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Children still get long covid after a new infection, day after day, tells Diewke de Haen from @PostCovidNL.
Post-covid clinics are a step forward for affected kids.
For the rest: keep your child from getting infected! #CleanAir #SafeSchools
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Kids getting COVID repeatedly in school—is it a future Alzheimer’s crisis?
New research links even mild COVID to brain changes associated with Alzheimer’s. How will repeated infections affect their long-term brain health? #LongCovid #COVID19 #Alzheimers #SafeSchools
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@scholenveilig on X wrote:
Caeden (10) got infected when schools reopened. Now he’s one of thousands of kids battling #LongCovid.
His biggest wish? To live a normal kid’s life again.💔
Not “just a cold.” Demand action. #SafeSchools #COVIDisAirborne
@GottaLaff just remember folks the US Congress banned an app before assault rifles. #schoolshooting #safeschools
Advocate for #SafeSchools with a focus on prevention like Clean Air to protect children from health risks like #LongCovid Sharing data on child Covid hospitalizations, long Covid, and schools with clean air: https://scholenveilig.com
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Assault on Teacher by Parent in Tajikistan https://timesca.com/assault-on-teacher-by-parent-in-tajikistan/ #TeacherSafety #SchoolViolencePrevention #SafeSchools #StopViolence #RespectTeachers #EndViolenceInSchools # Tajikistan #Eurasia #CentralAsia
Day 1 #RNC #Speeches #Attack #TransDayOfVisibility, #Pronouns, And #SafeSchools.
On day one of the Republican National Convention, at least four #Republicans used their #hateful #platform to #target #transgender #people.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/day-1-rnc-speeches-attack-trans-day
U.S. Secret Service Safe Schools Initiative with keynote speaker Dale Yeager
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🛡️ Safety is our priority. This American Education Week, let's reaffirm our commitment to creating secure learning environments where every child can thrive. #SafeSchools #AEW2023
Just to tell all of you still masking, shielding and doing everything you can to avoid getting and spreading #COVIDisAirborne
To all of you campaigning for #cleanair and #safeschools and hospitals for all
#corona
I love you very much. To know I am not the only one caring gives me strength. Take care.
TITLE: Across U.S., Conservatives Target Bans on LGBTQ+ "Conversion Therapy"—Bans Repealed After Threats of Lawsuits Based on Freedom of Religion & Speech
My commentary: As I have said many times, I fully expect our various mental health professions in the USA to split into conservative/fascist and democratic/progressive associations -- each with its own "ethics" code -- in the near future.
Thank you Dr. Pope for summary below.
Michael Reeder, LCPC
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The Associated Press released an article: “In Iowa and elsewhere, bans on LGBTQ+ ‘conversion therapy’ become a conservative target.”
Here are some excerpts:
One of Iowa’s largest cities repealed its ban on “conversion therapy”… after a Christian organization threatened legal action, part of a deepening national movement to challenge protections for LGBTQ+ kids.
The city council in Waterloo voted this week to remove its restrictions after Liberty Counsel warned in a letter June 30 that it would “take further action” if the city did not repeal the ordinance by August 1. It was enacted in May.
The organization, which is based in Orlando, Florida, argued the ordinance infringes on the constitutional right to free speech and acted on behalf of a therapist in Waterloo “who was concerned about the implications of this on the practice of counseling,” Mat Staver, Liberty Counsel founder and chair, said in an interview in which he promised further litigation targeting states.
In Iowa and across the country, efforts are spreading to curb the rights of LGBTQ+ kids and adopt restrictions on gender and sexuality in classrooms, youth sports and medicine.
In recent years, local bans on conversion therapy in Florida also fell with the help of Liberty Counsel, which describes itself as a Christian ministry that is “restoring the culture by advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of human life and the family.”
Such therapy has been discredited and is opposed by, among others, the American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association, citing research that shows it leads to increased risk of suicide and depression.
“The mental health mainstream believes that one, that these practices don’t really work, and two, that they may cause harm,” said Dr. Jack Drescher, a Columbia University psychiatry professor and editor of the chapter on gender dysphoria in the psychiatric association’s diagnostic manual.
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Laws prohibiting mental health professionals from attempting to change a minor’s sexual orientation or gender identity are on the books in 22 states and Washington, D.C., according to the Movement Advancement Project, an LGBTQ+ rights think tank. In 13 states, including Iowa, some municipalities have adopted their own provisions.
The issue has the potential to come to a head in the next year if the U.S. Supreme Court decides early this fall to hear the appeal of a Washington state therapist, Brian Tingley, whose lawsuit was dismissed.
While early lawsuits similar to Tingley’s failed, a Supreme Court ruling in 2018 prompted a new round of cases, said Christy Mallory, legal director at the UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute, which researches sexual orientation and gender identity. That ruling invoked free speech protections to block a California law that required anti-abortion centers to provide information about abortion.
In 2020, a panel of three federal judges in Florida relied in part on that 2018 ruling and became the first federal appeals court to block ordinances in Boca Raton and Palm Beach County that banned conversion therapy. Liberty Counsel represents the two therapists who won that case.
The diverging federal rulings in the Washington and Florida cases may be a reason for the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in this term, bringing another high-profile LGBTQ+ issue to the docket.
Staver is confident the Supreme Court will strike down bans in the near future. And Liberty Counsel has imminent plans to sue over statewide bans, he said.
“I think it is a losing proposition for any state or local government to have one of these laws, and they would be wise to repeal them before they also are sued,” Staver said.
