Nerf & Bubblewrap. What is a woman? What is a man? Even the dictionaries say sex and gender are binary. There are only TWO choices for sex change. I block bots.
@MarcusJVaughn@totenlaut@FixingEducation I believe the reference is to glucose monitors that work with phones. Some kids need insulin with every meal, and dosage is dependent on glucose levels at mealtime. Phones and the monitors work together to provide that info. Also alarms to advise of low/high glucose levels.
@FixingEducation Education-wise, it's a great idea. No two ways about it. HOWEVER, kids having cell phones in school has enabled the world to see things that happen in schools that would otherwise be completely hidden from the public. The fix? Cameras in every classroom with full parental access.
The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, an order of nuns, have cared for poor cancer patients free of charge since 1901. Now the New York Department of Health is threatening them with fines, a shut down, and even imprisonment — all because they refuse to play the gender game.
The Department of Health has ordered the sistersto cease separating bedrooms by sex. The sisters have also been ordered to permit cross dressing, to use preferred pronouns, and to “recognize a right to consensual sexual relations, including sex outside of marriage.” The nuns, the DOH has decreed, must attend “cultural competency training” if they are to continue caring for the poor, and surrender the right to live by the tenets of their faith.
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@MilkyAmericano@Highway_30 I guess you missed the part where we're supposed to completely and totally affirm anyone who says they're trans, whether they're on hrt or have had surgery or not.
They say it. We affirm it. Their rules, not ours.
Destroying people's homes and ways of making a living and providing for their families was unnecessarily cruel. It's no wonder colonists became hardened against the Brits.
On this day in 1779, British forces put a Connecticut town to the torch, part of a deliberate campaign to terrorize American civilians into giving up. The burning of Fairfield is one of the ugliest chapters of the war, and it backfired badly.
The former royal governor of New York, William Tryon, led a raiding expedition along the Connecticut coast that summer with a simple, brutal goal: make the rebellion hurt so much that ordinary people would abandon it. His troops hit New Haven, then landed at Fairfield on July 7 and began methodically burning the town. Homes, churches, barns, and shops went up in flames. Families watched everything they owned turn to ash, and there were accounts of looting and abuse that shocked even some British officers.
Tryon's theory was that fire and fear would break civilian morale. It did the opposite. Stories of the burnings spread fast, and instead of scaring Americans into submission, they hardened resolve and handed the Patriots a powerful propaganda weapon. Nothing recruits like watching your neighbor's home burn for the crime of wanting independence.
This is the part of the Revolution that doesn't fit on a postcard. It wasn't all noble lines of soldiers facing off in fields. It was also towns in flames and families made homeless in a campaign of intimidation. And the lesson Tryon never learned is one armies keep relearning: you cannot burn an idea out of people. You usually just give them one more reason to fight.