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This is a bullshit article. Scaremongering. They're really grasping at straws.
I have to read news for a living. You learn a few rules as the years go by.
A headline that contains "could" is a piece of ginned-up bullshit that hasn't happened and nobody is talking about doing except the author. If it's something someone is planning on doing, some form of the word "planning" is used in the headline. "Could?" That's just wind and sails.
Here's another one some may find helpful: if a headline contains a question mark, the answer to the question is "no."
Our news media is ridiculously fucked.
Yeah, and consider the source. LGBTQ Nation is pretty much exclusively concerned with the TQ at this point, and the only source quoted is the ACLU of Arkansas, which has a vested interest in promoting child transition.
I am in biomedical publishing and I can cosign this times ten for any articles about medical or scientific breakthroughs. If the headline says "could," swap that out for "will not" and you will be closer to the truth.
Absolutely. There is a snowball's chance in hell something like this would even be remotely constitutional.
I agree. It's ridiculous scaremongering, and besides, the bill is specifically tied to social transitioning. If a girl wants a short haircut and she and her parents are not pretending this makes her non-female, then there's no problem.
What this article presupposes is that "non-gender-conforming haircuts" exist, which is some sexist horseshit that the author is accidentally admit they think exists, but does not actually exist in the real world. Anyone with an ounce of sense knows that women have literally had short haircuts for centuries.
Exactly. TRAs are the only ones who believe in "gender affirming haircuts." Any normal person will see a girl with short hair as a girl with short hair.
Plenty of conservative Christian women have short hair. This is not the gotcha the ACLU thinks it is.