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Where it fucking belongs.
Who cares if there are no jobs, schools, technology or services or infrastructure as long as you can get abortions and gender affirming care, right?
Well, as long as the state is bigoted enough, you don't seem to care about education, services, or infrastructure. Republican efforts to undermine education by undermining public schools in favor of vouchers for christian schools that teach creationism, miseducating students about the country's history and banning books under the guise of "stopping woke" put the lie to your bogus handwringing about education. Services? At least one of those states didn't even pass the medicaid expansion because they were happy to watch poor people suffer than accept money from a program championed by a black president. Infrastructure? Texas has a shitty failing power grid because the alternative involves accepting national standards that might have kept the damned grid from freezing over.
Don't pretend to care about any of those things. Your sole criterion for a good state is if the state government makes sure "those people" know their place.
Pre-teens should not be given books talking about anal sex, oral sex, masturbation, and telling them that if they like stereotypical girl things they’re probably a girl trapped in a boys body. I’m sorry but anyone that thinks that’s fine probably belongs on a watch list.
What “place” do you think I want “those people” to know?
Btw I’m not American and I don’t live in America. Don’t ever want to either. I’m just interested in politics all over the world and aren’t afraid of voicing my opinion.
I was actually talking about US history books and how they deal with the civil rights movement, but your unfounded anti-trans moral panic has already been well established.
Good. I'm glad you're not in a position to vote.