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A Texas public school district has decided to prohibit the use of pronouns that do not match students’ biological sex, regardless of their pronoun preferences or gender identity.
The controversial policy that the Keller Independent School District (ISD) adopted will require teachers to refer to students with pronouns correlating to the gender on their birth certificates, Fox 4 reported.
The rule also states that parents must be alerted if their children request to go by different names or pronouns at school and that parents must write a notice granting permission for schools to call their students by alternative names or pronouns.
Students have protested the policy, with one high school senior saying the district was prioritizing “a political agenda” during a public comment session.
“Every day I walk into a school and myself and my peers are suffering. It seems like more and more the school district is prioritizing budget cuts and a political agenda over the health of its students,” said Kennedy Schultz.
Madison Hickman, another senior, called it “hate.”
“You’ve created an environment where fear and isolation might just become the norm for our most vulnerable students. I hope this brings you the kind of community you’re striving for, one where conformity is valued over compassion. Hate is not a Keller ISD value,” she said.
Fox 4 also reported that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sent the district a letter of concern, warning it that the policy is discriminatory, but the board passed it anyway.
Keller ISD also found itself in controversy in 2022 when it pulled dozens of books from shelves for review, including the Bible.
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Good start but the way to end the insanity is to force the insanity into a Grand Jury Trial with the ACLU name as The Cause and Force 'Them' to PROVE their claim of a 'third' ( or 4th or 5th ) SEX, that is different than the Actual Two existing sexes of Male and Female. The Real trial can then become the LIE of politically correct and the criminal lawyers of the ACLU Suing SANE people for calling out Insanity. THAT has to stop.
Pronouns are actually a good BS verifiers.
We all get a lot of emails from different people or suppliers.
Aren’t their pronouns … helpful?
Why would you engage with the stupid people, knowing that their businesses may not survive and you may need to replace them in a hurry when they go broke?
Of course: Banning at schools is a good thing. The adults can label themselves for everyone to see (self-destruction).
I do not get the fake pronouns. When you are talking to a person, the pronoun is YOU.
It makes absolutely no sense.
We only use 3rd person pronouns when talking to someone else and they are not involved.
They will never hear the pronouns unless they are eavesdropping.
Yes the pronoun stuff is all smoke and mirrors. Intended to humiliate and control us I guess.
They're literally trying to neuter our kids so that they can't bear children.
Their entire goal since the beginning was to destroy the nuclear family.
They know the truth: The American Family is the bedrock of the American civilization. If they can't tear the family apart, America will always stand noble and free.
They're only for 3rd person reference. You never have to use them.
All 3rd person pronouns are unnecessary. Just use their actual name instead. They have a word for the triggering that occurs when you do this, but what choice have they left you? None. Chris believes that Chris is non-binary, so when I talk about Chris, I always use Chris's name, to avoid using a pronoun that might trigger Chris into self-mutilation or something equally weird.
Thank goodness they're still letting us call them "YOU" to their face!!! Gosh, isn't that big of them?
Once they come up with 2nd person neo-pronouns that you are forced to use under penalty of law or else be arrested for "hate" speech, communication can really begin to shut down.
Unnecessary. Just issue the statement:
In this school we teach proper English grammar. The standard pronouns are challenging enough to master, and they form the framework for understanding pronoun usage in other languages as well. It would thus be detrimental to education to confuse students with the additional burden of memorizing lists of "neo-pronouns". Also students deserve to feel safe at school, not threatened with violence for "hate" speech over pronoun usage.
Turn it around on them.
This is a good time to remind people:
Animals have a SEX. Animals can be MALE or FEMALE, and that's it, and it all depends on what role they have in reproduction. If you have a case where an animal is incapable of reproducing for whatever reason, it still has a sex, but we note additionally that they are neutered and incapable of reproducing. IE, there are cows, bulls, and steer.
Words have a GENDER. Depending on the language, of course. Some languages don't have genders assigned to words, but most of the European ones retain gender. English, a derivative of proto-Germanic, has gender although it is not as important as it used to be. The 3 English genders are MALE, FEMALE, and NEUTER. The ONLY CASE where the gender of the noun matters is when using the 3rd person pronouns and related words. We do not modify our adjectives based on the gender of the noun unlike many other European languages.
PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE A GENDER. This is a made-up "fact" by people who paid men to rape their own babies.
When you demand that people recognize YOU as a specific GENDER, you are REWRITING ENGLISH and FORCING OTHERS TO CONFORM. YOU ARE THE TYRANT. Let us use words the way we want, in whatever manner we decide is appropriate. Let US determine the language.
gender and sex are synonymous. people have always been identified as one gender or the other. making a distinction between sex and gender is playing their language game.
Gender doesn't apply to people. It applies to words.
Sex applies to people. It doesn't apply to words.
This is the way it has always been. The only reason the word "gender" exists is because we needed a way to describe how languages work.
would you mind backing that up with any sauce? as far as I know, gender and sex have always been interchangeable. saying people never had genders sounds nuts.
Go find a dictionary published before, say, 2000. Better yet, 1900.
Look up those words.
okay. i did. you're wrong. here:
https://archive.org/details/centurydictionar03whit/page/2481/mode/1up
Do you know what "colloq. and humorous" means?
It means it's not the formal definition, even though sometimes people use it incorrectly that way.
It is also used to make a joke, meaning, not serious.
that usage is listed before the formal grammatical usage, which specifies that it applies to the field of grammar, in an 1895 dictionary. does that support your claim that using gender and sex interchangeably is a product of wokeism? quite the opposite, since the woke position is that the words are not interchangeable. in modern english, at least since 1895, they are interchangeable.
Bees are Queen, Drone and worker
Snails and slugs are hemaphrodites
Some animals reproduce asexually
Those aren't animals
Bees, snails and slugs aren't animals now?
In the taxinomical kingdom, yes. Conventionally, no. I think casual conversation would dictate in this case and the above poster would be discussing mammals and possibly birds. The poster was definitely not talking about insects and arthropods. I think you both are being pedantic and using that to ignore the point being made.
Exactly. The way people actually speak nowadays, gender and sex are synonymous when referring to whether humans are XX or XY.
We use "gender" as a more genteel way to talk about male and female, rather than using the word "sex" with all its juicy behavioral connotations.
Many of us don't like the expression "the sex of the baby". Like words, BABIES DON'T HAVE SEX. They have GENDER, unless pedophile perverts are involved. "A baby's gender is either female or male." Sounds nicer to the average listener.
"But it's still technically accurate to say babies have sex, and their sex is male or female!" Maybe, but you lost the listener at "babies have sex." Yes we have sex to make babies, but when we are discussing the baby rather than intercourse, we use the word gender.
Gender isn't a bad word. It is related to the word gene. Genes are where the XX and XY chromosomes are located, which genuinely determine the gender and genitalia of the babies in each generation of our genus.
Babies don't have a gender. They are an animal. They have sex.
Words have gender. Babies are not words.