Whoops, Yes it was a little past 1am when I wrote that I must've gotten them mixed up which switching back and forth between the documents. I'll double check and correct that in a moment.
I'm sincerely glad you actually read it all, the world can be a little fucked right now.
TL;DR: IANAL, however, the document this bill references to define what content is harmful to children directly, verbatim defines sexual conduct as including "homosexuality" broadly
Okay so this bill is SB394 (linked above obviously) and it opens with the following
Any commercial entity that knowingly shares or
distributes material that is harmful to minors on a website and such
material appears on 25% or more of the webpages viewed on such website
in any calendar month, or that knowingly hosts such website (...)
It carries on to later define "harmful to minors" in section h-3 as the following:
(3) "Harmful to minors" means the same as defined in K.S.A. 21-6402, and amendments thereto.
If we go look at K.S.A. 21-6402 we can find that it is regarding "Promotion to minors of material harmful to minors" and goes on to declare in section d-2 that "harmful to minors" refers to several things including sexual conduct (I'm omitting this full quote for brevity, you can find it in the linked document).
Now if we look a little further down, we can see that Kansas currently defines sexual content as defined in section d-8:
(8) "sexual conduct" means acts of masturbation, homosexuality, sexual intercourse or physical contact with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals or pubic area or buttocks or with a human female's breast; and (...)
Considering all this, i think extremely reasonable to believe that this could outlaw LGBTQ+ content from being displayed openly online within Kansas
Frankly idgaf about the prime directive (edit: this is perhaps an exaggeration, I meant I wasn't necessarily referring to the prime directive) , but as an enby person, I think going around saying "doing this makes you an egg" is pretty antithetical to people not wanting to be judged for not complying with the gender roles that correspond with their assigned gender.
What the other user said is correct. Generally puberty blocks are limited to use during adolescence, with use being discontinued in the very early 20's at the latest. They are a measure to buy time for a person to meet an age of greater maturity so they can make the decision to further transition medically or hormonally. They are not intended to remove sex hormones from the body forever (much to my personal dismay)
How do you consider this good news? All scientific literature indicates that prescribing puberty blockers to trans youth has a large benefit to the state of their current and future mental health, while also causing no harm as once they stop taking them, if they dont further transition, their regular puberty takes over with no decrease in how much they mentally and physically develop (dont forget, these are also regularly prescribed to cis kids too)
Holy shit. It doesn't matter if the Jews did committing acts of terrorism during ww2, and it doesn't matter that Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
And I can tell you why it doesn't matter in one (slightly run-on) sentence.
Because no act of terrorism justifies the actions that Israel has taken against Palestinian civilians just as nothing that was done or could have been done by the Jews leading up to WW2 would have justified the holocaust
There is no justification for genocide. Israel can attempt to eliminate Hamas for the actions committed on Oct 7th, but that doesn't justify their complete disregard for civilian safety and well-being. (Nearly 30k palestinian civilians dead already)
Also, I just want to make it clear that almost every piece of rhetoric that has been used to excuse Israel's actions in this genocide, were also used to justify the actions taken against the Jews during WW2. And I'm sorry, but if you're falling for it now, you probably would have fallen for it then too.
"You can't do anything to personally fix this, so you might as well not worry about it"
I fucking hate this mindset. This mindset is the reason we are in this position. We can't just sit idly by and silently watch the right implement fascist policy and say "well, they were gonna try anyways, nothing we can do I guess".
I think it's a little "exotic" to call my existence an inherent political commentary. It's certainly something that can be used to inform political debate, but I believe saying that it's inherent misses the point that our existence is only political because it's politicized
And for what it's worth, gender dysphoria is also something experienced by nonbinary folks, but it isn't a requirement of being trans or non-binary either. Some people just don't experience it and requiring it as a clinical diagnosis is part of the medicalization of our and trans people's existence as well.
I don't really know how to finish this lol, I agree with the rest of your comment. I just wanted to correct what I feel are common misconceptions.
I'm entirely for gender abolitionism, but you really need to find some better rhetoric. "Cope and seethe, your arguments are shit" won't work on most people
The point is that if someone really wants to get into your device, they will. It doesn't matter if youre using open source firmware, in a custom implementation of linux, on a MIPS CPU, and you personally build every package from source and complete a compliance code review before installing it, etc.etc.etc. If government agency x is targeting you specifically, your best line of security is to lock your device in a safe, take a boat into the middle of the ocean, and then dump it at an unrecorded location and never retrieve it.
A device is only secure as long as you are not using it, and it is not accessible physically, or by network.
You do you dude, I'm just saying your advice is awful for the average user.
Whoops, Yes it was a little past 1am when I wrote that I must've gotten them mixed up which switching back and forth between the documents. I'll double check and correct that in a moment.
I'm sincerely glad you actually read it all, the world can be a little fucked right now.