Maryland court rules parents have no say over LGTB teaching in schools

[pknopp]

It is academia controlled by the Left, whether it is school or university level.

They all speak as one with zero dissent.

So yeah, you were exercising blind partisan hyperbole.

 

[MisterBeale]

Exposing kids to differing ideas is “forcing their agenda down their kids throats”? I guess German parents could sue the school district to not discuss the Holocaust too then, right?

For those interested in what the ruling actually was...

“Public schools are not obliged to shield individual students from ideas which potentially are religiously offensive, particularly when the school imposes no requirement that the student violate his or her faith during classroom instruction.”

Stunningly benign statement by the judge. Sorry...the entire “controversy” is made up

No, it is not. This is a real problem of money and corruption, and the cost? Are America's children. If you want to turn a blind eye, you either don't know anyone that has ever raised any children, or you stand to profit. Or you are just ignorant as hell.

Currently it is a hot button issue. And until society and the scientific community can sort that whole thing out? IMO? It should stay the hell out of the schools.

That you want to play a useful idiot for BIG PHARMA? Really doesn't say much about the level of your intelligence.

IN the past, the DNC and its supporters, used to be society's reliable defenders against BIG PHARMA's incestuous relationship with government. . now? They are the primary representatives of that industry.

Science shows transgender education doesn’t belong in schools

School districts are embroiled in a battle over whether to teach children in grades K-3 about being transgender.

nypost.com

Study Finds No Scientific Basis for Transgenderism​

Study Finds No Scientific Basis for Transgenderism

According to a new report published in The New Atlantis journal, transgenderism — the latest hot button social justice “ism” — is not supported by science. by Raven Clabough

thenewamerican.com

". . .The report was co-authored by former Chief of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University Dr. Paul McHugh and Arizona State University Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics Lawrence Mayer. They concluded that “gender identity” is not separate from biological sex.

“Examining research from the biological, psychological, and social sciences, this report shows that some of the most frequently heard claims about sexuality and gender are not supported by scientific evidence,” the report prefaced.

“The hypothesis that gender identity is an innate, fixed property of human beings that is independent of biological sex — that a person might be ‘a man trapped in a woman’s body’ or ‘a woman trapped in a man’s body’ — is not supported by scientific evidence,” stated the researchers.. . . "
~ Special Report ~Sexuality and GenderFindings from the Biological,Psychological, and Social Sciences

‘The Transgender Movement Is Actually an Industry’ by Which Big Pharma Earns ‘Obscene Profits,’ Authors Warn​

New Book Exposes Money Trail Behind Damaging Transgender 'Medicine'

Authors Jeff Myers and Brandon Showalter discuss the "money trail" behind transgender medicine in "Exposing the Gender Lie."

www.dailysignal.com

Gender dysphoria is rising—and so is professional disagreement​

Gender dysphoria is rising—and so is professional disagreement | BMJ

More children and adolescents are identifying as transgender and offered medical treatment, but some providers and European authorities are urging caution because of a lack of strong evidence.

www.bmj.com

Putting numbers on the rise in children seeking gender care​

Number of transgender children seeking treatment surges in U.S.

About 42,000 U.S. children ages 6 to 17 were diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2021, nearly triple the number in 2017, a unique data analysis for Reuters found.

www.reuters.com

Gender ideology is a boon to Big Pharma and threat to parental rights​

Gender ideology is a boon to Big Pharma and threat to parental rights

The medical establishment, Big Pharma, the culture industry and government agencies are leading our kids on the road toward “transitioning” — whether parents like it or not.

nypost.com

This next one? Is a super . . . duper LOOOONG article, I'll just snip a few choice portions, but it is OBVIOUS, this IS a controversy to any rational, non-partisan person. It is being pushed, primarily, by BIG PHARMA and Social Contagion. Hell, go watch that last discussion between Bill Maher and Candice Owens on his Club Random Pod-cast, when they got on to this Topic.

As more transgender children seek medical care, families confront many unknowns​

Across the United States, thousands of youths are lining up for gender-affirming care. But when families decide to take the medical route, they must make decisions about life-altering treatments that have little scientific evidence of their long-term safety and efficacy.

