Bill passes in Tennessee that would allow students to "opt out" of learning that gay people exist

The kids already know from watching TV and movies. The state has missed the boat.

I guess if they have the freedom to not learn about gay people, we should have the freedom to post their names on the front page of their local newspaper, right?

jesus do you troll the news all day for every piece of depressing, unsavory crap?

Can gay kids opt out of learning about straight people?

R3 = Tennessee Republican

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Let them “opt out”. Their loss.

It’s kind of funny that these rightwing fucktards are swarming all over state legislatures now to enact their regressive agendas.

Remember what they said when Trump was skulking around in the White House? “The president is in charge! States can’t do what they want in defiance of the president!” Gee I wonder what changed their minds?

R4. Sure—it’s called majoring in Musical Theatre.

Can thin people opt out of having to deal with fat people?

R10, good luck with that in Tennessee!

I think these days LGBT has come to mean solely trans/nonbinary. All of our gay magazines/forums have been usurped by them. Adding the T to LGB just reinforced to many ignorant straights that gays/lesbians are just women/men wannabes. Thus, I have come to agree with many here on DL that the T+ must be removed from LGB. They're really bringing us down.

R12 is full of it. This law targets gay, bi, AND trans people. Ignorant straights have always hated gays. It has nothing to do with trans people.

R10 OMG HOW DARE YOU!?!?!?!

R12, you need to fucking stop and realize that the type of people in these states (aka conservative Republicans) could not give less of a shit to know the difference between trans and gay - they see both as abnormal. Stop attempting to blame transpeople --with whom I do have issues to an extent on certain matters-- for ignorance which is applied to anyone who is considered different

Christian Conservative Republicans --who makes up the power in those states-- will never deem you normal if you are not a heterosexual and you need to just accept that fact.

R15, so true

But to be fair, I would not want my children listen to some deranged individuals talk about not all woman has a pussy but all of them will menstruate.

Next up: a bill to opt out of learning about slavery and the holocaust. By all means, let’s keep children uneducated on all issues uncomfortable to people.

So true, OP. The same people who whine about cancel culture and boycotts, are literally trying to legislate the idea that human beings don't exist.

"If them kids don't lern 'bout them queers, then they won't turn into one of 'em."

R17, I wouldn't want my kid to listen to prejudiced GOP jerks like yourself

[quote] They're really bringing us down.

Oh honey, they hate us just as much as you hate the T.

LITERAL

VIOLENCE

Women don’t have penises r20.

R24, why are you so obsessed with penises? Who would side with GOP hatemongers on a gay site?

Yay! Let's create more violent closet cases, Tennessee.

We don’t need a course on being gay, we just need acceptance and understanding...which is the opposite of what’s happening here.

Why are you so obsessed with shenises and front holes r25?

This is all due to trans crap.

Keep telling yourself that if it helps you sleep at night.

i didnt learn about gay in school. i learned it all by my lonesome (plus one other)

As long as guys have dicks there are going to be guys sucking each other off.

Not genetic. Human condition.

Bill passes in Tennessee that would allow students to opt out of learning that HILLBILLIES exist.

[quote]This is all due to trans crap.

Sure, Tennessee was real gay-friendly before.

People like you are so pathetic and desperate for the approval of white conservatives as you no doubt whine about "woke" culture. So desperate to make excuses because you want to believe they'd accept you if not for the guys in a dress. Regardless of whatever lunacy the trans are up to, you need to accept you're still seen as a sodomite by millions of white, Christian conservatives. No ideal society for them would ever include you as a gay person.

How many hours a day are kids going to school where there should even be time to learn about LGBT? It's not like public schools in this country have mastered reading, writing, and arithmetic yet, not to mention science, geography, and history.

Grand Ole Opry gets cancelled

R35, now ask yourself if they would have time for a class in intelligent design to counter evolution.

You seem to miss the point.

Every thread must be an anti-trans thread!

The Republicans like r35 who bash public schools don't mind private schools that throw kids out for being gay

The anti-trans people are just as obnoxious as the pro-trans. I don't understand what kind of an idiot is trying to make this the fault of trans people. You can criticize them for a lot of things, but this is pathetic. You're desperate to absolve these bigots.

Get it through your thick heads: White, conservative Christians only see a sodomite when they see someone who isn't hetero. If trans didn't exist, they'd still see a sodomite.

Out of sight, out of mind as I always say.