The Orange County Public Schools system in Florida has announced guidance banning trans students from bathrooms and the use of nicknames.
All this to bully the 10 whole trans kids. What goes through these fascist fucks heads
Hate gets votes
Fear maintains power.
So is DeSantis going to start going by Ronald now?
He IS a clown. 🤷🏼♀️
Clowns at least make an effort at being entertaining.
Ronald Dion DeSantis, you MUST use his full legal name now.
You’d think that half the population of Florida is trans with the disproportional amount of effort the gremlins in charge undetake to inflict cruelty on them.
When are the people of Florida going to put their precious second amendment rights to good use?
The enemy has to be all powerful and easy to defeat.
Aha i remember when conservatives claimed to be the party of small government.
That was when they were just psychopathically neoliberal and “small government” was code for “we want gut regulations so corporations can put formaldehyde in milk again”.
Which they’ll still do of course, it just won’t win them elections these days. So they pander to bigots to make up the numbers.
We call my son and daughter by shortened versions of their first names. Both are in High School in OCPS. Today they brought home the forms for us to sign to allow them to go by those shortened names in school. I was shocked.
Perhaps Ronald DeSantis should be forced to get permission from his family inorder to continue to be called Ron.
The sad thing is, my brother has a name like “Benjamin”. My mother is a very mentally ill individual and is extremely militant about her children’s names “I chose your names and you will go by exactly what I named you!” and refused to let him go by “Ben” or let us call him “Ben”. Except, outside of the house he always went by Ben, she just didn’t know it. I always called him Ben when we weren’t home, because it’s what he wanted to be called. So kids like this would have to bring a form home and get their ass kicked by mom for going by a name they aren’t supposed to? Fuck that.
The amount of abject cruelty that is being leveled at trans children in Florida is fucking horrifying. This is legally enforced humiliation and bullying. This alone would have been more than enough to drive me to suicide when I was a child myself. And they are absolutely aware that this will cause that. Ron plans to orchestrate a genocide in Florida. He’s essentially forced every single person, company, doctor, politician, educator, teacher, any professional human being or group of human beings who values human life out of the state. When he’s done all that will remain are the most openly violent fascists and all the people who are too impoverished to leave the state. Of which many such impoverished disenfranchised people are trans children. How such open fascist power has not been internationally condemned and how he himself has not faced expulsion from any political office and faced serious legal actions from the government of the United States is beyond me. I thought world War 2 and the rise of fascism in Europe was supposed to have taught us something. Evidently not.
What’s going on is the ramp up to genocide
I thought world War 2 and the rise of fascism in Europe was supposed to have taught us something.
They don’t gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em.
WWII might have been the end, but they’ve slowly been worsening education especially in places like Florida. I think at this point, capitalist social media is also a significant cause of the rise in fascism. When Zuck decides to platform holocaust deniers or twitter decides “free speech [for nazis]” it legitimizes it. It doesn’t take much before this translates into real life. You surround yourself online in your little bubble with all of the other crazies (yay Facebook is bringing people together) long enough and it’s nearly impossible not to translate that into the real world.
History is pretty fuckin’ easy to repeat if you don’t know the history.
This is so ridiculously out of touch. You think they’re gonna stop kids from using nicknames?
That’s not just out of touch, that’s Stalinist purge level dystopian. And those despicable fucks have the gall to go on about how they’re in favour of “freedom”.
It doesn’t have to work, it just has to be one of a thousand cuts.
At the least this law will protect teachers that bully trans students, at the most they could start actively prosecuting teachers for using a student’s preferred pronouns.
How do you ban nicknames? What if they just state this is the name I prefer to be called? People named William being called will or bill, is that a nickname? Why are Republicans so damn stupid? Mfers trying to block porn hub like most the Internet isn’t filled with porn.
Hopefully everyone takes it this literally and all the bigoted Bobs/Bills etc feel as stupid as they are.
Under the guidance, published Monday (7 August), teachers at schools in Orange County must use pronouns and titles that correspond to their “biological sex” at birth, and parents must fill out a form to let teachers know of any deviation from their child’s legal name, even if this is a simple nickname.
So if the governor of Florida was subjected to this “guidance”, he would need permission to go by Ron.
*Nicholasnames
*slow clap
Comments like this almost make me wish Lemmy had awards
Next step: thought police that comes after you each time you think about another sex than your own!
That’s what the gay agenda has been after the whole time!?
I left Florida in '93, and there were times I regretted it. There were a lot of good things about Florida, and it was always interesting. And once you adapt to the weather, it’s nice (if a bit dull).
Now though? Holy fuck I’m glad I’m not there. I don’t even understand what’s going on there - it’s like some sort of mass psychosis. It’s gone way beyond a political shift - it’s more as if someone decided that the thing to do was to establish some sort of right-wing version of the Khmer Rouge and a bunch of Floridians said, “Yeah! That’d be great!”
At the rate they’re going, it’s only a matter if time before they start systematically killing “undesirables”.
Seriously.
I lived there from 2010-2012 and it was more than enough to realize I would never do that again, esp with a funny foreign name, brown skin, and mixed race daughters. It’s sad too, thinking about e.g. Carl Hiaasen or Tim Dorsey, or time I’ve spent camping in the keys or swimming in fresh water springs in Central Florida. There’s clearly some real majestic environmental beauty and culture there but jesus christ has the states human culture gone absolutely to shit.
The folks coming to my area fleeing Florida said the worst of the worst moved there during Covid.
I always thought homeschooling was for kids with crazy parents, but if I had a child in OC Florida I would absolutely homeschool them until we could move somewhere less insane.
At this point, the parents would be crazy to keep living in Florida
If anyone was wondering, Florida’s government is safely now within the boundaries of “fascist policy making”.
Freedom of speech right?
