So... I think the potential issue that none of them have foreseen is that some trans kids have supportive parents, and this would basically require teachers to ignore the parents' wishes as well as the kid's.
Felon trump is from the business world where it is dog eat dog. He controls by threats and punishment. He has no compassion or understanding of human beings. His ego is enhanced every time he gets someone to back down or sing his praises.
Now he’s attacking disabled persons of America laying blame for the crash on disabled people. This is who the far right Christian’s put in office. A man full of hate, revenge, and discrimination. THIS IS NOT THE CHRISTLIKE ACTIONS OF THE CHRIST I KNOW.
He cannot. But he can withhold federal funding from places that do not comply. THAT is why this is so scary. He is forcing compliance. He said he wanted to be a dictator, he is well on the way.
1. Change your W-4 tax deductions to THE MAX until Nov
2. Set aside what you normally pay in a tax bank acct
3. Jan-Nov, you pay zero, your employer pays zero
4. for Dec 1, change W-4 deductions to zero and include add'tl funds of X (amount residing in the tax account for Dec)
i'd still need funds for housing, food, among every other thing required
I have an EA (Educational Assistant) certification, and about $400 to my name
As much as i'd love to leave this shithole country for the next 4 years, I just don't have the money to, not even counting my family
We need mothertongue teachers. Many.
Especially Italy, France, Spain and Portugal.
Not bad places where to live.
Get in touch with private schools.
Some might also provide housing. And some have canteens for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Believe in yourself and you can do whatever you want.
Must be truly terrifying times for any US citizen who isn't a white heterosexual male ... but then I remember that millions of women and non-whites actually voted for this hate agenda. I just can't get my head around it.
They literally get offended by people saying words to other people (names, no less) in conversations that have nothing to do with them at all... but we're the snowflakes. Got it.
I really don’t understand why people have an issue calling people by their preferred name. We’ve always done it. If we have to call Richard “Dick” and Margaret “Peg” and Elizabeth “Betty” we can call trans kids by their chosen name.
I had a Chinese exchange student one year -- when I hesitated over his name during roll call the first day, he grinned and said "Let's go with 'Tony.'" So Tony he was in my class, and probably all the others, not the legal name on his transcript and passport.
I think it’s sad that they needed to rename themselves to be addressed.
Learn the name, practice it until you get it as close as you can.
Give them the respect be called by their!
Next up Trump will order schools that correctly teach that the German Nazi Party was a murderous threat to the world to instead teach they "were good people, just misunderstood" or lose their funding.
Didn't some Republican garbo already win a court case that said it was his religious freedom to refer to students by any name he chose? Shouldn't other teachers have that same right?
The students are the reason I keep doing this. Take away my ability to make them feel safe and respected and I don’t see how I could continue teaching. It’s the opposite of an inclusive environment that impacts our community and ability to collaborate.
Thank you! It’s not indoctrination to need your whole class of students to be respectful to one another. I doubt I could expect just that from grown adults. No one needs to explain their existence to you nor does their existence cease because it makes you uncomfortable.
That will be struck down in courts. Just another stupid order that rarely if ever affects most Americans. He makes up this stupid bs to get the idiots riled up while he pick pockets them .
I work with children and I agree
100% I ve worked with children as young as 5 who feel being comfortable being the sex they weren’t assigned as birth. Just like in nature there are animals that identify differently for
Their birth sex.
Illegal as his other BS. Just more distracting, divisive bloviating and flooding the channels as his puppeteers direct him. Where is the parsing and digging into the likely far worse stuff that we aren’t seeing?
How would they possibly enforce this? Are they going to start spying on every classroom and make sure that every teacher addresses every child by a pre-approved name every day?
And it's finally out in the open. It's never been about not being forced to use 'pronouns'. It's about anger and resentment that they couldn't force you to not use them. Until now. Fuck that.
they have a real problem with personal identity and bodily autonomy. you do all realzie what this isreally all about right? sex outside of marriage. think about it. abortion? contraception? heteroseuxality? homosexuality? all involves sex.
Public schools are 90% funded by the state. Feds fund military, Medicaid, social security and veterans funding, farming subsidies, earned income credits and child credits, stuff like that. States do most everything else. Feds don't really have much say in public schools.
Interesting position when most of school funding comes from property taxes and curriculums are set by the state. The DoE/Federal Gov. really doesn't get a say here, and all they will do is end up hurting Title 1 schools (ie low income), and special education.
First they came for the Trans people, and we did nothing because it didn’t affect us directly and it didn’t hurt the economy or our billionaire campaign donors.
