Posted on 11/21/2023 4:47:35 AM PST by MtnClimber
According to the Department of Education, “misgendering” a student could violate federal civil rights law. Last month, the Department’s Office for Civil Rights announced the resolution of its investigation of California’s Taft College for creating a hostile environment under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. OCR investigated the school after a male student was “misgendered” by his professors. The student, who did not notify university administrators that he identified as female, told his professors that he was “trans-femme” and preferred to be addressed by plural pronouns. (Because I’m not employed by a university and am therefore not legally compelled to speak falsely or use improper English, I refer to the student by male pronouns.)
The student’s professors tried to use the plural pronouns but didn’t always succeed. It is understandably difficult for someone delivering collegiate-level instruction to remember to refer to a man as “they” or “them.”
One professor, seemingly realizing her “mistake,” caught herself mid-word and ended up uttering “he-she.” That’s not quite “they,” so the OCR considered that a civil rights violation. The student then told another female professor that he was upset by the failure to address him as he desired. That professor apologized and met with the dean of students to discuss strategies for remembering to use the student’s “proper pronouns.” She seems mostly to have managed to do so, but occasionally she slipped up, too, again contributing to the OCR’s finding. A third female professor referred to the student by male pronouns, realized her “mistake,” and apologized, explaining that when she looked at the student, she saw his physical appearance and referred to him accordingly. Depending on OCR’s interpretation of the Supreme Court’s Bostock ruling, this could be a double civil rights violation—on both gender-identity and sex-stereotype grounds.
The funny or horrifying thing, depending on your point of view, is the faculty’s concern and exasperation in response to the student’s protestations. One professor, after meeting with the dean, had the school’s mental-health services contact the student. Another threw up his hands and exclaimed that he was “too old” to use preferred pronouns. A third asked the student if he had ever tried not thinking about his pronouns so much. A fourth suggested that if the student was so upset about inadvertent misgendering, maybe college wasn’t right for him and he should become an activist instead. The supposed civil rights violators here were mostly female, Californian professors, disproportionately a conscientious and progressive lot. Even they couldn’t quite manage to use preferred pronouns every time and seem to have found the demand annoying.
Why should I be forced to participate in someone’s mental illness?
exactly. Why is not chosing to partake in a kids fantasy world a violation of their civil rights? kids are uneducated, they don’t have civil rights!.
If the student has XY chromosomes, and the school refers to the student as “she”, then the school is misgendering. Just stating facts here.
If gender is fluid it could change tomorrow.
Just call anyone who demands special pronouns “it.”
Mental confusion,mental illness, what a weird bunch of effers!
No American should be forced to participate in the mental illness of another. It is a violation of the ist amendment among others for the federal government to require mentally ill speech.
If these mentally deficient FREAKS insist on using any one of a number of FAKE and MADE UP Genders, then THEY and THEY alone should be REQUIRED to TATOO their preferred Gender on their Forehead in great big block letters.
This way NORMAL people will be able to correctly Identify the Freak by their “chosen” gender.
See, Simple Solution!!!!!!
The stupidity of it, too, is these are plural pronouns.
“ Depending on OCR’s interpretation of the Supreme Court’s Bostock ruling, this could be a double civil rights violation—on both gender-identity and sex-stereotype grounds.”
Time to burn it down and start over.
We’re rapidly reaching the point where such matters should be decided in a non-courtroom setting.
Perfect for the up and coming non-binary!
“They” and “them” are Scandinavian loanwords in English. Unless the student can prove he is of Norwegian or Danish descent, he should be charged with cultural appropriation for using pronouns he has no right to use.
“According to the Department of Education, “misgendering” a student could violate federal civil rights law.”
According to the Department of MisEducation, “misgendering” a student could violate federal civil rights law.
There, fixed it
Just use a generic pronoun such as ‘s**thead’.
“to be addressed by plural pronouns”
There is ONE pronoun in English by which a person is addressed: YOU! You has no gender and it’s singular or plural.
People are also addressed by their names. Or by “sir” or “Ma’am.”
But NO ONE is addressed by SHE/HE/THEY/ZEM/ZE/ZEY.
A person is REFERRED TO by she or he, but not spoken directly to, with she or he.
They need to open their grammar books and read the part about pronouns. How stupid can they be?
Dear melting snowflake,
Being “offended” is an emotional choice that you make.
No one can “offend” you.
I have a right to choose the words I speak.
You have right to leave my presence if you do not like the words I choose.
Do we understand each other?
Anorexics have a mental illness that causes them to self-identity as overweight, even when they are dangerously malnourished.
Is it helpful or supportive to refer to them by the pronouns, “fata$$” or “tub-of-lard”?
I think, not!
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