And then parents wonder why their children don’t talk about their private lives.

Not only would you have emotionally abused me. When the state protects me, you would have sued for the right to abuse me.

Wait till they learn about prostates

Fair point. I wonder if this is a conscious decision or if they are just weird. No judgement to larping. I’m weird too, just not violent.

What a time to be alive. Nazis wearing chainmail and bringing children to protest drag events. If I didn’t follow the news, I’m not sure I would be able to tell this wasn’t a LARP event.

Dear god. To be fair, at least these kinds of fascists make me laugh.

I shouldn’t laugh, but wtf. This is ridiculous.

Are there any neutral sources? Or at least more complete accountings? I only find Leif’s account and some transphobic accounts.

The only “facts” I could find are that Leif had an AR-15 and maced 2-4 people (depending on the account). The transphobic one says children were maced.

I’m just legitimately interested in what happened.

Yeah it seems to be a series of fallacies like,

Conservatives hate gays, so conservatives are bad. Conservatives love capitalism, so capitalism is bad. The west is mostly capitalistic, so I hate the west. The west sanction Iran and Russia, so they must be good.

I think it’s better to draw the line at hating controlling abusive people, rather than geopolitical boundaries.

There’s also the bizarre phenomena of “leftist” people who support Russia, Iran, etc.

I was on a date once (gay) and he would shit-talk the US, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, etc. for being capitalistic. Then in the same breath, talk about how he wanted to go to Iran and Russia.

I honestly didn’t know what to say.

I propose a bill teaching boomers about VPNs and lying about your age on the internet.

I’m not defending transphobia. I read the news article wrong.

I thought it was saying that children who felt unsafe coming out to their parents would be given a psychologist to help them come up with a plan to deal with their family.

That’s not the case, but if it was, I would possibly be supportive of that as long as conversion therapy is illegal.

“Following the rules” is a cop out. There’s so many ways for the principal to “follow the rules”, but protect the kids.

For example, leave a 10min voice mail where the principle reads the admissions forms line by line in monotone. It’s there, and provable. The principal did in fact read line 6 of page 23 where is said “gender, with options male, female. male”

Okay. I read more and yeah it’s basically the same as the US. Apologies for the misstatement

I read one article just now, but it sounds different.

The government’s changes to Policy 713, the education policy on gender identity, now make it mandatory to get parental consent before using a child under 16’s chosen name and pronoun —even verbally — in class, according to Education Minister Bill Hogan.

And if a child says no to involving their parents, Hogan said they should be directed to a school psychologist or social worker to come up with a plan to do so.

This is reasonable IMO. If I’m reading this correctly, the children aren’t being forcibly outed. Also I believe conversion therapy is illegal now, so in theory, this would be healthy.

Frankly, I would want children to have access to supportive parents OR qualified social workers.

EDIT: It’s not different that the US if you read other articles

Beautiful! Yes. Fear me straight women 😂.

I always use condoms, take PrEP, and regularly test, but I WILL GIVE YOU AIDS!!!

Tbh, I am okay with 2/3 women not wanting to be with me. Makes filtering shitty people easy.

Maybe check FetLife for local kink munches. They are queer friendly and may be able to help. Kink is pretty underground, so they may know hidden stuff

It sucks, but I’m my experience, the faster you cut these people from your life, the faster you will make genuine connections.

Imagine if you brought this friend around the queer community. Nobody would risk being your friend because you are connected with this asshole.

Cut him out. Make new connections. Move on. Be happy.

I agree. I was replying to your comment that GDPR applies to private data collection for shits and giggles, which isn’t correct. For Lemmy, I’m certain it applies. GDPR applies to small churches even

It doesn’t apply to purely personal use. See Article 2 section 2 ©. For shits and giggles would fall under that.

As long as the abuse unethical companies, I truly don’t care. Good for them. Just don’t do this at places that make a difference