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Ohio governor signs bill limiting bathroom use by transgender students (apnews.com)

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“It revolves around safety, security, and, I think, common sense. It protects our children and grandchildren in private spaces where they are most vulnerable,” said Republican Ohio state Sen. Jerry Cirino, the bill’s sponsor.

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[–] knightly@pawb.social 11 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

And if they want to start protecting children, they should consider looking at the leadership of youth organizations and churches and other places where children have been victimized by the hundreds of thousands.

The word "if" is papering over a number of sins here.

They don't care about kids, they care about their preferred social hierarchy in which kids are not people but rather property owned by their parents.

The molestation of kids by people in leadership positions is not a felony to them, it's a minor misdemeanor by those in leadership positions who have trespassed upon the property rights of the victims' parents.

Any policy, no matter how evidence-based, will be rejected if it enables kids to exercise their own agency. This is why the existence of trans people is a major social issue for them, trans adults imply trans kids and kids who reject the gender expectations of their parents are seen as less than human and therefore disposable.

Their idea of "protecting children" is to reinforce the parents' property rights over them. That means blocking any policy that enables the state to protect kids from abusive or neglectful parents. They believe that parents have the right to throw out gay or trans kids, and see any attempt by teachers to keep their kids' secrets or affirm any non-cisheteronormative gender or sexuality as an intolerable government overreach.