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Teachers and students grapple with fears and confusion about new laws restricting pronoun use (Indiana)
Channel 3000 News/AP ^ | November 27, 2023 | AP Staff

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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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: arth; education; freespeech; indiana; mentalillness; neopronouns; pronouns
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
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

21 posted on 11/27/2023 7:06:45 AM PST by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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To: SamAdams76

Indeed.


22 posted on 11/27/2023 7:16:58 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

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


23 posted on 11/27/2023 7:19:10 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
This was news to Caston’s mother, Kim Michaelis-Peters,

Never, under any circumstances, trust or give power to a hyphenated woman.

24 posted on 11/27/2023 7:21:13 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
...because the pronouns and name don't correspond with their sex assigned at birth.

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.

25 posted on 11/27/2023 7:21:23 AM PST by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Michaelis-Peters said she has deep concerns

Is she a middle-aged blonde with a wedge haircut?

26 posted on 11/27/2023 7:22:59 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: exDemMom
This phrase "sex assigned at birth" is one of the most obnoxious and unscientific terms ever invented.

It's every bit as bad as "safe and effective mRNA vaccine" ...

27 posted on 11/27/2023 7:24:43 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: exDemMom
Gender, of course, is a grammatical term that has almost nothing to do with sex and is applied to nouns not to people.
28 posted on 11/27/2023 7:25:46 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“... 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.


29 posted on 11/27/2023 7:26:25 AM PST by Theo (FReeping since 1997 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

It all goes back to people/conservatives with brains believe in facts liberals believe only in emotion.


30 posted on 11/27/2023 7:42:19 AM PST by Rappini ("No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in it's preservation" MacArthr)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

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.


31 posted on 11/27/2023 7:53:04 AM PST by I want the USA back (Democracy dies when you take away from those who work and give to those who won't. Khrushchev.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

They can always just be referred to as “maggots”, as in “LISTEN UP MAGGOT!” or “DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY, MAGGOT!”


32 posted on 11/27/2023 8:44:01 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Uncle Miltie

When they ask my “sex at birth”, I say, “I didn’t look, ask my Mom.”


33 posted on 11/27/2023 8:44:42 AM PST by Scrambler Bob
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To: T.B. Yoits

Eventually, everyone will be addressed as “Comrade”.


34 posted on 11/27/2023 8:45:17 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin; 6amgelsmama; 100American; AAABEST; aberaussie; AbolishCSEU; AccountantMom; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the other articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

35 posted on 11/27/2023 8:47:19 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
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 people waking up to the utter insanity launched by freaks and perverts that has smothered the nation and their legislators regaining a modicum of common sense.
36 posted on 11/27/2023 10:10:18 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Alternate headline:

Students, teachers relieved they can’t be punished for “misgendering”


37 posted on 11/27/2023 10:32:18 AM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

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.


38 posted on 11/27/2023 11:32:01 AM PST by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

What pronouns does chocolate use?

Her/She


39 posted on 12/04/2023 11:20:42 AM PST by Dr. Marten (Cogito ergo armatus sum.)
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