It's not just cops. I almost did this on a friend who was making increasingly shrill suicide threats. We have patient's bill of rights, so our state errs on the side of the patient.
Just finished re-taking my annual abuse/harassment/hazing training for my coaching credentials and I'm surprised that more coaches have not been reported for violating child safeguarding standards wherein all coach/minor athlete communications must include the parent/guardian, that training sessions must have advance written parental consent, that one-on-one interactions between adult participants and minor athletes must be observable and interruptible, or that adult participants cannot change or shower around minor athletes. When I read news reports of teacher/student interactions, I see how they violate these regularly and with impunity, including that one male coach who showered in front of his minor female athletes only to get re-hired.
Safeguarding standards have not changed, but enforcement seems to only apply to those who fail to invoke the magic words: I identify as.
It's "equity selection" when they do it and book banning when others do it. And this is just the first purge (pre 2008 books). The next purge will be based on "diversity" yet will somehow not favor indigenous, POC or Global South works. Funny how that "diversity" thing usually ends up favoring white dudes.
I lived next to a women's shelter and would see them escorting women and children in and out under cover of darkness. People really underestimate the danger. Fully 60% of mass shootings in America are rooted in DV. The societal costs are massive but we don't seem to count them.
Again, that proves their only role in your emotional life should be under extraordinary circumstances. Even when I left home and called my guidance counselor to ask if I could still graduate. He didn't even ask. He just told me to send him an address where he could mail my diploma.
So it's book banning if you want to remove age inappropriate material from elementary school libraries, but it's "equity selection" when you remove Anne Frank's Diary, The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Harry Potter from the shelves. If you compare the books subject to removal, the one thing they have in common was they were all about growing up, something the pedos in charge want to prevent. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/peel-school-board-library-book-weeding-1.6964332
And this isn't even "gender," it's sexual orientation. Schools may scream they are protecting your kid from being outed to their parents but they sure are outing them to everyone else. No wonder kids are seeing this as cringe.
I had one teacher write in my returned homework that she recognized my trauma and if I ever wanted to talk to someone, she would be available. That's about the right level of teacher involvement in a student's private life. I never took her up on it but it gave me confidence in knowing my family life was hellish.
So they are sunsetting the LGB in favor of the TQ+. While I loathe the idea of having another month to dread, it's important for people to see these groups have nothing in common.
Was standing in the restroom line when one woman gave up and headed for the men's. A woman commented that men could not enter the women's room, so I told her that it was legal in CA. She was not happy. The woke hate it when their policies come to bite them on the ass.
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