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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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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.