If the author of the article is so incensed by this blatant lunacy, the why does she proceed to call this boy “her” throughout the article? Debra is playing right into his hands by being pc and accepting this obviously twisted premise to begin with.
Why does this idiot author, who acknowledges this student is MALE, keep using the she/her pronouns?!!!
Debra doesn’t want to be insensitive. However, I think she - and every even-slightly-conservative writer who uses “she” for a boy - is missing an opportunity to make a stand while being genuinely polite.
A lot of unnecessarily rude and unkind language is directed at transformers, and I don’t think that’s helpful in any way. However, to refer to a biologically male person as a boy/man/he/him, and a biologically female person as girl/woman/she/her, is simply recognizing reality. It is also charitable, just as it’s charitable to refer to anyone with a delusion by his or her real identity.
Debra should have uses quotation marks for "her" and "she" when she was referring to the student.
Same with “gay”. Refuse to use that word, I call them homosexuals every time. Is that offensive to them? Do you think I will get sued and loose my job/business and then my home?