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commiepinkofag · 4 months

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School clubs for gay students move underground after Kentucky’s anti-LGBTQ law goes into effect

After personal tragedy, a mother sought to start a Gay-Straight Alliance at her local school. Then came a state law cracking down on discussion of gender identity.

Kentucky’s law, passed in March, is one of the nation’s most sweeping anti-LGBTQ+ laws, prohibiting school districts from compelling teachers to address trans students by their pronouns and banning transgender students from using school bathrooms or changing rooms that match their gender identity. The law also limits instruction on and discussion of human sexuality and gender identity in schools. A separate section of the law bans gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth in the state.

“What started out as really a bill focused on pronouns and bathroom use morphed into this very broad anti-LGBTQIA+ piece of legislation that outlawed discussions of gender and sexuality, through all grades, and all subject matters,” said Jason Glass, the former Kentucky commissioner of education.

#underground #outlaw #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbqti #trans #queer #transgender students #bathroom bill #pronouns #don't say gay #gender identity #gay-straight alliance #school #education #kentucky #2023 #2020s

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conejita-canelita · 20 days

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being a polin stan has got to be one of the most intresting experiences ever (in a positive way). I look to the ranks of whos fighting alongside us and its like okay! Don't know how the country of brazil, Mel B from the spice girls, and drag queens trixie and katya got here but I am not complaining!!!

#polin #bridgerton #like the lineup for polin fans is very much looking like the gay straight alliance of any public campus and i love that for us <3

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npdclaraoswald · 7 months

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Damn, not only canonically queer characters, but also actually saying the word queer? No wonder Nickelodeon won't stop fucking with their air schedule

#also i think goul wraith alliance is a bit too much of a stretch #like yes i can tell it is supposed to be gay straight alliance but it doesn't click as easily as most mh puns #monster high

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revengeromance · 1 year

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Wanted to share some pictures from a middle school GSA meeting four years ago today! 🏳️‍🌈🤍🌈

I (second picture, far left, grey shirt) was in 7th grade and the founder/president. As far as I know the GSA dissolved when I went to high school, but hopefully my middle school is more accepting now. I started fighting to start a GSA in 6th grade, and a while ago I found old drafts of letters to the administration who argued that parents would be upset about it lol. I know it was only four years ago, but it was a real necessity at the time compared to now. At one point, Brave Trails (queer summer camp on both coasts) sent us all some pronoun pins and stickers for free. Our last big event before covid hit was a Valentine’s Day dance I organized, we rented a little party room down at Woodlawn Lake. I still know or talk to almost everyone in that second picture, and we’re all juniors and seniors in high school now (except my sibling lol they’re younger). Some of the now-seniors I even went to my first pride with in 2019. Queer people are more accepted at schools now, even here in San Antonio, than we were in 2017/18, which I’m grateful for. Anyway, it was real important for us to have this and I’m glad I did it. It gets better 🤍

#trip down memory lane!#bolded so it’s easier to read #lgbtq positivity #lgbtq community #GSA #gay straight alliance #gender sexuality alliance #pride #texas politics #queer south #queer community

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everyonesannoyedwithme · 10 months

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extended interaction with some baby gays is so hard bc on one hand they can be so terminally online in the worst way possible and it becomes so annoying but on the other hand. i was once you. i am looking into a mirror at a reflection from several years ago and also right now. i hate you i love you i wish i could protect you from how hard it is. i remember being you so vividly but i find you so insufferable. i want to help you but i can't help but wonder if i'm harming you and if i am i don't know how to stop.

