This is horrifying. I know abuse of power is nothing new, especially in education and law enforcement, but people find new lows every day it seems. I’m glad others were there to step up and help.
It sounds like the individual responsible, Palm Grove Elementary School Principal Myrta Garza could still be a threat to additional students though. I know it’s Texas but there has to be some group there that can investigate this individual.
Overall, we rate the Texas Observer Left Biased based on story selection and political positions that mostly favor the left. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact-check record.
What, exactly, makes the site “propaganda”? It leans left, but they make no bones about that and are open that they are a progressive-leaning news site.
It’s one of thousands of places with underfunded mental healthcare but one of a handful that pairs it with extremely permissive gun laws.
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if the pro-gun crowd is correct and the gun violence problem would be eliminated by simply treating every single man, woman and child in America for vague “mental health problems”, including people who don’t want treatment, to an extent far beyond our current medical science, so completely that they will never relapse, not even for the second it takes to draw a weapon and fire.
If they want to build all that so they can go back to indiscriminately selling guns to people, they can go right ahead. Until they have though, the gun laws in America clearly don’t work to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people.
When your state is doing everything in its power to become the murder capitol of the world- don’t be surprised if there’s a few murders every now and then.
Brought to you by the "don't tread on me" folks who eagerly tread over anyone they don't like.
In this case, children with loving families. No one is forcing.left hands transness on kids you absolute ghouls. Let go of those perals, stop shouting "save the children" and stop telling kids they are wrong for writing (or living) that way.
You should! I mean, yeah, of course it has! As things become less stigmatized and especially in the case of autism, more ways are used to detect/diagnose then... Why wouldn't it?
The difference is that if ANYONE drinks and drives, there is a high chance of harming another. No one else is harmed, or even affected atll by someone transitioning. And the regret/detransition rate is astonishingly low. Never mind thr fact that puberty blockers and all options available to minors is reveraable.
You are simply just trying to regulate what people do with their own body.
My god you are a fucking smoothbrain. If we dont let kids drink or drive we sure as fuck shouldnt let them try and physically alter their sex organs or their hormones. And the regret rate and suicide rate is notoriously high what the fuck are you even saying.
Have you ever stopped to consider social stigma and the things you are saying why people experince regret? Societal pressure is immense for trans folk.
But Hall emphasized that these forms of care are—contrary to misinformation spread by the state’s lawyers—not only scientifically proven to be safe and effective, they are also essentially identical to forms of medical care offered to cisgender (non-trans) young people. For example, puberty blockers, which temporarily halt the advance of adolescence, are commonly prescribed to young cisgender girls undergoing “precocious” puberty. These same drugs also allow trans kids to make more deliberate choices about their bodies as they age into adulthood.
The reason that this law exists is to hurt children, not protect them.
Oh hey, it's you, spouting more transphobic bullshit again. Remember the other day when you were upset, thinking everybody was mad at you for no reason?
That you can read, that is. Sorry, I should've clarified. It's cool that you can read. I was starting to have doubts, after you failed to identify what part of My Shadow Is Purple equates to self-harm. You know, a children's book that you seem to have been incapable of reading? That one. The one where I linked you to a video of the book being read aloud (just in case you couldn't read), and you still didn't provide an answer to. Remember that? I remember.
Anyway. Now here's a peer-reviewed study on the efficacy of gender-affirming healthcare:
Transgender patients experience disproportionate disparities in mental health, physical health, homelessness, and violence. These disparities are not inevitable, however. Gender-affirming care has consistently been shown to improve quality of life, improve health outcomes, and reduce rates of SI and SAs.
Note from me, "SI" refers to "Suicidal Ideation" and "SA" refers to "Suicide Attempt". Figured I should explain this, since I know with 100% certainty that you won't bother to read the paper, just like you didn't read My Shadow Is Purple.
Or, here's another study specifically about puberty blockers:
After adjustment for demographic variables and level of family support for gender identity, those who received treatment with pubertal suppression, when compared with those who wanted pubertal suppression but did not receive it, had lower odds of lifetime suicidal ideation (adjusted odds ratio = 0.3; 95% confidence interval = 0.2–0.6).
