I am sitting here, next to my 5 year old grandson. He is doing his homework for school, identifying nouns, verbs, adjectives. He is in the UK.
Perhaps, if our American schools were held to a higher standard, STEM jobs would be going to American workers.
It would alsi help to require companies to pay H-B1 workers the same as an American worker. That should take the slave labor factor out of the equation.
Gee I wonder why the Biden admin moved heaven and earth for Brittany Greiber but not so much for Marc Fogel? What factors could possibly be the difference? It’s a mystery.
The concept of "born in the wrong body" has been nurtured from an idle thought seed into a monster garden of grasping plants, clutching at our children. It is an ideation often stemming from trauma or abuse experiences. It's been watered and fertilized by middle aged men with sexual fetishes. I know. I divorced one. I also studied child development extensively; the use of hormones and urinary tract surgeries is not supported by any valid, repeated, statistically significant studies. We have a growing army of regretful, damaged, depressed detransitioners. Here's how it does not fit with Piaget's long-accepted stages of child development:
Ok FP, you've been a light in the dark this past year, but please oh please, how can I take you seriously when all of the lies you listed were Biden and Harris when we just elected a pathological liar? Stay free!
Another MAGA is racists take. So lazy! Sorry there is a lot to be said about the way companies use H1-Bs to lower American wages. I’ve worked with several who were not impressive. But all this writer has to say is MAGA is racist.
Happy New Year to Bari and tfp. But please try not to slink back to a cozy lefty conceit.
This year could be very consequential for our world. Why not get out there to report on it [instead of shuffling from the left side with cynical commentary].
I wonder if Jewish people will be allowed to participate in "The People's March." I seem to recall that the original Women's March kept Jewish lesbians out, which made it the "Only Certain Women's March." Will this become the "Only Right-Thinking People's March"?
We need more doctors, scientists, engineers, coders, etc. Indians and Chinese have proven to be especially qualified to fill this need. If there are jobs being offered, I don't thing the US government has a right to keep them out. As for racism, how much of it is racism, and how much of it is actually envy and hatred of those who will work harder and do a better job. Maybe racism is just an excuse.
The Trump coalition is already falling apart. Working class Americans thought they were electing someone who would help them, but all he is going to do is help his billionaire buddies.
Joe Biden claiming that he knew nothing about his son’s business but also knew that he was not in business with Chinese companies reminds me of Mayorkas having no idea what the NJ drones are but ‘knows’ they are not a danger to citizens or the security of assorted places that need to be secure.
Jay Bhattacharya, Vivek Ramaswamy, Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard. All Indian Americans, all appointed by Trump. There may be racists against this group on the fringes of the self-identifting MAGA movement, but they don't appear to be in the core of it. And what people are saying on Twitter isn't a very objective measure of public sentiment.
My mistake, a quick search reveals that she and her father were born in American Samoa, which is certainly closer to Hawaii than India. Her mother was born in the States, in Indiana. What threw me is that she is openly religiously Hindu. In any case, she is certainly not racially white nor born in the continental US, counter to the narrative presented that MAGA is opposing H1B visas purely out of racial and ethnic animus.
"To most Americans, 'sex ed' means learning about the biology of human reproduction. But for advocates of the National Sex Education Standards (NSES), it means children should be able to 'define and explain differences between terms' like cisgender, transgender, gender nonbinary, and gender expansive by the end of fifth grade. The NSES already informs the sex ed programs of at least a half dozen states, including Colorado and Wisconsin, and now the New York City Council has passed Resolution 94, urging that the NSES be adopted across all of New York State."
This must stop. I benefited greatly from sex ed when I was in 8th grade in 1968, but what the NSES is proposing is indoctrination in scientifically baseless gender identity ideology, plain and simple.
In the real world, schools do not need to teach students about sexual orientation because, in almost all cases, sexual attraction blossoms with the flood of hormones that mark the onset of puberty. This is a case where kids really do know: most children will know whether they are attracted to people of the same or opposite sex. Sure, sex education is still necessary for any number of reasons that are not relevant here. But few adolescents need to be taught about sexual and romantic attraction.
In contrast, if we could go back to the time not all that long ago before gender ideology escaped the Pandora's Box that is Queer academia, children would never develop even the slightest awareness of gender (in the queer theory sense) on their own. Never. That is because concepts such as "cisgender, transgender, gender nonbinary and gender expansive" are fictitious. They are unknown in human nature and, until about five seconds ago, in human culture. Gender blab is the product of trans activism. In turn, that activism implements the tenets of a pernicious philosophy that was ginned up out of whole cloth by maniacs such as Judith Butler. With them it's "theory" shapes culture, not the other way around.
So of course trans activists and their credulous and virtue-signaling cishet allies have to teach children about gender. Kids would never learn about Little Red Riding Hood or Jurassic Park either if they weren't exposed to the fictional world where those characters and their stories reside. There is no difference when it comes to gender.
This has to stop. We can't count on legislatures controlled by the Democratic Party or Democratic governors to do it. It is up to Republicans to fight this in their states. Just as 20 attorneys general have targeted the American Academy of Pediatrics over its "evidence free standards on gender dysphoria care for minors," [1] creative lawyers in the offices of Republican attorneys general could surely come up with a legal theory or two to prevent the spread of trans indoctrination of minors.
I'm not partial to identity politics, but in this case I will make an exception and say that I oppose gender ideology primarily because I am a gay man. First, if I were the same sissy boy today that I was 60 years ago, I would be risking being turned into a little girl if I had the misfortune to have dedicated trans allies for parents. I want sissy boys to grow up to be the gay men they were meant to be. (It has been established that most gender nonconforming kids grow out of it and find they are attracted to members of the same sex.) Secondly, the mainstream media and popular entertainment are perpetuating the fiction of a "LGBTQ+ community" that is united in political outlook and objectives. That is not true. I don't even believe there is such a thing as the gay community, much less a world in which all gay men are natural and permanent allies of trans people. In other words, I am here and I am NOT queer.
Do you know about the British gay guy, Barry Wall, who has YouTube channel, Court of the EDI Jester? He's on the same page about boys who will grow up to be gay. On my channel, I have a contingent of gay male subscribers (as well as lesbians) who are just as fed up as you are. As a retired Kindergarten teacher, I tell you there is no place for "trans education" in early childhood classes. Here's why, via Piaget's stages of development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixi-i8eXt8c&t=88s
My pleasure. I keep harping over here about the fact that FP has not yet reviewed the documentary Behind the Looking Glass at Lime Soda Films yt channel. It profiles 18 trans widows and a daughter of. The aspects of cult, sexual fetish influenced by porn and the creep into schools and childhood is made clear. Lesbians like Bary and Nellie must recognize the threats "trans women" pose to lesbians and stop the idea that if the T is shed from LGB, "we'll be next," as a paranoid lesbian friend once said to me. She knows what I went through and doesn't connect the threats crossdressing men pose to lesbian groups. Here's the link to BTLG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frffv2sB8zE
Why nobody says aloud that all transgender people can do with their lives whatever they want but why they are allowed to force their “values” on the vulnerable brains of minors!? That is the parents who should decide if they want their kids to be exposed to these adult issues at the expense of knowledge of reading, writing and science? Because of that, I have voted for Trump, even I am not a fan of his. These people cripple children brains. It is time to stand agains that damaging our country propaganda.
How about giving 5th and 6th graders classes that teach gender is determined by their chromosomes? XY means you are a male, and XX means you are a female, and that will never change.
I am sitting here, next to my 5 year old grandson. He is doing his homework for school, identifying nouns, verbs, adjectives. He is in the UK.
Perhaps, if our American schools were held to a higher standard, STEM jobs would be going to American workers.
It would alsi help to require companies to pay H-B1 workers the same as an American worker. That should take the slave labor factor out of the equation.
Gee I wonder why the Biden admin moved heaven and earth for Brittany Greiber but not so much for Marc Fogel? What factors could possibly be the difference? It’s a mystery.