#i hate that my actions have consequences #i hate even more that said consequences affect other people instead of just me #lgbtq #lgbtqia #baby gay #gsa #gay straight alliance #gay #bisexual #asexual

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deafeninggardenerpanda · 10 months

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i love ur art but what is the GSA? i havent watched the kirby anime in 4 years and i’ve just been calling them the gay straight alliance

LMAO its okay i think everyone who knows what the gsa is calls them that too anyways

gsa stands for galaxy soldier army! they were a group that formed to oppose nightmare trying to take over the universe, but they ended up losing the war against him and almost everyone in it died except for meta knight, who was said to have been the last surviving star warrior. the anime has never been lore-heavy and the whole war was just a vague overarching setting thing, but in some episodes you'll hear some cool more indepth tidbits about it

the 4 knight looking guys you see when people mention the gsa are... actually they have near 0 lore. they appeared for like 30 seconds and no one except for arthur had any lines. people like me are just insane about them and make up a ton of stuff about them, which is why you'll see everyone's gsa interpretations can be really different. that's the fun of being a gsa fan though imo! the only canon lore we have on those dudes is that arthur was the leader of the army, and falspar (the green one) was known as the strongest knight

#asks #anonymous #hearing the words “gay straight alliance” gives me flashbacks to highschool #you know i accidently made the president of that club in my school think i was super homophobic #and then the rest of the people in the club also thought i was homophobic #i was a lesbian at the time but it was too awkward to reapproach him so i just avoided him the rest of the year....#ah high school. good times

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pips-squeak · 2 years

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GSA club

#gay straight alliance 👍#non

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caitylove · 8 months

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"Just walk around with a guilty expression on your face, you'll fit right in..."

I went to a Catholic University... Thats honestly 100% accurate.

#caity rewatches #major crimes 1x04 #actually... i was the Vice President and then President of my Catholic University's Gay-Straight Alliance #lol #which we only had because one of the priests in charge of student life said and I quote “there are no gay people here” to the press #oops

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 2 years

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By: Colin Wright and Christina Buttons

Published: May 14, 2022

Last month, while searching through various transgender-themed Facebook Groups, we came across an advertisement for a virtual panel titled “Creating and Sustaining GSAs in Elementary Schools,” taking place on April 26th. A “GSA” is an acronym that many understand to mean “Gay–Straight Alliance,” but in recent years it has changed to “Gender and Sexuality Alliance.”

The panel was hosted by Katy Butler, a second grade teacher who is a co-creator of Gender Inclusive Classrooms, a website “dedicated to equipping educators with the tools they need to foster safe, welcoming gender-inclusive classrooms.” The panelists include Kieran Slattery, a fifth grade teacher who is the other co-creator of Gender Inclusive Classrooms, Daniel Alonso, who is listed as a fifth grade bilingual teacher, and Heather Eig, a school counselor.

We registered for the virtual panel to see for ourselves what kind of topics are discussed in these meetings, and how they are discussed. This was the first webinar of its kind that we have ever attended, and we viewed it as an opportunity to bridge the gap between our potentially exaggerated perception of panels like these, and reality. But when the day arrived and we began listening, we quickly realized just how extreme the views being expressed were.

The first of many red flags arose during a discussion about building GSAs/Rainbow Clubs at elementary schools.

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In this audio clip, Slattery explains how building a GSA starts before the club even exists by creating “gender inclusive curricula.” This is done by making sure the school has a “welcoming culture,” which is achieved by using “lots of vocabulary that has to do with gender and sexuality.” Slattery then explains that for many children this will be the first time they will have been “exposed to anything outside of the heteronormative dominant culture,” but for other children it will be the first time their gender identity, gender expression, or sexuality has been “validated” at school.

Slattery then discussed methods of recruiting children into GSAs and Rainbow Clubs. This starts with reading books “about all different genders, or watching little videos that represent people of all backgrounds.” By doing this, Slattery says questions will begin to “come up organically,” which can be used as a recruitment opportunity by responding with “I’d love to explore that more in our Rainbow Club.”

Slattery then notes the “potential for pushback” from adults (i.e. parents) saying “that’s not an appropriate topic to talk about with young kids.” He says that these adults are confused and falsely “equating sexuality and gender.” When responding to concerned parents, Slattery intentionally avoids mention of sexuality and says they are “exploring a lot of gender, gender expression, and gender identity, and different ways that you can be a boy, or lots of different ways to be a girl, or lots of different ways to be both or neither” (my emphasis). But he then reveals to us (not the parents) that this is all in addition to “talking really explicitly and seriously about sexuality and gender.”

