Posted on 11/27/2023 6:28:36 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Indianapolis high school senior Caston Peters had used they and them or he and him pronouns at school for three years without a problem, but they came home a few days into this school year and told their mother that the situation had changed.
Peters, 18 and nonbinary, heard from a teacher that a new state law meant they wouldn’t be able to use those pronouns, or the first name they've used for years, without explicit permission from a parent because the pronouns and name don't correspond with their sex assigned at birth.
This was news to Caston’s mother, Kim Michaelis-Peters, who immediately sent teachers, a counselor and the principal an email asking them to comply with Caston’s wishes, and the school staff did. But even though her own child's wishes are being respected, Michaelis-Peters said she has deep concerns about what Indiana’s law could mean for students whose parents might not be understanding if they learn from school officials that their child is transgender or nonbinary.
“It makes me feel like there’s going to be a child out there who’s not going to feel safe at home to tell their parents and the school’s going to rat them out for wanting to be called a different name or different pronouns,” she said.
Indiana is among at least 10 states that have enacted laws prohibiting or restricting students from using pronouns or names that don't match their sex assigned at birth, a restriction that opponents say further marginalizes transgender and nonbinary students. Most of the laws were enacted this year and are part of a historic wave of new restrictions on transgender youth approved by Republican states.
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But even though her own child's wishes are being respected, Michaelis-Peters said she has deep concerns about what Indiana’s law could mean for students whose parents might not be understanding if they learn from school officials that their child is transgender or nonbinary.
Why won't all parents be JUST LIKE ME?!? --Openminded Liberal Parent
Indeed.
Well, my daddy left home when I was three
Didn’t leave very much to my mom and me
Except this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze
Now I don’t blame him ‘cause he run and hid
But the meanest thing that my daddy ever did
Was before he left, he went and named me Sue
Well, he must’ve thought that it was quite a joke
And I got a lot of laughs from a lots of folk
Seems I had to fight my whole life through
Some gal would giggle and I’d turn red
And some guy’d laugh and I’d bust his head
I tell you, life ain’t easy for a boy named Sue
Never, under any circumstances, trust or give power to a hyphenated woman.
This phrase "sex assigned at birth" is one of the most obnoxious and unscientific terms ever invented. I think it is supposed to make one think that a fetus is just an amorphous blob of cells which immediately coalesces into a boy or a girl the moment the doctor arbitrarily declares it as such.
Gender, of course, is determined at conception. While there are some genetic disorders that prevent normal development as encoded in the chromosomes, those are very rare. And since normal development did not happen, they genuinely think and look like they are the opposite gender from what their chromosomes show.
The vast majority of those who declare themselves to be transgender are not. They either have a mental illness that causes them to believe that if they were the other gender, all of their troubles would disappear. Or they have a fetish about pretending they are the other gender. Or they are perverts who want access to female-only spaces such as locker rooms. Or they are mediocre athletes who would rather compete against women than other men. None of these have a genetic disorder that literally prevents development according to the chromosomes.
Is she a middle-aged blonde with a wedge haircut?
It's every bit as bad as "safe and effective mRNA vaccine" ...
“... fear and confusion”?
Those with an anti-normalcy agenda are experiencing fear and confusion. But I’m confident parents are feeling relief that the schools can’t hide important things about their children from them.
It all goes back to people/conservatives with brains believe in facts liberals believe only in emotion.
No one is assigned a sex at birth. It is observed, noted, and duly recorded.
No one is nonbinary. No one is transgender.
Reality can’t be legislated out of existence.
They can always just be referred to as “maggots”, as in “LISTEN UP MAGGOT!” or “DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY, MAGGOT!”
When they ask my “sex at birth”, I say, “I didn’t look, ask my Mom.”
Eventually, everyone will be addressed as “Comrade”.
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Alternate headline:
Students, teachers relieved they can’t be punished for “misgendering”
If you got dangly bits, you’re a man. I’ll call you anything I want referring to that. If you’ve got no dangly bits, and a hole, you’re a woman. Same thing applies. And I won’t back down.
What pronouns does chocolate use?
Her/She
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