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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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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.