Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Germany (AFP)— A volunteer firefighter died during a rescue operation during heavy rain and flooding in the south of Germany Four emergency workers were attempting to reach people trapped by the flood waters near Pfaffenhofen in the region of Bavaria when their boat capsized Three of the crew managed to pull themselves to safety was found dead in the water by other rescue workers at around 2:20 am (0020 GMT) “I am saddened by the death of a firefighter in Pfaffenhofen My thoughts are with his family and colleagues,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on X “We owe thanks and respect to the rescue workers and helpers who are fighting the consequences of the floods in many places,” he said A rescue operation was underway to find another volunteer firefighter in Offingen The 22-year-old fell into the flood waters after his vessel capsized overnight Heavy rains since Friday have led to flooding across the southern German states of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Bavaria German rail operator Deutsche Bahn said Sunday that trains between the cities of Stuttgart and Augsburg had been blocked because of the severe weather Two carriages of a high-speed train travelling on the line derailed after a landslide None of the passengers on board were injured in the incident late Saturday Several districts in Bavaria have declared states of emergency as a result of the high waters The German Weather Service (DWD) warned of more heavy rain to come in southern Germany on Sunday and the beer started flowing as the 186th Oktoberfest got underway Saturday in the southern German city of Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter inserted the tap in the first keg with two blows of a hammer and the cry of “O’zapt is” – “it’s tapped.” As tradition demands he handed the first mug to Bavarian governor Markus Soeder Even before the waitresses started bringing the one-liter (two-pint) beer mugs to customers at noon the festival grounds were so overcrowded that security guards allowed entry only for people with reservations in one of the beer tents Revelers – many women in colorful dirndl dresses and men in traditional Bavarian lederhosen – started lining up in front of the gates before dawn to get inside “I took the first commuter train early this morning,” Felix Stenglein from nearby Eichenau told German news agency dpa the festival’s organizers said the party could begin welcome to Oktoberfest,” an announcer voice declared through loudspeakers “We’re now opening the festival grounds.” English and Bavarian – a German dialect so thick and heavy with accent and local vernacular that even many native German speakers from other parts of the country have trouble understanding it many guests ran to the beer tents to make sure they’d catch one of the coveted spots on the long Around 6 million beer lovers from around the world are expected at the festival in Munich before the Oktoberfest ends on Oct Some 600 police officers and hundreds of security guards are tasked with keeping order around the many Around 50 doctors are on call for those with health problems and there’s a special security area where women can find protection from harassment which were legalized in Germany earlier this year are banned inside and around the Oktoberfest grounds and plenty of traffic controls were established outside to prevent drunken driving after the party’s over with a liter mug costing up to 11.80 euros ($13) – a 30-cent increase over last year students have to overcome challenging circumstances to even get to class amid war while others simply hop on a yellow school bus that stops on their suburban corner students and teachers alike are grappling with remote learning and socially distanced classroom setups due to the COVID-19 pandemic Despite the differences between cramped classrooms without electricity and private institutions with pressed uniforms the power of learning can help kids all over the world reach their full potential.  Here's what school looked like in 20 different countries Pupils were dismissed from their classroom at an elementary school in eastern Mosul in 2017 A biology teacher broadcast her course in a classroom to students at home during a polluted day students offered prayers to their parents during an event called Matru-Pitru Puja Pictured is a class at Al Hakim El Kassar Primary School in Tunis In the primary school of Van Chai in Dong Van district classes are taught in the local Hmong language Children listened to their teacher on the first day of school Sikhwari teaches at Sekano-Ntoane school in Soweto there were 36 male students at the madrasah Children ate breakfast together at a nursery school near Munich in 2012  Takakusaki taught at Takinogawa Elementary School in Tokyo The students were making the compound of an anti-parasitic medicine used to treat malaria Pictured is a classroom at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Primary School children painted handmade sheets of paper made from recycled cigarette butts A class from the 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Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience | (Photo: Reuters/Michaela Rehle)There is "no scientific basis" for transgender individuals to believe that they are trapped in the wrong body the American College of Pediatricians argued in a recently released report addressing gender dysphoria in children the report states that gender dysphoria is merely a "psychological" condition and suggests that about 80 to 95 percent of children who believe that they are boys and girls trapped in the wrong body will eventually grow up to accept the reality of their biological sex if the children are are not given some kind of hormone intervention treatment and conditioned to believe that there truly is something physically wrong with them "The treatment of GD in childhood with hormones effectively amounts to mass experimentation on youth who are cognitively incapable of providing informed consent," the report explains "There is a serious ethical problem with allowing irreversible life-changing procedures to be performed on minors who are too young to give valid consent themselves; adolescents cannot understand the magnitude of such decisions." Earlier this year the ACP released a statement contending that the act of "conditioning children into believing that a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse." As there are now 40 gender clinics in the United States that promote the use of pubertal suppression and cross-sex hormones for transgender children the college calls for an end to such conditioning and harming of children's biological bodies Irvine installed a gender-neutral bathroom amid the growing issue concerning the liberties of transgender students in U.S | REUTERS/LUCY NICHOLSON"Ethics alone demands an end to the use of pubertal suppression with GnRH agonists and sex reassignment surgeries in children and adolescents," the report suggests "The college recommends an immediate cessation of these interventions as well as an end to promoting gender ideology via school curricula and legislative policies school curricula and legislation must remain anchored to physical reality." the ACP report denounces such a theory that transgender children are born that way "There is no evidence that people are born with brain microstructures that are forever unalterable but there is significant evidence that experience changes brain microstructure," the report states if and when valid transgender brain differences are identified these will likely be the result of transgender behavior rather than its cause." is the fact that the brains of all male infants are masculinized prenatally by their own endogenous testosterone which is secreted from their testes beginning at approximately eight weeks' gestation," the report adds do not have their brains masculinized by endogenous testosterone barring one of the rare disorders of sex development (DSD) and girls are not born with masculinized brains." According to a 2003 study conducted in Sweden transsexuals who change their gender through body mutilation or hormone therapy have a higher suicide rate than the general population which followed 191 male-to-female gender reassignments and 133 female-to-male gender reassignments from 1973-2003 found that suicide attempts and in-patient psychiatric treatment actually increased in Sweden among those who had a sex change In an interview with CP two years ago, Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies at the Family Research Council in Washington, said: "Essentially, society is being forced to affirm a clear, physical, biological falsehood — the idea that someone with healthy male sex organs and normal male chromosomes can become a female We are being told that when there's a conflict between a person's objective biological reality and their subjective feelings it is the body that needs to be 'fixed.' This is utterly bizarre The ACP report explains that behavior geneticists have known for years that although genes and hormones are known to influence behavior "People who identify as 'feeling like the opposite sex' or 'somewhere in between' or some other category do not comprise a third sex. They remain biological men or biological women," the report states "GD is a problem that resides in the mind not in the body Children with GD do not have a disordered body — even though they feel as if they do." a child's distress over developing secondary sex characteristics does not mean that puberty should be treated as a disease to be halted although many men with GD express the belief that they are a 'feminine essence' trapped in a male body While many transgendered individuals turn to gender reassignment surgeries the ACP report contends that changing one's sex is still "impossible" despite surgical advancements human beings possess a biologically determined sex and innate sex differences," the report argues "No sexologist could actually change a person's genes through hormones and surgery Help keep The Christian Post free for everyone By making a recurring donation or a one-time donation of any amount you're helping to keep CP's articles free and accessible for everyone Hope you’ll give us another try and check out some other articles. 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