The English language is wonderful. Really.
After all, it takes only two words to save trans or gay kids from getting the shit kicked out of them in the schoolyard--or trans or gay adults from getting fired from their jobs, evicted from their homes or denied health care or other services.
Just two words. Deux mots justes.
On the other hand, those two words are so powerful that they would make some parents pull their kids out of a school--out of fear of the trans students their kids are bullying.
Two cheap, measly little words. They're so little the local school board can slip them right past the parents. Or so those parents fear--because, as little as they are, they could expose their kids to "she male" teachers.
What are those two words?
Hold on to your hats: Gender identity.
All someone has to do is add those two words to a non-discrimination policy. Two words, mightier thant the two hydrogen bombs Barry Goldwater wanted to drop on Vietnam.
That's why some folks in Fairfax County, Virginia are trying to stop them. Gender identity. Those words could end the world as they know it.
They could also end the world that those bullied kids know.
After all, it takes only two words to save trans or gay kids from getting the shit kicked out of them in the schoolyard--or trans or gay adults from getting fired from their jobs, evicted from their homes or denied health care or other services.
Just two words. Deux mots justes.
On the other hand, those two words are so powerful that they would make some parents pull their kids out of a school--out of fear of the trans students their kids are bullying.
Two cheap, measly little words. They're so little the local school board can slip them right past the parents. Or so those parents fear--because, as little as they are, they could expose their kids to "she male" teachers.
What are those two words?
Hold on to your hats: Gender identity.
All someone has to do is add those two words to a non-discrimination policy. Two words, mightier thant the two hydrogen bombs Barry Goldwater wanted to drop on Vietnam.
That's why some folks in Fairfax County, Virginia are trying to stop them. Gender identity. Those words could end the world as they know it.
They could also end the world that those bullied kids know.
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