I’m the proud mum of a trans son, don’t know where to begin with this one! These kids have a hard enough time as it is without the minion in chief making it more difficult! This is a dangerous road to go down. We nearly lost our son a few years ago, how many more are now gonna slip through the net.
Make sure your son knows there are loads of us out here rooting for him. I have a couple young trans friends, and they are so brave and determined. We'll get through this.
Child’s legal name is William but he answers to Lee, since birth, who’s gonna decide if Lee is appropriate does he need to declare his sexuality, which is none of the schools business. This is illegal and unnecessary. Our schools have bigger issues- like keeping them from getting killed!
Let’s all refuse to pay taxes. They use our money to try to force us to comply with their cruel perversions, we take away their health insurance, meal per diems, travel budgets, and anything else they “need” to do their jobs. Let’s seem them fund the military without a budget.
HOW are teachers supposed to know if the pronounces are wrong? Are they expected to verify it by looking? Good grief. I don't care about what kind of plumbing kids have.
I would become so obnoxious calling every single person by their full government name everytime I address them and stripping all pronouns from my language.
George, my friend, we must also be clear eyed in stating he does not have this authority. He’s not only embarking in an animus-fueled campaign of discrimination but usurping the authority of Congress while doing it. It’s a hateful power grab.
Congress needs to take action on this and other encroachments on their Constitutional authority by the Tangerine Taintsicle. I’m sick of the pressers. I want to see something actionable done. If Leadership doesn’t have the spine to do it then let @aoc.bsky.social and @repjasmine.bsky.social take it.
Also, how is this small government? If I want to go by fluffy mcstuffins, what does the government care?! How is the way I refer to myself, and would like others to refer to me, infringing on ANYBODY’s rights to life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness?!
I worked in a school that had a sprinkling of trans students and parents complained about it. They will get away with this atrocity because now racism and discrimination is worn like a badge of courage (or how I would call it a badge of caucasity).
I used to live in liberal cities, my experience with trans women wasn't them trying to dominate girls sports. They like doing hair, makeup, and getting fucked in night clubs lol
That won’t matter if he takes full uncontested power. Stalling won’t work this time around, the only way to remove him is if he dies naturally (disappointing) or if we rise up and manage to scare him enough to flee to his sugar daddy in Russia
No, the riots would be literally the perfect thing to have happen, including his state of emergency and martial law
It would be his fatal flaw. Government workers and the military would turn on him fast, but not if we wait for him to replace all of our generals and feds with loyalists.
#Revolution
"The Declaration of Independence states that the pursuit of happiness is an unalienable right, meaning it is a right that cannot be taken away."
"The Declaration of Independence also states that governments are created to protect these rights." Does this not apply to transgender people?
What I'd love to see in (age-appropiate, ofc) classrooms at the beginning of term is a civics exercise in which the subject is debated and voted on, for conduct inside class. I know reality tho, never gonna happen. It would be the bravest teacher who'd plant those seeds.
I realize conservatives are anti-education, but you could at least put a little effort into your reading skills. Section 2e clearly identifies using pronouns as one of the things targeted by this EO.
If USA people won't GO OUT NOW and protest by the millions it will turn out exactly like my suffering of my grandparents in Europe with A.H. after 1933 with a more modern twist. But the fear in your mind and your everyday life will be very real. They'l be like leaves eaten by near invisible aphids.
Very soon, you will have teachers that refer to students as the correct pronouns, put in jails, and you will have trans people who are visibly Trans in front of children, or raising children, be thrown in jail as a groomer/sexual predator.
I do not believe Congress or SC will stop this. #Revolution
I believe lower court judges will put a hold on this in a heartbeat, since it's an obvious First Amendment violation with zero real governmental interest.
Trans folk are the first group being targeted, but they won't be the last. We need to stick up for them now.
For clarification as to what I'm talking about, it would have to go to the Supreme court, and they would have to block it as well. The Supreme Court is securely on the side of trump.
Congress has ways of intervening, but would require the majority of Congress to agree against trump. they wont.
I'm a retired appellate lawyer. I fully understand how the legal system and SCOTUS works.
But I also know that pushback matters. Two judges blocked the funding freeze, and within hours, OMB yanked it. Lawsuits + public pressure + prominent voices speaking out often gets stupid edicts reversed.
Step further:
And the only way to know if teachers comply would be to have other students (children) report them.
Something reminiscent of oh, I don’t know - NAZI Germany!
Let's start campaigning for the future. Find a candidate and start now. He did it and look at where is now. Our candidate can react to all his BS in real time and provide a better solution. Let's stop reacting to his "Wag the Dog" BS and do it right this time.
