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So you support teaching highly sexual content in Kindergarten?

Because that’s what the law was about.

A teacher mentioning about their same-sex spouse runs afoul of this law, but one mentioning their opposite-sex one does not.

Which is, of course, because there are two sexualities - straight, and political.

Why would a teacher discuss their personal life with K-3 students? Asking about a teacher’s marriage was obviously out of place in my experience, and for good reason. It’s not a topic for the classroom.

> "What did you do during summer break, Mrs Dickson?"

> "Clara, my wife, and I went to see bears at Yosemite. It was so exciting! Can you point to Yosemite on a map?"

Everyday situation at any school I ever went to. Schools are not learning factories, they are social places, especially in K-3.

"My family and I went to see bears at Yosemite. It was so exciting! Can you point to Yosemite on a map?"

Just because a thing can be expressed in different words does not mean everyone always has the awareness to choose words that are politically desirable at every single point of their lives - especially when you are trying to teach children to use precise language (family implies a group of more than two people), and when identical similar language is perfectly ok if you have the right set of genitalia.

I am not arguing for teaching toddlers about homosexual BDSM culture here. I just think that particular law is overreaching its goals, possibly to stroke the egos of religious zealots.

I just don’t see how a teacher mentioning a same sex spouse is obviously violating the law in the way you’re worried about.

Which is more likely to start a controversy and trigger the law? A teacher saying that she and her husband went to a Christmas parade or a woman saying her and her wife went to a Pride parade?

No, that's just what the media wants you to think by calling it the "don't say gay" bill. In truth, both of those are equally allowed.

The law covers every age group. Do you think that the proponents of the law think that a book with trans protagonists is “developmentally appropriate” for 8th graders?

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