The lamestream media strikes again

[Hawkmoon]

Yahoo is running a story about a proposed law in Montana that -- according to Yahoo -- would allow students to "misgender" their classmates.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/montana-bill-allow-students-misgender-235146957.html

Sounds to me a lot more like a law that would allow students to be honest about their classmates' gender.

[MechAg94]

Yahoo news is at least consistently leftist.   

[WLJ]

Isn't Yahoo owned by Google?

[WLJ]

But anyway
Much of the media is doing the same thing here with an introduced bill to prevent Kentucky teachers from being forced to use students' preferred pronouns

Kentucky Senate Bill 150, which would allow teachers to refer to students as the name and gender on their original birth certificate, regardless of the students' pronoun preference, passed the Senate Education Committee on Thursday with an 11-1 vote.

It now moves on to the full Senate for a vote

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"The bill does not prevent students from requesting identification by a non-birth conforming pronoun, nor prevent staff and students from addressing those students with non-conforming pronouns," Wise said.

On Thursday, critics on the Senate Education Committee pushed back against the bill. Sen. Reggie Thomas, D-Lexington, voiced several issues with the proposed legislation. His main concern with the bill is that it would allow teachers to misgender students

and of course it's endangering lives

The room was packed with LGBTQ+ advocates, and many spoke to the committee against the bill. Several transgender men and women argued that the bill puts in danger the lives of trans students in Kentucky.

https://www.wdrb.com/news/bill-preventing-kentucky-teachers-from-being-forced-to-use-students-preferred-pronouns-moves-forward/article_9d8f7b9e-a8ad-11ed-844e-3bbf2bda741d.html

[HankB]

Referring to a person as a different gender than what they are biologically (there are exactly two choices) is misgendering. Actually requiring it is mandating institutional disinformation.

They should call these bills the "Honesty & Sanity Promotion Act" or something of the sort.

[WLJ]

Referring to a person as a different gender than what they are biologically (there are exactly two choices) is misgendering. Actually requiring it is mandating institutional disinformation.

They should call these bills the "Honesty & Sanity Promotion Act" or something of the sort.

Insanity is the new sanity

[zxcvbob]

Why not just refer to everyone with the correct pronoun "you"?  Problem solved.  But people don't want the problem solved.

[Perd Hapley]

Why not just refer to everyone with the correct pronoun "you"?  Problem solved.  But people don't want the problem solved.

If you think the pronouns are the problem...

[sumpnz]

Why not just refer to everyone with the correct pronoun "you"?  Problem solved.  But people don't want the problem solved.

Pronouns are only used when talking about someone that isn’t directly party to the conversation.  When speaking directly to someone it’s normal to refer to them by name, or perhaps “hey you”.  Demanding special pronouns is about controlling speech, not even politeness to someone confused about their gender.

[RoadKingLarry]

So pronouns like *expletive deleted*it bag, *expletive deleted*ck face, turd nugget, *expletive deleted*tard, asswipe, and the like are frowned upon then....

[sumpnz]

Those are adjectives.

[zxcvbob]

Those are adjectives.

They look like perfectly good pronouns to me.

[Perd Hapley]

Those are adjectives.

Nouns.

[WLJ]

Has anyone asked them what they want to be called?

[Hawkmoon]

Has anyone asked them what they want to be called?

Does it matter?

If Billy's legal name is William Forsythe Smythe and Billy declares that he/she/it would prefer to wear dresses to school and be called "Suzie," is it really a form of bullying for students or teachers to continue to use his/her/its proper, legal, birth certificate name Or a nickname logically derived therefrom) and pronouns associated from his/her/its birth certificate gender as forms of address? If Billy wants to live a lie and pretend to be a gender other than what he is, is it proper to force everyone around him to participate in mass misgendering by encouraging and enabling the gender dysforia?

[WLJ]

My post was a tongue in cheek in response to the previous 3 posts