School Employee in Oregon Sues After Being Ordered to Remove ‘Transphobic’ Books From Desk
“a hostile expression of animus toward another person relating to their actual or perceived gender identity”
This is impossible. I’ve been assured by the left that it is conservatives who want to ‘ban’ books.
The College Fix reports:
School district employee sues after being ordered to remove ‘transphobic’ kids books from desk
An Oregon school district is facing a lawsuit after it ordered a 17-year veteran social worker to remove several books from his desk work area that a co-worker had called “transphobic.”
According to the Alliance Defending Freedom, Rod Theis (pictured) had the books “He is He,” “She is She,” and “Johnny the Walrus” near the desk in his office as he was “inspired by the message of hope for children conveyed in the books.”
The books, Theis said, explain “how every child should embrace and love herself as God made her to be.”
But after seeing them, an employee complained to district officials about their “transphobic” nature. The InterMountain Education Service District followed up by ordering Theis to remove the books, saying they were “a hostile expression of animus toward another person relating to their actual or perceived gender identity.”
If he returned the books to their places or engaged in similar conduct, he would face “discipline, including termination of his employment,” Theis alleged.
The ADF noted, however, the district allows employees “to decorate their offices with personal items including paintings, photos, quotes, books, and even posters or statements that convey political messages.”
For example, the suit notes a district speech pathologist has in her office the book “What Should Danny Do?” along with “animals, toys, games, the American flag, and an inspirational quote: ‘In a world where YOU can be anything Be Yourself.’”
Other employees’ items include teachers union-related material (“a picture of workers standing in a picket line and holding rainbow-colored signs that spell the word ‘UNIONS’”), a gay pride flag with the words “YOU ARE LOVED,” and a photo of Barack Obama saying “Yes, we can.”
Notably, Theis said his principal did not consider the books he displayed to be “offensive or inappropriate.”
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According to the left his books weren’t just hate speech they were actual VIOLENCE!!!!
The Amazon reviews of “What Should Danny Do?” are enlightening. It’s a (choose your own adventure)-type book illustrating the consequences of good and bad choices. One parent complained that the opening scene was Danny sledding down the stairs in a plastic basket. Since the book never did discuss if this was a good or bad choice, her four-year-old took some injuries and did some damage re-enacting it. Talk aboutcher VIOLENCE.
More like her son getting battered and bruised up a bit discovering things One Should Not Be Doing.
I made a similar discovery riding my bike down our VERY steep driveway only to have the one good handbrake cable on my bike snap half way down. Mom had warned me…!
I did not fall, but when I got to the bottom of the hill I manoovered* that bike like I was in a bike rodeo to keeo from going down. A neighbor lady drove me to school, and then, after school, another neighbor lady took me to the bike shop to buy cables. (Any of you old-time Angelenos remember Safety Cycle on Western?)
*I never could spell that word…
I thought every kid got in a plastic laundry basket and tried the stairs? Or jumped from a roof or tree branch to another playing Tarzan? Or set up a concrete block and 2×6 then played Evil Kneivel jumping something or…or…
an employee complained to district officials about their “transphobic” nature
Tough noogies. That’s a religious belief you’re expressing there.
(This is why I keep harping on Progressivism not being a political expre4ssion, but a RELIGIOUS one – the politics comes in because they desire power to impose their religion on everyone.)
Except that it isn’t, because it doesn’t involve a Supreme Being, a Creator, an object of worship, or anything like that. What you’re identifying is that it’s an ideology; religions are a distinct subset of ideologies. The USA founders’ belief in natural law and inalienable individual rights is also an ideology, and no more compatible with opposing ideologies than any other. But abstaining from using force against opposing ideologies is one of its tenets, so opposing ideologies can flourish under it.
That’s part of the ideology to define ‘religion’ as requiring belief in some type of a god (historically dubious). That construct exempts modern religions from the R word.