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Teachers will be forced to tell parents that their child is questioning their gender even if the young person objects under new guidance for schools in England, the equalities minister has indicated.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can someone explain how/why the Brits appear to be turning into Texans?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We've imported the culture wars from the US.

There's a range of anti trans lobbyists in the UK that are US funded, and our government is hoping that if you scare people about migrants and trans people for long enough, we'll forget that it's actually the Tory party that is destroying the country and vote them back in.

[–] englishlad 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have a very right wing cabinet, mainly due to everybody else getting kicked out/ resigning. They are very likely to get kicked out themselves next year, but due to the fixed term parliament law they are basically untouchable until then, so they are getting as much shit done as they can before they get replaced.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The smear shit on the walls before you get evicted approach to governing. You've been taking lessons from the US haven't you.

[–] eldavi 9 points 1 year ago

texan conservatives taken steps to force the laws and institutions to mitigate backlash against conservative beliefs, so they're less afraid to inflict their beliefs onto the generate population and conservatives around the world are taking note and applying it for themselves; this is one of those steps.

it works incredibly well here in texas and i'm so happy to be leaving it.