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Paywall removed: https://archive.is/NShNn

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I work at a 3rd-6th public school in MA. I wore this hat to celebrate Pride month and last week of school. I am known for my 25 days of holiday hats I wear around the winter holidays. I do mostly Santa hats but also make sure to include secular hats/Hanuikka hats. No one has a problem with it and the kids LOVE it because the hats get progressively more outrageous the closer it gets to break.

So yesterday I get in the door and My Lead says "Do you have to wear that hat?" I replied "What? Its a rainbow hat for pride month?" And shrugged. Then my most vocal and conservative coworker came in and told me that "my hat is inappropriate". I replied that d"iversity, tolerance, and inclusion is ALWAYS appropriate". She came back with " if it was just a rainbow hat but with the Pride sticker on there its not ok. You want tolerance and repect but you aren't respected the other side. You know I dont believe in that and in front of the kids, its bad enough in front of us knowing we don't believe in that." So I asked her if she wanted to bring it to HR. She said no and i offered to turn my hat around. Then My called HR who told her that my hat is fine. Lol.

The kicker is the coworker was wearing a Black Flag hat!

edit Black American Flag hat worn by conservatives in the US

https://hexbear.net/post/2687582

I thought this poll and their previous trans poll were interesting. Blahaj also had a poll with about 40 responders.

Don't let the haters divide us against each other.

In 2008, queer anarchists gathered in Chicago to plot a disruption of the electoral spectacle and cohere a network out of emergent youth crews in multiple cities. Fifteen years later, the proposals put forward then — criminality, autonomous self-defense, riots, and orgies — are needed more than ever. The intervening years have been marked by intensification — of crisis, alienation, loss, and struggle. The right wing no longer hides behind euphemisms: they want to exterminate trans and queer people. The left offers only false solutions: vote, donate, assimilate. A decade of representation, symbolic legal victories, social media activism, and mass-market saturation has left us worse off by all metrics. Our fairweather friends won’t save us from the consequences of their strategy of empty visibility. The inescapable conclusion is that we must come together to protect ourselves.

History confirms the queer legacy of building connection in a world that hates us, the legacy of riotous joy—the legacy of bashing back. The attacks will continue on our nightclubs, forests, story hours, and siblings. To hold on, we need spaces—underground if necessary—to re-encounter each other, spaces to remember, build, share, and conspire.

In this spirit, we are ecstatic to announce the return of the Bash Back convergence! Fifteen years from the original gathering, Chicago will host the 2023 convergence September 8–11. Comrades, old and new, are invited to discuss what’s still vital in the past and what’s needed in the present. In keeping with tradition, the convergence will include presentations, workshops, distros, parties, and other opportunities to make trouble.

A swath of adjoining states in the South now ban transition-related care for minors, forcing families of trans youth to travel long distances for care

I've just started hormone replacement therapy.

Information:

• I'm 18
• Biologically male

I want to change

• My legal name
• My appearance

Any advice would be apreciated!

One more reason why I despise religious institutions.

https://www.distractify.com/p/expelled-rainbow-cake?utm_source=dfy&utm_medium=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0yRsxWBRKobB3Y5SlePSfUtcQKqgpW1okx8nUvxeA4tAcGc8aGZVG2CuU_aem_AdIJCKFACMaY__ATGL9hi3LPo6EUE1hP3JpbitJD2jQjRp-rKawZp3kdnJVg8Pap48g

According to the school, wearing a rainbow shirt and smiling in front of a rainbow birthday cake constituted a "lifestyle violation."