Texas Lege claims to care about children, but really doesn't; but that may cut both ways

It's called HB 63, which would bar anonymous child abuse reports. Yes, per the story, there are real vindictive false abuse reports. But also, per the story, which I knew before clicking, there are real reports which people have good reasons to make anonymously. Like, for example, a paraprofessional reporting a teacher.

And, with that, here's some of the new ways it, and the state government in general, really hate children.

A bill to put religious chaplains in public schools, allegedly not there to evangelize kids, but per the bill's top backer, speaking elsewhere, they actually are. (That's not to mention it's unconstitutional.)

The attacks on "gender"-affirming care for minors (scare quotes needed because "sex" and "gender" aren't the same thing, and so says NIH), about which I am a non-twosider, but know that Lyin Ken Paxton's heavy-handedness aren't called for. At the same time, the Observer's piece on SB 14 is part of why I'm not a two-sider. It's debatable whether the effects of the likes of Lupron are "easily" reversible or not. The Observer doesn't mention its real — and often lasting, as in the cases of bone density loss — side effects, that eventually resulted in an FDA black box warning. It does mention the psychological background of "gender-affirming care," but doesn't discuss in detail the Mayo Clinic guidelines for what all that should involve if puberty blockers are properly used. And, by noting that sexual-reassignment surgery (it's sex, not gender!) is not the "first line" with minors, it admits that it IS nonetheless, something done to minors. This whole issue makes me feel more and more like Justin Raimondo, as someone likely to be a man without a party, assuming the Greens go further down the twosider path and the SPUSA follows on this issue.

The laughably vague anti-drag bill.