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If my memory serves me correctly, “sex ed” for 4th, 5th, and 6th graders essentially consists of being shown a single video about the puberty manifests itself physically. I don’t remember anything being taught about sex itself is taught until students were well into middle school, and I remember being sent home with permission sheets before every sex-ed lesson from 4th grade until 8th grade.
I only mention this because this bill only ever targeted sexuality-related discussions in K-3. The 4 years of public school in which nothing even close to sexuality is taught – not even puberty. Unless its goal was to further fuel a destructive “culture war”, HB1608 is (and always has been) pointless.
For the last several years, Indiana’s legislature has repeatedly tried to address divisive issues with bills that practically do nothing. It just makes us look like a legislative swamp. I can’t wait until we get leaders on Capitol Avenue who focus on unifying Hoosiers towards attainable economic goals. Until then, I’ll wait in the frustration of “leaders” who divisively distracting us from a better future.
We never will as long Hoosiers decide they’d rather vote for legislators like Michelle Davis who spend our time on bills fixing issues that don’t exist to burnish their conservative credentials, as opposed to problems we actually have like terrible roads and a workforce that only attracts distribution centers.
Republicans aren’t very useful when it comes to issues like education and infrastructure. They’re hard and it’s no longer a party of serious thinkers.
Requiring schools to “out” trans students to their parents: Can anyone please tell me what this hate-inspired amendment has to do with regulating sex education in grades K-3? No one is secretly providing gender-affirming care or anything of that nature. At the most, a school here or there is allowing a few kids some safe breathing room to figure themselves out, and being respectful in the process. Creating a regulatory requirement to “out” these kids on the state’s terms, rather than their own, is oppressive and sounds a whole lot more like Russia than America. Like so many Indiana bills, this attempts to “solve” a nonexistent problem in order to score political points with the base.
The most Russian thing about this is hiding things from parents and enveloping them in an ideology antithetical to the parents’ wishes, against the cognizance of the parents. That’s some serious Cultural Revolution stuff we’ve got going here–which is Chinese, but the same thing.
Imagine thinking you’re a good person as a teacher, hiding a dysphoria you see in a student from the parents.
“No one is secretly providing gender-affirming care or anything of that nature.”
They most certainly are.
Maybe the parents should be better parents…. and stop relying on teachers to do their job for them?
The Southen Poverty Law Center categorizes the American Family Association as a hate group, on the same level as the KKK. Sounds like Mom’s for Liberty is not much better.
The southern poverty law center has been a ideological clown show for at least a decade. Most conservative groups see it as an achievement to get placed on their “hate” list. It boosts their publicity.
And to think that I used to support the SPLC. I was wrong.
Hey Michael, did you know that the lawyer staff at SPLC is overwhelmingly young white grads from elite schools (Georgetown, Yale), and the the clerical staff (the “help”) is overwhelmingly black? Kind of reinforcing old stereotypes of the Democratic party to which it so steadfastly leans. Of course, those stereotypes still apply. They never REALLY went away.
Michael G.
That’s why the SPLC has NO credibility anymore.
To put th American Family Associotion and others in with the KKK.
How stupid do you have to be to that!!
The SPLC ised to be a highly regarded organization but not anymore
They are facing multiple lawsuits from mislabeling & slandering and are
being sued from within their own organization.
That said, the legislation passed by the Republicans was utter nonsense
and a waste of time. The R’s wasted time on a problem that doesn’t exist.
The R’s need to focus on more important tangible things such as roads, bridges,
and attracting economic development.
Michael G.
That’s why the SPLC has NO credibility anymore.
To put th American Family Associotion and others in with the KKK.
How stupid do you have to be to that!!
The SPLC used to be a highly regarded organization but not anymore
They are facing multiple lawsuits from mislabeling & slandering and are
being sued from within their own organization.
That said, the legislation passed by the Republicans was utter nonsense
and a waste of time. The R’s wasted time on a problem that doesn’t exist.
The R’s need to focus on more important tangible things such as roads, bridges,
and attracting economic development.
Hoosiers have an F rated quality-of-life and the state has a D- rated workforce, a C- rated education system, the third worst maternal mortality rate in the nation, and the country’s most polluted waterways. I’m so glad our super majority is working on important issues like the K-3 human sexuality non-issue.
Mark W.
All those negatives you listed didn’t stop many states from bypassing
Indiana in population or economic development.
Hmmmm
Truth is, this bill was not needed.
But the bill also does nothing for the leftists to lose their collectivist minds over.
Keith – your comment is nonsensical… Indiana is one of the worst places statistically to live in America, and you commented that did not stop other states from surpassing us?
Duh?
The trans thing is so silly to me. It is such a small portion of the population and it has created all of these bills in search of a problem (or an imaginary one) to fix for political gain. On both sides, there is this huge race to see who is most in favor of “freedom”. The only problem is the other side’s version of “freedom” is what they think they should be free to do and also tell you how to live at the same time… all the while both sides complain about how triggered the other side is. You’re all snowflakes.
Exactly.
why are 25% of headlines and seemingly legislative time spent around less than 1% of the population?