I agree that the third option is more likely, but I don’t think it puts the cops in a better light than if they’d outright murdered her. In their narrative, they knew she was depressed (exacerbated/caused by the illegal arrest) and possibly suicidal and did nothing about it. That’s just another form of murder, IMO.

IDK. Her supposed mugshot was really weird looking, and some parts of it implied that she might not have been standing when it was taken. But then again, mugshots are not exemplary photographs in the best of circumstances, and some of the evidence for her already being dead could be just really bad photography.

I dunno...I’d feel super creeped out by the fact that a stranger is just holding on to my biological matter too.

No matter what the mother did, it still isn’t right to punish children for it.

Neither KY nor the federal government have an anti-discrimination law, so she can’t be sued on those grounds, I don’t think. There’s probably some other grounds to sue here, but I’m not sure what they would technically be.

There’s no anti-discrimination law in KY, so it’s pretty hard for the federal government to strong-arm people into performing their duties. County clerks are not technically federal employees, so they can be protected by a sympathetic county or state government.

Because there are two meanings of “marriage.”

Honestly, if you’ve gotten food poisoning from so many upscale restaurants, I wonder if your problem is that you can’t digest fat well for some reason. Because that is...very odd otherwise.

Humans can digest raw meat. Carpaccio is a very popular dish. However, cooking it eliminates harmful bacteria and allows different flavors (humans actually taste most things better at room or warmer temperature—it is harder for us to taste cold things).

Venison becomes extremely tough very easily, because it has less fat.

You realize the cookie dough in cookie dough ice cream has no chance of containing salmonella, right? It’s not actual cookie dough.

Gee, it’s almost like some people prefer to trade location for space?? Like, maybe living space isn’t as important to them as lots of museums, or public transit, or myriad other things that come in high COL places??

Is it really, though? I mean—one jar of a good spice is $5-10. And I might use two or three tablespoons of it before it goes bad or gets lost or whatever. And I’m supposed to buy how many spices to have a decent variety of meals?

I’m not sure about boys, but I distinctly remember realizing that I liked girls around age 5 or 6. I probably wouldn’t have articulated it that way, but I was really drawn to the girls in cartoons, liked to play the superhero saving the damsel in distress, etc.

I see. I think that there’s still lots of reasons why a trans boy might want to be in Girl Scouts though, like if they were in it before they transitioned, or if they had friends in it.

Yes, we are talking about 7 and 8 year olds. Do you think most schools are like, “Your kid who has a penis wants to be called “she” and use the girls’ restroom? Yeah, we’re totally cool with that with no verification.”?

I don’t think the OP means any harm here. And while I don’t know about any boys in Girl Scouts, there are girls who participate in Boy Scouts, so it’s not a silly question. Frankly, I don’t see why there would be anything wrong with a boy in Brownies really.

Transgender kids have to go through extensive counseling and psychiatric examination before they transition. It’s not like playing dress up. We have lots and lots of research that shows that gender is set by around age 2-3. It isn’t really that complex.

As far as I know, there is no actual rule against boys joining Girl Scouts, although I’m sure some individual troops wouldn’t want to deal with having to separate sleeping facilities and stuff like that.

I think we would all be highly interested in that.