The concept of "born in the wrong body" has been nurtured from an idle thought seed into a monster garden of grasping plants, clutching at our children. It is an ideation often stemming from trauma or abuse experiences. It's been watered and fertilized by middle aged men with sexual fetishes. I know. I divorced one. I also studied child development extensively; the use of hormones and urinary tract surgeries is not supported by any valid, repeated, statistically significant studies. We have a growing army of regretful, damaged, depressed detransitioners. Here's how it does not fit with Piaget's long-accepted stages of child development:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixi-i8eXt8c&t=88s
Ok FP, you've been a light in the dark this past year, but please oh please, how can I take you seriously when all of the lies you listed were Biden and Harris when we just elected a pathological liar? Stay free!
Great. I got it. All Democrats lie and the MAGA crowd are a bastion of truth and integrity.
The left is trying REALLY hard to make MAGA racist and get the Indians to vote blue.
Another MAGA is racists take. So lazy! Sorry there is a lot to be said about the way companies use H1-Bs to lower American wages. I’ve worked with several who were not impressive. But all this writer has to say is MAGA is racist.
Happy New Year to Bari and tfp. But please try not to slink back to a cozy lefty conceit.
This year could be very consequential for our world. Why not get out there to report on it [instead of shuffling from the left side with cynical commentary].
I wonder if Jewish people will be allowed to participate in "The People's March." I seem to recall that the original Women's March kept Jewish lesbians out, which made it the "Only Certain Women's March." Will this become the "Only Right-Thinking People's March"?
We need more doctors, scientists, engineers, coders, etc. Indians and Chinese have proven to be especially qualified to fill this need. If there are jobs being offered, I don't thing the US government has a right to keep them out. As for racism, how much of it is racism, and how much of it is actually envy and hatred of those who will work harder and do a better job. Maybe racism is just an excuse.
The Trump coalition is already falling apart. Working class Americans thought they were electing someone who would help them, but all he is going to do is help his billionaire buddies.
Settle down. He is not even in office.
Joe Biden claiming that he knew nothing about his son’s business but also knew that he was not in business with Chinese companies reminds me of Mayorkas having no idea what the NJ drones are but ‘knows’ they are not a danger to citizens or the security of assorted places that need to be secure.
Jay Bhattacharya, Vivek Ramaswamy, Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard. All Indian Americans, all appointed by Trump. There may be racists against this group on the fringes of the self-identifting MAGA movement, but they don't appear to be in the core of it. And what people are saying on Twitter isn't a very objective measure of public sentiment.
Tulsi is not Indian. She is HIndu. There is a difference.
Thank you. Please see my note below where I corrected this: https://www.thefp.com/p/a-big-year-for-big-lies-plus/comment/83861415
I am thinking Tulsi has some Hawaiian genealogy but I may be wrong.
My mistake, a quick search reveals that she and her father were born in American Samoa, which is certainly closer to Hawaii than India. Her mother was born in the States, in Indiana. What threw me is that she is openly religiously Hindu. In any case, she is certainly not racially white nor born in the continental US, counter to the narrative presented that MAGA is opposing H1B visas purely out of racial and ethnic animus.
"To most Americans, 'sex ed' means learning about the biology of human reproduction. But for advocates of the National Sex Education Standards (NSES), it means children should be able to 'define and explain differences between terms' like cisgender, transgender, gender nonbinary, and gender expansive by the end of fifth grade. The NSES already informs the sex ed programs of at least a half dozen states, including Colorado and Wisconsin, and now the New York City Council has passed Resolution 94, urging that the NSES be adopted across all of New York State."
This must stop. I benefited greatly from sex ed when I was in 8th grade in 1968, but what the NSES is proposing is indoctrination in scientifically baseless gender identity ideology, plain and simple.
In the real world, schools do not need to teach students about sexual orientation because, in almost all cases, sexual attraction blossoms with the flood of hormones that mark the onset of puberty. This is a case where kids really do know: most children will know whether they are attracted to people of the same or opposite sex. Sure, sex education is still necessary for any number of reasons that are not relevant here. But few adolescents need to be taught about sexual and romantic attraction.
