Posted on 12/08/2018 7:59:33 PM PST by SeekAndFind
"You will be made to care," wrote Eric Erickson in RedState back in 2013. He was referring to a court case in Colorado of a Christian baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple and was fined for it.
Today, we are being threatened, intimidated, and bullied into caring about people who believe they are trapped in the wrong body - that their biological gender is incorrect and that they are actually someone of the opposite gender - or some other gender created out of whole cloth.
A Virginia French teacher found out the consequences of trying to balance his religious beliefs with the new paradigm of "transitioning" to another gender.
Peter Vlaming ran afoul of a toxic form of political correctness which is not based on science, or fact, and is based on the irrational construct that we can choose our gender.
Vlaming, 47, who had taught at the school for almost seven years after spending more than a decade in France, told his superiors his Christian faith prevented him from using male pronouns for a student he saw as female.
The student’s family informed the school system of the transition over the summer. Vlaming said he had the student in class the year before when the student identified as female.
Vlaming agreed to use the student’s new, male name. But he tried to avoid using any pronouns — he or him, and she or her — when referring to the student. The student said that made him feel uncomfortable and singled out.
Administrators sided with the boy, telling Vlaming he could not treat his transgender pupil differently than he treats others.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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It's not mental illness.
It's demonic evil. (which is redundant)
And you thought this was the land of the free? You silly a$$, thinking that all that talk about “Freedom of Speech” was sincere!
It’s gone. When CA criminalized the “incorrect” use of pronouns, and nobody complained, it was inevitable that the fascists would move on to the next level.
Try to get back your silly-a$$ “Freedom of Speech.” Try. What are you going to do? First stop bleating.
The appropriate description is “it” and the “pronoun” is “hey, you”. Stp pandering to the mentally ill...get them help.
The appropriate description is “it” and the “pronoun” is “hey, you”. Stop pandering to the mentally ill...get them help.
“Didn’t getting fired make the teacher feel uncomfortable too?”
Feelings only matter when the right people are feeling it.
Just say hey you
It’s Hollywood’s fault
Yep. Hence the rest of my post.
Liberals are in high positions of government. The spirit of antichrist is urging them onwards, all across the globe.
The global praise of Obama was evidence enough. This weirdo came from nowhere and was lauded like a mini-second coming.
2008 was nauseating.
Every French noun has a grammatical gender, either masculine or feminine. The grammatical gender of a noun referring to a human usually corresponds to the noun's natural gender (i.e., its referent's sex or gender). For such nouns, there will very often be one noun of each gender, with the choice of noun being determined by the natural gender of the person described; for example, a male singer is a chanteur, while a female singer is a chanteuse. A plural noun that refers to both males and females is masculine. In some cases, the two nouns are identical in form, with the difference only being marked in neighbouring words (due to gender agreement; see below); a Catholic man is un catholique, while a Catholic woman is une catholique. Nonetheless, there are some such nouns that retain their grammatical gender regardless of natural gender; personne 'person' is always feminine, while (at least in "standard" French) professeur 'teacher' is always masculine. In Canadian French, une professeure is the standard feminine form, which is becoming more and more common in European French.
A noun's gender is not perfectly predictable from its form, but there are some trends. As a very broad trend, nouns ending in -e tend to be feminine, while the rest tend to be masculine. More consistently, some endings, such as -sion, -tion, -aison and -ité occur almost exclusively with feminine nouns, while others, such as -aire and -isme occur almost exclusively with masculine ones. Nonetheless, a noun that seems masculine judging by its ending might actually be feminine (e.g., la peau 'skin') or vice versa (e.g., un squelette 'skeleton').
I think all Romance Languages are structured in this way.Spanish I know is. So I doubt if XE is going to catch on there.
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