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Bourne became one of California’s most vocal anti-trans activists in the years since her eldest child came out first as trans and later as nonbinary.
Fuck, I feel for that kid.. Having a parent with mental illness is one thing and not easy, but can you imagine having to deal with this shit where your parent doesn't only attack you but also anyone like you, only because of how you are?
In this episode of "are the straights okay", we get yet another troubling crumb of information: No. I allege some of them are very much not okay. Some of them aren't thinking. Not doing the think before they do whatever they do.
"When I can't immediately tell a child's gender, all I can think about is their genitals" - inner thoughts coming outside
If they can't visualize a child's genitals it angers them. Makes MAGA mad. Mad MAGA Smash! SMASH!
So its like that train video, where the old white lady was not comfortable with a black man existing in the next set of seats.
The fact that someone's mere existence makes you uncomfortable doesn't mean they don't deserve rights and liberties.
This seems like it should have turned into "Anti-LGBTQ+ activist gets escorted out of board meeting and sent to prison for indecent exposure - LGBTQ Nation"
I'm also somewhat uncomfortable when some stranger disrobe in public, but hey.
When I was in school, you got changed in the stalls in the locker room and not out in the open. Does she not know how stalls work?
We didn't have stalls for changing or showering. It was all done in the open.
Hope she has a daughter who grows the biggest dick you've ever seen. Like Shrek sunbathing.
"It's like a kaiju, but it's a cock"
Bathing suit underneath or not, what she did was extremely inappropriate and immediately defeats her point.
People like her tell you to think of the children, before setting the absolute worst example for them.
Did I read that right?
“Her eldest child came out as trans then non-binary”, so does she hate her own child?
She became vocal AFTER her own child came out? What a monster!
Apparently she's one of those parents' rights psychos who think schools are indoctrinating their kids into becoming trans (or, more accurately, control freaks who feel that they're losing control of their children and then blame the easiest target).
They're fucking child abusers
Always pushing the blame on others but no one is to “blame”, there’s nothing wrong other than the “mom” being an absolute psychopath!
If I was in that room and she did that I would yell, “MY EYES! MY EYES! Put your damn clothes back on you nut job!” Haha! wtf!
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
I agree.
What a weird thing to do.
What even is her point? Is she afraid of AMAB people seeing girls undress because they might be attracted to them? Because, if so, I have news for her about lesbians.
The only way to fix that is to give everyone privacy. Which you probably should be doing anyways.
At this point I don't think she even owns a hinge.
SHE is the bad news for lesbians.
The next strip shows are scheduled hourly for the following issues that cause her kids to be concerned: Black people (why are they even here), Obesity (curfew if we allow them), Disabled people, people who look Muslim, Jews, Gays (because dividing LGBTQ+ is easier). Tomorrows schedule will be published on her as later.
I thought trans people usually wore clothes.
Only domesticated trans people do. Wild trans people don’t.
She does have a point that it's weird we make teens change clothes, get naked, and shower as a group.
Like, it would be less weird if they did it as children. But waiting until some kids start going thru puberty and then making everyone strip together while an inevitably creepy gym teacher watches with too much interest....
The whole thing is fucking weird.
Like, why can't shower stalls include a changing stall?
Everyone's happy, and nobody's looking or being looked at
Seems like a ridiculously easy problem to solve.
So my school, back in the day, had communal showers, but we weren't required to use them. We had to change in a communal area, but only down to our underwear. Though occasionally in Boy Scouts we did have to use communal showers.
Now apparently this school doesn't require kids to change at all. Honestly, that's nasty. Anyone who's been around teenagers knows they're nasty and sweaty normally, but after gym it's obviously worse. The solution should have been to create private areas or something, not to have them not change clothes at all, so they walk around the rest of the day all nasty.
In my opinion though, communal changing isn't a bad thing. It can actually be good. America already has a weird issue with nudity, and getting rid of the one place where that was slightly challenged I don't think is beneficial in the long run. Short term it's nice, but long term I think it might do more harm than good. Instead we should be trying to make people feel comfortable with who they are, not scared of it. Yeah, it's got some issues, but I think the bad outweighs the good.
Private stalls for changing and showering should be mandatory and any student should have the eight to use them for any reason
No, every student should use them. If they’re only optional, you still have the bullies together in a gang to pick on everyone else. You’re singling out people who choose privacy. You’re putting peer pressure on everyone who doesn’t conform.
You know, some cultures are not ok with nudity like this. In those places, you give children the respect and privacy they deserve.
I'm not normally one to body shame, but her internal ugliness is showing
Group showering is an institutional practice, providing for the health of the worker, with little consideration to his/her own desires or comfort. Jails/mines/factories have historically required showering to make sure they could keep working.
Schools are modeled after these institutions. The powerful people of this country see people as economic assets, and nothing else.
I don't think that's why. I think it's just because it's cheaper. My school had communal showers, but we didn't use them (sports teams did though). The inky ones I ever used were at Boy Scout camps. I'm pretty sure it's because it used to not be considered a big deal, and it's saves a lot of money. Honestly, I think it's an issue it has become such a big issue. Most countries aren't so uptight about nudity. It's an American thing to be scared of nudity.
That comes from puritanical notions promoted by religious folks. That's not going away in the US. It's too big a part of the culture in many places.
Given that reality, springing for shower stalls is not too expensive for Planet Fitness, so it shouldn't be for public schools.
? . . . okay, so had she continued she'd have been naked (presumably) and . . . ? what.