Stop KOSA

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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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I adore when trans/homophobes try to misgender someone and just end up validating them instead lmao

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here's to trans men with anger issues. here's to trans men who are loud or raise their voices without realizing, neurodivergent or otherwise. here's to trans men who get irritable or frustrated or impatient easily due to trauma, neurodivergence, mental illness, pain, or other disabilities, here's to trans men who can't take care of themselves, here's to trans men who can't stuff down their emotions, here's to trans men with violent intrusive thoughts, here's to trans men who snap without meaning to, here's to paranoid and psychotic trans men who become scared or hostile toward others without causing violence due to delusions and hallucinations, here's to trans men who struggle with homicidal ideation

here's to trans men who are bitter and angry and don't want to get better, here's to trans men who have tried to recover from trauma and have failed, here's to trans men who can't access proper mental health care because they aren't taken seriously, here's to trans men with mental health care trauma, here's to trans men who cope poorly with anger and hit inanimate objects and do "scary" things that don't actually hurt other people physically or emotionally.

here's to trans men with complicated mental health issues who need help but get insulted and called mean, rude, scary, shitty, assholes, dicks, jackasses and abusers. here's to trans men being human, too, and struggling with things just like anyone else. that doesn't make us evil, we are heavily traumatized by cisheteronormative society. here's to trans men who don't hurt other people but get told they do because people won't let men struggle with their emotions. i love you. you're loved. keep your chin up.