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Yesterday, the West Virginia House of Delegates approved an amendment from Del. J.B. Akers (R) 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.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

What the actual fuck‽ And the original was so much worse

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 17 points 1 day ago

And here comes the decades of child abuse from abusers who found the glaring loop hole.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

Fucking weirdo pervs.

[–] thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So wait… Couldn’t they just simply request a copy of a child’s yearly physical from their physician? For example, in the 90s/2000s, if we wanted to join a sport we had to get a physical from our GP of choice so the doctor can confirm it was safe for us to play the sport in question. It was a form the doctor and parent filled out, then gave to the school. I would think something like that was already a thing?? I also remember my parents having to submit certain medical records to my schools for other reasons… Why would anyone else need to examine these children???

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago

Ideally, if the politicians actually believed what they told their votes, then yes, they would do it that way. But... Trump was best friends with Jeffry Epstein. Nearly all the Maga billionaires visited Epstein's island. The Republican party is full of pedos, sex traffickers and Nazis.

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 2 days ago

That's called pedophilia

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 115 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 143 points 2 days ago (2 children)

A child cannot consent.

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

[–] Deello@lemm.ee 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Deello@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

After COVID, many doctors left rural areas. This has left many communities across the country lacking proper "treating health care providers". Who do you think is going to fill that gap for the purpose of this bill. Besides, most of the time the ones that are making headlines for this stuff typically have an R next to their name. But you're right, some of these things are not like the others. And that's kinda my point.

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[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 101 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 24 points 2 days ago

Oh, come on, it's just a ChildS exAM

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We found the real freaks. I wonder if the Pizzagate/Qanon dipshits have figured it out yet: everything the qons do is about projection.

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What actually happend to the Qanon movement? Is that still a thing? Is it dead?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Likely just mainstream Republicans now, along with the teabaggers (often the same people).

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[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 95 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's the pedo enabling act!

It's like they learned the wrong lessons from the US gymnastics team incidents.

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 86 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 days ago

But drag queens reading books are the real threat.

It turns out that conservative people believe in specific people, not in ideology. So any claims about reasons for specific policies are basically just pretext.

[–] renrenPDX@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So republican parents are ok with strangers inspecting their child’s genitals without their consent?

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago

Well that law will never on MY KIDS.

[–] sondr3@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

What the actual fuck. This can’t be real?

[–] meangreenbeans@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago

Keep republicans away from my children

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 1 day ago

They need to change theb song lyrics. "Almost heaven" doesn't describe West Virginia as well as "Bathroom creepers."

[–] JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 2 days ago (3 children)

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS IS AN IMPROVEMENT

[–] CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, you see before it was a random stranger, but NOW it's a random stranger in a lab coat.

“Right now I may just be a ‘random stranger’, but as soon as I put on my genital inspection coat I become the Inspector-Genital”

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[–] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 51 points 2 days ago

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

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is stupid as fuck, right, but who doesn't accompany their child into the doctor's office?

Like there are no circumstances under which I'm leaving my child alone with an adult who may examine their genitals and having had child safety training myself just being alone with a child that isn't yours is a terrible idea altogether.

[–] Bilaketari@reddthat.com 10 points 1 day ago

I think part if the motivation here would be to allow the doctor present at a school to determine whether a child is participating in the correct sex-appropriate placement. Like using the correct locker rooms or bathrooms in case teachers or other students bring up an issue (for example if a boy were to go into a girl's locker room and claim to really be a girl). Since appearance doesn't line up with sex in many cases nowadays, the inspection would be to determine the real sex of the individual. Some school activities will involve nudity (changing before entering a swimming pool, communal showering after a sports match or gym class, etc.) so the authors of this were initially pushing for any teacher (such as the supervisor in a locker room or the teacher of the associated class) to be able to inspect/determine the sex of the individual.

[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So... under no circumstances are they going to bring doctors into schools to perform these inspections?

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

'Doctors' like someone who passed med school, flunked out of residency and couldn't land a practicing job anywhere they were so god awful.

But they are a doctor!

[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe not even a doctor of medicine at all, or they were disbarred.

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[–] khannie@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

I suppose that hadn't occurred to me because I live in a country where, if that were to happen, I couldn't imagine the level of social unrest it would cause.

It's just beyond reason.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 43 points 2 days ago

A government so small it fits into a child's pants

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 19 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] EX1T@literature.cafe 28 points 2 days ago

So much for Parents Rights.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago

Cops already do it to black kids. One girl was on her period and they made her bend over and cough and everything.

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 32 points 2 days 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?

[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 days ago

Bloody mfers.

[–] toxicbubble@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

traditional family values 😂

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