Posted on 11/27/2023 6:28:36 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Indianapolis high school senior Caston Peters had used they and them or he and him pronouns at school for three years without a problem, but they came home a few days into this school year and told their mother that the situation had changed.
Peters, 18 and nonbinary, heard from a teacher that a new state law meant they wouldn’t be able to use those pronouns, or the first name they've used for years, without explicit permission from a parent because the pronouns and name don't correspond with their sex assigned at birth.
This was news to Caston’s mother, Kim Michaelis-Peters, who immediately sent teachers, a counselor and the principal an email asking them to comply with Caston’s wishes, and the school staff did. But even though her own child's wishes are being respected, Michaelis-Peters said she has deep concerns about what Indiana’s law could mean for students whose parents might not be understanding if they learn from school officials that their child is transgender or nonbinary.
“It makes me feel like there’s going to be a child out there who’s not going to feel safe at home to tell their parents and the school’s going to rat them out for wanting to be called a different name or different pronouns,” she said.
Indiana is among at least 10 states that have enacted laws prohibiting or restricting students from using pronouns or names that don't match their sex assigned at birth, a restriction that opponents say further marginalizes transgender and nonbinary students. Most of the laws were enacted this year and are part of a historic wave of new restrictions on transgender youth approved by Republican states.
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They haven’t realized pronoun crap is just a pile of Gibberish
More proof that we are living in a clown world.
You are right! This is such nonsense that it is almost beyond comprehension.
Teachers and students grapple with fears and confusion about new laws restricting pronoun use (Indiana)...............
Grapple with fears????....We are doomed........................
their sex assigned at birth.
I thought God did that at conception?
Exactly. Other high performing countries must live this stuff.
“They/them”
Sounds like a case of schizophenia (sp?) to me.
Seemingly, just more weasel words.
Is there not another, more simple way to say this?
Divide and conquer.....................
grappling with fears shore sounds noble
+1
“their sex assigned at birth”
Sex isn’t “assigned” by anyone “at birth”.
Sex is determined at conception, by science and G-d.
Such a nonsensical statement as this simply proves the need for the law in the first place. No wonder the poor girl is gender confused. When teachers (and social media) tell you that you can do the impossible, you certainly can be confused when it doesn't work. She can dream the impossible dream all she wants, but others shouldn't be forced to pretend it is true.
With a mother like that, no wonder the poor girl is mentally ill.
We have an English language and words mean things, and science determines gender, not damaged emotions.
As opposed to sowing confusion and fear of losing one’s job for the normals who have to put up with the work BS.
“Fears and confusion” about “misgendering someone”? What the H E DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS has happend to our nation?
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