Posted on 03/26/2020 6:49:24 AM PDT by karpov
Shawnee State University in southern Ohio (cross the bridge and you’re in Kentucky) is an open-admissions school that opened in 1986. It’s very little known, but the school’s administrators are as politically attuned to progressive sensibilities as any across the nation. A case that has arisen at Shawnee threatens to set a terrible precedent for the suppression of speech that any “woke” student claims to find harassing.
Nicholas Meriwether has been on the Shawnee faculty since 1996, teaching political science. He has risen to the rank of full professor with the equivalent of tenure. In a course on political philosophy he was teaching in 2018, he called upon an obviously male student and after the student (registered in class under the name Alena Breuning, but referred to as “Doe” in the court documents) replied, Meriwether said, “Yes, sir.” That’s all it took to set off a federal case.
Doe approached Meriwether after the class and told him that he was transgender and insisted upon being referred to with female titles and pronouns. “Miss” would be proper, not “Mister.” Meriwether was taken aback and replied that he didn’t think students could dictate to professors how to address them, at which point Doe became belligerent, declaring that Meriwether could either comply or be fired.
Doe complained to Shawnee administrators who, in turn, called Meriwether in for a meeting. They reminded him of the school’s “Nondiscrimination and Sexual Harassment Policy” instituted in 2016, which commits the university to prevent discrimination and eliminate any “hostile educational environment” it might cause. In the policy, discrimination is defined to include “any negative or adverse treatment based on gender identity which denies or limits the individual’s ability to obtain the benefits from university programs and activities.”
(Excerpt) Read more at mindingthecampus.org ...
Always use insults like “nitwit” or “idiot” when addressing these transgender dolts. Offend them deliberately and often.
Well, I’d agree to call it “Miss” but I’d insist that it, in turn, call me “Supreme Leader”.
The First and Second Amendments seem pretty straight forward but they’ve gotten very twisted up in people’s minds.
I don’t know why this country has gun control laws.
I don’t know why Christianity can be pushed out of schools.
I don’t know why speaking in a politically incorrect way is now illegal.
We really need to have some very clear Supreme Court decisions that get back to original intent.
We are being ruled by every societal misfit that crawled out from under a rock.
This one clearly has an identity problem.......should be under psychiatric care.....but is filing lawsuits.
Go figure.
It should be subject to legislative correction.
If Alexander Solzhenitsyn was still alive, he would tell you.
Thanks to President Trump, the 6th Circuit is now 11 Republican nominated vs. 5 Democrat nominated.
If it wanted to be called by a female name all it had to was show the female DNA. It can be anything it wants in its head but that does not change its gender.
I once had a dream that I was a B-52. I demand to be addressed as “Stratofortress” from here on.
Not sure this is really a constitutional issue as much as a legislative/regulatory one.
As does the initial federal judge. In her words:
"...Doe approached plaintiff and stated she was transgender..."
One could wonder what is the factual basis for the court's use of the word "she" and whether, in any case, the usage was appropriate.
I had a similar revelation when I was teaching/department chair at an art school in the south. There were enough confused students in my program that I quickly lost track of who was a “he” that day and who was a “she”. So I started calling all students by their last names, irrespective of what they were claiming to be. It also had the affect of leveling any the social construct in the classroom where I could say whatever I wanted as long as I only barked at the students using their last name. Worked like a charm.
My pronoun is “Your Majesty”
Unless it is being done repeatedly and on purpose it is unfair that a simple mis-statement of a person’s gender is enough to get you fired or put on your record. If someone mistakenly calls a NORMAL person the wrong gender do they get punished? If not the Professor is being singled out and discriminated against.
PS. Why hasn’t the Trump admin started cutting off federal funding to schools going along with this nonsense and discriminating against conservative groups and speakers on campus? What the F has Betsy DeVos been doing for over 3 years?
If this becomes the new normal, I’m returning to “Master”, the honorific used in mail addressed to me in my youth.
I liked it then - I would readily accept it now.
“Master Headsonpikes” has a pleasant ring to it...
And those who consider themselves of the other gender should be addressed as “Mistress.”
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