As a person who went to art school (so BFA and MFA) also is a trained singer, can we include just how important gay youth are to the arts and to Disney. The characters who excite the children in theme parks include a significant number of LBGT kids and young adults. While Disney clearly would prefer to have this issue go away, in fact they were pressured by their people to stand up for them.
And while some of the FL bill may express an honestly believed idea, the bulk is nonsense. I was a cub scout and boy scout leader in the late 80s to late 90s and I recall watching a few kids who were bullied because they were different. Don't know if they were gay or just sensitive, but those who work with kids are aware of these kids and surely must need to be able to tell them that it is ok.
I sang often as a child (father sang and his father sang and acted). So one day someone said to me - boys don't sing. At 7 that ended my singing till much later.
While kids may not need much instruction on the issues presented by gender differences and sexual preferences, early on they are aware of who is odd and who is not.
But rather than working on having the best material to guide instructors, we have a genuine dog whistle.
The Pete Buttigieg strategy! I went through that myself, being terminally trans (yeah, William Anderson is not a name I'm a fan of, but hey, I know how hard it is to be hired in the tech industry if you're a cis woman, much less a trans one). 82% of trans kids have considered suicide, 40% have attempted it - I'm in the latter group - and man, my Dad was *furious* with me whenever I told someone else about it, insisting that I apologize to them for frightening them. (Of course, if I ever brought it up with him, he said that he didn't want to talk about it and changed the subject.)
But hey! That's a small price to pay for fixing a problem that doesn't actually exist in women's sports.
As a person who went to art school (so BFA and MFA) also is a trained singer, can we include just how important gay youth are to the arts and to Disney. The characters who excite the children in theme parks include a significant number of LBGT kids and young adults. While Disney clearly would prefer to have this issue go away, in fact they were pressured by their people to stand up for them.
And while some of the FL bill may express an honestly believed idea, the bulk is nonsense. I was a cub scout and boy scout leader in the late 80s to late 90s and I recall watching a few kids who were bullied because they were different. Don't know if they were gay or just sensitive, but those who work with kids are aware of these kids and surely must need to be able to tell them that it is ok.
I sang often as a child (father sang and his father sang and acted). So one day someone said to me - boys don't sing. At 7 that ended my singing till much later.
While kids may not need much instruction on the issues presented by gender differences and sexual preferences, early on they are aware of who is odd and who is not.
But rather than working on having the best material to guide instructors, we have a genuine dog whistle.
The Pete Buttigieg strategy! I went through that myself, being terminally trans (yeah, William Anderson is not a name I'm a fan of, but hey, I know how hard it is to be hired in the tech industry if you're a cis woman, much less a trans one). 82% of trans kids have considered suicide, 40% have attempted it - I'm in the latter group - and man, my Dad was *furious* with me whenever I told someone else about it, insisting that I apologize to them for frightening them. (Of course, if I ever brought it up with him, he said that he didn't want to talk about it and changed the subject.)
But hey! That's a small price to pay for fixing a problem that doesn't actually exist in women's sports.