My 13-year-old daughter’s best friend is trans. His parents will not give him any sort of puberty blockers or hormones, but they do let him use a chest binder, which must be quite uncomfortable. They accept that he is trans and do not deadname him, but won’t go any further than that.
Sounds a lot like they’re hoping it’s a phase and will “work itself out”.
My oldest is NB, they’re 15. I like to think we’re about as open-minded as it gets, but I still had the thought that it might be something brought about by seeing people they look up to being a certain way and not from internal, intrinsic reasons.
I hope your daughter’s friend ends up ok. If nothing else then knowing there are people out there that think of him might help with feeling isolated and misunderstood.
That’s definitely a possibility. I only met his mom once and only for a second, but they seem supportive enough to spend money on boys clothes for him.
I’m more worried about how he’s treated in school- they deadname him (and his parents have told the school not to), they make him use the girls’ bathroom and locker room, and once a girl was being bigoted, he slapped her for it, and only he got punished.
We took my daughter out of that school and put her in online school because she was bullied so badly it was giving her major psychological issues and she is cis, so I can’t imagine how bad he has it. I do know that at 13, he’s already vaping and smoking weed. And he cuts himself. If I could, I would take him out of that school and drive him to my house every day to do online school with my daughter.
I still had the thought that it might be something brought about by seeing people they look up to being a certain way and not from internal, intrinsic reasons.
Funnily enough, that’s very similar to the thought process I had regarding masculinity when I came out to myself as non-binary.
That’s super interesting! And I guess I can kind of see that point about masculinity, it’s an awful thing overall the way we treat the notion of “manliness”. Good on you, and thanks for the insight!
I wore chest binders for like 4 years. They’re not bad. It’s a great way to present masculine while deciding if you want to make a move that will dramatically change the course of your life.
Compared with deliveries to patients aged 20-54 years, deliveries to patients aged 11-14 years were associated with increased risk for severe maternal morbidity (aOR 1.73, 95% CI 1.49-2.00), hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (aOR 1.79, 95% CI 1.71-1.88), and postpartum hemorrhage (aOR 1.37, 95% CI 1.27-1.49).
I can’t even find data for kids as young as 9, because it’s such a rare and obviously bad situation.
This is easy to get around, often the copyright will just be held by a contractor.
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The “labor market” is great for jobs paying <$15/hr. Go to your local gas station, dollar store, or restaurant and you’ll probably see a help wanted sign.
Over that and youre kinda fucked unless you have a niche role to fill.
Yeah, talking about jobs being created without any context on the types of jobs being created is meaningless. Great, there are now more part-time jobs paying minimum wage with no benefits and erratic schedules near me, just the sort of job creation I was waiting for so I could regress in my career.
Honestly I’m pretty sure close to the same. At the least they’d probably call it a riot as opposed to an insurrection but it begs the question — would they do such a thing in the first place?
… But the left didn’t trespass into the Capitol; nor did they start beating cops relentlessly. Nor were their grievances as patently hollow and void as the Jan 6’ers. Nor were their actions stoked by the President, themselves. Nor were their goals as remotely fascist.
It’s a little confusing what Biden even meant. I assumed he was asking if white people were swapped out for Black people on Jan 6, and all else were equal.
“We all know – intuitively – that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections. But it’s not been something that is easily provable,” Johnson said
Turns out it’s really fucking hard to come up with proof for things everyone - intuitively - knows are false.
Every fucking time the GOP forces voter fraud investigations it turns up more fraud from Republican voters than Democrats… the idiocy of their voting base is the only reason they keep hawking this bullshit.
We all know – intuitively – that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections.
Doubt
But it’s not been something that is easily provable.
You can’t prove it, you mean. Because it isn’t happening. You can tell because they are blaming the ethereal ‘illegal’.
Johnson and Trump putting their feelings. first. And their little wittle feefee’s tell them they’re special and deserve to rule over you. Fuck their feelings.
One of the admins for Infowars was being deposed and was asked, “How come, even with all the evidence showing that it wasn’t staged, did you keep pushing the narrative that it was?”
