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 pronounsI 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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