Somehow I was unaware until school started this week that the state I live in, Indiana, passed a law this year requiring the school to REPORT to the parents if a child requests to be called by a different name or gender pronoun than they registered under…and the parent has to give written permission for the school to use said name or gender pronouns. This has put a ridiculous burden on the teachers, of course. Today I got an email notifying me that my son, Ben, would like to be called Ben and not Benjamin. I signed a form. Thousands of other parents will do so as well.
This is absolutely fucking ridiculous in so many ways. The pursuit of eliminating trans people at all costs has gotten so out of hand. This is some Taliban shit.
Please…for fuck’s sake call my kids whatever they want to be called, have drag queens read to them…teach them that slavery was bad and gay people exist. Let the teachers teach. Help my kids to be smart and kind and call it a day…I trust our public school system. This is so infuriating.
To the people passing these laws, I hope your children and grandchildren are ashamed of you and put you in a shitty nursing home and never visit you…and then you die (of old age) and the next generation is better. This is disgusting.
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Holy shit your kid has to have written permission to be called a diminutive of his own name.
That’s absolutely batshit.
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All of these right wing laws are transforming schools from places of learning to places of indoctrination.
But they’re preventing that with this legislation.
/s, Florida is pulling so much shit right now too.
Jesus… the US is going to shit. You’d think that the “land of the free” would be more against this surveillance campaign.
Free yep but if your kid wants to be called “they” all bets are off…declare marshall law. Put teachers in jail. Get your Bibles ready.
It’s becoming more and more "the land of the oppressed. "
Currently the freedom is experienced by an organized and motivated voting block.
I continue to think the idea for some, “I should be free enough to own slaves (it may even be good for the slaves)” is out there.
I mean, they didn’t have to worry about room or board, right? They “only” had to worry about being killed, traded, raped, or beaten.
When you hear “freedom,” ask, “for who?” To them, this is freedom to protect their children from “the world.”
Now get him to ask for a new name bimonthly and keep signing those forms
Holy shit. That they didn’t at least carve out an exception for shortening a given name shows how poorly thought through this shit is. No Mike, Luke, Dan, Jenny, Liz, Mark, Beth, and the rest of you. Your teachers and friends may have called you that all of your life, but you are now Michael, Lucas, Daniel, Jennifer, Elizabeth, Macus, Elizabeth.
Yep my sister in law had to sign papers that Emerson, Finley and Addison could be called Emmie, Finn and Addie. Definitely keeping kids safe from……….drag queens? Pedos? Secret gender affirming care?
Another thing I think about is that my daughter talked to a school counselor and now a therapist…I am 100% fine with them keeping things private unless it’s a threat of violence or suicide. Sometimes mental health care needs to include discussing things with TRUSTED adults and not your parents. Of course I wish she would tell her mom and I everything she tells her therapist…but no way she ever fucking would. Better the trained mental health expert than getting advice from other teens.
This essentially a direct challenge to that. Kids can’t have secrets. The school may not use discretion.
We should roll our some black mirror shit and monitor them on video 24/7 and some kind of brain chips as well…
Wait, you want teachers to keep secrets from parents?
Explain to me the problem the law solves. Things were fine, this is a manufactured trans panic.
The government should not keep secrets from the parent without a court order involved. Thats common sense, falls under “Don’t trust the government” And yall wonder why so many are home schooling these days
Since when are teachers part of “the government” lmao
And no one is wondering why so many are home schooling. We are well aware it’s because ignorant parents are afraid that their children will be exposed to ideas, concepts, and facts that they disagree with. The parents are pretty vocal about it we do not have to speculate.
Okay, public school teachers. Fine, I wasn’t pedantic enough.
And yall are misinformed about homeschooling, like you are most things.
Who said keep secrets?
Do you expect every teacher to call parents if they hear Steven getting called Steve?
Yes, if a child feels comfortable sharing something in confidence with a supportive adult in their life, the adult should respect that privacy. Of course things like being a danger to themselves or others, or signs of possible abuse, should always be reported. What it comes to is that we don’t know what is waiting for that child at home. Parents are not always good, understanding, or open-minded people.
What “secrets” are you talking about?
Any kind. Road to hell is paved with good intentions.
That is a good thing that the parents need to be advised. They have the responsibilities of the well beoing of their children.
Is this sarcasm, “Throwaway?”
Edit: scrolled down. It’s not sarcasm. Eek.
