AP psychology course can’t be offered over gender identity, sexual orientation lessons, College Board says

I suspect Florida's censorship laws will eventually affect accreditation.

Can we just take the Florida out of Florida

Perhaps this will help. (Tool to get around paywall.)

Florida will not allow public school students to take Advanced Placement psychology because the course includes lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity, topics forbidden by the state, the College Board said Thursday.

No, it's because of bigots that want to suppress people who aren't exactly like them.

The dsm-v released a decade ago, what are you talking about?

Geee it's almost like science progresses and we learn new things and change our opinions based on evidence?

The DSM 5 was out when I was taking this class years ago. Don't think that's the problem...

Can You explain more? There actually isn’t massive changes from IV to V. The massive changes were from III to IV and V. Personally I dislike some of the changes and like others. The focus on spectrums is one I dislike. Not a fan of everything is a spectrum. I think precise diagnosis is important and spectrums make things more vague.

Dsm really isn’t taught in an intro course. It’s introduced but the first you’ll really approach it is a masters course or a doctorate level course.

I not aware of any state that allows someone with a bachelors degree to diagnoses. Most states required a doctorate to be a psychologist.

Well, one side has the APA. The other side has Jesus. I wonder who actually has facts. It's a mystery.

We can’t have conversations because one side argues in bad faith, makes shit up, and behaves like fucking gremlins by defunding services then claiming they don’t work.

Sure, step away from the topic itself. Blue states don’t have post birth abortions, slavery did not benefit African American, climate change is not a hoax, and Rosa Parks was protesting racism. Claiming otherwise isn’t “alternative facts”, they’re just fucking lies.

“Both sides” - fucking brainlet.

That's just the thing. One side isn't using scientific evidence. There is a process to science. You can't use the simplified version of gender taught to kids and say it's scientific. Just like you can't say that the year is 365 days long like kids are taught at first. Then they learn about leap years and it's actually 365 and a quarter days. Then they learn about leap seconds. Ok so then there must be some fraction of a second in addition to the 365.25 days. Then they learn about wobble, the gravity of the planets, and everything else that makes it not a constant. It's something that has to be analyzed every year to decide if one is needed yet. It's complicated. So just like kids are taught 365 days in a year, they are taught that there are 2 genders that are caused by one of two combinations of chromosomes. Then they learn about intersex people and people born with vaginas who have an x chromosome and people with 3 chromosomes, etc.

So sure, if you're a child it's ok to think there are two genders chosen based on a single chromosome difference. But it's not ok to pretend it's that simple and call it truth and scientific evidence that your teachers taught it that way.

I appreciate that you're trying to be reasonable, but one side (and you know which) isn't even going to be...

Enlightened centrism at its finest, completely missing the entire point.

Group 1: I understand that transgenderism is legitimate and supported by science. People should be able to identify as the gender they feel most comfortable.

Group 2: I want to FUCKING kill EVERYONE in group one!

Centrists: Why can't both sides just see eye to eye already and get along? I am so smart.

The fact that you even think that "both sides" is a valid argument, means that your opinion is literally worthless.

Because either you are intentionally arguing in bad faith and you know you're lying, or you actually believe that. Which means you lack the mental capacity to see something objectively.

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The subject at hand is accreditation of a course in psychology,. Tell me how you on one hand call transgenderism a mental illness and on the other refuse to teach - in an AP course - the subject of gender and sexuality. I'd submit there are a number subjects we can "both sides" about, but what's happening in Florida ain't it. There's nothing to be debated here anyway, College Board (may they step on Lego) says if you don't teach the AP curriculum, you don't get the credit.

A long time ago we actually agreed on a process for fact finding. It is one that has served us well for hundreds of years (more so in the last 150 years, once we really had a foundational understanding of the world based on previously established facts). The whole "you look at the world, draw conclusions and test them" - system is not new and it works. That is science. It's not a question of what people believe to be fact, but in believing in the process of establishing them. One side is systematically trying to undermine the very basis of science. It is impossible to use science or data or facts to convince someone like that that their position is wrong.

Yes, if only there were some kind of systemized method of some sort for approaching scientific questions. Alas...

My parents are gay. Do you think it's wrong to "brute force" that they do, indeed, exist and are harmless?

One side presets a handful random jankie ass studies as science, the other side presents mountains of massive rigorous studies, that people have rerun and pressure tested.

There is no “both sides.”

One side is using the scientific method, the other is cherry picking crap to support a belief they’ve already formed.

I think the sky is green, and that homeless dude down on the corner agrees with me. But everyone else just insists that the sky is blue and calls me crazy. Why can't we agree on facts? I know the sky is green so I'm never going to change my mind, but why can't we just agree? How do we fix that?

Disingenuous trashbag centrist.

Don'tbother, lemmy is filled with leftists.