Teacher Frustrated As Half Her Students Detransitioned Over Christmas Break
BEAVERTON, OR Third-grade teacher Ms. Gaywood (she/her) became frustrated during the first day back from the holiday break when she discovered half her students had detransitioned and were no longer identifying as made-up genders.
"You were all beautiful specks of uncompromising individuality, and now you're conforming to a heteronormative, patriarchal society," a frustrated Gaywood complained to the group of children who had been fearfully and wonderfully made as unique individuals in the image of God. "What happened?"
Students who had relapsed into a toxic heteronormative lifestyle admitted they weren't sure how to act as anything other than who they were without their instructor's constant guidance. "I forgot your lesson about mansplaining," mansplained Robert Cliff, a young boy who previously identified as a powerful she-elf named Persephone. "And my older brother said I can't have babies!"
"You lied!"
Ms. Gaywood reportedly tried to ignore this setback and begin lessons on the racist history of Greek mathematicians in light of the Antebellum South, but the class became unruly and asked her to define what a woman is.
"I used to think I was a 23-year-old man but now I'm really thinking I'm a girl like my mom says," said student Sarah Harden.
Ms. Gaywood, who said she would have clutched her pearls if she was one of the stereotypical women who like jewelry, immediately complained to the school principal and contacted Child Protective Services. "These kids are being raised by their parents!"
At publishing time, CPS representatives from the Portland area had relocated the unruly children into gender-affirming foster homes.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a new bill into law which strengthens government control over public access to news in Ukraine. Zelensky has already nationalized the countrys media under martial law powers invoked after Russias invasion last year, stoking criticism from press freedom groups.
Signed on December 29, the law expands the Ukrainian broadcast regulators powers over news agencies "dramatically," now including both print and online sources, according to the Kyiv Independent.
The measure requires publications to obtain licenses to operate, and any media org without the proper paperwork can be shut down, the outlet reported, adding that the body handing out the permits will be under Zelenskys control.
According to Ukraines Institute of Mass Information, under the law, the media regulator is likely to be controlled by the incumbent authorities because its members are appointed by Zelensky and the Ukrainian parliament, where his party has an absolute majority.
In March, Zelensky issued a presidential decree which nationalized Ukraines broadcast media, stressing the need for a "unified information policy" to combat Russian disinformation and voices critical of the government. Around the same time, he also banned a long list of opposition political parties with alleged links to Russia, and has since taken punitive action against Orthodox churches also said to have ties with Moscow, effectively quashing all dissent under martial law powers.
While Zelenskys power-grabs throughout the 11-month conflict have largely gone unnoticed in the American mainstream press which has devoted ample coverage to similar wartime repression in Russia the New York Times highlighted calls from human rights groups to rescind the law over fears that it will crush the free press.
"Ukraine will demonstrate its European commitment by promoting a free and independent media, not by establishing state control of information," said Ricardo Gutiérrez, the general secretary for the European Federation of Journalists.
The Committee to Protect Journalists and other civil rights orgs also slammed the legislation while it was being debated by lawmakers in December. While Ukraines legislature agreed to strip away some of the bills more extreme measures, the final draft still hands the federal government near total control over Ukraines news media.
(Edit) Eeeeek! ZH didn't like my comment about "GayZ Tightens His Iron joo Grip" at all. It wouldn't post.