Archive for September, 2009
Trans Kids in UK Schools
Sep 29th
Two boys – a 9 year old and a 12 year old — came back to school as girls after the summer break in the UK and caused quite a bit of drama. Parents say their kids were “shocked” and “traumatised” due to the sex change of their fellow pupils:
My son came home from school and asked why one of his friends had become a girl. I thought he was joking, but he kept asking – that’s when alarm bells began ringing. The pupil’s classmates were told he had left and that a new girl would be starting in his place this term. We have had to deal with the fall-out from all this. It’s not a situation I or other parents are comfortable with and we’ve not been given any help from the school about how to handle it. My son is too young to really understand the significance of what’s happening. It’s hard to explain to him. He doesn’t understand the differences between girls’ and boys’ bodies yet. I’m terrified he’ll ask me if he can become a girl as well.
Although the boys are doubtless on the fast track to a sex-change operation and hormonal treatment in order to turn them into girls, they must wait until they are legally an adult before any actual operation may take place in the UK which means German pop singer Kim Petras stays the youngest transgirl who underwent gender reassignment.
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My new Dress
Sep 26th
I know it doesn’t really fit in here age-wise but it was way too cute to skip it. And it has an important message about gender clichés of course. Try to ignore the horrible subtitles, rather be thankful there are some; Spanish speaking people tend to believe everyone speaks their language conspicuously often 
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Milk Monday *10
Sep 22nd
It’s still Monday somewhere, right? Good, because this one was too good to be wasted This week’s milkboy is not only especially cute but also blessed with some other talents. Juan José Amaro Fernández was one of the candidates at “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” (a German version of shows like American Idol or Britain’s got Talent), was featured in Germany’s well-known youth magazine BRAVO and his band UNFAMOUS can be found in the German MySpace charts regularly. And he’s a milkboy. Thanks heaps for making that cute photo for us Juan! <3
Go and watch his videos!
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Sep 18th
- Change we can believe in: White House seeks renewal of Bush’s surveillance laws
- Leftist government of Labour Party, Socialists and Greens in Norway re-elected
- An American dies every 12 minutes because there is no universal health care in the USA
- France passes three-strikes-law, will cut off internet if music or film industry says you’re a pirate
- Child-safety software sells kids’ IM conversations to market-research companies
- Israeli government ads warn people against marrying Non-Jews
- German police beats up guy at demonstration because he tried to report another cop
- US author of middle-grade novels not allowed to see class via Skype because he might be a pedo
- For peace in the world? US holds huge lead in global weapons sales
- Sci-Fi becomes real: US High-Tech drone software fails and ignores human commands
- How the financial crisis changes the markets: Europe now richer than the USA
- Man in Brazil held because he dared to kiss his own daughter, faces 15 years in jail
- Verfassungsschutz überwacht komplette Fraktion der Linken im Bundestag
- Wolfagng Schäuble will die parlamentarische Kontrolle der Geheimdienste abschaffen
- Warum die Pläne der Linken kein unfinanzierbarer Populismus sind
- BKA und CDU warnen mal wieder for Terroranschlägen vor der Wahl damit auch ja alle CDU wählen
- Dokumentation von Polizeigewalt in Frankreich durch neues Gesetz verboten
- Französische Nationalversammlung winkt Three-Strikes-Sperrgesetz durch
- Italien entsorgt Atommüll bequem über die Mafia im Mittelmeer, 120 Behälter entdeckt
- Wie die Interessen einen deutsches Konzerns die Souveränität eines ganzen Staates gefährden…
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