Ash Whitaker came out as transgender to his parents in the eighth grade and to “a few close friends” during to his freshman year. Then, at the start of his sophomore year he formally came out to “all of his teachers and peers.” The Whitakers say that the trouble began later that year.
Kenosha Unified School District instructed guidance counselors to have Ash Whitaker, a 16-year old transgender boy (who recently, after a petition was created, was allowed to run as prom king), and “any other transgender students at the school” wear “bright green wristbands” so that the school could “more easily monitor and enforce [their] restroom usage.”
But the most alarming allegations in the suit are claims that the school essentially created a surveillance program to control Ash’s bathroom use. Melissa, who taught at Tremper, claimed that school administrators sent an email to security guards in April 2016 “instructing them to notify administrators if they spotted any students who appear to be going into the ‘wrong’ restroom.”
The next month, Melissa claims, Ash’s guidance counselor introduced the troubling “bright green wristband practice” for transgender students. The Whitakers believe this policy was aimed directly at Ash but they were allegedly told that it would apply to “any other transgender students at the school” as well.
“Ash felt like his safety would be even more threatened if he had to wear this visible badge of his transgender status,”
If you’re adopted internationally into the United States, BY adoption LAWS you’re legally a citizen, but you still have to apply for documentation and if it’s not done by the age of 18 you have to pay over $500 and get a judge to reopen your adoption case.
Even More Fun Fact: No one actually tells adoptive families, this so many find out after they’re 18 when their kid needs to get a passport, wants to apply for financial aid, get certain jobs, vote or some other shit that requires proof of citizenship and now it’s too late because they’re 18 or over.
AND EVEN MORE FUN FACT! You can sometimes even be deported because you can be considered foreign-born, non-citizens!
Oh and they won’t accept adoption papers or a birth certificate as proof.
Do it now! Seriously. Even if you think you are safe. Do it.
Many people are finding that even a birth certificate is not valid proof anymore. Texas birth certificates are notorious. So notorious that I have 3 friends who can’t use them to get passports! Don’t think everything is hunky dory. You must nail down your citizenship.
ok so I updated skype because it kept bugging me about it, and usually that meant bad fucking news because skype always manages to fuck something up in every update
but then I noticed they added a little new button in the contacts screen
There’s a little robot on the right of the screen. Apparently, now you can add BOTS to Skype yourself. Normally, that’d be fucking ridiculous. Why would you add a fucking bot when bots are already adding you all the time looking to scam guys and gals with fake cam girls. BUT THESE BOTS ARE DIFFERENT. Let me introduce to you a specific bot that I find particularly interesting
Say hello to Murphy. This son of a bitch. His whole thing is that he CREATES AN IMAGE and learns from the suggestions that are given. You ask him a “What if” question and he creates an image based on the question. Of course, I thought this was stupid. So I decided to ask it a question for shits and giggles.
“What if Chewbacca was bald?”
Holy shit, I say. This fuckin’ robot created a meme in less than 5 seconds. And then I ask him the almighty question that has been asked since the early 90s.
This is a humble request to all those who come across this post, PLEASE REBLOG IT to bring awareness. My dad was traveling from New York to Long Beach and the passenger seated next to my dad filmed and uploaded a video of him sleeping. He titled the video, “Would You Feel Safe Flying With Bin Laden. Many Sikhs are mistake for Muslims due to the similar appearance. But Sikhs and Muslims are two entirely different and independent religions. No one Sikh, Christian,Muslim, Hindu, Jew, etc. should ever be targeted in such a belittling manner. It is NOT okay to target an individual based on appearance. Guru Nanak Dev Ji preached love and equality to all of mankind. As Sikhs, it is our duty to uphold these values and to support those who have been wronged. Please repost this to all social media sites to bring awareness to the local community about who we are and to create a safe environment for all individuals regardless of caste, creed, and religion. Also please report this video to YouTube to have it removed. Thank you so much and with all of our combined effort we will be able to move mountains and create a loving and safe environment for all individuals.
There was a time when I’d read this giant clusterfuck of a sentence and think “holy fuck, that is SO OUTLANDISH, how is that even real???”, but now I’m not even surprised
I want people to start talking about this. I want them to know that this young woman of color is facing up to 70 years in prison based on contradictory charges. I want you all to be outraged over the fact that there were no abortion drugs found in her system but they are accusing her of feticide. I want your outrage over the fact that a method from the 17th century that is no longer used for being unreliable was used to determine if her fetus lived. I want your outrage over the fact that the court is treating that method as valid proof. I want your outrage over the racial profiling and targeting of the victim, and I am calling Purvi a victim because that is what she is. They are trying to make an example of her and that should not stand. I want more people talking about her case and I want your outrage over the fact that only 8 people will be attending the “protest” for her. Tomorrow is her sentencing. I do not want her to be alone.
Also people should think about the fact that in a country where abortion is supposed to be legal, states are intensifying abortion restrictions and then prosecuting marginalized women for allegedly trying to abort fetuses themselves (or even doing anything to endanger fetuses). They are trying to charge these women as murderers for self-aborting when the laws create obstacles for them in their state.
