Calling balls and strikes: This is a great message @bofrench.

After digging into this for two days… I’m fairly certain this was done by Republicans in an effort to anger you enough to make you vote. Have we become so desperate to secure votes that we are willing to compromise our morals, values, and principles to get them? Children were sent materials explaining how to pursue emancipation from their parents and directing them to resources that could assist them with gender transitioning. We are talking about minors, including children who may already be struggling with questions about their identity, being given information about potentially life-altering decisions without their parents necessarily knowing. If anyone is willing to excuse this simply because they believe it might benefit their political side, we have a much bigger problem. Children are not political pawns. Their vulnerability should never be exploited for a vote. We cannot claim to care about protecting children while abandoning those principles whenever doing so becomes politically inconvenient. If winning requires us to compromise the very values we claim to defend, what exactly have we won? Nothing. I’m disgusted.

Texas transgender advocacy groups have denied sending out the material, leading many to believe they may be coming from someone hoping to stir up Republican voters, rather than offer aid to transgender youth as they purport to be doing. bit.ly/4sfV5g5

@JoelWebbon and @Wesley_Todd_ explain how the soul comes from God but also through the bodies of the mother and father, shaped by their "genetic particularities." Therefore, like physical features, the nature of soul and spirit is inherited through lineage, i.e. ethnicity.