Report: The Pronoun Wars: Professor Goes to Court After Being Punished for Refusing to Refer to Transgender Student By Preferred Pronoun

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More power to you trying to remake all your years of experience with pronouns to fit the demands of the younger generations! Throw out everything you know to be true and just get along!
 
There is a lot of good to be said for doing one’s best to get along.
 
But the professor was told not to use any gender specific pronouns in class, not mother, father, brother, sister! This affects YEARS of acquired speech! I wondered why not just quit??? Is that what they want??? I was a teacher before I retired so I am coming from a certain mindset…
 
Affirming the transgender’s confusion by accommodating their pronoun preference is akin to affirming the bulemic’s disorder by affirming to them that their body is in fact fat and shapeless.
 
Yeah, sorry, you might be right. I think I got spun around trying to follow with a few previous posts and this one. My fault. Best regards.
 
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Petra202 said:
But the professor was told not to use any gender specific pronouns in class, not mother, father, brother, sister! This affects YEARS of acquired speech! I wondered why not just quit???
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It’s called “code switching”. We all do it to various degrees when in the workplace or certain social situation. Some situations more onerous than others.
 
HerCrazierHalf said:
Is your refusal to use the preferred pronoun going to improve their situation?
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It certainly isn’t going to hurt the situation. And yes, I do think that maintaining the Biblical worldview of sex and gender improves the situation. Encouraging someone in grave sin is indeed harmful and potentially prevents them from repentance and salvation by faith in Jesus Christ. We speak the truth in love. We don’t go out of our way to demean someone, as this professor clearly didn’t do by answering a simple question with the phrase, “Yes sir.” However, at the same time, if we fail to speak the truth where the truth is necessary to bring people to repentance, then we also fail to be loving. These two things must be held together, they cannot be separated.
 
Hodos said:
And yes, I do think that maintaining the Biblical worldview of sex and gender improves the situation
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Be sure to do this with people who live with their partners, divorced people, and others.
 
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HerCrazierHalf:
Is your refusal to use the preferred pronoun going to improve their situation?
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It certainly isn’t going to hurt the situation. And yes, I do think that maintaining the Biblical worldview of sex and gender improves the situation. Encouraging someone in grave sin is indeed harmful and potentially prevents them from repentance and salvation by faith in Jesus Christ. We speak the truth in love. We don’t go out of our way to demean someone, as this professor clearly didn’t do by answering a simple question with the phrase, “Yes sir.” However, at the same time, if we fail to speak the truth where the truth is necessary to bring people to repentance, then we also fail to be loving. These two things must be held together, they cannot be separated.
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Several people in this thread have pointed out that transgender people are more likely to suffer from depression and to commit suicide. So, if refusing to use the preffered pronoun might increase someone’s depression or even contribute to their suicide, that could definitely hurt the situation.
 
If everybody got into gratuitously offending each other for whatever we each might find annoying, we’d all become inured to it eventually and transgender people might feel less isolated.
 
Hodos said:
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HerCrazierHalf:
It’s courtesy.
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It isn’t courteous or loving to perpetuate a lie which one embraces due to mental illness.

I actually care about my neighbor enough to uphold God’s design for humanity, to include the fact that he created us in the image of God, as man and woman. I care enough for people suffering with gender dysphoria to not succumb to their wants but rather uphold the unique gifts and responsibilities given to the person in the article as biological male by God. I care enough about them that I would not pretend that they can be female and enjoy the gifts and responsibilities God has uniquely given to those who were created as females. They will never be able to procreate as a woman or raise children as a woman, and will likely chemically castrate and eventually surgically castrate himself so that he would not be able to enjoy the fullness of either masculinity or femininity. I care enough about transgender people to recognize statistics that demonstrate that the average lifespan of transgender people is half of what it is for normal adults and that rates of suicide and depression are much higher than the average population and are not significantly altered even after gender reassignment.
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All the problems faced by a transgender person are hardly going to be changed by insisting that they be called by the pronoun associated with their biological sex. Their gender dysphoria is not going to go away as a result and they probably won’t ever enjoy the “fullness” of their biological sex or ever be totally “normal”. It’s more likely to cause them distress, not help them in any concrete way.
 
Thorolfr said:
So, if refusing to use the preffered pronoun might increase someone’s depression or even contribute to their suicide, that could definitely hurt the situation.
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Again, the rates of depression are unaffected before and after gender re-assignment, even by people who claim acceptance by their friends and family. Perhaps, the issue is the lifestyle that denies the reality of who they were created by God to be, rather than someone calling them the pronoun that matches their biological reality. Also, again, the professor proposed a middle ground compromise which was rejected by the aggrieved student. So I ask you, who is the one demonstrating hardness of heart in this situation? Hint: It wasn’t the professor.
 
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goout:
But, um, you’re not a dog, right?
How could I possibly respect you if I participate in a deception?
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Are you a goout, or is that name a deception?
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geez. it’s the name. It is what it is. In brick and mortar life I have a name. Some people call me Mr as it’s appropriate. No one calls me Mrs cause it’s not based in any semblance of reality.

This is really not as difficult as you are making it.
 
Petra202 said:
But the professor was told not to use any gender specific pronouns in class, not mother, father, brother, sister! This affects YEARS of acquired speech! I wondered why not just quit??? Is that what they want??? I was a teacher before I retired so I am coming from a certain mindset…
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That seems a bridge too far for me. I’d argue against that. It wasn’t mentioned in the article. Can you tell us where that info comes from?
 
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