According to the Russian occupiers, the Ukrainian nuclear power plant Saprischja has come under fire once more. The power plant was attacked with heavy artillery and rocket launchers, the representative of the occupation authorities, Vladimir Rogov, said on Telegram on Thursday. Shots are fired from towns under Ukrainian control. The information might not be verified. One and a half billion euros were raised for Kyiv at a donor conference.
California (USA) is regarding to pass a law that would make it a “refuge state” and host for trans children who cannot undergo gender reassignment treatments or surgeries in other parts of the country.
Gender-affirming practices through surgery or the use of hormones are illegal in states like Texas, Alabama, Louisiana, Idaho, and Arizona, with criminal consequences for parents who allow their children access to such treatments.
Since June, the bill SB-107 tries to make its way to exempt from legal responsibility those parents from any part of the country who authorize their children to access those services in California, even if they later return to their states of origin.
If passed, this legislation would prohibit any state authority from ordering the separation of children from their parents if the parents consent to any method of gender affirmation of their children in California.
Likewise, it does not contemplate the arrest or request for transfer of an individual for allowing his son to receive this care on Californian soil.
The initiative, which has been promoted by San Francisco Senator Scott Wiener, of the Democratic Party, was approved by the Appropriations Committee of the California State Assembly, and will be put to a vote in the plenary session of the Lower House soon.
Organizations such as Equality California and Planned Parenthood endorse this state bill, which they describe as “hopeful” and consider that it will end the “criminalization of people just for being who they are.”
The measure also has detractors from conservative sectors in California and has generated great controversy in recent weeks.
From the organization Parents with Inconvenient Truths regarding Trans (parents with uncomfortable truths regarding transsexuality) they affirmed to Efe that for them it is “a scandal”, because, in their opinion, “the majority” of minors who will request gender-affirming treatments really they suffer from a temporary “adolescent” dysphoria.
Dysphoria is a psychological disorder that causes anguish and anxiety in those whose gender identity is different from their assigned sex at birth.
“Support, yes. Love yes. A therapy that allows them to explore why they feel this way, yes. But this type of operation, no, because they suppose an authentic kidnapping of minors, ”said Gigi LaRue, representative of Our Duty USA, an association of parents once morest gender ideology, in an interview with Efe.
LaRue (a pseudonym she uses to, according to her, avoid “retaliation”) emphasized the consequences of hormonal treatments and sex change operations, because “when testosterone and estrogen are administered to the opposite sex, they can cause problems of health for life”.
Charlie Jacobs (also a pseudonym), of Our Duty USA, wanted to emphasize that they are “for gay marriage and equal rights” and that their position is not politicized.
“The human brain is not fully developed until the age of 25, so I would advocate exercising extreme caution and raising the legal age for making the decision to undergo these treatments to 25,” LaRue said.
According to a study by Detrans Awareness, another organization once morest these procedures, 70% of people undergoing surgery do not solve their mental health problems following changing their sex and some even regret it.
Data that contrasts with that of the academic journal The Journal of Sexual Medicine, which with samples taken up to 2015, calculates the number of trans women who are not satisfied with their transition at 0.6%. A statistic that stands at 0.3% in the case of transsexual men.
For the therapist Calista Termini, a member of the Los Angeles Gender Center, “there is a great ignorance” on the part of many parents who “do not really know” their children or how they feel.
“It will be important that there is good communication because there are a large number of cases in which minors do not want to undergo a sex change operation and seek only hormonal treatments,” Termini told Efe, adding that for this reason “the most The important thing is that they feel accepted.”
A position shared by Mariana Marroquín, program manager of the Los Angeles LGTB Center organization, from where she provides legal and psychological support to trans people who are in situations of extreme vulnerability.
“Above any law, parents must love their children. I assure you that they do not prefer that they end up lying on the street, suffering from violence, alcohol or drugs”.
I believe many people have heard“The Nun and the Fish”Memes, but also the confession of the “connection between man and fish” caused a bit of confusion in my head, but memes are often business opportunities. There are already merchants on Taobao in China that specialize in making “fish aircraft cups” products, and the finished products. Breathtaking, and at the same time reminded of the boy who confessed.
