Indiana is among at least 10 states that have enacted laws prohibiting or restricting students from using pronouns or names that don’t match their sex assigned at birth, a restriction that opponents say further marginalizes transgender and nonbinary students. Most of the laws were enacted this year and are part of a historic wave of new restrictions on transgender youth approved by Republican states.
The measures are creating fear for transgender students and sowing confusion for teachers on how to comply but still offer a welcoming environment for everyone in their classes.
Remember when they were freaking out about how Canadian bill C-16 was the end of free speech or something because it defined constant and deliberate misgendering from institutional workers as criminal harassment, I bet they think restricting students from using someone’s preferred pronouns is a good thing because it fiGHtS tRAnSGeDeRIsM.
These laws help with teen suicide! I’m a Pro Life Republican so OBVIOUSLY I want MORE teens to kill them selves!
These same people were more than happy to politicize teen suicide when trying to end mask mandates and COVID restrictions. Suddenly it’s not an important issue to them anymore.
children go through many identities as they grow up, when options they consider start to become banned, the taboo of it will only encourage more of it, They’re making LGTBQ low key cool. if the ‘parents’ and the ‘government’ hate it, kids are going to love it.
Amazing these types of laws haven’t been struck down in a country where freedom of speech is worshiped like it’s one of the 10 commandments.
And the 10 commandments are worshipped as if they ever existed.
You are talking about a different party. Everyone knows the GOP stands for big government and micromanaging regulations.
That’s because the party that worships their ideal of free speech is the same one attacking these children. After all, if Republicans didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all.
Its sorta funny because its the only thing the two extremes can agree on. There are people who want to enforce individuals choice pronouns and want to enforce not using the individuals choice pronouns without taking the speakers rights to speak however they are going to.
This is just horrible!
a restriction that opponents say further marginalizes transgender and nonbinary students
Which is, of course, the point. Being cruel to people they dislike always is with Republicans.
I have no problem with a boy that wants to be a girl being called girl or a girl that wants to be a boy being called a boy, what I do have an issue with is every other weird pronoun in-between. Pick one of the 2 and shut the fuck up about it. We are all equally miserable you don’t have to be special.