As children line up at gender clinics, families confront many unknowns

Thousands of transgender U.S. youths are medically transitioning. The treatments they receive have little scientific evidence of long-term safety and efficacy.

www.reuters.com

"Gender-affirming care covers a spectrum of interventions. It can entail adopting a child’s preferred name and pronouns and letting them dress in alignment with their gender identity – called social transitioning. It can incorporate therapy or other forms of psychological treatment. And, from around the start of adolescence, it can include medical interventions such as puberty blockers, hormones and, in some cases, surgery. In all of it, the aim is to support and affirm the child’s gender identity.

But families that go the medical route venture onto uncertain ground, where science has yet to catch up with practice. While the number of gender clinics treating children in the United States has grown from zero to more than 100 in the past 15 years – and waiting lists are long – strong evidence of the efficacy and possible long-term consequences of that treatment remains scant.

Puberty blockers and sex hormones do not have U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for children’s gender care. No clinical trials have established their safety for such off-label use. The drugs’ long-term effects on fertility and sexual function remain unclear. And in 2016, the FDA ordered makers of puberty blockers to add a warning about psychiatric problems to the drugs’ label after the agency received several reports of suicidal thoughts in children who were taking them.

More broadly, no large-scale studies have tracked people who received gender-related medical care as children to determine how many remained satisfied with their treatment as they aged and how many eventually regretted transitioning. The same lack of clarity holds true for the contentious issue of detransitioning, when a patient stops or reverses the transition process.

The National Institutes of Health, the U.S. government agency responsible for medical and public health research, told Reuters that “the evidence is limited on whether these treatments pose short- or long-term health risks for transgender and other gender-diverse adolescents.” The NIH has funded a comprehensive study to examine mental health and other outcomes for about 400 transgender youths treated at four U.S. children’s hospitals. However, long-term results are years away and may not address concerns such as fertility or cognitive development.. . . .

<snip>

". . . AbbVie declined to comment for this article. An Endo spokeswoman said the company has no plans to seek regulatory approval for the use of its drug for any new indications. The company did not respond to requests for further comment for this article.

As prescriptions of puberty blockers increase for off-label gender care, the drugmakers are making cheaper alternatives harder to get.

Endo’s puberty blocker is an implant in the upper arm that releases medication for as long as two years. About a year ago, the company told the FDA that it had discontinued an implant called Vantas that cost about $4,600. That left doctors and patients to use a similar Endo implant called Supprelin LA. It costs about $45,000, according to drug pricing data analyzed by Reuters. Some families with high-deductible insurance plans might have to pay several thousand dollars out of pocket.

AbbVie sells adult and pediatric formulations of Lupron, given by injection every few months. Doctors said that there is no meaningful difference between the two, but that they prefer to use the cheaper adult version, at about $4,700 for a three-month dose. They said insurers sometimes insist on the pediatric version, priced at more than $10,000, when the claim specifies that the patient is a child.

Some scientists and doctors also say they wonder about possible neurological effects of puberty blockers. The question: Hormones released during puberty play a major role in brain development, so when puberty is suppressed, can that result in reduced cognitive function, such as problem solving and decision making?

Dr John Strang, research director of the gender development program at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., and other researchers wrote in a 2020 paper that “pubertal suppression may prevent key aspects of development during a sensitive period of brain organization.”

<snip>

Tucker Carlson & Chris Moritz: Genital Mutilation Is Not Just A Fad, It's A Full-Blown Industry!​

“Public schools are not obliged to shield individual students from ideas which potentially are religiously offensive, particularly when the school imposes no requirement that the student violate his or her faith during classroom instruction.”

Stunningly benign statement by the judge. Sorry...the entire “controversy” is made up

If someone told me that the judge receives campaign contributions from Pfizer or AbbVie? It would come as no surprise.

I have seen some pretty obtuse statements from you over the years, but calling this a, "made up controversy?" Has to be the most obtuse one yet.