In Iowa, Senate Democrats and a Republican in the House introduced bills for conversion therapy bans that didn’t make it out of subcommittees in 2020. That was the last time there was a concerted effort for a ban in the state, said Damian Thompson, public policy director at Iowa Safe Schools, an organization that advocates for LGBTQ+ children.
Meanwhile, in Iowa and elsewhere, laws have since been passed to prohibit teachers from raising gender identity and sexual orientation issues with students through grade six, to restrict the restrooms transgender students can use, and to ban treatments like puberty blockers and hormone therapy for trans minors. Many are facing challenges in court.
Republican lawmakers say the laws are designed to affirm parents’ rights and protect children. The issues have become flashpoints in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
But many parents and advocates worry about the deterioration of the rights and safety of LGBTQ+ kids.
In Waterloo, a city of over 65,000, Councilor Jonathan Grieder said he had heard concerns about conversion therapy happening in the area. He worked with Thompson at Iowa Safe Schools to draft an ordinance after watching statewide efforts stall but a ban pass in another Iowa city, Davenport, and in Linn County.
The Waterloo council approved it 6-1 in May, but overturned it 4-3 on Monday amid the prospect of costly litigation.
Archer Trip, of neighboring Cedar Falls, addressed the council before the repeal vote as a “survivor of conversion therapy” who had been placed there in high school.
“It does not work. Now, I am a proud queer man, but I am also here to protect everyone else,” Trip said. “We should protect our children.”
Archer’s twin sister, Nic Trip, who was also put in conversion therapy, testified: “Unfortunately, not all parents always make the safest decision for their children. What is the line of what is OK to do to our children?”
Mayor Quentin Hart said, not mentioning the Liberty Counsel, that there was “threat of impending litigation moving forward,” which put the members in a “tough situation.”
“I don’t believe that the Waterloo City Council are cowards,” Hart said. “I believe that they do have a decision to make tonight.”
The decision disappointed Thompson, who said Iowa Safe Schools will continue to advocate for local bans despite far-right groups’ success in turning a “common sense” issue into a “wedge culture war” one.
“Which is a shame,” Thompson said, “because in the meantime it only results in more kids being victimized and more kids, ultimately, receiving lifelong trauma.”
Ken Pope
Ken Pope, Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, Hector Y. Adames, Janet L. Sonne, and Beverly A. Greene
Speaking the Unspoken: Breaking the Silence, Myths, and Taboos That Hurt Therapists and Patients (APA, 2023)
Hector Y. Adames, Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, Melba J.T. Vasquez, & Ken Pope:
Succeeding as a Therapist: How to Create a Thriving Practice in a Changing World (APA, 2022)
Ken Pope, Melba J.T. Vasquez, Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, & Hector Y. Adames:
Ethics in Psychotherapy & Counseling: A Practical Guide, 6th Edition (Wiley, 2021)
“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”
—Steve Biko (1946-1977), anti-apartheid activist & co-founder of the South African Students' Organization
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy #legal #lgbtq #lgbtq+ #transgender #conversiontherapy
@psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #doctors #hospitals #gender #genderrestrictions #libertycounsel #christianright #supremecourt #safeschools #queer #culturewar
As we were getting ready to leave school today, some students in our Pride group came to tell us that a man was standing outside our school yelling homophobic slurs, and holding a sign full of hate. They didn’t want to leave the building on their own.
Our students shouldn’t have to go through this. They should be able to go to school and feel safe. Please sign @nilikm petition and get safe zones around schools.
https://www.change.org/p/safe-zones-for-canadian-schools
#Pride #SafeSchools
Kids don't get Covid?
Schools are safe?
Masking unnecessary?
Think again.
Recent study indicates that 70% of all household Covid spread began with an infected child, and that this trend accelerated when schools reopened, and declined during summer vacation.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/more-70-us-household-covid-spread-started-child-study-suggests
#covid #CovidIsNotOver #pandemic #SafeSchools #children #masking
RT @LuxembourgUN: Protection of civilians & #IHL should be a priority
#Luxembourg supports
🔹access to quality basic services
🔹@WFP Humanitarian Innovation Accelerator
🔹@IntlCrimCourt
🔹#SafeSchools Declaration
🔹@ICRC Cyberdelegation
Thank you @swiss_un for convening #UNSC open debate on #POC https://t.co/AgOCQl8fTo
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUatUN/status/1661164777232650242
ASHRAE Completes Draft of First-Ever Pathogen Mitigation Standard - 1
ASHRAE Standard 241P, Control of Infectious Aerosols provides minimum requirements for HVAC-related measures to reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19, influenza, and other airborne viruses in offices, schools, hospitals during periods of high risk. The standard offers guidance for creating healthier environments in buildings where we work, live, and play.
#iaq #indoorairquality #SafeSchools #COVIDisAirborne #ASHRAE
ASHRAE Completes Draft of First-Ever Pathogen Mitigation Standard - 2
The scope is specifically about mitigating long range transmission. Nothing for short range transmission. Plexiglass is gone, thankfully.
Right at the beginning, it gives you the equivalent outdoor air rates. Looks pretty good.
They finally provide a table for MERV rating and pathogen removal efficiency.
#iaq #indoorairquality #SafeSchools #COVIDisAirborne #ASHRAE
ASHRAE Completes Draft of First-Ever Pathogen Mitigation Standard - 3
Existing building operation is addressed.
Building Monitoring & Operations - This is where the biggest problem with ventilation occurs. It's designed one way and works for a couple of years. There is no oversight for HVAC mechanics/maintenance technicians. ASHRAE has guidelines for maintaining equipment, but this isn't legally enforced.
#iaq #indoorairquality #SafeSchools #COVIDisAirborne #ASHRAE
