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02.03.2024 💗👾💗

I don't often make serious original posts, but I am legitimately worried about the KOSA situation and everyone should be too. I think most people are not understanding what's going on with this. I don't see much people talking about it, and they SHOULD. You all should care. Here are some of my biggest worries.

KOSA wants to give parents access to their kids' text messages. From what I saw, it would have an extra cost and they'd need the kids' "consent". But come on, if the parents are controlling or even abusing they could definitely force the kid to "agree" against their will. Also, if they don't properly explain the situation to the kids, they might give blind consent. Think about all the very private texts you send to your close friends, and the texts your friends send to you. Think how humiliating or even dangerous it could be if your parents read them.

This is supposed to prevent bullying and stuff like that, but what if the kid is in the closet and has homophobic/transphobic parents. What if the parents are racist and don't want the kid talking to their poc friends. What if the parents are very religious and the kid is an atheist/agnostic. What if the parents are pro Israel and the kid is pro Palestine. This would be an excessive and unacceptable invasion of privacy.

Kids and teens who are/are questioning if they are queer would not have access to any resources and queer-positive spaces. Lots of queer people can only be openly queer online. Even if they come from accepting families, they may just not be ready to be out yet. Every queer person should have the right to explore their identity in their own terms.

This includes intersex kids with bigoted parents who wouldn't have access to help, sources, information, intersex-positive spaces, support groups, etc.

KOSA would also restrict access to sources about mental health.

This would take away the right and opportunity for kids and teens to protest, manifest and boycott.

Teenagers wouldn't have access to information about anything sex related. I'm not only talking about porn and smutty fanfiction (tho I do believe teens deserve access to this as well.) I mean teens from extremely conservative families wouldn't have access to information about safe sex, consent, planned parenthood, what to do in case of STDs, etc.

Many 15 and 16 year olds have sex, or want to have sex, and they should have access to these sources. Restricting the access to sexual education will not stop teens from having sex, but it will probably lead them to do it unsafely and take uneducated decisions about it.

Pregnant teenagers wouldn't have access to information about safe abortion. KOSA would probably take the decision away from them.

If a kid is going through a complicated or even dangerous situation at home they wouldn't be able to rant about it/seek help online.

Kids and teens couldn't have any online friends.

Kids and teens' social media presence and activity would be totally monitored and controlled.

Same as their google history.

KOSA would either take down or restrict access to websites like tumblr, ao3, wattpad, discord, etc.

This affects all of us btw. Ao3 is based in the us, if they take the whole site down we are all screwed. Hopefully they would either become age-restricted or relocate in a different country.

But even if they do that, lots of ao3 writers are usamerican minors. Lots of ao3 readers are usamerican minors.

Lots of fanartist are usamerican minors.

Some of my dear mutuals and online friends are usamerican minors.

This is bad. Please sign the petitions.

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Important

KOSA is coming back and it has gotten more support than ever. The bill has recently gained support from companies such as Twitter, Snapchat, and Microsoft. If this bill continues to gain more and more bipartisan support, the chances of it passing are going to increase. If this bill passes, everyone’s private information is going to be at a high risk and, depending on which state you’re in, very important topics are going to be wiped off of the face of the internet and free speech won’t be an option.

Please, call your senators, send your senators an email, or send a physical letter to your senators. We need to continue fighting and put an end to this dogshit bill.

since the old version of this post was flagged for ‘adult content’…

reblog this post if your account is a trans safe space or owned by a trans person!

along with that, reblog if your account is a non-binary spectrum safe space or owned by someone on the enby spectrum!

there is a troubling trend ive noticed within activist spaces - that many people define an identity as the pain that comes from the oppression of it. you hear this in phrases like 'to be a woman is to suffer' or in discussion of trans dysphoria as if it is a universally similar and easily identifiable experience.

and there's a very understandable reason this happens - the formation of these sects of activism was to both offer solidarity and comfort for the pain of oppression, and to challenge the systems which inflict it.

the trouble with defining identity through pain is that it does not seek to form or understand a world in which that pain does not exist. that is to say - we SHOULD speak of the ways women suffer under the patriarchy, but someone's womanhood cannot be denied if she does not suffer due to the circumstances of her life or whether we personally as observers can see her suffering.

in the same sense, i think we need to remember as part of our activism, we are seeking a world together where the pains of our oppression do not exist for those that come after us. i want to imagine a world in which trans people do not have to experience the same pains of dysphoria that i did, where they can simply be themselves and have access to the life they feel most comfortable living. i do not want to draw the line in the sand for those that come after me to be 'you have to hurt as much as i did for me to take you seriously'.

we can find solidarity as comfort for our pain, and we can come together to make a world with less of it too.

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