Ted Cruz harasses DC preschool teacher for being pregnant

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It's not enough for Republicans to ban LGBT people from public schools, they're going to ban them from private schools as well and everywhere else they can.

If you vote Republican next month, this is what you are voting for.

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"some boys have bodies that can have babies"
"my grown-ups made a guess that I was a girl" (they guessed wrong)

These are not things teachers should be confusing preschoolers with but it's now considered good and normal in our educational culture. It's perfectly fine to publicly criticize it without sharing the name of the school or the teacher.

With all due respect, you don't really know what you're talking about. (And to be fair, why would you, as a non-father?) "Preschoolers" can handle things like that just fine.

You realize that many trans people have families who care about them and support them, families that may include small children? And that those children might tell their schoolmates about their family members?

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Can you imagine being this teacher? Being attacked for who you are by a US Senator like this and having people like shua condone it?

The school is being ridiculed for being ridiculous.

What should the school do to not be "ridiculous" in your eyes? Not have transgender teachers in the first place, or allow them but fire them if they have the audacity to get pregnant?

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People are trans or they're not. There's no such thing as someone being trans because they were "encouraged" to be so.

It's literally the same arguments against LGB people from 15 years ago recycled.

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People are trans or they're not. There's no such thing as someone being trans because they were "encouraged" to be so.

Yes, there is. If teachers, who act as role models for children, encourage and celebrate children who identify as trans, other children will feel left out. It's positive reinforcement of a specific behavior. Every kid wants to feel special.

And that's what your side used to say about gays before most of you realized how silly it was.

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People are trans or they're not. There's no such thing as someone being trans because they were "encouraged" to be so.

Yes, there is. If teachers, who act as role models for children, encourage and celebrate children who identify as trans, other children will feel left out. It's positive reinforcement of a specific behavior. Every kid wants to feel special.

And that's what your side used to say about gays before most of you realized how silly it was.

Being gay is a a sexual orientation. Being trans and saying that a man can be a woman is a misrepresentation of biology. Two totally different things, but this is what your side does when they realize they can't win the argument they're currently involved in.

The only argument my side has ever lost against yours is capital punishment. We are currently winning the trans argument and by the end of this decade will have clearly won it like we did with all the rest of them.

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People are trans or they're not. There's no such thing as someone being trans because they were "encouraged" to be so.

It's literally the same arguments against LGB people from 15 years ago recycled.

How does this work that social influences play no role, unlike everything else in human life?

What, lots of things are predetermined by nature and genetics. "Everything else" ...

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Oh, now I get it! You're so right. Now I completely understand why young teenagers with vaginas need to share locker rooms with young people with penises.

Trans people are not sexual predators. Stop spreading this myth.

Also in the 2020s most schools don't do the classic locker room setup with everyone getting naked in a common area anymore, making it a moot point.

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Are there other definitions out there than something to the effect of "sex is between your legs, gender is between your ears" ? I'm not aware of there being widespread disagreement with that idea among "pro-trans" people?

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I’m not asking much. If you expect every English speaker in the world to artificially adapt their speech to fit your own definition, you should at least be clear on what that definition is.

But who is "you"? Me specifically? The transgender community at-large? All pro-trans rights advocates? What specifically is not clear to you?

There does not need to be a unanimous consensus among these communities. Rarely is there ever a unanimous consensus among identity groups.

I’m talking to you. There is no definition of gender that you can give me that would be generally accepted even within activist circles. Thus I am under no obligation to constantly adapt my use of language to appease whichever faction I am speaking to at any given time.

Isn't there though?

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Remember in Deep Space Nine when Quark turned into a woman for an episode?

ACTING Grand Nagus!!!

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My problem isn't that it's being mentioned in school, it's that "some men can get pregnant" is a bad and unhelpful explanation that children are not going to understand.

Children are smarter than you give them credit for.