It's bad folks. My friends who are teachers already have to walk an incredibly fine line to be supportive of their students and this is specifically designed to detonate any ability to do that. And far worse than that...
This doesn't even try to keep up the bullshit guise of being about parental consent. It's designed to force teachers to dead name students, to ban usage of preferred pronouns, and force weird gender clothing norms on kids (even aside from targeting children questioning their identity or sexuality, anyone demanding girls wear skirts in school should have their hard drives checked).
It's about being able to sack 'woke lefty' teachers at will and further destroy the state education. And worst of all of course, it's specifically designed to out potentially LGBTQ+ kids to abusive parents for punishment and 'correction'. And not just trans kids, but queer kids, kids curious about their sexuality, even kids who just don't buy into a misogynist view of gender norms. Our trans comrades are at the sharpest end of the spear, but they're coming for everybody.
And all of this at the same time the Prime Minister is caught mocking trans people, a supposedly protected class, behind closed doors.
"neat, the entryway of a building filled with people who will break my knees" :british-maw:
the brit maw emoji is missing x_x
British Tories peddling anti-Semitic "Jewish cabal" tropes about transgender people?
How's that brexit going
?oh who am i kidding the
is going to get more of this as we move forward 
edit: oh boy just watched that video ha ha ha pls everyone who laughed in that room just delete yourselves thank you
We don't have much active transphobic brainworms where I live. Last year some freaks tried to whip up a panic about drag queen story time but people didn't care and the initiative ended up as a wet fart. I chalk it up to this being a cultural backwater that has not been reached by the newest trends, it'll come here as well in a few years.
In finland it's mostly centered around horrifically convervative christian communities (the kind that refuse to wear condoms because every child is a gift from god) and some standard transphobic brainworms recently revitalized as our trans-law was brought up to date.
any usually direct action that the fash do against us is centered around the pride parades with some disturbing and such. We did just get a more right-wing government in power who're going to do a full blown austerity (while giving tax breaks to the rich obviously) so I'm just waiting for them to drop trans-healthcare from the list of things the state will pay for
I had a similar experience. I was nearly done a teaching degree but realized that No Child Left Behind was just the start and that eventually they would destroy public education. Originally I thought it would have been through privatization, but these days they're just going right after teachers and calling them "groomers"
So I went into a different career field
reminder that Jimmy Saville's pedophilia was enabled by anti-state neoliberals like Thatcher: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/10/jimmy-savile-government-monarchy-police-thatcher
It would be, instead, replaced by a taskforce headed by Savile, who had been involved in the facility on a volunteer basis since the 1960s, but would now be given free rein of the hospital.
This was rubber stamped by Junior Health Minister Edwina Currie, who wrote ‘Attaboy!’ in her diaries on hearing Savile’s plans for reform at the hospital—which included union-busting, as Savile alleged that inflated overtime payments was rife among the unionised workforce. Currie later conceded that this was likely Savile blackmailing staff who could blow the whistle on his abuse.
Read the NHS investigations into Savile and there are numerous examples of everyday people with little power standing up to Savile, or at least doing what they could reasonably do, within their small domain, to protect those who were in their care. There are no such stories within the Thatcher government: only an elite who took him at face value time and time again.
I grew up during Section 28 and it was bad. “It gets better” they told me, look at us now…
Yeah, a lot of my youth and teenage years were during Section 28 too and its fucking grim how fast we're going backwards.
it's just maw now?
