Palenville, NY, USA. Apparently there actually is a transgender prime directive. It basically is "thou shall never ever ever mis-gender a transgender identified person. Let's examine exactly how this is applied in the real world. By mis-gender, they mean if someone claims to be a woman, you shall never refer to them as male or a man even if their life is one as a male. This is the greatest crime against a transgender you can apparently commit.

Even if you know they live as a man, never ever plan to have surgery to acquire an actual female body or put up you-tube videos teaching lesbians how to stand and pee like a real transvestite.

You-Must-Use-Female-Pronouns: They even got the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) to say so. [N1] But a look at the logic involved is quite revealing. In just a couple of years trans-speak now includes the concept of "cis" women and men who exist to exercise "cis-privilege" over all trans people. In other words, plain old garden variety women are oppressors naturally. This raises the obvious question, if regular women are something different than trans people why are those trans people not insisting on being referred to as something other than women?

Washington, DC, USA. Nine states and the District of Columbia were awarded stimulus-funded education grants Tuesday, ending an interstate competition called “Race to the Top.” The grants, totaling $4.3 billion, rewarded states for implementing reforms advocated by the Obama administration.

Nowhere was the competition among states more fierce than in their efforts to adopt a common academic curriculum known as the “Common Core” standards. So far, 36 states and the District of Columbia have adopted the new standards. Many of them seemed motivated by the possibility that doing so would help their applications for the Race to the Top money.