My Advice for the Idaho Student Barred From Graduation for Saying 'Guys Are Guys and Girls Are Girls'

PJ Media ^ | 6 June 2023 | Lincoln Brown

[Rummyfan]

With June comes Graduation Season. We had one granddaughter walk this year, and that was in another state. My wife went and I stayed home to watch the dogs. I’ve always been ambivalent about graduations. I loathed high school and was just glad to be out. The end of college meant that I would need to find gainful employment and wait for my first student loan notice to arrive in the mail. But I know for many people, graduation is a big deal, not just for the graduates but their families. Graduation was probably a big deal for Travis Lohr, a senior at Kellogg High School in Kellogg, Idaho.

There is a tradition at Kellogg in which graduating seniors pass on bits of wisdom to underclassmen. Seizing the moment, Travis decided to depart from his pre-approved remarks and said, “Guys are guys and girls are girls. There is no in-between.” Now back during the Pleistocene when I was in high school, we would have wondered why someone needed to even bring this up since it has pretty much been a truism since life developed beyond single-celled organisms on this planet. But we know why Travis decided to say it, and we know why it needed to be said. But those two sentences were enough to keep Travis from walking with his class. The school principal, Dan Davidian decided Travis’ comment was enough to bar him from graduation exercises.

[Rummyfan]

Travis is not alone in his sentiment. According to an article by the Idaho Freedom Foundation, Travis commented, “I didn’t direct it at any groups or anything like that; it was just something I chose to say in the moment. There was a short pause, and then an uproar of cheers.” After the news broke, 100 students walked out of school in support of Travis. Among them was school bus driver Dakota Mailloux, who was participating in the demonstration off the clock. But Mailloux’s presence was enough to get him called on the carpet by Davidian, who fired the man.

[TexasFreeper2009]

how dare a graduate understand simple Biology!

[glorgau]

Yeah, I didn’t bother going to my High School graduation either. Didn’t see it as worth waiting through the ceremony.

[cdcdawg]

And just like that, without even knowing or intending it, Travis Lohr became a white supreemist, all because he said something that wasn’t even controversial until about 5 minutes ago. Honk honk!

[Rurudyne]

The Trans Fakeriarachy must be torn down.

Never use their pronouns, never accommodate the crazy of those who say you should.

[deport]

The world is ever changing and that includes humans also.
It has been this way every since it began and will continue
until it no longer exist. Enjoy your three score and ten. jmo

[rktman]

Yeah, I didn’t bother to go to the ceremony when I gradiated and don’t regret skipping it. As a matter of fact I’m not really sure what happened to my HS diploma. 😉👍

[Tell It Right]

It’d be interesting to follow up with Travis a decade or so rom now. It’s possible this experience will cause him to buckle up tightly to Christ with an attitude of sticking to Jesus like glue, no matter what, no matter who.

[chopperk]

America needs more Travis Lohr’s......

[rktman]

LOL! See number 7. Guess we’re a bunch of loaners that need someone to keep and eye on us. You probably don’t do fakebook either. What are we gonna do when “they” implement the “health ID passport” for every ‘subject’ to carry around? Sounds a little like the ‘mark of the beast’ to me. 😁👍

[bert]

Burn David’s house

He must feel the pain

[DeplorablePaul]

What exactly is the law or rule that was violated to meet out this punishment? Since when is opposing transgenderism against the law? Seems to me that a law suit against the school on 1A grounds would be an easy win.

[cyclotic]

I went to the high school one but skipped both college graduations.

Then there are the high school reunions. I literally didn’t even see a single high school friend since maybe 3-4 months after graduation.

I don’t even know if there ever was a single reunion. The school was closed a few years later.

Zero interest.

[rktman]

Uh, not following the science? Oh, wait a minute...............

[ABN 505]

I thought I was the only one who skipped out of the HS graduation, the few ,the proud, the free thinkers!

[rktman]

What I was thinking! Proud denier of pomp and circumstance. 😁👍

[John Milner]

Went to HS graduation also.

College I was broke and cap and gown rental seemed like a waste of what few resources I did have.

That and the fact graduating seniors could, at the discretion of their profs, skip finals that semester. All mine signed off - so I would have literally waited around another 2 weeks just for that.

And it was held in the basketball arena with a couple thousand other graduates. They weren’t calling names for a walk across stage and they weren’t giving you your diploma then - it was mailed several weeks later after they verified that all the i’s were dotted and t’s were crossed.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Same here, went to HS but not college graduation, and no HS (or college) reunions at all. They finally tracked me down and sent me an invitation to my 50th HS reunion last year, but I didn’t feel like driving 1300 miles to see people I didn’t like much 50 years ago.