The bill requires educators to get parental consent for changing a student's pronouns or preferred names on any school forms. It also bans teachers from talking about trans people at all.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47362341

Henry Cuellar, Donald Davis, Cleo Fields, Laura Gillen, Vicente Gonzalez, Marcy Kaptur, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, and Eugene Vindman

  • UnderpantsWeevilEnglish
    21·
    10 days ago

    Government doesn’t grant rights.

    Show me a legal stricture that isn’t written, enforced, or adjudicated by a government body.

    Rights are things that it is right for a person to have and is not right for a person to be denied.

    That’s an oroborus of a definition.

    It doesn’t clarify how rights are created, enforced, or adjudicated.

    Governments grant privileges. Governments do not grant rights.

    Governments are people, my friend.

    And rights are legal guidelines administered by people.

    • obvsEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      Government doesn’t grant rights.

      Show me a legal stricture that isn’t written, enforced, or adjudicated by a government body.

      That doesn’t mean anything.

      Rights are things that it is right for a person to have and is not right for a person to be denied.

      That’s an oroborus of a definition.

      It doesn’t clarify how rights are created, enforced, or adjudicated.

      Rights are not created, enforced, or adjudicated.

      They are acknowledged, protected, obvserved, or denied.

      Governments grant privileges. Governments do not grant rights.

      Governments are people, my friend.

      Governments grant privileges, not rights. In the same way that governments follow the laws of science and don’t have the ability to change them.

      Rights are inherent. They are not granted. As much as governments, or you, or anyone else, beg for them to be granted. Rights are fundamental to existence.