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So republican parents are ok with strangers inspecting their child’s genitals without their consent?
Only a fucking piece of trash thinks it's ok for a teacher to look at a kid's junk, regardless of if the parents give consent.
So much for Parents Rights.
Keep republicans away from my children
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS IS AN IMPROVEMENT
Well, you see before it was a random stranger, but NOW it's a random stranger in a lab coat.
It's all a part of making America great.
Something to do down in those otherwise unused pizza restaurant basements.
What level are they allowed to view? If the child says no are they able to force their way into their pants? At what point does it become rape?
A child cannot consent.
So, immediately. It becomes sexual assault, at least, immediately.
You're looking at this problem all wrong, it's not that children cannot consent. Nobody is arguing that. The change here is that now those that would be doing the tests are no longer considered child predators because they didn't do anything illegal. So now it would be totally fine for priests, doctors, senators, neighbors, etc to look at random kids genitals to verify sexuality without any resistance from their parents/guardians. Is this how we finally do away with rapists, by redefining sexual assault.
Genital Obsession Party
Oh, come on, it's just a ChildS exAM
Oh the irony that the shitheads that couldn't wear a mask, and want to ban books because of "parent rights", now want to ice parents out of the decision of a rando looking at their kids genitals.
But drag queens reading books are the real threat.
This shouldn't surprise anyone. Most pedophiles are Republicans. Now they get to visually molest your kids legally, neat.
Of course they did, it’s all they think about
It's the pedo enabling act!
It's like they learned the wrong lessons from the US gymnastics team incidents.
A government so small it fits into a child's pants
Here's the text of the bill that was passed: https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Text_HTML/2025_SESSIONS/RS/bills/sb456%20sub1%20enr.pdf
Can someone please point out where this language is because I'm not finding it and it tracking the history of this bill, found here, it appears to me that it was removed.
It's an amendment, linked in the article.
Yes, however Akers Amendment from 3/6 was superseded by two other ones from Martin on 3/11 and according to local media coverage the bill that was ultimately signed into law doesn't have Akers stuff in it.
That's why I posted the full text of the legislation that was actually signed into law. There's no "amendment" or text that I can find in that legislation that matches the stuff from Akers. It looks to me like Martin successfully killed Aker's amendments on the 11th of March.
Can we retrospectively inspect the law makers, just so they can have a lived experience before they next get together to make more crazy laws?
An amendment introduced by House Judiciary Chair J.B. Akers on March 6 would have allowed medical professionals to “to visually or physically examine a minor child for purposes of verifying the biological sex of the child without the consent of the child’s parent, guardian, or custodian.”
That amendment was adopted into the bill.
Before officially passing the Senate, Senator Patrick Martin (R - Lewis, 12) proposed two further amendments, one of which clarifies “that the article does not authorize certain examinations of minor children.”
Senator Martin’s amendment nullified Delegate Akers’ amendment, thereby excluding it from the final bill.
SB 456 was passed by the Senate Tuesday 32-1 with one Senator absent for the vote. In the House, 90 delegates voted in favor, eight opposed, and two were absent.
That amendment doesn't nullify shit. It's waffle language. When the court cases eventually come up over this, judges will shrug and say that it doesn't clearly forbid it, so it's fine. Mark my words.
The school nurse is going to be busy checking kids' privates for no good reason.
I haven't seen a public school with the budget for a dedicated nurse in decades. It's going to be the vice principal or some other shitty non medically trained scum. Not that it would be less invasive from a nurse, but i bet it will be worse with random assholes deciding how it goes. This is truly fucked.
Bloody mfers.
traditional family values 😂
:takes daughter to purity ball:
"She looks so much like her mother on prom night"