To summarize, Slattery is instructing teachers on how to recruit elementary school children into clubs that talk “really explicitly and seriously about sexuality and gender” by adopting curricula so saturated with “vocabulary that has to do with gender and sexuality” that it will spur children to “organically” ask questions about it. These clubs then introduce radical gender ideology, which teaches children that being a boy or a girl is rooted in one’s gender identity instead of their biology, and that a child can be a boy, girl, both, or neither.

During another segment, the panel discusses whether permission slips are necessary for children attending GSAs and Rainbow Clubs.

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The discussion starts off with panelist Heather Eig saying that her school does not require permission slips because the club meets during school hours. Daniel Alonso then explains that his school district in San Francisco, CA, also does not require permission slips, but that families must be “alerted” about their children participating in clubs that discuss “gender, families, and diversity.” He apparently achieved this by sending students home with a flyer vaguely stating that “kids were being invited to a club about inclusivity.” There is no guarantee that these flyers ever made it out of the children’s backpacks.

At 4:07 in the above video, Alonso says that the only formal communication sent home regarding GSA/Rainbow Club was with 4th and 5th grade students, but it was not a permission slip and so children were not required to show their parents. But he then reveals that they “intentionally left it broad in that it was a club about acceptance, tolerance, diversity, and identity,” instead of honestly and accurately describing it as a club about gender and sexuality.

There is a very clear sense that these teachers view parents as obstacles to students attending GSA/Rainbow Club. Clubs are held during school hours so they don’t require permission slips. And when any sort of permission or notification is required of parents, the language is left intentionally broad in order to hide or obscure the true nature of the topics being explored and trick parents into giving consent. This would be like Christian teachers notifying parents that students were going to receive lessons about “love and forgiveness” when in reality they were attending Bible class.

At the end of the virtual event, the panelists invited questions from the audience. Though we had originally intended to only observe, we decided this was a good opportunity to ask a very clear question about how they would respond to a parent explicitly requesting they use their child’s legal name and sex-based pronouns instead of their child’s chosen name and preferred pronouns.

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Slattery was the first to respond, and described an instance of a parent personally confronting him saying, “I noticed that you were using a different name than my child’s given name at birth and the pronouns that we gave them, and I am respectfully asking that you use the name and the pronouns that we gave them.”

Slattery claimed he “chose his words carefully” and said “I hear you, I hear what you’re saying,” adding that he “tried to really affirm what the caregiver was asking me, like in terms of, ‘I hear you saying that you’re feeling uncomfortable with me using the child’s preferred name and pronouns; I hear that you’re using different ones at home,’” but said that “here at school, the expectation is that all of my students feel comfortable and welcome in my classroom. So in my classroom, I will refer to your child by whatever name and pronouns that they’ve told me they feel most comfortable with.” “I just told them no,” Slattery said, and because he had the support of his principal and superintendent, he added that “there wasn’t much they could do, and they eventually found another topic to squawk about.”

Alonso then chimed in, saying that his school district has a Bill of Rights for “LGBTQ+” students that includes “the right to be referred to by their gender pronouns and name that fits their gender identity.” He then told a similar story to Slattery’s of a parent confronting his school with the same issue, and Alonso said, “I don’t even know if we were respectful about it, we were just like no, sorry, our district-wide rule is that the student determines that, not you, even though you are the parent.”

So not only will teachers indoctrinate your children into gender ideology at school, they will also participate in your child’s social transition without your knowledge and even against your wishes, regardless of whether your child has actually been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. This is far from innocuous, as social transition is a form of psychosocial treatment, and there are reasons to believe that such interventions will “increase dramatically the rate of gender dysphoria persistence.”

Our investigation revealed that some teachers really are keeping secrets from parents. Clubs that are “talking really explicitly and seriously about sexuality and gender” are being held during school hours in order to not require permission slips. And, when they are required to alert parents, it is in the form of intentionally broad and vague flyers that have no guarantee of ever making it out of a child’s backpack. When parents voice concerns they are gaslit or lied to about the explicit nature of the discussion topics. And, most of all, school staff will ignore and even flagrantly mock a parent’s request to not perform psychosocial interventions on their children and to refer to their child by their legal name and sex-based pronouns.

We did not expect to have all of our preconceptions regarding activist teachers confirmed, but confirmed they were.

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