Todd Blanche\u2019s remarks are part of a totally-not-invented moral panic that stretches the limits of the imagination<\/p>\n
Being a public school teacher in the US these days is tough. You\u2019ve got to pay<\/a> for a lot of your own supplies, deal with smartphone-addicted children, and perform gender reassignment surgeries in your lunch break.<\/p>\n Luckily our intrepid attorney general, Todd Blanche, is on the case. Blanche appeared on Fox News this week to decry<\/a> a \u201cpandemic\u201d of gender transitions in schools across the US. \u201cThere\u2019s not a parent in America, no matter where you live, that would want their school to change and call their child by a different name and not expect to be told about that. We partnered with the Department of Education recently to combat this very trend and, really, pandemic that\u2019s happening in some school districts around the country,\u201d Blanche said. He seemed more concerned with name changes than with surgery, but the president himself has suggested on several occasions<\/a> that schools are furtively doing surgery on children. During a campaign speech in 2024, for example, Donald Trump said<\/a>: \u201cCan you imagine \u2026 your son leaves the house and you say: \u2018Jimmy, I love you so much. Go have a good day in school,\u2019 and your son comes back with a brutal operation? Can you even imagine this?\u201d<\/p>\n Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Todd Blanche\u2019s remarks are part of a totally-not-invented moral panic that stretches the limits of the imagination Being a public school teacher in the US these days is tough. You\u2019ve got to pay for a lot of your own supplies, deal with smartphone-addicted children, and perform gender reassignment surgeries in your lunch break. Luckily our … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}