RE: Teacher Who Won’t Use Trans Student’s Pronouns Sues District for Firing Him ⚖️
I just think teaching is becoming a very dangerous occupation these days. Gender issues is getting complicated to ridiculous degrees. There are some scientific facts that are beng ignored in the same way some basic grammar that cannot be bent overnight just because a group thinks so.
I'll give you the venezuelan example: in the name of inclussion, to fight sexist language, the chavista revolution started to introduce terms that do not exist in our language and that to the day have not caught up. Take the word "adolecente" (adolescent, teenager), for instance, which is gender-neutral. You can't get people to start refering to a female teenager as "adolescenta". It's not going to happen. then you have "almiranta" (a female admiral), "fiscala", a female attorney.
It would be excessive to fire a person for refusing to use the gender-inclusive made-up word imposed by the the government in this case, let alone by any group.
It sounds like Venezuela already experienced what the United States is experiencing now.
And the similarities between the United States now, and Venezuela's recent past is interesting, and a little scary too.
It is scary. What's even scarier is the fact that the right wing of the political spectrum in the States keeps screwing up in many respects, giving the leftists momentum to gain sympathizers worldwide. Even though I understand that the left in the States is not even close to left movements in Latin America, some of their postures pose a real threat to the stability of the whole world.
Again, it would be ideal that some balance could be found, but I guess those who were given this world to rule are prone to lean towards the extremes.