Broke: Schools should teach about healthy relationships as part of sex ed.
Woke: Schools should teach about respect for other people, beginning in preschool, and allow students to extrapolate those same principles of respect to sexual/romantic relationships later on, without imposing relationship normativity on the basis of "health."
Coercive drugging (what its defenders euphemistically call "families getting help for their loved ones") disproportionately affects people with speech disabilities or other impediments to what is considered "articulate" oral communication by neurotypical standards. A person who can "articulately" speak in a neurotypical-passing way in defense of his right to be free from coerced drugging will be taken more seriously by a judge. A person who cannot speak well, who hesitates, who doesn't have the vocabulary or sentence structure of a person coded as "educated" will have his method of speech considered evidence of his presumed incompetence.
Of course, coerced drugging can in itself impair cognitive and speech abilities, so a person can be so "inarticulate" as a result of coerced drugging that he's declared incompetent to refuse continued coerced drugging.
I'm glad that the horrible issue of police violence against psychiatrically disabled people, whose families have called police in order to have them forced into involuntary medical treatment, is getting media attention, but please let me note:
None of this would be happening if people weren't trying to force psychiatrically disabled people into involuntary medical treatment in the first place.
Yes, people can lobby for police to be trained in "de-escalation techniques" for taking people into custody for forced medical treatment without (physically-injurious) violence... or, alternately, we can get coercion and policing out of medical treatment and abolish involuntary treatment altogether. #presumecompetence
