Current Events > MO bill would make teachers using students' preferred pronouns sex offenders.

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• The offense of contributing to social transition is a class E felony.
• As used in this section, the following terms mean:
• "Child", a person under eighteen years of age;
• "Social transition", the process by which an individual adopts the name, pronouns, and gender expression, such as clothing or haircuts, that match the individual's gender identity and not the gender assumed by the individual's sex at birth

• Contributing to social transition under section 566.400;

i know it f***ing sucks but you cant get too upset about bills until they pass or you'll have a heart attack.

i know it fucking sucks but you cant get too upset about bills until they pass or you'll have a heart attack.

this shit is blatantly unconstitutional and also goes against title 9 of the civil rights act

class E felony.

i know it fucking sucks but you cant get too upset about bills until they pass or you'll have a heart attack.

Yeah, let's not get upset about the things elected officials are trying to do, otherwise we might run the risk of being aware that they're shithead bigots and not vote for them.

Nazis doing Nazi shit.

i didnt say dont get upset. i said don't get "too upset"

gender assumed by the individual's sex at birth

Okay, what's the appropriate amount of upset to be about politicians trying to permanently label somebody as a sex offender just for calling a trans girl "she"? Or the effect that this is going to have on the trans kids?

Just so I know exactly how mad I'm allowed to be.

Rarely will Missouri recognize constitutional rights of a protected class before the federal government forces it to. This seems pretty extreme of a penalty for simply not using the pronoun assigned to a student at birth so I'd hope it wouldn't get through or at least not in the current format, but I wouldn't be shocked if it did either.

can you not fucking read?

"too upset about bills until they pass or you'll have a heart attack"

you seem pretty close to one so i think you're doing okay

stroke out for all i care

let's also ignore that I said

"this shit is blatantly unconstitutional and also goes against title 9 of the civil rights act"

like, maybe, i was speaking from experience, having gotten extremely worked up about proposed bills that went nowhere.

how much should you let this bill ruin your weekend? that's the great part, you decide.

if you can't see i was just trying to help a ceman avoid a depression spiral then u can shut the fuck up

anyway this is me trying to be nice. don't act like i need to be in an emotional frenzy that meets your standards either. it's the same fucking shit you said---why don't TMOG tell me exactly how upset i should be

that's the thing about this: it's so fucking wildly unconstitutional i cant imagine it doing anything except dying.

like, im not ignorant of what's happened in tx and florida, but this bill just seems so fucking dumb i cant see it passing even in those states. I admit i know nothing about MO.

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is this going anywhere? or is it the psycho work of GRAGG whoever the fuck they are? so i guess vote gragg out of office. does the entire gop support this? doesn't look like it as far as i can tell. im willing to be wrong, i don't fucking know, but it looks similar to other 1-person bills. if you want a serious answer then i think the threshold for getting upset should be higher than a bill that's just a 1-person thing.

if you can't see i was just trying to help a ceman avoid a depression spiral then u can shut the fuck up

that's the thing about this: it's so fucking wildly unconstitutional i cant imagine it doing anything except dying.

like, im not ignorant of what's happened in tx and florida, but this bill just seems so fucking dumb i cant see it passing even in those states. I admit i know nothing about MO.

Missouri doesn't see trans rights at protected the same way other classes, thus not giving trans people the same constitutional protections. If anything, I almost feel like this would be better pitched as a free speech issue as far as the US or Missouri Constitutions would be concerned.

It would be a free speech issue. Well, should be.

Telling teachers they can't refer to the student by the name (or pronoun in this case) that the student wants to be is clear government censorship of both the teacher and the student (I know they don't really have rights in a classroom setting but that's another issue)

"Social transition", the process by which an individual adopts the name, pronouns, and gender expression, such as clothing or haircuts, that match the individual's gender identity and not the gender assumed by the individual's sex at birth

Nazis doing Nazi shit.

wtf is wrong with those ppl

why is it always the poverty red states that take tons of our money cuz they suck with these backward ass laws

Gen Z'ers in 2025: "Sure, they're rounding up trans people and executing them in the streets, but at least we taught that 80 year old a lesson about Israel!"