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Texas Anti-Trans Laws Target Intersex People, Too – The Texas Observer

“[Forced] surgeries are not happening to trans kids, but they are happening to intersex kids,” Weigel said. “What I’m hoping is that this can be an opportunity for people to see the hypocrisy of this and understand that every time that they are attacking trans kids, they are also inherently attacking intersex kids through these subtle, covert, hidden clauses.”

Weigel was born with Complete Androgen Insensitivity (CAIS), meaning that her body does not respond to androgens. In infancy, doctors removed her testes, resulting in a complete hormone withdrawal. When she was a young child, she developed menopause. In her early teens, she was put on hormone treatments to make up for the fact that she did not have hormone-producing organs. She now lives with osteoporosis because years without hormones caused decreased bone density.

According to Human Rights Watch, almost two percent of the world’s population falls on the intersex spectrum, which is almost as common as the percentage of the world population’s with red hair. Human Rights Watch and the United Nations Human Right Office categorize performing unnecessary surgeries on intersex children as a human rights violation.

“People are always like, ‘I’ve never met an intersex person,’ but chances are you have—you just didn’t know it,” Weigel said. “Because if you met me, you would never know unless I told you, and oftentimes, we’re so closeted because we’ve experienced so much trauma.”

Source: Texas Anti-Trans Laws Target Intersex People, Too – The Texas Observer

Me refiero a los niños y a los adolescentes

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Me refiero a los niños y a los adolescentes de la hora contemporánea. Con enojo y preocupación, noto que, aquí y allá, alguien con poder, y otros más, están acostumbrando a los infantes y a los adolescentes del momento actual, a la escasez, a la inflación, al desempleo, al odio, a la fractura entre opuestos, a la violencia, a la enfermedad, a la muerte, a la estulticia, a la superficialidad, a la enajenación, a la falta de valores y al control absoluto. En un entorno sistematizado, donde la mayoría siente, piensa, habla y actúa de acuerdo con patrones similares, las generaciones del minuto presente están perdiendo sus capacidades y a pocos les enseñan a enfrentar los desafíos y a solucionar problemas. Entre la confusión de un mundo virtual que hechiza, atrae y parece el edén, y la realidad cada…

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until the sun by Jeff Flesch

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until the sun

by Jeff Flesch, Monthly Contributor
site: https://jeffflesch.com/

I stand in line to buy lemons and limes
while reminiscing on the
times

enthralled and divined
while feelings keep coming up

I’ve tried to stop.

yet
they keep marching towards the top

life is like that
sometimes

we walk and talk and make love until the sun comes up

while basking in the glory of the known
and unknown

and everything in between the things we’ve been
shown

@Jeff Flesch

Jeff grew up in Los Angeles and now lives in Corvallis, Oregon, where he works in
Educational Leadership. Jeff’s interests and passions include personal and professional
development, developing new ways to increase access to higher education, and creating
inspiration, transformation, and more equity throughout society. You can read more of
Jeff’s poetry at Develop. Inspire. Transform, and on Twitter.

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Sustainability is becoming more important and preparing for the Future Should be Done in a New Way — FunWritings

Sustainability is linked to more recycling and now it is clear That there is nothing more important than environmental care We must expand the reach of environmental education If we intend to avoid a very environmental devastation When children grow up without the knowledge of the harm that is being done to ecosystems They will……

Sustainability is becoming more important and preparing for the Future Should be Done in a New Way — FunWritings

Cecília Meireles

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” As verdades e as quimeras.

Outras leis, outras pessoas.

Novo Mundo que começa.

Nova roça. Outro destino “

Meireles, 1972, 446)

Cecília Meireles. ROMANCEIRO DA INCONFIDÊNCIA. Organização: André Seffrin. 13 ed. São Paulo, 2015

Marii Freire Pereira

https:// Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Imagem ( Arquivo pessoal)

Santarém, Pá 25 de abril de 2022

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Why People Should Mask Indoors, Regardless of What a Judge Says

Blind Injustice

An image of masks

Most Americans who follow the news have at this point heard the ruling from a judge striking down federal mask mandates for airplanes, trains, and other forms of public transportation.

Some celebrate the ruling. Others look at it with dismay (me being one of them). I say that every single American should mask up on public transit, and other indoor areas, without giving a care about what some judge said.

Here’s the thing—judges are supposed to be legal experts, not public health experts. So to make an individual public health decision, such as whether one should wear a mask on a bus, based on a ruling from an apparent legal expert who’s not a public health expert, is simply ill-advised. It makes about as much sense as using a judge’s court decision to help you decide whether to take a vaccine, use a certain medicine, or…

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Signs of Hope?

Filosofa's Word

Democracy of late has taken some hard hits around the world with the “Populist” movement gaining support in the last decade, but yesterday brought a couple of signs of hope.  In France, President Emmanuel Macron retained his seat against the populist Marine LePen in a vote of 58.5% to 41.5% … a far wider margin than had been projected earlier in the week!  Neoconservative writer Bill Kristol wrote about the French election results and why it is a good sign not only for France, but also for other democracies including the U.S.


Vive la France!

Macron beats Le Pen like a drum. Democracy wins.

by William Kristol

April 24, 2022 3:43 PM

How do you say “Whew!” en Francais? Google tells me “Ouf!”

So: Ouf!

French President Emmanuel Macron has won re-election over Marine Le Pen with about 58 percent of the vote to Le Pen’s 42 percent. This is…

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