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   Melody (melody@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 12:14:06 JST Melody

   Texas has gone the furthest in criminalizing trans people. Governor Greg Abbott and Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton have ordered state agencies to prosecute anyone who supports medical transition for trans youth under the state’s felony child abuse laws. This also means that doctors, teachers, nurses, and most other professionally licensed individuals become mandatory reporters, or potentially face felony charges…
   https://www.damemagazine.com/2022/03/15/trans-people-are-in-grave-danger/

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     Melody (melody@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 12:14:00 JST Melody

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     I mean seriously, so we really want to live in a culture where we aren’t allowed to just be honest about what we are seeing? That’s what these Republicans want. It would come for them, too, in due time. I don’t think we have to live like that. That’s not to say the danger isn’t real, but it is to say, we should support each other so it is minimized. #LiveFree ??

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     Melody (melody@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 12:14:01 JST Melody

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     In Texas I saw a veil of silence that comes from being afraid. Abusers are indeed able to destroy lives and do much harm. But freedom means we can be honest, even when they silence the truth. Call their bluff. #TellTheTruth ?️ #Freedom #UnitedStatesOfAmerica ??

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     Melody (melody@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 12:14:03 JST Melody

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     In Texas, we were told if you strike, you lose your retirement. Despite tenure, we could be fired at will. If you don’t do as you are told, they write you up like you’re a child. It’s a brutal educational system and they deserve to lose teachers, which they indeed have because they mishandled covid so badly with their culture war crap, but worse, they are failing kids. I didn’t just leave because I couldn’t stand teaching in that bully culture; I left because I wanted my own kids to be educated.

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     Melody (melody@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 12:14:03 JST Melody

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     I don’t take kindly to cultures were you are told not to be yourself and bullied to stay in line. There are many wonderful educators in Texas and curious kids who deserve better than a culture where they can’t learn their own complicated history without the racist whitewashing and anti CRT nonsense. I am glad we were mandated reporters when it comes to abuse, but this is abuse: to put us in a position to tattle on our students, whether about abortion or trans issues. They trust us! Evil. #Texas

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     Melody (melody@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 12:14:04 JST Melody

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     This is why I got my teaching retirement out of Texas. Because I suspect, from the way things are going, they’d try at some future date to take that money I earned for speaking publicly online. ?♀️

     That. Is. Not. Freedom.

     Nor were the gunshots, but that’s another story for another time. #Texas

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     Melody (melody@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 12:14:05 JST Melody

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     Item: I was a teacher in Texas. One of my brightest and best was transgender. Anyone who thinks I’d identify them and their private business to Texas government, is as corrupted as Ken Paxton and as vile as Gov Abbott or Cancun Cruz. Glad I left. #Freedom ??