A former Texas educator filed a federal discrimination complaint against a learning center in Katy, Texas, after being fired for refusing to address a 6-year-old girl as a transgender boy.The boys parents were a same sex couple
Thoughts? o.O
Was the teacher justified in calling the student a girl
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No
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Yes
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I'm the oldest mate out of two other brothers
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And I don't just mean having same sex parents. This also could be the same with divorced parents
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do u have older brothers?
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As much as people want to see it broken, the Nuclear Family structure is usually important for emotional development, and when it's broken, children tend to take roads less taken by other developing children
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Then why did I turn out homosexual with heterosexual parents ;-;
Most statistical articles are stretched when it comes to psychology/social research.
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there's actually some funny stats there about children with two dads turning out over-aggressive/more likely to go to jail or children with two moms being more likely to end up on welfare lol. i don't know if they're kinda stretched tho
Anecdotal verdicts are the only thing of importance here. Who needs to waste their time pulling in statistics for this sort of thing? It's pretty blatant bad parenting.
In the same respect, I know a girl who grew up in a bus with 2 mothers and a father. She turned out fúcked up.
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in fairness, i am saying that with no real statistical backing besides that i know a dude with two moms who turned out gay lol. but it makes sense to me
Most children naturally and spontaneously stop expressing feelings of being transgender. I get that the idea is to mitigate "suffering" by allowing the child to transition as early as possible but if it's gonna go away on its own in most cases anyway it seems like something that shouldn't be actively encouraged or explored until later.
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children of same-sex parents will fairly often turn out homosexual themselves, you are correct harrold
When I was a kid, it was very uncommon for children to be exposed to anything more severe than a PG movie, as far as sensitive content is concerned. There is too much access to everything these days, and as such, the infant mind is unable to take on board information in the right kind of way. I imagine the 2 parents in this case probably allowed the child to 'express themselves', by allowing them to further explore the possibility that they might be transgender. I really can't see any other reason why this has come about.
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i feel like a 6 year old shouldn't be let to make that decision
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I feel like if you just allow a child to do anything they want and feel any way they want then they'll become spoiled brats and then in the future they'll feel super entitled to everything
I know this is a bad comparison but stuff like this makes me think people will eventually allow pedophilia because they'll just assume the child knows what's best for themself
A 6 year old shouldn't even know what transgender means, let alone have the feeling they should be the opposite gender. They don't even have any real understanding of who they are, let alone be able to digest information as complicated as that. If they had any inkling to be encouraged to feel as though they were in the wrong body, they would completely go along with it as they're not experienced enough to rationalise their internal thought process.
Just the headline alone is enough to make me want to crush my genitals in a meat grinder, sprinkle them with salt, and eat them under a nice mushroom and gravy glaze.
