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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
I may be destroyed in the blink of an eye like every other sinner, but I can't WAIT for God-almighty to return to this earth and release his WRATH on this world. With a VENGEANCE!!!!!

11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15 Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

She wants to keep the trannies away.

Ultimately, these people are trying to find happiness in perversion. They never will. There is no happiness in sin. They will be miserable until they abandon their selfish choices.

Well, many said 'gay marriage' (sic) was no big deal. Lot of us argued about it being the start of the slippery slope. Now look where we are.

^^^^ 100% what I have been saying all along.

The slippery slope is the nature and method of progressivism; one seemingly benign step at a time into oppression

This entire thing is devolving into a mess of their own making.

Gender dysphoria is covered by disability law, federal court rules

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%...ourt-rules-rcna44781

RICHMOND, Va. — A federal ruling that gender dysphoria is covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act could help block conservative political efforts to restrict access to gender-affirming care, advocates and experts say.

A panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week became the first federal appellate court in the country to find that the 1990 landmark federal law protects transgender people who experience anguish and other symptoms as a result of the disparity between their assigned sex and their gender identity.

The ruling could become a powerful tool to challenge legislation restricting access to medical care and other accommodations for transgender people, including employment and government benefits, advocates said.

“It’s a very important and positive ruling to increase people’s access to gender-affirming care,” said Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality.

The ruling is binding in the states covered by the Richmond-based 4th Circuit — Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia — but will inevitably be cited in cases in other states, said Kevin Barry, a law professor at Quinnipiac University.

The decision came in the case of a transgender woman who sued the Fairfax County sheriff in Virginia for housing her in a jail with men. The decision is not limited to transgender people challenging jail policies, but also applies broadly to all areas of society covered by disability rights law, including employment, government benefits and services and public accommodations, Barry said.

“This decision destigmatized a health condition — gender dysphoria — and it says that what Congress did in 1990 wasn’t OK,” Barry said.

The sheriff’s office did not respond to phone messages seeking comment.

Some Republican leaders who have led efforts to limit access to transition treatment for youths have labeled it a form of child abuse. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott this year, for instance, ordered the state’s child welfare agency to investigate reports of gender-affirming care for children as abuse.

A new rule in Florida restricts Medicaid coverage for gender dysphoria treatments for youths and adults. The state health agency previously released a report stating that puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and sex reassignment surgery have not been proven safe or effective in treating gender dysphoria.

And Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is widely touted as a potential 2024 Republican presidential candidate, recently tweeted that children should not be able to take puberty blockers “or mutilate their body by getting a sex change.”

But leading medical entities contradict those positions, Heng-Lehtinen said.

“This health care is under attack politically in a lot of the country, but medically all of the credible professionals involved — the American Psychiatric Association, the American Medical Association and others — have all recognized for years that this is essentially primary care,” Heng-Lehtinen said.

In the case before the 4th Circuit, Kesha Williams was initially assigned to live on the women’s side of the Fairfax County jail when she arrived in 2018.

Williams told the nurse she is transgender, has gender dysphoria and received hormone treatments for the previous 15 years. But after she explained that she had not had genital surgery, she said, she was assigned to the men’s section under a policy that inmates must be classified according to their genitals.

In her lawsuit, Williams said that she was harassed and that her prescribed hormone medication was repeatedly delayed or skipped. Deputies ignored her requests to refer to her as a woman and instead called her “mister,” “sir,” “he” or “gentleman,” she said. Her requests to shower privately and for body searches to be conducted by a female deputy were denied, she said.

A federal judge granted a motion by the sheriff’s office to dismiss the lawsuit, finding that because the Americans with Disabilities Act excluded “gender identity disorders not resulting from physical impairments,” Williams could not sue under the law.

A three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit reversed that ruling, sending the case back to U.S. District Court.

The 4th Circuit panel said in its ruling Aug. 16 that there is a distinction between gender identity disorder and gender dysphoria. The court cited advances in medical understanding that led the American Psychiatric Association to remove gender identity disorder from the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and to add gender dysphoria, defined in the manual as the “clinically significant distress” felt by some transgender people. Symptoms can include intense anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation.

The modern diagnosis of gender dysphoria “affirms that a transgender person’s medical needs are just as deserving of treatment and protection as anyone else’s,” Judge Diana Gribbon Motz wrote in the majority opinion.

Judge A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr. dissented in part.

“Whether we focus on when Congress passed the ADA or look beyond to today, the distinction Williams attempts to draw between gender identity disorder and gender dysphoria fails,” Quattlebaum wrote.

^^^Sooo, does that mean that ALL Mental Illness is a 'disability' under federal law?

Or, maybe just those delusions promoted/celebrated by leftists and the 'Alphabet People'...

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Originally posted by nhracecraft:
^^^Sooo, does that mean that ALL Mental Illness is a 'disability' under federal law?