Despicable Spawn of Lucifer!!!
F**K THIS FASCIST SCUM!!! 🤬
I have always been a friendly person and feel bad if I wronged even an "enemy", but NEVER have I felt more hatred towards another human than this 🍊💩head!
How do they plan on making this compatible with their order that assigns sex at conception (making everybody women)? And if everybody are women, imagine the reaction of certain members of congress who see transpersons in the women's bathroom the same way four-year-olds see monsters under the bed
As if he and the other Republicans aren't going to just gut schools and cease funding later down the road to 'save money' anyway. Keep doing what you're doing and if anyone asks: no, you don't know any gender non-conforming students or teachers in your school.
I feel like if every group and organization in the country targeted by this asshole just told him to go fuck himself, then followed up with whatever lawsuits they can launch to protect themselves, these worms would back down quickly. It's certainly better than the only remaining option.
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Still, this seems grossly unconstitutional.
They aren’t intimidated by middle school girls. They aren’t intimidated by shooters.
This man holds no power here.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/01/faa-employees-disabilities-targeted-trumps-anti-dei-push/402444/
1. Change your W-4 tax deductions to THE MAX until Nov
2. Set aside what you normally pay in a tax bank acct
3. Jan-Nov, you pay zero, your employer pays zero
4. for Dec 1, change W-4 deductions to zero and include add'tl funds of X (amount residing in the tax account for Dec)
I have an EA (Educational Assistant) certification, and about $400 to my name
As much as i'd love to leave this shithole country for the next 4 years, I just don't have the money to, not even counting my family
Especially Italy, France, Spain and Portugal.
Not bad places where to live.
Get in touch with private schools.
Some might also provide housing. And some have canteens for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Believe in yourself and you can do whatever you want.
Learn the name, practice it until you get it as close as you can.
Give them the respect be called by their!
MAGA = sad little snowflake people.
Making getting emotional and having a hissy fit great gain.
This what 'they' voted in.
That just means less taxes for the red states to sponge off.
Better grab onto those bootstraps worthless states!
100% I ve worked with children as young as 5 who feel being comfortable being the sex they weren’t assigned as birth. Just like in nature there are animals that identify differently for
Their birth sex.
Get ya boi under control, Elon!
#GarbagePeople
Us Trans artist, we do fight for our right, and if I need, I'll throw a brick!
By supporting us, you are part of the fight
Fight, with us
https://youtu.be/rc5eWXEGp8I
to Dante's hell!!!
They're scared. And we should be doing more to defend them.
They're our literal future.
Will I be informed on? Come and take it Fed.
#HungryHungryHypocrites
I have been warning and warning and warning but nobody listened.
If peoples schools start closing due to compelled speech it will cause riots. There's no way they follow through.
An abuser is going to abuse whether you to try to appease them or not.
It would be his fatal flaw. Government workers and the military would turn on him fast, but not if we wait for him to replace all of our generals and feds with loyalists.
#Revolution
We already know from Esper's testimony he wanted to use live ammunition on peaceful protestors last time.
"The Declaration of Independence also states that governments are created to protect these rights." Does this not apply to transgender people?
If this is a lie it certainly is a believable one.
Go pound sand.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-indoctrination-in-k-12-schooling/
(Rhetorical question, the WWII history people already know.)
Complaining on social media is never going to fix the issue.
What line do you belong, reader, in the poem?
As a reminder: there are only 4.
I hope this piece of shit lives long enough to sit on a bench, aware and conscious of how absolutely fucked he is.
I do not believe Congress or SC will stop this. #Revolution
Trans folk are the first group being targeted, but they won't be the last. We need to stick up for them now.
If it gets blocked by Lower Court judges, who does it go to? Do you think those people that it goes to will stand up against trump?
There's a lot of hope and wishful thinking, but there are no checks and balances now
#Revolution
Congress has ways of intervening, but would require the majority of Congress to agree against trump. they wont.
But I also know that pushback matters. Two judges blocked the funding freeze, and within hours, OMB yanked it. Lawsuits + public pressure + prominent voices speaking out often gets stupid edicts reversed.
I just don't believe that scotus or congress will step in to stop this. I do hope that you are correct about the pushback being enough.
I'm not holding out hope, but I'll be very happy to hear "I told you so"
And the only way to know if teachers comply would be to have other students (children) report them.
Something reminiscent of oh, I don’t know - NAZI Germany!
F**K THIS FASCIST SCUM!!! 🤬
I have always been a friendly person and feel bad if I wronged even an "enemy", but NEVER have I felt more hatred towards another human than this 🍊💩head!