i somehow never realized that monica lewinsky was twenty-two when everything happened and my casual sympathy for her just turned into visceral, crushing terror at the fact that a girl my age was internationally humiliated and driven to suicidal ideation and is still to this day used as a punchline while bill clinton, like, basically gets to continue living his life and enjoying all the perks of being a former president and in all likelihood will be back in the white house in a couple of years
Yeah, when I heard about this growing up, it was all “He cheated on his wife” not “One of the most powerful men in the world took advantage of a 22-year-old intern.” I didn’t hear anything about how unethical it was or how it might’ve affected her life.
Ash Whitaker came out as transgender to his parents in the eighth grade and to “a few close friends” during to his freshman year. Then, at the start of his sophomore year he formally came out to “all of his teachers and peers.” The Whitakers say that the trouble began later that year.
Kenosha Unified School District instructed guidance counselors to have Ash Whitaker, a 16-year old transgender boy (who recently, after a petition was created, was allowed to run as prom king), and “any other transgender students at the school” wear “bright green wristbands” so that the school could “more easily monitor and enforce [their] restroom usage.”
But the most alarming allegations in the suit are claims that the school essentially created a surveillance program to control Ash’s bathroom use. Melissa, who taught at Tremper, claimed that school administrators sent an email to security guards in April 2016 “instructing them to notify administrators if they spotted any students who appear to be going into the ‘wrong’ restroom.”
The next month, Melissa claims, Ash’s guidance counselor introduced the troubling “bright green wristband practice” for transgender students. The Whitakers believe this policy was aimed directly at Ash but they were allegedly told that it would apply to “any other transgender students at the school” as well.
“Ash felt like his safety would be even more threatened if he had to wear this visible badge of his transgender status,”
“if trump loses will clinton really be any better?” YES. yes holy shit why is this even a question yes she will fucking be better!!!! have you read her policy!!!! have you paid attention to what she’s saying!! you may not like her but she wants women to have access to abortion, she wants gun control, she doesn’t want to overturn same-sex marriage. she doesn’t want to ban muslims from immigrating to the country. like the amount of hatred for hillary clinton is honestly insane when your other option is donald trump