Exactly. What horseshit.

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Originally posted by nhracecraft:
^^^Sooo, does that mean that ALL Mental Illness is a 'disability' under federal law?

Good question. Is society now forced to accommodate all mental illnesses, based on the persons delusions?

I had to explain (or try) to our 10yr old boy this week what "non-binary" is. The new kid in his 5th grade class, who our son asked if he/she was a boy or girl at recess responded they were "non-binary." As a fifth grader... They don't even know what their parts are for yet other than peeing.

They moved here from....Texas of all places.

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Sooo, does that mean that ALL Mental Illness is a 'disability' under federal law?

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
No. Workers Comp, Social Security and the VA all have varying definitions. Generally there must be SEVERE impairment in terms of ability to work backed up by examinations and medical records. You can look this up online if interested.

Wisconsin School District Renames Women, Girls ‘Person With a Vulva’ in New Sex-Ed Curriculum

Children will begin sitting through sex-ed classes in Kindergarten, district officials have announced

https://nationalfile.com/wisco...w-sex-ed-curriculum/

A Wisconsin School Board has voted 6-1 in favor of adopting sexual education curriculum standards that reclassify women and girls as a “person with a vulva” in order to comply with a left-wing definition of inclusion while teaching human anatomy to sixth graders.

Under the “Human Growth and Development” curriculum standards adopted by the Wauwatosa School Board, which operates in deep blue Milwaukee County, children in sex-ed anatomy classes will learn that girls are not to be called girls and women are not to be called women. Instead, the curriculum states, they are a mere “person with a vulva,” referring to the genitalia that women are born with.

The curriculum has been blasted by parent groups and others, who point out that, under the left-wing standards apparently meant to shield the feelings of men who claim to be women, real women have been reduced “down to their body parts.”

In a statement released to the community, school officials claimed that, despite referring to female students by their genitals, the sex-ed program is “grounded in the importance of self-worth and the dignity of others.”

“Together with a community of educators and families, students in the WSD will be empowered to develop healthy relationships, to engage in respectful communication, and to practice responsible decision making [sic] that is grounded in the importance of self-worth and the dignity of others. Prepared instructors will provide grade level appropriate information on sexual health that is current, factual, consistent, and inclusive.”

Further information released by the school district sheds light on the so-called “Human Growth and Development” (HGD) program, which appears to have taken inspiration from other far-left practices that are besieging America’s schools.

According to the district’s pro-trans guidelines, children as young as kindergarten will be subject to “discrete lessons” based on the “National Sex Education Standards” and stemming from the HGD program. Those lessons will carry on and ramp up in intensity each year until they’ve graduated high school.

Included in the supposedly “discrete lessons” being taught to kindergarten students will be books about transgenderism. By the third grade, kids will be introduced to alternative genders and “they/them” pronouns, while in fourth grade, they’ll learn about the terms “cisgender,” “non-binary,” and “transgender.”

By the time students finish the fifth grade and have sat through lessons informing them about homosexuality and sexual orientation, they’ll be told to take a deep dive into the LGBT world in the sixth grade, something that will continue for the rest of their K-12 academic careers.

The bizarre curriculum standards adopted in Wauwatosa resemble those adopted by other left-wing school districts in blue areas all over the country. Like in the other jurisdictions, parents in Wauwatosa have pushed back against the obscene “learning” standards, but to no avail.

As more far-left, sexually-charged school materials are force-fed to schoolchildren, a groundswell of support has begun to form in favor of the school choice movement, in which parents are given a say in where their children will spend the bulk of their non-summer weekdays.

In Arizona, historic legislation was signed offering universal school choice, meaning that the parents of every one of the state’s more than 1 million school kids can choose where their own children will attend school. While public education teacher’s unions vehemently opposed the plan, it has been hailed as a landmark victory in the battle for parental rights.

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‘Person With a Vulva’

They're very safe cars.

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Originally posted by wcb6092:
Wisconsin School District Renames Women, Girls ‘Person With a Vulva’ in New Sex-Ed Curriculum

Children will begin sitting through sex-ed classes in Kindergarten, district officials have announced

I would jerk my kids out of that school so fast their ears would pop.

No way on God's Green Earth they're talking to MY kindergartener about that stuff.

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Originally posted by wcb6092:
‘Person With a Vulva’

They're very safe cars.

They can be high maintenance though.

OK what are we gonna call guys? I will opt for the ever popular swinging dicks.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
the ever popular swinging dicks.

I thought that was the name of the guys' baseball team...

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
OK what are we gonna call guys? I will opt for the ever popular swinging dicks.

I think "innies" and "outies" would work for boys/girls, and it's developmentally appropriate for both elementary school-age students and the people who insist on teaching this stuff to them. I considered "hamburgers" and "hotdogs" but that's too flippant for this very serious subject.