According to Chinese Weibo, this “fish aircraft cup” is 29 cm in length and 10 cm in height. The surface is also made of silicone, but the finished product is quite Q bomb, and the fish mouth is naturally the only “connection”. .
According to the merchant, this “Fish Aircraft Cup” is a product that came with another “Nun’s Cup” product, which is said to be in thetwo months agoProduction has already started, but according to the responses of many netizens, it shows that more people are interested in fish than nuns.After all, the use of fish as a sexual fetish is unprecedented.
With the meme becoming the theme of Cosplay, the “Nun and the Fish” meme has also become the theme of business ideas. Regardless of whether the global male population has enough market to support the “fish” sexual fetish, at least for the one who confessed to Nikki There might be some consolation for the boy.
Published on : 11/08/2022 – 23:22
New York (AFP) – The New York Stock Exchange on Thursday reversed its momentum, which had been propelled by a slowdown in inflation on Wednesday, and ended in disarray following a strong start as the technology sector lost steam.
According to final results, the Dow Jones gained 0.08% to 33,336.67 points, the technology-dominated Nasdaq fell 0.58% to 12,779.91 points and the S&P 500 lost 0.07% to 4,207.27 points.
After yesterday’s strong performance driven by an upturn in US inflation, investors operated “to take profits”, said Peter Cardillo of Spartan Capital.
Same story with Patrick O’Hare of Briefing.com who judged that the market had chosen “to take a break following all the gains” of the day before.
“After being carried by the headlines” of inflation falling in the United States to 8.5% in July over one year instead of 9.1% in June, “reality has returned to the front of the scene showing that the rise in prices remains very substantial”, commented to AFP Mr. O’Hare.
The two analysts noted that bond yields had risen sharply once more, which in general is often done to the detriment of equities.
Rates on 10-year bonds rose to 2.88% once morest 2.78% the day before in the wake of a loan issue by the Treasury.
“However, I do not believe that the market is suffering a reversal of fortune. I do not think that the rebound is over,” assured Peter Cardillo, while the Nasdaq the day before had returned to the “bull market” zone thanks to a jump of almost 3%.
Today’s indicators were mixed.
The PPI wholesale price index fell 0.5% in July compared to June, more than expected, following rising 1.0% in June. Over one year, the rise in producer prices therefore moderated while remaining high at 9.8% once morest 11.3% in June.
On the labor market, on the other hand, weekly claims for unemployment benefits increased, continuing their upward trend, reaching their highest level since November (+14,000 to 262,000). This shows that the job market is starting to slow down.
As for corporate results, Disney, heavyweight of the Dow Jones, had a good session, ending up 4.68% to 117.69 dollars following announcing solid results on Wednesday evening.
Its Disney+ platform attracted 14.4 million new subscribers between March and June, bringing its total to 152 million and reassuring a market worried regarding the risks of saturation of digital services. The entertainment giant’s turnover rose in the third quarter by 26% year on year.
Its competitors in streaming, up sharply for part of the session, did not benefit from the current for long like Netflix (-0.58%) and Roku (-0.53%) while the title of amusement parks Six Flags, which suffered a drop in revenue and attendance this summer, plunged 18.17%.
The energy sector (+3.19%) was well supported by a rebound in oil prices while US demand is reassuring, between a drop in weekly fuel inventories and a drop in gasoline prices at the end of the day. pump that might encourage motorists to get back behind the wheel at the end of the summer.
Devon Energy (+7.34%), Marathon Oil Corporation (+7.03%), Schlumberger (+5.64%), Halliburton (+4.08%) climbed solidly.
Profit taking was clear on the big names in tech which had risen sharply the day before such as Tesla (-2.62%), Amazon (-1.44%) Apple (-0.44%) or Alphabet (- 0.69%).
The New York Times stock jumped 10.60% to $35.05 following activist shareholder ValueAct Capital Partners took a 6.7% stake in the daily’s publishing company, according to a filing with the SEC.
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