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I got shit for wearing athletic clothes that looked better on my athletic body than the ultra skinny fashion from the late 90s and early 00s. I never liked wearing my hair super short(thanks, ridiculous bowl cut), but would that have gotten me sent home? This shit is so stupid and harmful to all kids who don't fit into neat boxes, not just the ones these assholes want to punish.

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Pretty damned that this can't work under the anti-discrimination clause. You can't punish a boy for wearing his hair long or feminine clothes if it is approved for girls.

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The FDA lists dosage information for levothyroxine for babies under three months old.

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Same shit different day from the right wing nut jobs who can’t leave other people’s body parts alone. Fuck that noise. :P

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Thanks for this deep dive - I’m so glad you said it is now on your blog, because I was about to try to coax disqus to let me try to bookmark it somehow (don’t ask me how, disqus and I do not get along) or take screengrabs or something, so I could refer back and keep thinking and learning without searching through long comment threads. I am grateful for this insight! To the blog I go!

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maybe if fewer judges were RWNJs.

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And miraculously, Republicans no longer have a veto-proof supermajority in the state senate.

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"...outside the traditional behavioral paradigms associated with their biological gender..."

Fixed it for ya.

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But...but they’re the party of small government!

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There’s a good chance republicans will run a trans candidate for governor of California if they can recall newsom.

Someone who spent a lot of time in the boys locker room.

Wonder if she can influence this stupid movement.

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I love calling North Carolina home.

Until they start pulling shit like this, that is.

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In my experience most educators never earned trust, they were clearly part of the cabal that would report, hunt me down, and capture me if I tried to escape school. Same as cops and parents. You must have had a very unusual school experience.

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So I can wear a skirt as long as I call it a thin kilt with an unusual tartan pattern?

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We imagine that for their next act, the bill's trio of Republican sponsors will prohibit the state's historical museums from referring to the Wright Brothers' first gliders and powered aircraft as biplanes.

a photo I snapped on my phone some years ago--a North Carolina "First in Flight" license plate, corrected by the vehicle owner for historical accuracy.

They have to claim something that isn't theirs because "First in Pig Farming" doesn't have the same ring. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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No more pray away the gay for pay. No more.

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