Teacher Explains Why He No Longer Uses Students’ Preferred Pronouns
“Would it be caring, loving or humanitarian to indulge such delusions?”
Daniel Buck makes a very good argument here. Will more teachers start thinking this way?
He writes at the New York Post:
Why I quit using my students’ preferred pronouns
I used to use my middle-school students’ preferred pronouns.
It seemed polite.
The largest teachers union in the nation encourages it.
What harm could it do?
I recall only a few years ago, a student informed me she had switched genders.
Reading roll call that day, I had to decide.
Do I call her by a new name, refer to her as “him” and begin a charade, pretending she’s a boy?
I used her new name.
What harm could it do?
I can no longer abide by such a lie.
I have had students with anorexia who despite their gaunt frame believed they were fat.
I had one student who heard voices and wrote letters to “imaginary friends” who instructed her to hurt herself.
Would it be caring, loving or humanitarian to indulge such delusions?
No, it would only facilitate a deterioration of mental well-being.
It’s cruelty masquerading as kindness.
It is cruel to encourage gender transition without question — a process with permanent consequences ranging from infertility to bodily mutilation — when 80% of children with gender dysphoria grow out of it.
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Bravo!
“… when 80% of children with gender dysphoria grow out of it.”
Let’s hope it’s WAY more than 80%!
I went through schools in the 50s and 60s. We had some students who were pretty messed up – including me – but very little was indulged. We were either ignored, chastised, or those who REALLY had a bad situation could get some help.
Of course, there were fewer PhDs in fake subjects working in civil service back then, and many of my teachers were either WW2 or Korean War vets. Some of the women served as well, or were Rosie, riveting planes in Burbank, or building bombsights at the Fairchild plant. Some were better teachers than others, but virtually all had their head screwed on straight.
My scout leader was a WWII vet. His solution to pretty much everything was to “walk it off.” Too bad he passed before I could tell him that I “walked off” two heart attacks which were later discovered by a functional MRI scan. I guess that I was more than just “a little peptic” that day.
As a high school teacher, I agree. I’m not for bullying, and recognize that people who are messed up have to work through things, but I don’t want to live by and teach lies.
One person endorses sanity after having tried insanity for a while.
One.
Until there are a million stories like this one, I am not encouraged.
Several of my HS teachers used to counsel us that “you can be anything you want to be… if you put in the work.”
Today, I guess this advice would be just as applicable to posers who think that clothes and hairstyle “changes their sex.”
Uh, nope… first put in all the work, then we’ll talk pronouns.