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Blackhawk wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 11:26 am a cow with 'Trump 2020' tattoos

Zaxxon wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 5:17 pm

El Guapo wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 4:46 pm

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 11:26 am a cow with 'Trump 2020' tattoos

Is this literal?

Florida HB1421 is defined so broadly, it would ban health insurance coverage for birth control, HRT for menopause, treatments for breast cancer, including mastectomies, treatments for prostate cancer, and any treatment that involves primary or secondary sex characteristics.

This isn't just an atrocious law, it's poorly drafted. It does not limit its definition of "gender clinical intervention" to gender affirming care. It would apply to everyone. In their zeal to persecute trans people, they are banning treatment for cancer.

Some might say, well Florida won't enforce it on those conditions and only target gender affirming care. They forget that there's a private right of action provision that extends malpractice statute of limitations to 30 years and removes caps on punitive damages.

This would absolutely destroy the medical profession in Florida by making malpractice insurance unavailable. Any person who receives a procedure that alters a primary or secondary sex characteristic can sue, and this could be for cancer treatment that involves hormones.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ′ administration is moving to forbid classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in all grades, expanding the controversial law critics call “Don’t Say Gay” as the Republican governor continues to focus on cultural issues ahead of his expected presidential run.

The proposal, which would not require legislative approval, is scheduled for a vote next month before the state Board of Education and has been put forward by the state Education Department, both of which are led by appointees of the governor.

The rule change would ban lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity from grades 4 to 12, unless required by existing state standards or as part of reproductive health instruction that students can choose not to take. The initial law that DeSantis championed last spring bans those lessons in kindergarten through the third grade. The change was first reported by the Orlando Sentinel.

Blackhawk wrote:What keeps him from just disbanding the entire board and creating a new one?

Zarathud wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 1:55 am A legal agreement that runs with the land until DeSantis is dead (measured by actual royal lives).

Hell of a time to let people know you’re going to change the resign-to-run law.

Florida law requires anyone running for a new office to put in an irrevocable letter of resignation ahead of qualifying if the terms of the two offices overlap.

malchior wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 5:34 pm DeSantis is throwing a three finger pudding size tantrum and asked the Florida IG to investigate the Disney Charles III end run. But...

Daehawk wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 7:24 pm Why are the GOP so evil? All they want to do is going backwards and hurt people they dont agree with. Im glad Im the opposite.

Unagi wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 10:44 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 7:24 pm Why are the GOP so evil? All they want to do is going backwards and hurt people they dont agree with. Im glad Im the opposite.

In your state, being glad just doesn't cut it. Gonna have to be more than just glad I'm afraid.
Sorry... The GOP is partly as evil as they are because states like TN give them power and people in TN that don't think like them don't push back hard enough (or have enough support from the silent that actually could be vocally/actively supporting them to push back). I'm guessing many folks in TN are just like you -- and that doesn't seem to mater... I wonder why.

Unagi wrote: ↑Thu Apr 06, 2023 2:47 pm Vote and perhaps speak out... and make sure other people that 'are not evil' go out and vote and perhaps get them to speak out too.

I'm basically saying "the only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing." We cannot live in the middle of this insanity and sit by and just be happy we aren't evil.

I don't mean it to be an attack on Daehawk. I just want to take TN by the collar and wake-em up a bit, and Daehawk is the closest thing I got to the TN 'common good man', assuming they are out there.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill that would ban most abortions in the state after six weeks, according to a release from the governor’s office late Thursday night.

The six-week ban would not go into effect until the state Supreme Court overturns its previous precedent on abortion.

“We are proud to support life and family in the state of Florida,” DeSantis said in the release.

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Victims of rape, incest and human trafficking could obtain an abortion up to 15 weeks into a pregnancy, under the legislation, if the woman provides a restraining order, police report, medical record or other evidence.

The bill would also ban doctors from prescribing an abortion via telehealth and require medication for abortion be dispensed by a physician, not by mail.

Florida education officials voted on Wednesday to ban classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in all public school grades, expanding on a law signed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis that barred such lessons for younger students and was derided by critics as the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

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The board, whose members are appointed by the governor, unanimously approved prohibiting lessons on gender identity or sexual orientation in grades four through 12, unless the instruction is required by state standards or is part of a health class that parents can opt their children out of.

Last year, DeSantis signed legislation that outlawed instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation from kindergarten through third grade, arguing that parents, rather than teachers, should decide when to discuss those subjects with their children.

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Violating the rule could result in the suspension or revocation of an educator's teaching license.

Unagi wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 8:08 am Trump picks nothing over ego. I think you have that one part wrong.

hepcat wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 8:59 am

Unagi wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 8:08 am Trump picks nothing over ego. I think you have that one part wrong.

His wallet (or to be more precise, the thickness of it) will always be number one to Trump.

It's money -> ego -> bright colors in the Trump world.