Child labor good. Child transitioning bad.

Transphobic legislator introduces bill to force kids to work full-time on farms

HB 1062, would allow minors as young as 14 to drop out of middle school and begin working 40 hours a week, year-round, during school hours. The law would allow these children to work on family- and corporate-owned farms. Some children are forced by their families to work on these farms to help alleviate poverty, according to the National Farm Worker Ministry.

No, transgender and nonbinary people are not frequently mass shooters

No, transgender and nonbinary people are not frequently mass shooters

A shooting at an Iowa school just days after the start of 2024 that left a sixth-grade child dead, four other students, and an administrator injured has ignited discussions on mass shootings and the gender identity of perpetrators of this type of violence. Even before police identified the shooter, far-right influencers online began pushing a narrative that the 17-year-old Perry High School student was a member of the LGBTQ+ community based on a Pride flag on one social media profile and a reference to genderfluid in a post. Others, including Elon Musk, amplified the false notion that transgender and nonbinary people pose a significant risk to the population regarding mass shootings—they don’t.