 

[candycorn]

No, it is not. This is a real problem of money and corruption, and the cost? Is America's children. If you want to turn a blind eye, you either don't know anyone that has ever raised any children, or you stand to profit. Or you are just ignorant as hell.

Currently it is a hot button issue. And until society and the scientific community can sort that whole thing out? IMO? It should stay the hell out of the schools.

That you want to play a useful idiot for BIG PHARMA? Really doesn't say much about the level of your intelligence.

IN the past, the DNC and its supporters, used to be society's reliable defenders against BIG PHARMA's incestuous relationship with government. . now? They are the primary representatives of that industry.

Science shows transgender education doesn’t belong in schools

School districts are embroiled in a battle over whether to teach children in grades K-3 about being transgender.

nypost.com

Study Finds No Scientific Basis for Transgenderism​

Study Finds No Scientific Basis for Transgenderism

According to a new report published in The New Atlantis journal, transgenderism — the latest hot button social justice “ism” — is not supported by science. by Raven Clabough

thenewamerican.com

". . .The report was co-authored by former Chief of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University Dr. Paul McHugh and Arizona State University Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics Lawrence Mayer. They concluded that “gender identity” is not separate from biological sex.

“Examining research from the biological, psychological, and social sciences, this report shows that some of the most frequently heard claims about sexuality and gender are not supported by scientific evidence,” the report prefaced.

“The hypothesis that gender identity is an innate, fixed property of human beings that is independent of biological sex — that a person might be ‘a man trapped in a woman’s body’ or ‘a woman trapped in a man’s body’ — is not supported by scientific evidence,” stated the researchers.. . . "
~ Special Report ~Sexuality and GenderFindings from the Biological,Psychological, and Social Sciences

‘The Transgender Movement Is Actually an Industry’ by Which Big Pharma Earns ‘Obscene Profits,’ Authors Warn​

New Book Exposes Money Trail Behind Damaging Transgender 'Medicine'

Authors Jeff Myers and Brandon Showalter discuss the "money trail" behind transgender medicine in "Exposing the Gender Lie."

www.dailysignal.com

Gender dysphoria is rising—and so is professional disagreement​

Gender dysphoria is rising—and so is professional disagreement | BMJ

More children and adolescents are identifying as transgender and offered medical treatment, but some providers and European authorities are urging caution because of a lack of strong evidence.

www.bmj.com

Putting numbers on the rise in children seeking gender care​

Number of transgender children seeking treatment surges in U.S.

About 42,000 U.S. children ages 6 to 17 were diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2021, nearly triple the number in 2017, a unique data analysis for Reuters found.

www.reuters.com

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Gender ideology is a boon to Big Pharma and threat to parental rights​

Gender ideology is a boon to Big Pharma and threat to parental rights

The medical establishment, Big Pharma, the culture industry and government agencies are leading our kids on the road toward “transitioning” — whether parents like it or not.

nypost.com

This next one? Is a super . . . duper LOOOONG article, I'll just snip a few choice portions, but it is OBVIOUS, this IS a controversy to any rational, non-partisan person. It is being pushed, primarily, by BIG PHARMA and Social Contagion. Hell, go watch that last discussion between Bill Maher and Candice Owens on his Club Random Pod-cast, when they got on to this Topic.

As more transgender children seek medical care, families confront many unknowns​

Across the United States, thousands of youths are lining up for gender-affirming care. But when families decide to take the medical route, they must make decisions about life-altering treatments that have little scientific evidence of their long-term safety and efficacy.

As children line up at gender clinics, families confront many unknowns

Thousands of transgender U.S. youths are medically transitioning. The treatments they receive have little scientific evidence of long-term safety and efficacy.

www.reuters.com

"Gender-affirming care covers a spectrum of interventions. It can entail adopting a child’s preferred name and pronouns and letting them dress in alignment with their gender identity – called social transitioning. It can incorporate therapy or other forms of psychological treatment. And, from around the start of adolescence, it can include medical interventions such as puberty blockers, hormones and, in some cases, surgery. In all of it, the aim is to support and affirm the child’s gender identity.

But families that go the medical route venture onto uncertain ground, where science has yet to catch up with practice. While the number of gender clinics treating children in the United States has grown from zero to more than 100 in the past 15 years – and waiting lists are long – strong evidence of the efficacy and possible long-term consequences of that treatment remains scant.

Puberty blockers and sex hormones do not have U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for children’s gender care. No clinical trials have established their safety for such off-label use. The drugs’ long-term effects on fertility and sexual function remain unclear. And in 2016, the FDA ordered makers of puberty blockers to add a warning about psychiatric problems to the drugs’ label after the agency received several reports of suicidal thoughts in children who were taking them.

More broadly, no large-scale studies have tracked people who received gender-related medical care as children to determine how many remained satisfied with their treatment as they aged and how many eventually regretted transitioning. The same lack of clarity holds true for the contentious issue of detransitioning, when a patient stops or reverses the transition process.

The National Institutes of Health, the U.S. government agency responsible for medical and public health research, told Reuters that “the evidence is limited on whether these treatments pose short- or long-term health risks for transgender and other gender-diverse adolescents.” The NIH has funded a comprehensive study to examine mental health and other outcomes for about 400 transgender youths treated at four U.S. children’s hospitals. However, long-term results are years away and may not address concerns such as fertility or cognitive development.. . . .

<snip>

". . . AbbVie declined to comment for this article. An Endo spokeswoman said the company has no plans to seek regulatory approval for the use of its drug for any new indications. The company did not respond to requests for further comment for this article.

As prescriptions of puberty blockers increase for off-label gender care, the drugmakers are making cheaper alternatives harder to get.

Endo’s puberty blocker is an implant in the upper arm that releases medication for as long as two years. About a year ago, the company told the FDA that it had discontinued an implant called Vantas that cost about $4,600. That left doctors and patients to use a similar Endo implant called Supprelin LA. It costs about $45,000, according to drug pricing data analyzed by Reuters. Some families with high-deductible insurance plans might have to pay several thousand dollars out of pocket.

AbbVie sells adult and pediatric formulations of Lupron, given by injection every few months. Doctors said that there is no meaningful difference between the two, but that they prefer to use the cheaper adult version, at about $4,700 for a three-month dose. They said insurers sometimes insist on the pediatric version, priced at more than $10,000, when the claim specifies that the patient is a child.

Some scientists and doctors also say they wonder about possible neurological effects of puberty blockers. The question: Hormones released during puberty play a major role in brain development, so when puberty is suppressed, can that result in reduced cognitive function, such as problem solving and decision making?

Dr John Strang, research director of the gender development program at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., and other researchers wrote in a 2020 paper that “pubertal suppression may prevent key aspects of development during a sensitive period of brain organization.”

<snip>

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Tucker Carlson & Chris Moritz: Genital Mutilation Is Not Just A Fad, It's A Full-Blown Industry!​

If someone told me that the judge receives campaign contributions from Pfizer or AbbVie? It would come as no surprise.

I have seen some pretty obtuse statements from you over the years, but calling this a, "made up controversy?" Has to be the most obtuse one yet.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Maryland court rules that parents can’t opt out of inclusive lessons

A group of Maryland families are suing their public school district in order to remove their kids from lessons that include books on LGBTQIA+ topics.

nypost.com

It used to be that schools would have to notify parents about LGTB teachings in school, and have the option to opt out, but no more.

A Maryland judge has ruled that parents no longer have any rights at all.

None.

The Potato head appointed judge ruled that the state will continue to indoctrinate about sexual preferences to children despite the religious beliefs of the parents.

What is next? Will the state mandate children be indoctrinated to support Hamas as they continue murdering innocent civilians? My guess is, yes.

In the interest of honesty, the judge is a state judge, not federal. Biden does not appoint state judges.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

Maryland court rules that parents can’t opt out of inclusive lessons

A group of Maryland families are suing their public school district in order to remove their kids from lessons that include books on LGBTQIA+ topics.

nypost.com

It used to be that schools would have to notify parents about LGTB teachings in school, and have the option to opt out, but no more.

A Maryland judge has ruled that parents no longer have any rights at all.

None.

The Potato head appointed judge ruled that the state will continue to indoctrinate about sexual preferences to children despite the religious beliefs of the parents.

What is next? Will the state mandate children be indoctrinated to support Hamas as they continue murdering innocent civilians? My guess is, yes.

Your characterization of the judges ruling is complete horseshit! This is not about indoctrination, unless you think that teaching kids to be accepting of others and to value diversity in somehow wrong.

Kids already know that gay and trans people exist. Hell, they probably know one or two. It is also a fact that we live in a diverse and changing world and part of education has to be teaching children how to treat others and to get along. The alternative is for them to get their information from bigots and bullies who will shape them into fearful and hateful adults. THAT is the real indoctrination.

From your own link:

In her write-up, the Biden-appointee judge cited several known benefits of inclusive curriculums, including “[f]oster[ing] social integration and cultural inclusiveness of transgender and gender nonconforming students” and reducing stigma in the community.

If you have a problem with that you have....a problem. If the parents have such strong and backward religious beliefs, then can send the kids to a religious school . In any case they still have plenty of time to fuck up their young minds at home

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

When I was in high school, parents had to give permission for kids to take Sex Education!

When I was in high school- a very long time ago- there was no sex education. I was confused and bewildered and inundated with false and harmful information that I got from others who were equally ignorant. My parents were not exactly beacons of knowlege and wisdome, nor were they able to talk openly and honestly about sex. As a result I did and said a lot of stupid and inappropriate things as did most other kids. And that was before gender and sexuality were major isues. Now kids can have support and guidence on these matter. I think that there is something seriously wrong with people who have a problem with that.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

In the interest of honesty, the judge is a state judge, not federal. Biden does not appoint state judges.

She's a fed popeye.

 

[Slade3200]

Maryland court rules that parents can’t opt out of inclusive lessons

A group of Maryland families are suing their public school district in order to remove their kids from lessons that include books on LGBTQIA+ topics.

nypost.com

It used to be that schools would have to notify parents about LGTB teachings in school, and have the option to opt out, but no more.

A Maryland judge has ruled that parents no longer have any rights at all.

None.

The Potato head appointed judge ruled that the state will continue to indoctrinate about sexual preferences to children despite the religious beliefs of the parents.

What is next? Will the state mandate children be indoctrinated to support Hamas as they continue murdering innocent civilians? My guess is, yes.

Parents can teach their kids whatever they want. A child’s belief system is not dependent on school curriculum

 

[Slade3200]

When I was in high school, parents had to give permission for kids to take Sex Education!

I think LGBTQ education is a bit different than the sec education you're talking about

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

When I was in high school- a very long time ago- there was no sex education. I was confused and bewildered and inundated with false and harmful information that I got from others who were equally ignorant. My parents were not exactly beacons of knowlege and wisdome, nor were they able to talk openly and honestly about sex. As a result I did and said a lot of stupid and inappropriate things as did most other kids. And that was before gender and sexuality were major isues. Now kids can have support and guidence on these matter. I think that there is something seriously wrong with people who have a problem with that.

What is so god damed funny eagle1462010

Can you posibly articulate tur thoughts with out an emojie?

 

[Unkotare]

When I was in high school- a very long time ago- there was no sex education. I was confused and bewildered and inundated with false and harmful information that I got from others who were equally ignorant. My parents were not exactly beacons of knowlege and wisdome, nor were they able to talk openly and honestly about sex. As a result I did and said a lot of stupid and inappropriate things as did most other kids. ...

And yet there were still marriages and families and the species was perpetuated.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

And yet there were still marriages and families and the species was perpetuated.

The point is that when I look at young people today, I see people who are so different than I and my contemporaries were back then . They are more mature and better equipped with the knowledge and interpersonal skills need to navigate life. They are more respectful and accepting of others and that I believe, is largely due to the availability of programs like the one that ignorant people are having apoplexy over for no reason other than their puritanical and narrow world view