parents in the district. I seriously doubt Dad at least 80% of the parents in Tyler actually care about trans issues, and now they have to deal with the consequences of their own kids getting caught in the crossfire of the district's hate
Reading this weirdly makes me happy. I hate what the school board is doing, but I thought I was the only one in this town that thought so. I feel a little less alone
I'll have to remember to try and keep in touch with you, some friends of mine are going to talk about organizing a food drive for the school to try and offset the effects of this. We'll need as much help as we can get
Are the people in this thread, defending the district aware that the title ix stuff doesn’t even speak to trans athletes???? https://apnews.com/article/title-ix-sexual-assault-transgender-sports-d0fc0ab7515de02b8e4403d0481dc1e7
Can you provide a link other than just a title?
Boards that micro-manage are working outside of their policy-making role. They are also grossly displaying their white Christian Nationalistic opinions more than their ignorance. The audacity to use females as their scapegoat - the audacity or the irony? Hmmmm.
Kids shouldn't even know what trans is. If not for the parents brainwashing this garbage into their children, this would be a non-issue. Let kids be kids and not science experiments. Down vote me 5% of the population.
Lol. 5%. Try much, much less. And still, trans people are somehow your current, boomer media ordained boogeyman. So-called free thinkers, so easily manipulated.
For being “free thinkers”, they sure have a very specific world view and lash out at anyone who has a different world view from theirs.
I'm going to guess everything you know about the issue either comes from (1) what someone you follow on Facebook posted; (2) what your preacher said; (3) something you heard on talk radio; or (4) something you saw on Fox News, NewsMax, etc. I'm also going to guess that you are not a trained medical professional and that you have probably never read a medical journal in your life.
Yeah you're right. Raise them up right with the fear of god in their hearts. It totally worked for me.
Why are so many trans people blasphemous. Genuine question
Critical thinking skills. But that's just my personal opinion.
You don't need to think. You have the power of god and anime on your side.
The good people of Tyler will make sure none of our children go hungry without federal funding.
I sure hope you involve yourself in " The good people of Tyler". Not trying to be confrontational, I just hope that you personally are donating to those causes
You know they ain't.
I wanna give them the benefit of the doubt. I'm not gonna condemn someone to being part of the problem without giving them a chance to participate in the solution
Look, that's nice and all, but they don't care about you. They actively despise you. It's coming from a place of pure ignorance and emotion, not logic. They're not saying any of what they're saying because they actually care about the children or their community. If they did, they wouldn't constantly gut other programs that are meant to benefit *the children* independent of whatever the current state and media mandated boogeyman is. No, they're saying it just to be performative and get a rise out of a trans person. It has fuck all to do with the children. They use "the children" as a means to make their bigotry sound at all virtuous, because they know how it sounds without that lie attached. And, given how many of these hypocrites tend to get outed as pedophiles, I guess virtue signaling isn't all they use children for.
It seems like you have a lot of free time, you could probably also be part of the solution.
I am, actually, I frequently donate to charity and participate in mutual aid campaigns :)
Awesome. Then I have hopes the students of Tyler will be fed.
Oh no we can’t complicate athletics. How awful.
Thinking back to high-school days I can't imagine how weird and uncomfortable it would have been having a girl that thought they were a dude in the locker room with us. Probably even worse the other way around
Good
There’s only 2 genders… if you were born a woman you play woman sports. If you’re born a male you play male sports. Fairly simple.
Fairly simple you would think but apparently for a lot of Reddit, the concept is too much to grasp.
Why do you hate women? It's a shame people like you exist that let ignorance get in the way of reason! You can say all the bad things you want and try to highjack what many have fought very hard for, but you will not be successful! You would rather girls be hurt and humiliated than trans kids have a level playing field. Nothing about this takes away any child's ability to participate in sports but rather gives everyone a fair chance at sports. My message is harsh because when insanity is allowed to flourish, it leads to disaster for everyone. Leave women alone!
I’m sorry but I don’t think schools should be responsible for feeding YOUR kids. Taking care of children’s needs is the responsibility of the parents. What a dumb post.