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I'm always down to laugh at liberals for the silly shit we do but this isn't really one of those things. Teaching children about gender isn't an actual liberal issue, that's just the conservative framing for trying to stop the some 500 anti-trans bills conservatives have been pushing, many (like Florida's) that explicitly ban teachers from asking someone's pronouns, banning answering questions students have about it, banning books about it being held in the library, require teachers out trans kids to their parents, and the whole bathroom/spots debacle.

There was no issue until state Republicans tried to weaponize the state to censor people and make trans kids' lives miserable for political points. Schools let trans kids play sports on their own, they stocked informational material on their own, doctors made their own standards for trans care on their own, and Republicans weren't happy about it so they brought down the legislation hammer.

So the joke either needs to pick something stilly liberals actually push for, or the conservatives issue needs to be one that uses exaggerated liberal framing like, "make women the property of their husbands again."





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