Fuck off with your bad faith arguments, bud. Seriously. You're just straight-up objectively wrong in your beliefs, which are founded on misinformation and hate, and I will prove it to you every. single. fucking. time. if you allow me the opportunity.
Since you didn't read My Shadow Is Purple, here's a quote from a book you're probably more familiar with, judging from your deep-rooted hate:
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
Puberty blocking is a form of therapy. Puberty blockers are a form of medication.
Gender dysphoria isn't depression (look up "comorbidity"; it's a big word, so I'll give you some time), you wouldn't treat it with antidepressants. That's like taking an antacid for a headache.
"My beliefs come from peer reviewed studies" is such obvious horse shit. You didn't read the studies I linked you to, clearly.
This conversation is done until you can prove to me that you've read and understood the studies provided to you. Since, y'know, that's what your beliefs are supposedly based on. You can prove me wrong whenever.
Again, puberty blockers are not treating depression. They're treating gender dysphoria in this example. I can tell you still don't know what "comorbidity" means.
In your expert medical opinion, how do you think gender dysphoria is treated? Here's a hint: It's described in the articles you still haven't read.
Conservatism is bigotry, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, transphobia, antisemitism and generalized hate. Conservatives absolutely delight in the misery of the vulnerable.
Teach your children why good people don’t do business or keep relationships with conservatives. Marginalize hate by marginalizing the hate group.
(1) The bill doesn’t take effect until September 1st, so these deaths are not a result of it.
(2) While OSHA has very good guidelines on what employers SHOULD do for worker hydration, they do not require it. I other words, OSHA does not say the employers MUST do it.
You have to dig into the article to discover that the deaths are completely unrelated to HB 2127. It doesn't go into effect until September 1st. I'm anti-Abbott and this bill but the author or editor is not being honest here.
The title is definitely implying a more direct connection than exists in reality, and the article doesn't go into detail on when the bill is meant to go into effect. The author could be using it as an example of how much worse things could get once the bill goes into effect, especially with the references to the effects of past ordinances mandating water breaks.
But I agree, there's definitely some intellectual dishonesty going on.
I know this will undoubtedly get me some downvotes... but at this point I really truly don't care about honesty anymore with this guy. He deserves the same type of blatant lies his administration constantly peddles yet still allows him to be re-elected. I mean... this man got re-elected AFTER his policies literally lead to the deaths of many innocent people - including one little boy who died in his bed overnight while his family desperately tried to keep their mobile home warm - when the power outages occurred due to the "TX freedom grid" not being required to have the sort of equipment standards everywhere else in the US have.
Say Abbott fucking eats babies. I don't care if he hasn't actually poked a child's corpse with a fork and chewed their bones. He might as well have at this point considering how many have or will die as a direct result of his policies. At this point, whatever it takes to get him removed from office is justified. This "we go high when they go low" angle is and always has been unfair, and I don't care about how it hurts anyone's feelings or sense of personal ethics. I care about WINNING. That means getting a better person in office as soon as possible. Right now, I'll take anything I can get.
The spirit of what the article says is correct, and I know it's not technically the truth, but we all know people will die from this when it DOES become law. It WILL be true in the coming years as the policy goes into effect. This article is like pointing out how maternal death rates have been rising as a result of RvW being overturned... before red-state anti-abortion laws had fully gone into effect.
It is exaggeratory in the present, but it is a fucking FORECAST for what will occur in the future.
Since then, 11 people between the ages of 60 and 80 have died of heat-related illness in Webb County, the Associated Press reported. Most did not have air-conditioning in their homes. A teen and stepfather died while hiking in extreme heat at Big Bend National Park, per a National Park Service release. According to the Texas Tribune, at least nine inmates, including two men in their 30s, died in Texas prisons that lack air conditioning. And at least four workers have died after collapsing while laboring in triple-digit heat: a post office worker in Dallas, a utility lineman in East Texas, and construction workers in Houston.
Only 4 of them were even workers out in extreme heat, and none of the deaths are confirmed to be from that.
Do you have actual evidence or is it just something in your head? I despise abusive employers and don't trust any corporation but the breaks are still mandated until September 1st.
texasobserver.org
Active