In contrast, if we could go back to the time not all that long ago before gender ideology escaped the Pandora's Box that is Queer academia, children would never develop even the slightest awareness of gender (in the queer theory sense) on their own. Never. That is because concepts such as "cisgender, transgender, gender nonbinary and gender expansive" are fictitious. They are unknown in human nature and, until about five seconds ago, in human culture. Gender blab is the product of trans activism. In turn, that activism implements the tenets of a pernicious philosophy that was ginned up out of whole cloth by maniacs such as Judith Butler. With them it's "theory" shapes culture, not the other way around.
So of course trans activists and their credulous and virtue-signaling cishet allies have to teach children about gender. Kids would never learn about Little Red Riding Hood or Jurassic Park either if they weren't exposed to the fictional world where those characters and their stories reside. There is no difference when it comes to gender.
This has to stop. We can't count on legislatures controlled by the Democratic Party or Democratic governors to do it. It is up to Republicans to fight this in their states. Just as 20 attorneys general have targeted the American Academy of Pediatrics over its "evidence free standards on gender dysphoria care for minors," [1] creative lawyers in the offices of Republican attorneys general could surely come up with a legal theory or two to prevent the spread of trans indoctrination of minors.
I'm not partial to identity politics, but in this case I will make an exception and say that I oppose gender ideology primarily because I am a gay man. First, if I were the same sissy boy today that I was 60 years ago, I would be risking being turned into a little girl if I had the misfortune to have dedicated trans allies for parents. I want sissy boys to grow up to be the gay men they were meant to be. (It has been established that most gender nonconforming kids grow out of it and find they are attracted to members of the same sex.) Secondly, the mainstream media and popular entertainment are perpetuating the fiction of a "LGBTQ+ community" that is united in political outlook and objectives. That is not true. I don't even believe there is such a thing as the gay community, much less a world in which all gay men are natural and permanent allies of trans people. In other words, I am here and I am NOT queer.
[1] Idaho Office of Attorney General Raúl R. Labrador. "Attorney General Labrador Challenges American Academy of Pediatrics to Disclose Gender Dysphoria Guidance and Methodology." 24 September 2024. https://www.ag.idaho.gov/newsroom/attorney-general-labrador-challenges-american-academy-of-pediatrics-to-disclose-gender-dysphoria-guidance-and-methodology/
Do you know about the British gay guy, Barry Wall, who has YouTube channel, Court of the EDI Jester? He's on the same page about boys who will grow up to be gay. On my channel, I have a contingent of gay male subscribers (as well as lesbians) who are just as fed up as you are. As a retired Kindergarten teacher, I tell you there is no place for "trans education" in early childhood classes. Here's why, via Piaget's stages of development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixi-i8eXt8c&t=88s
Thank you!!!
My pleasure. I keep harping over here about the fact that FP has not yet reviewed the documentary Behind the Looking Glass at Lime Soda Films yt channel. It profiles 18 trans widows and a daughter of. The aspects of cult, sexual fetish influenced by porn and the creep into schools and childhood is made clear. Lesbians like Bary and Nellie must recognize the threats "trans women" pose to lesbians and stop the idea that if the T is shed from LGB, "we'll be next," as a paranoid lesbian friend once said to me. She knows what I went through and doesn't connect the threats crossdressing men pose to lesbian groups. Here's the link to BTLG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frffv2sB8zE
Why nobody says aloud that all transgender people can do with their lives whatever they want but why they are allowed to force their “values” on the vulnerable brains of minors!? That is the parents who should decide if they want their kids to be exposed to these adult issues at the expense of knowledge of reading, writing and science? Because of that, I have voted for Trump, even I am not a fan of his. These people cripple children brains. It is time to stand agains that damaging our country propaganda.
Margarita Altshuler
How about giving 5th and 6th graders classes that teach gender is determined by their chromosomes? XY means you are a male, and XX means you are a female, and that will never change.
Re: Marc Fogel.
Unfortunately he’s not a basketball player, if he were, he’d be home already.