Yeah, I’m typically the weird person giving kids crafting supplies, books, or science-based toys.

I don’t know? Like, if my name is Charles but I want you to call me Chuck or Charlie or Skip or fucking Verne, you are an ass if you persist in calling me Charles. Same goes for calling someone by the wrong pronoun.  You don’t have to know why I want you to call me that, just do it!

I think I was in middle school when I realized I could call all my female teachers Ms without having to memorize their marital state (middle school was when we started having a different teacher for every subject so there was a lot more names to learn)... but it didn’t take me long to realize that if a teacher let us…

Right? Because using someone’s preferred pronoun is literally the smallest thing you can do to acknowledge their personhood.

I hope there’s at least one adult looking out for him. I had a trans girl student pick me as the teacher to come out to after a lesson on genetics in which I said that XX:female and XY:male were typical, but exceptions abound and gender/sex is complicated.

The student walkout gives you just the right picture of how life must be like in that school for the student in question. Yep. Nothing to see here. Everyone is “mutually tolerated.” Except your classmates are walking out in support of the horrible teacher who refuses to acknowledge your true (trans) identity.

Even better, he called it “mutual tolerance.” Let’s go get the trans student and ask him how he feels about this “solution” wherein the teacher noticeably treats him differently than other students. Where the teacher actively avoids referring to his gender identity because the teacher “doesn’t believe” (whatever the…

Human history also actually includes records of transgender individuals in nearly every single era and around the globe. Records including the Holy Bible!

What beliefs though?

He shouldn’t work in any school, religious or not. He’s just as likely to be teaching trans kids in religious schools as he is in non-religious kids. It’s probably marginally easier for trans kids to be out in public schools, but it doesn’t mean they don’t exist in religious schools.

A religious belief is not eating pork or not working on Saturday. This is treating people like shit and then blaming god when you get caught.

You’re being a dick, and I hope you don’t work with kids.

My father, who is 78 and a Bill Buckley-style Republican, gets his coffee at a shop with a trans man working the register. My dad manages to call this man by his (masculine) name or “Sir” every morning. He has said he, “doesn’t really get it” but then he shrugs because why would he care? What’s it to him or Vlaming…

these types often think of refraining from beating someone to death is “tolerance”

Not with kids. The adult has to go first. 

“BIGOT JOBLESS, UNABLE TO FURTHER HARM CHILDREN”

1. That’s not how “tolerance” works, you idiot.

Vlaming maintains his solution was one of “mutual tolerance,” and it’s the school board that’s guilty of intolerance.

Teachers must do more than tolerate their students. They must respect them.