STAND UP FOR FAT KIDS In most states, size is not a protected class, which means that states with anti-bullying laws often don’t extend those protections to fat children and teens. We have to recognize that fat hate starts young, that its trauma can last a lifetime, and that early intervention will be essential to raising a generation of more compassionate people. We’ll need to end the strikingly common practice of state-mandated BMI report cards. And we’ll need to develop campaigns for children’s public health that don’t blame them for their own circumstance.7 Vulnerable, oft-targeted fat
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