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Transgender community, please please please do NOT use this product! It will kill you if used, please do not use it whatsoever.

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Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

DnD party drawn in VR – A commission for @schnoodly.

“I’m honored to be the first person to do it,” he said. “It is very, very awe inspiring.” 

“A lot of people don’t really know Ojibwe,” Tecumseh said. “it’s been oppressed throughout history … I’m the first person in my family, my direct family, to not be at risk of being put in a boarding school. … I think that by taking someone’s language away you’re taking a part of themselves and their identity. By learning that, I wanted to let people learn my language, our language, and spread it across the world.”

Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Tribal Nations Education Committee Member Raina Killspotted presented Tecumseh an eagle feather as a language warrior. Williams presented him with a blanket as he accepted his certificate[…]

The game’s storyline follows a girl who falls asleep in the woods during a visit to her grandmother’s house. The teen, Miskwaa, wakes up in a dreamlike place filled with talking animals and spiritual beings. She must use the cultural teachings she has learned and her language skills to find a way back home. “This is a new way to tell a story,” Mary Hermes, director of Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia, said. Hermes, a professor at the University of Minnesota, cofounded Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia over two decades ago to strengthen Ojibwe language revitalization efforts. This is the first game development project the nonprofit has tackled. The game, which debuts Thursday, offers an accessible method for learners of all ages to engage with the Ojibwe language outside the classroom, adding to the opportunities for families and communities to practice language in everyday life. Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia partnered with the University of Minnesota and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop Reclaim! The development team worked with Ojibwe speakers from Canada, Minnesota and immersion school alumni for language accuracy. The game is voiced in the Ojibwe language and is playable in both Ojibwe and English.

Here is the game on Steam: