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A district judge in Wisconsin has sided with an 11-year-old trans girl over her use of the girls’ toilets and temporarily blocked school officials from preventing her access.

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[–] escaped_cruzader 10 points 1 year ago (16 children)

my parents angrily forbid me to do drugs or have sex and begged me not to drink to excess. Guess which activities I regularly engaged in

I too was vehemently forbidden, but I managed to understand how bad drugs and excessive drinking are and felt no need to rebel by "cutting off one's nose to spite one's face"

Two people can go through the same environment and have completely different outcomes

[–] voidMainVoid 5 points 1 year ago (14 children)

What makes you think that drugs are bad?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They are addictive, damaging to the body and mind, destroy your life, and are used as unhealthy coping mechanisms.

[–] JudgeHolden 5 points 1 year ago

Nonsense. All of that can be true, but the vast majority of casual drug use never becomes problematic.

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