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By VickySGV · Posted
I am glad your schools are flush with excess spending money, but that is not the situation here in CA. Back in 1978 an Initiative and Referendum law was passed that limited property taxes severely and basically cut funding from Property Taxes to pennies of the amounts needed to even minimally fund school districts. Even the U.S. Supreme Court which upheld the law on Federal and Constitutional grounds nevertheless wryly commented in its decision that the state electorate had lost its collective mind in enacting the law. Our schools are funded through the State's General Fund which receives other tax sources for creating the entire state budget. The General Fund and the legislature try to give adequate funding to the primary and secondary school districts as well as college districts and other obligations all from the same limited funds. There are also strict limits on assessing property taxes that actually prevent them from paying for other services directly affecting property ownership which is their proper place, and so even property related services come from our General Fund. Your property tax money seems to be ear-marked for schools which is wonderful and I hope they use it according to your thoughts, but as said we have a different problem out here in CA. I love my state but do recognize its short comings. Point of information, the tax law that is creating problems came from the same small area of the state as the proposed referendum on Trans Youth. -
By VickySGV · Posted
The numbers of those negatively affected are significant and discouraging, but the good news is that "over half" of Trans youth live in safe states, and such states do exist. -
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By awkward-yet-sweet · Posted
Seems like a reasonable agreement. Seattle stays out of Texas, Texas stays out of Seattle. Weird that the Seattle hospital had a business license in Texas... -
By awkward-yet-sweet · Posted
Seems to me the time and cost is already being spent....on lawsuits. And schools are absolutely flush with cash, at least around here. They get enough property taxes, they need to learn appropriate use of funds. Buy a few less computers and a few more bathrooms, and spend less time on athletics and I'd bet you a hamburger that the issue would be solved in a year. To me, it seems like the whole bathroom thing is like lancing a boil or a cyst. A sharp initial pain, and done. People are just resistant to doing it. I think I could solve most of it...but politicians get too much press off of this to want it solved. 1. Universal use of individual, gender-neutral, private bathrooms 2. Universal use of individual, gender-neutral, private spaces for changing athletic clothes 3. Emphasize co-ed rather than gendered sports. Focus on physical activity, good sportsmanship, and having FUN. Lifelong enjoyment, not just competition. 4. Ban for-profit athletic programs at highschool and college levels, and ban betting/gambling related to athletic programs at educational institutions. 5. Affirm parental rights consistently, rather than treating it like a salad bar. That means permitting gender-affirming healthcare with parental consent, AND prohibiting schools keeping secrets from parents. Adopt the "paperwork principle." If it is on paper, parents 100% have a right to know about it and be informed on paper, including names/pronouns if such are documented. If it is verbal only, it is informal enough to be overlooked or discussed verbally if needed. -
By Carolyn Marie · Posted
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/22/texas-trans-health-care-investigation-seattle/ Carolyn Marie -
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https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/transgender-louisianans-say-ve-lost-ally-governors-seat-rcna149082 Carolyn Marie -
By Carolyn Marie · Posted
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/2024-anti-trans-legislation/ Carolyn Marie -
By Carolyn Marie · Posted
It would work better, but the issue will always be time and cost, unless a school district is building a new school. Districts everywhere are short on infrastructure funds, so it's not a realistic solution in most cases. Carolyn Marie -
By awkward-yet-sweet · Posted
I have always thought that the solution to the bathroom question (as well as improved bathroom quality/privacy for everybody) would be individual, gender-neutral, locking bathrooms. Not this wacky thing we insist on doing with stalls. It wouldn't take much more space, really. And it might actually work better. Ever notice how there's often a line at the door of the women's room, but plenty of free space in the men's? Yet the men's and women's bathrooms are usually of equal size/capacity? -
By awkward-yet-sweet · Posted
I'm going to have to stop staying up so late at night... Its after midnight, so technically morning. So, Good Morning, y'all. I got to go to work with my husband for the last two days. I'm working on the graphics stuff for his company, so he said that nobody would really mind if I hang out. I usually stay home, but its kind of nice to be somewhere different for a little while. I spent part of the day at one of the company's installation sites... beautiful weather, so I worked on my laptop sitting under a tree. And I learned something new - it is amazing how electrical wires are installed underground. They're put in PVC tubes, and actually pulled through. By hand! Apparently a machine would risk breaking the wires somehow, so I watched a line of men literally playing tug-of-war with hundreds of feet of wire. It was like something out of an old movie - my husband leading a call/response work chant and everybody pulling in a rhythm. It does give me a bit of self-doubt, though. Like, if that's what "real men" are doing... maybe I'm a poor-quality imitation -
By Betty K · Posted
Can I just say quickly re the bathroom question, how come no-one ever seems to suggest building more gender-neutral toilets? -
By Betty K · Posted
With the onslaught of bills targeting trans kids in the US and the current attempt to radically curtail gender-affirming treatment for kids in the UK I think you could just as easily ask why are things so hard for trans kids. Given the volatile political situation around them, I am pleased to hear there are still services attempting to help them. -
By KayC · Posted
@Mia Marie I agree that it seems most of the focus is on Trans Youth. And maybe that is in part because of protecting Trans Youth from the political environment, and to give them a chance to transition at an earlier age. Many of our generation have been cloistered for most of our lives by societal exceptions and I think that has made it more difficult to be Visible ... until Now. So I guess my answer is ... Be Visible and seek out, or even start, support groups in your local area. Planned Parenthood does provide Gender Affirming Care and therapy in most U.S. regions (and they take Medicare!). -
By KayC · Posted
As a registered CA voter I would be HAPPY to vote against this bill ... BUT as @Carolyn Marie mentioned it has little chance to make the ballot. Hopefully this will put the Death Knell on the bill. wrt Parents Rights of notification. I would agree if there was potential harm to a child, or if the child was involved in potentially harming somebody else. BUT, that would not be the case in the preponderance of situations. The decision to Come Out to one's own parents should be up to the individual child only. If the child does not feel Secure or Safe in their household then it should not be up to the State or School to make that determination. If the child did feel safe and secure they would have probably already come out. If they haven't ... then the situation seems obvious. Protect the Child, not the System.
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