The woman took no pause and said, “Because it felt true!”
No reservation. No empathy. Just pure fear.
These people aren’t governing from facts. Which means that no amount of facts will deter them from their views.
No facts will convince them that they are wrong.
They are right. More importantly, they are righteous. And they will stop at nothing until they get their way.
Put another way, there is a very strong incentive for undocumented people to be as law-abiding as possible.
Specific to this “illegals voting” nonsense, if there had been enough undocumented people voting in a presidential election to impact the outcome, some of them would have been caught.
So far as I am aware, there are zero cases of an undocumented person even attempting to vote. Anywhere, ever.
One of the questions in the application for citizenship is if you ever voted in a local, state or federal election. So they will be giving up their chance to become a citizen if they vote illegally.
Cox said about a dozen dogs went after Williams' three children....
No one needs to own a dozen dogs, outside of niche cases like service dog training programs. Certainly no one should have a dozen "pet" dogs. Clearly an irresponsible owner situation.
Afaik the max here is 6, if you have more, you need to be registered.
Anyways this incident must be the responsibility of the owner, he has not secured his dogs properly. Obviously they all need to be put down, and the owner should be tried for manslaughter IMO. What the law says however IDK.
Maybe some sort of causing death through negligence.
Edit: just looked it up, the max is 4 adult dogs. More is considered a kennel and requires permission. (Denmark)
I can already see it in front of me. "Your honor, I am sorry but I can come to court on May 17 because (looks at a little piece of paper) of the beautiful graduation of Barron. Looks confused to his lawyer and asking “who is Barron ?”
Would that not irritate the judge? How do you trust a defendant who lies about what they present as legitimate scheduling conflicts? They could just continue to make shit up and delay the trial. I'm sure there are plenty of excuses to dig up involving family he usually ignores who are suddenly in poor health, etc. Hell, he could hospitalize one of them just to point to...
It was a bizarre thing. Energy drinks are at least marketed as having extreme amounts of caffeine, but this has more, is sold at a bread store, and the caffeine is intentionally downplayed.
Aye, that’s the weirdest part. Panera is like the basic mom place, coffee and bagels and sandwiches. Seems like a demographic mismatch, and not being blatent about the caffeine intake literally got people killed.
Point is, shouldn’t have been a thing and should have gone away sooner.
Right? Like I feel like it’s already run its entire promotional campaign course and they’re announcing this just because they’re “done with it” (for now at least. Who knows about next year).
Like it’s been the 4-6 months or however long they originally planned it for and are just finishing up the cycle.
It’s because caffeine is mote addictive than nicotine. You drink the chatged lemonade at Panera during your lunch break and think “wow! I felt great after my working kunch at Panera! I’m going back there more!” But that’s just because you are caffeinated up to your gills without realizing it. It’s the exact same as the story of a Chinese restaurant putting opium in the noodles to get people addicted to the shop.
My body and brain are mostly caffeine at this point, so I know a thing or two. I’ve also done more than a few rounds of cutting caffeine out for a few weeks or more.
In most people you don’t have to have a protocol for caffeine withdrawal or eliminating it completely. It sucks really bad for about 48 hours with a headache that is just shy of a migraine but once you get past that, all that is left is being a little more tired and run down until your body starts to adjust.
I’m not sure if you meant that for me or the dorkus I responded to but I already knew most if not all of that.
I dunno, dude. My local Panera’s is pretty much the only restaurant I’ve seen that has zero-caffine diet colas in their soda machines (was right next to said charged lemonade).
These idiots couldn’t answer a single fucking question about Israel or Palestine but the people protesting are “libs” and the brainwashing of “my tribe vs their tribe” appears to be as effective as ever
Holy shit the faculty against this need to strike immediately in solidarity. What the fuck sort of dystopia are we in that students are arrested and suspended for protesting? For protesting genocide? What the actual fuck.
Google called the police on and fired anyone remotely involved with the quiet sit-in in protest of Project Nimbus. No investigation, no finesse, nothing. Just straight up intimidation.
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