North Carolina passes Dont Say Gay bill

[ANVEEROY 65,226]

Noooooo

@SamanthaC Hugs and hugs!

As a Graduate student and also a teacher of Women, Gender and Sexuality - I can not explain what I am experiencing right now. These are really dark days.. I moved from a third world country to explore more and now this is giving me multiple layers of truama.. I feel for myself, my colleagues and students.. At least I am in Oregon, at least a little bit of safety is here..

[RAMROD 117,004]

@SamanthaC & Rhett and Link of GMM need to do something!

I feel sorry for everyone who will affected by all these nonsense discriminative laws over there directly  or indirectly 

[TheBeast 1,579]

I will never forgive Ron DeSantis for starting this wave of homophobic legislature.

While he isn't the first, I know he's probably the most influential politician with anti-lgbtqia+, racist and xenophobic views in modern times.

I hope the ripple ends here and no other states follow suit. I know that is probably not going to be the case though. 

[NCgaga 4,345]

C’mon NC, we corrected the McCrory BS, Cooper will veto for sure. 

[gabeoz 7,915]

2 hours ago, SamanthaC said:

Who is telling these people in Raleigh that we are teaching elementary kids sexual things?! I've been in education for 16 years. A lot of that in 5th grade. We do puberty education and that is all. And we get parent permission for that.

 I remember my “sex ed” in one of the most liberal cities in state, it consisted of then showing us a rap song that mentioned sex and how it was “inappropriate” and then they passed around a banana with a condom and told us not to have sex

11 minutes ago, NCgaga said:

C’mon NC, we corrected the McCrory BS, Cooper will veto for sure. 

Funniest part is that McCrory literally got voted out because of a transphobic bill 

[SharkmanthaC 115,027]

11 minutes ago, gabeoz said:

 I remember my “sex ed” in one of the most liberal cities in state, it consisted of then showing us a rap song that mentioned sex and how it was “inappropriate” and then they passed around a banana with a condom and told us not to have sex

What age was that at though? This bill is saying we are teaching that at an elementary age...which as far as I know is very inaccurate. Although, I guess I have always taught in mostly conservative areas. 

25 minutes ago, NCgaga said:

C’mon NC, we corrected the McCrory BS, Cooper will veto for sure. 

The only reason that was overturned, for the most part at least, was because the ACC tournament was going to leave the state and the state was about to loss a lot of other businesses as well. Is there a way we can tie money to this bill in a bad way? (I'm sure there are some kind of perks these law makers are getting somehow.)

[AsleepOnTheCeiling 6,940]

3 hours ago, SamanthaC said:

Who is telling these people in Raleigh that we are teaching elementary kids sexual things?! I've been in education for 16 years. A lot of that in 5th grade. We do puberty education and that is all. And we get parent permission for that.

16 years? Are you counting your time learning as a student? Because you literally do not look old enough to be teaching that long 

 

OT, it doesn't sound like it'll pass. If it does, I feel like the next few years are going to change everything anyways as more Boomers become ineligible to vote and the younger generation is able to. Though I feel horrible for those stuck in that between time that will have to suffer in silence.