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Yesterday, the West Virginia House of Delegates approved an amendment from Del. J.B. Akers ® to allow a child’s “treating health care provider” to examine a child’s genitals without the consent of their parents.

The amendment was actually an improvement over a previous version of the bill, which, state Democrats argued, would have allowed teachers to perform the genital examinations.

Akers’ amendment was the Republican response to one proposed by Del. Kayla Young (D), which would have banned child and adult genital examinations altogether.

“It’s unconscionable that Republicans would support legislation that authorizes intrusive visual inspections of minors without parental approval,” Young said. “West Virginians should be alarmed and disgusted by this invasion of privacy.”

It also says that all intersex people are “either male or female” but does not give a basis for assigning a sex to them.

  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    I’m so damn glad I’m not a parent. There’s no fucking way I wouldn’t pulverize someone’s limbs into paste if they touched my child.

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    Only a fucking piece of trash thinks it’s ok for a teacher to look at a kid’s junk, regardless of if the parents give consent.

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      Former teacher here. Any teacher that would comply with such an order to inspect is also a fucking piece of trash.

      Once our assistant principal went on a witch hunt about enforcing uniform compliance. He wanted us all to inspect socks to ensure they were the right color. Turns out the color of my kids’ socks doesn’t impact the learning environment, so no, we aren’t wasting class time on this.

      So no, I’m not inspecting genitals. And if there is a move to do such a thing at school, I’d spend the entire class time calling parents letting them know what’s going on.

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    10 hours ago

    What level are they allowed to view? If the child says no are they able to force their way into their pants? At what point does it become rape?

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      10 hours ago

      A child cannot consent.

      So, immediately. It becomes sexual assault, at least, immediately.

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        You’re looking at this problem all wrong, it’s not that children cannot consent. Nobody is arguing that. The change here is that now those that would be doing the tests are no longer considered child predators because they didn’t do anything illegal. So now it would be totally fine for priests, doctors, senators, neighbors, etc to look at random kids genitals to verify sexuality without any resistance from their parents/guardians. Is this how we finally do away with rapists, by redefining sexual assault.

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          So now it would be totally fine for priests, doctors, senators, neighbors, etc

          “treating health care provider”

          Some of these things are not like the others.

  • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.social
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    10 hours ago

    Oh the irony that the shitheads that couldn’t wear a mask, and want to ban books because of “parent rights”, now want to ice parents out of the decision of a rando looking at their kids genitals.

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    This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Most pedophiles are Republicans. Now they get to visually molest your kids legally, neat.

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    10 hours ago

    Can we retrospectively inspect the law makers, just so they can have a lived experience before they next get together to make more crazy laws?