Posted on 05/24/2022 1:13:55 PM PDT by blam
In academia, there have been growing controversies over language guides and usages, including the use of pronouns that some object to as matters of religion or grammar. Now the largest association of science teachers in the world has issued a guide for “anti-oppression” terminology for science teachers.
In the guide, titled “Gender-Inclusive Biology: A framework in action,” the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) has called for “gender-inclusive biology,” which includes the abandonment of terms like “parent,” “men,” “women,” “mother,” and “father.”
Under the guide, mothers are now referred to as “persons with ovaries” in reference to reproduction cycles while fathers are now “persons with testes.”
Additionally, the association declares the move of various states toward “Sex verification in sports” as an example of oppression.
The use of such a guide by a state school would raise serious First Amendment issues. We have already seen successful litigation challenging mandatory pronoun usage, including the recent litigation involving a teacher in Loudoun County, Virginia. Yet we have also seen new cases, including the charging of three high school students for not using preferred pronouns.
Under the new guidelines, teachers are encouraged to drop terms like “male” in favor of “XY individuals.”
The NSTA suggests that this can be a fun exercise> like having students come up with an entirely new name for the word “parents,” such as “gene-givers” or “biological life transmitters.” This is not likely to be viewed as a fun exercise by some teachers or students, including those with opposing deeply religious views.
I happen to believe that teachers can and should address different gender identities in relevant courses. However, this type of sweeping guide, if made mandatory or enforced through “microaggression” policies, could contravene constitutional protections.
It is important to keep this guide in its proper context. The guide does not call for mandatory rules in schools barring the use of these terms.
The guide is not calling for Father’s Day cards to be converted into “Happy Person with Testes Day.”
However, we have seen such guides cited as the basis for sanctions, including allegations of hostile classroom environment or micro aggressive speech.
Why are we letting the 'crazies' get away with this?
WHY?
They keep digging deeper and deeper. I have engaged on an active campaign to talk any parent having their poor children in ‘publik skoolz’ and tell them the N reasons why they should remove their children from those collective public septic tanks. (N is a frightfully large number.)
The rage against reality continues.
#biologydeniers
cousin it was ahead of it’s time
Do these people not realize just how stupid and ridiculous this is???? What is WRONG with these people?????
Under the new guidelines, teachers are encouraged to drop terms like “male” in favor of “XY individuals.”
Which, of course, means “males”. Lol.
The public schools are becoming lunatic asylums. It would be funny if it were not so dangerous to utterly corrupt the nation’s youth.
If you love your kids, do not subject them to the insanity of public education!
This is beyond dumb, it is self destructive.
WE NEED TO GET RID OF THE NTSA.
So they took a day off from using 1984 as an instruction manual to use Brave New World as one, so that mother, father and parent become obscene words just like in the book.
Part of what the Bible says about non-believers “turning to myths”.
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Swap ‘teacher’ out with ‘groomer’ and we may have a deal.
Are there no sane teachers who will fight for our kids???? This is so wrong and they know it.
Sickening. They’re literally grooming the kids to not see their parents as their parents.
The Communist Purge Continues To Grow Exponentially & Nothing Is Being Done About It!
No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the Aamerican sheeple will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
“...Under the guide, mothers are now referred to as “persons with ovaries” in reference to reproduction cycles while fathers are now “persons with testes.”...
Under these guidelines, isn’t this going to really piss off the “transgenders”????
I agree.
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