The policy, cultural, and institutional change goals listed here are only a beginning, but they will take decades of concerted research, organizing, advocacy, and movement building to accomplish. Their outcomes will be modest: Offer bullied fat children the support and protection we offer to thinner targets of bullying. Create basic pathways for legal recourse for employees who are fired solely because of the way they look. And regulate diet drugs the way we regulate anything else. For thin people, these aims may seem too low. But for fat people, they may save our dignity, our
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