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.

  • febra@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Jesus… the US is going to shit. You’d think that the “land of the free” would be more against this surveillance campaign.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year ago

      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.”