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Maddy Love
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Trans woman, happily married, mother, grandmother, microbiologist, Podcaster, and trying to be a better person
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Unsure about other states but here in Minnesota the state health department has a surveillance program where they do subtype samples from hospitalized patients. They've been doing this for well over a decade
February 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Didn't they just do that with the nuclear safety people too?
February 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Just got home from work at 1130pm...had a small bowl of cereal.
January 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Wait? Are you here already?
January 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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I also wrote about this more than a year and a half ago in our members magazine.
To be clear, our opposition to these bills and to the cultural rhetoric that is justifying them isn’t rooted in a reflexive opposition to the positions of our traditional opponents. It’s not the case that because they’re for it, we must be against it. Rather, these attacks on the humanity and dignity of our fellow Americans are deeply rooted in religious disapproval. During debate over a Florida bill that would ban gender-affirming care for minors and prohibit all trans people from using bathrooms that align with their gender, Rep. Webster Barnaby said, “This is the planet Earth, where God created men male and women female! … The Lord rebuke you, Satan, and all of your demons and all of your imps who come and parade before us.” An Ohio state representative, Gary Click, denied that his bill banning similar treatment was religiously motivated. But in a sermon he delivered four years ago, Click claimed that homosexuality and the idea that someone could be trans are the work of Satan, being used to undermine the family. But lastly, and perhaps most importantly, our advocacy around these issues and our willingness to speak out is because of our commitment to each other as a community. Atheists, including our members and supporters, are far more likely than the average American to be supportive of, and indeed members of, the LGBTQ community. That isn’t to say that the support is universal. There are unquestionably atheists who want to believe that the advocates of these laws are merely concerned that young people are making potentially life-altering decisions about their medical care too quickly or too easily, and that there is some wide-ranging campaign by “political correctness” stifling important debates. But that presumption of good faith is not warranted when the legislative “fix” they propose is criminalization—not just of incredibly rare medical interventions but also social transition, books involving LGBTQ characters, drag shows, and bathroom usage—and when the rhetorical justification includes comparisons to Nazi medical experimentation and pedophilic “grooming.” Pretending that their purported concerns are merely policy disagreements is to miss the forest for the trees and borders on willful blindness. That’s not a discussion, and it isn’t a good-faith policy debate. Rather, it’s the same dehumanizing and religiously motivated pushback directed at a tiny and vulnerable minority that we’ve seen for years anytime LGBTQ people gain more mainstream acceptance. It’s the same frantic calls to “protect the children!” from imagined threats that have been used for decades to justify overly broad and far-reaching legislative solutions to problems that don’t actually exist. And it should give us all pause when people who we thought shared our values instead embrace—or, at the very least, excuse—the cruelty of extreme Christian nationalists who make no secret of their motivations and justifications for their actions.
January 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Yeah I keep my feed as locked down as possible, and really only interact with my own feed and a few groups. I tend to stay out of pretty much anywhere else. FB is now essentially just the comments section of an early aughts internet bulletin board
January 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM