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| Wisconsin middle schoolers accused of sexual harassment for using wrong gender pronouns | |
| 2022-05-16 | |
"I received a phone call from the principal over at the elementary school, forewarning me; letting me know that I was going to be receiving an email with sexual harassment allegations against my son," Rosemary Rabidoux, a parent of one of the accused, told Fox 11 News last week. "I immediately went into shock. I’m thinking, sexual harassment? That’s rape, that’s inappropriate touching, that’s incest" Rabidoux continued. "What has my son done?" But none of the concerns Rabidoux had were at issue. Instead, her 13-year-old son, Braden, was accused of using incorrect pronouns to address another student at Kiel Middle School. "(The investigating principal) said he’s being allegedly charged with sexual harassment for not using proper pronouns," Rabidoux said. "I thought it wasn’t real. I thought this has got to be a gag, a joke – one has nothing to do with the other." Now her son and two other boys are being charged by school officials with Title IV violations, which prohibits gender-based harassment. The incident in question reportedly took place in March, when a student announced a preference of "they" and "them" to identify them. But Rabidoux said her son was merely sticking up for one of his friends. "She had been screaming at one of Braden’s friends to use proper pronouns, calling him profanity, and this friend is very soft-spoken, and kind of just sunk down into his chair," Rabidoux said. "Braden finally came up, defending him, saying ‘He doesn’t have to use proper pronouns, it’s his constitutional right to not use, you can’t make him say things.’" The mother told ABC 2 News that the new pronoun preference also caused confusion for her son, with her instructing him to just address the student by their name instead. "It’s plural. It doesn’t make sense to him. I said so, I told him to call them by their names." Rabidoux said. Now the parents are calling on the charges to be dismissed through an attorney with the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty. "It’s not sexual harassment under Title IX, under their own policy, under federal law, and it’s probably a First Amendment violation. Almost certainly, if that’s their theory, that solely using the wrong pronoun, that that would be a First Amendment violation," said Luke Berg, the attorney representing the boys. | |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #9 From what I understand, a good number of these kids will have an IEP. |
| Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed 2022-05-16 15:06 |
| #8 Just call them all "Hey You!" |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-05-16 13:06 |
| #7 Don't the schools have special ed classes for children who can't adapt to regular classes? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-05-16 12:29 |
| #6 This is about the gummint assuming the power to force you to validate other people's life choices. Selectively. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-05-16 12:06 |
| #5 Coercive control of normal discourse was always the goal. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2022-05-16 11:56 |
| #4 One - it is free speech. Two - threaten back with TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 242. Deprivation Of Rights Under Color Of Law. Section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States. For the purpose of Section 242, acts under "color of law" include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within their lawful authority, but also acts done beyond the bounds of that official's lawful authority, if the acts are done while the official is purporting to or pretending to act in the performance of his/her official duties. Persons acting under color of law within the meaning of this statute include police officers, prisons guards and other law enforcement officials, as well as judges, care providers in public health facilities, and others who are acting as public officials. It is not necessary that the crime be motivated by animus toward the race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin of the victim. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-05-16 07:58 |
| #3 Children.... Remember it is not He, She, Him, or Her. We now use "Comrade". |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-05-16 06:58 |
| #2 ^ Teaching staff address students by their last names to protect themselves in school. When the teacher call a student to answer a question or give instruction they will say Smith, Miss Smith or Mr Smith. Case will not hold up in court.. |
| Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed 2022-05-16 06:34 |
| #1 How should one address the mentally ill students? The use of "they" and "them" indicate that the person in question is suffering from a serious case of Schizophrenia and/or Dissociative identity disorder. /not s |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-05-16 01:23 |