The Orange County Public Schools system in Florida has announced guidance banning trans students from bathrooms and the use of nicknames.
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More like filled it with acid.
https://www.npr.org/2014/06/13/321380585/remembering-a-civil-rights-swim-in-it-was-a-milestone
Also Florida.
I suspect the changes to race theory pushed through recently in Florida will have this taught as a acid bath was beneficial and great for your complexion…
We call my son and daughter by shortened versions of their first names. Both are in High School in OCPS. Today they brought home the forms for us to sign to allow them to go by those shortened names in school. I was shocked.
Perhaps Ronald DeSantis should be forced to get permission from his family inorder to continue to be called Ron.
The sad thing is, my brother has a name like “Benjamin”. My mother is a very mentally ill individual and is extremely militant about her children’s names “I chose your names and you will go by exactly what I named you!” and refused to let him go by “Ben” or let us call him “Ben”. Except, outside of the house he always went by Ben, she just didn’t know it. I always called him Ben when we weren’t home, because it’s what he wanted to be called. So kids like this would have to bring a form home and get their ass kicked by mom for going by a name they aren’t supposed to? Fuck that.
My mom was the exact same way. “If I wanted you to be called that I would have named you that”.
Let’s also not forget Rafael “Ted” Cruz, Leslie “Gerald Ford” King and Donald “Don Jr.” Trump, Jr.
I hope all media refer to him as Ronald until this goes away.
The amount of abject cruelty that is being leveled at trans children in Florida is fucking horrifying. This is legally enforced humiliation and bullying. This alone would have been more than enough to drive me to suicide when I was a child myself. And they are absolutely aware that this will cause that. Ron plans to orchestrate a genocide in Florida. He’s essentially forced every single person, company, doctor, politician, educator, teacher, any professional human being or group of human beings who values human life out of the state. When he’s done all that will remain are the most openly violent fascists and all the people who are too impoverished to leave the state. Of which many such impoverished disenfranchised people are trans children. How such open fascist power has not been internationally condemned and how he himself has not faced expulsion from any political office and faced serious legal actions from the government of the United States is beyond me. I thought world War 2 and the rise of fascism in Europe was supposed to have taught us something. Evidently not.
Fascism should’ve ended with WW2. The most violent ruthless war in human history. The death count alone is mind-blowing.
I know I did the numbers once and if you just lined up the dead combatants from the USSR side head to toe it would cover a distance from NYC to LA multiple times.
Most depressing road trip ever.
Yeah but “COMMUNISM killed more people” so fascism is cool I guess.
You could just not like dictatorships no matter what their official doctrine might be. It is allowed.
Fascism exists outside dictatorships. Like in Florida, for example.
What’s going on is the ramp up to genocide
All this to bully the 10 whole trans kids. What goes through these fascist fucks heads
Hate gets votes
Fear maintains power.
Aha i remember when conservatives claimed to be the party of small government.
That was when they were just psychopathically neoliberal and “small government” was code for “we want gut regulations so corporations can put formaldehyde in milk again”.
Which they’ll still do of course, it just won’t win them elections these days. So they pander to bigots to make up the numbers.
They still claim it, been claiming it my entire life and it has never been true
This is insane. Fascist.
Only if your legal name is Fascist, otherwise I’m gonna need to see that permission slip…
So is DeSantis going to start going by Ronald now?
He IS a clown. 🤷🏼♀️
Clowns at least make an effort at being entertaining.
Ronald Dion DeSantis, you MUST use his full legal name now.
How’s that freedom working out for you guys?
Land of the free and home of the brave…
Under the guidance, published Monday (7 August), teachers at schools in Orange County must use pronouns and titles that correspond to their “biological sex” at birth, and parents must fill out a form to let teachers know of any deviation from their child’s legal name, even if this is a simple nickname.
So if the governor of Florida was subjected to this “guidance”, he would need permission to go by Ron.
This is the same guy going to war with Disney World who also held his wedding there.
You’d think that half the population of Florida is trans with the disproportional amount of effort the gremlins in charge undetake to inflict cruelty on them.
When are the people of Florida going to put their precious second amendment rights to good use?
The enemy has to be all powerful and easy to defeat.
Grrr. “Call people what they ask you to call them.” is not supposed to a difficult aspect of the Golden Rule to understand.
Florida makes me think that we would be better off with just 49 states.
Just swap Florida and Puerto Rico
That’s fair! Would hardly need to change much, honestly.
Make Florida and Washington DC part of Puerto Rico then admit all 3 as one state.
That way no one is happy.
As a guy living in Florida, I agree with you.
Yo Puerto Rico is dope.
It’s become the boomer republic but it could be so much better.
It and the rest of america’s dystopian history makes me think america would have been better if they lost the revolutionary war and later gained independence peacefully like Australia for example
I am serious about this opinion
It wouldn’t have. The American Revolution inspired revolutions in 60 other countries, including the French, Haitian and Mexican revolutions, and it’s what helped kickstart modern-day democracy in much of the world for that fact. Had the U.S. lost, it would have forever cemented the idea that the crown is all-powerful, beyond reproach, and the only way to get anything in life is to kiss the ring.
No matter how evil the U.S. turned out to be, the way it began will always be its true importance imo.
Won’t need to, most of it’s gonna be underwater eventually anyway…
And then its hateful citizens will infest other states.
At this point I wouldn’t be at all surprised to hear that Florida had switched to using human skulls as a currency.
LGBTQ+ skulls to be specific.
Florida - The Fascist State
*Nicholasnames
Comments like this almost make me wish Lemmy had awards
*slow clap
