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[–] 10 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Oh shit! Who the he'll cares?? Getting real tired of this conservative shit. We're looking damn backwards in this country. Rant.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    The people writing and publishing and pushing these stories to rage bait the old and mentally weak belong in jail. Its getting old.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    You would rather such atrocities are not reported? Everyone in this thread is so mad I feel I'm missing something.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    This is nothing but "rah rah get mad about transgender people because youre bigots rage bait for old gulible Trump lovers in Texas."

    Should this be happening to children no, but theyre in Texas in 2026 with a pedophile president so it's not surprising, why is thehill.com writing about it. It is a small case out of texas. They aren't writing about every school in the country are they? Is that their main focus as journalists? Nah, never has been.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    The school cares because of legal compliance. School systems have no money to defend themselves legally so their risk tolerance is below zero.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Except there is no law prohibiting a woman being cast as a male character, but there are laws prohibiting discrimination against this cancelation on the basis of the lead being female.

    If you truly believe they're doing it for preventative legal reasons, why would they just open themselves up to a guaranteed lawsuit instead of following a spirit of law that doesn't even apply to theater?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    Why's everyone in this thread so up in arms about this story? I read it as a school being overly conservative in interpretation of the law, as schools have always been. They have so little funding, their risk tolerance is 0.

    If anything, this story is a picture of how anti-DEI laws and initiatives are fucking up things they didn't even aim for.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    Peter Pan is often played by a woman. Also who the hell cares about this? Who cares about what HS kids do? This is not journalism. Clutch your pedo-protecting pearls harder.

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  • I don't think y'all read the article, or even the full title. The show was cancelled over concern they would violate a Texas anti-trans law, showing that those shitty laws have negative impacts even on people who are not the target of the law. This is definitely newsworthy.

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