Gender is sort of important to a teacher of French, and the rules pertaining to its usage don’t include politics or princess fantasies.
Actually, this is a very good point.
The attack on the teacher is particularly vile, because in a gendered language like French or German, the mental assignment is almost pre-thought, since the distinction is embedded in your immediate perception.
Of course, the effing retarded "jerbilists" who are "reporting" this story have an IQ of about 85, and don't have the brains to learn how to speak a foreign language or begin to understand the nuances...
Or snowflake fantasies.