Being a public school teacher in the US these days is tough(艰难的，棘手的). You’ve got to pay for a lot of your own supplies, deal with smartphone-addicted children and perform gender-affirming surgeries(性别确认手术) on your lunch break.
如今在美国当一名公立学校教师可不容易。你得自己掏钱买不少教学用品，应付沉迷智能手机的孩子，还得在午休时间做性别确认手术。
Luckily our intrepid(无畏的，勇敢的) attorney general, Todd Blanche, is on the case(在处理此事). Blanche appeared on Fox News(福克斯新闻，美国保守派媒体) this week to decry(公开谴责) a “pandemic” of gender transitions in schools across the US. “There’s not a parent in America, no matter where you live, that would want their school to change and call their child by a different name and not expect to be told about that.(美国没有一位家长，无论住在哪里，会希望学校改变称呼，用不同的名字叫他们的孩子，而不期望被告知。) We partnered with the Department of Education recently to combat(打击，与……斗争) this very trend and, really, pandemic that’s happening in some school districts around the country,” Blanche said. He seemed more concerned with name changes than with surgery, but the president himself has suggested on several occasions that schools are furtively(偷偷地，鬼鬼祟祟地) doing surgery on children. During a campaign speech in 2024, for example, Donald Trump said: “Can you imagine … your son leaves the house and you say: ‘Jimmy, I love you so much. Go have a good day in school,’ and your son comes back with a brutal operation? Can you even imagine this?”
幸运的是，我们无畏的司法部长托德·布兰奇正在处理此事。本周，布兰奇出现在福克斯新闻上，谴责美国各地学校中性别转换的“大流行”。布兰奇说：“美国没有一位家长，无论你住在哪里，会希望学校改变称呼，用不同的名字叫他们的孩子，而不期望被告知此事。我们最近与教育部合作，打击这一趋势，以及全国一些学区正在发生的真正的大流行。”他似乎更关心改名而非手术，但总统本人已在多个场合暗示学校正在偷偷给孩子做手术。例如，在2024年的一次竞选演讲中，唐纳德·特朗普说：“你能想象吗……你的儿子离开家，你说：‘吉米，我如此爱你。去学校度过美好的一天吧，’然后你的儿子带着一次残忍的手术回来？你能想象吗？”
No, I can’t even imagine this. The public schools near me can’t afford(负担得起) air conditioning, so I’m not sure where they are getting all these operating theaters(手术室) and surgeons from.
不，我甚至无法想象这种事。我附近的公立学校连空调都买不起，所以我不确定他们从哪里弄来所有这些手术室和外科医生。
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