In a sign of our current upside-down time, three middle schools boys at Kiel Area School District in Wisconsin have been charged with sexual harassment under Title IX for not using a classmate’s preferred pronouns. Title IX prohibits gender-based harassment. The boys are in 8th grade.
The classmate had, a few months prior, started using "they/them" for pronouns.
We used to understand that teenagers, and pre-teens, were impulsive and prone to poor decision-making. We don’t let middle schoolers drive, vote, smoke, or get tattoos. But suddenly changing their gender identity, or even changing absolutely nothing but forcing everyone around them to conform to new pronouns anyway, is acceptable, tolerated and, worst of all, compulsory for everyone.
If the child wants to change back the very next day, and go back to "her," her pre-teen classmates better be with the program, or they can find themselves under this kind of sexual harassment investigation.
The term "crybullying" had been previously applied to adults who play the victim while intimidating others...
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