The Orange County Public Schools system in Florida has announced guidance banning trans students from bathrooms and the use of nicknames.
*Nicholasnames
Comments like this almost make me wish Lemmy had awards
*slow clap
Grrr. “Call people what they ask you to call them.” is not supposed to a difficult aspect of the Golden Rule to understand.
Call me Dark Lord Snugglypoo… …and I will question your life choices.
Anything you say, Dark Lord Snugglypoo.
No! FuglyDuck I assume is your given name and I will only call you FuglyDuck!
It’s more honest anyhow.
Well I will assume that Snuglypoo is your family name and FuglyDuck is your given name so I shall call you Dark Lord FuglyDuck Snugglpoo.
My liege…
This is so ridiculously out of touch. You think they’re gonna stop kids from using nicknames?
That’s not just out of touch, that’s Stalinist purge level dystopian. And those despicable fucks have the gall to go on about how they’re in favour of “freedom”.
It doesn’t have to work, it just has to be one of a thousand cuts.
At the least this law will protect teachers that bully trans students, at the most they could start actively prosecuting teachers for using a student’s preferred pronouns.
At this point I wouldn’t be at all surprised to hear that Florida had switched to using human skulls as a currency.
LGBTQ+ skulls to be specific.
Who run Bartertown?
How many orphan souls cans I get for 6 skulls?
What about kids that prefer to be called by their middle name? Would that need permission to not be called by their first name? What if they go by their middle name, Edward, but prefer to be called Ed? Would they need two permission forms? Lol
I imagine enforcement would be selective, so Thomas can be Tom and Michael can be Mike, but some cis kids will still get caught in it. (Like, I knew a girl whose legal name was Roberta and that was shortened to Bobbie. She wasn’t trans, her nickname was just usually given to boys rather than girls.)
Not a law talking guy, I thought that one of the constantly brought up issues in civil rights cases is selective enforcement of rules. Schools allowed hats but suddenly decided a turban wasn’t allowed for example.
Under the guidance, published Monday (7 August), teachers at schools in Orange County must use pronouns and titles that correspond to their “biological sex” at birth, and parents must fill out a form to let teachers know of any deviation from their child’s legal name, even if this is a simple nickname.
So if the governor of Florida was subjected to this “guidance”, he would need permission to go by Ron.
This is the same guy going to war with Disney World who also held his wedding there.
The Orange County Public Schools (OCPS) system in Florida has announced new guidance that means trans teachers will be misgendered and students will need parental consent for “any deviation” from their legal name.
BRB: moving to Florida and renaming my child “His-Royal-Highness-And-Most-Eminent-The-Great-And-Sexy-Bartholomew-Mayweather-George-Anderson-Chaplet-RonDesantisIsAFucknutt I II III.
Lol kids should give each other nicknames that are classroom objects and terms from the text. Or names of historical figures. “oh, now we can’t say Abraham Lincoln because it’s a nickname”
It’s only the teachers that can’t use nicknames without parent permission, not the kids.
That changes nothing
Sure it does.
It makes teachers wonder why, yet again, they’re being forced to bear the brunt of the culture war, and they’re going to eventually quit.
Then the schools won’t be able to find good teachers, the education system will be further deteriorated, and private schools will become the only schools worth attending, further eroding the future prospects of working-class Floridian children and America as a whole.
I don’t think that’s the grand strategy at play, I just think the people in charge don’t care if it happens, as long as they get enough praise from their voters.
It’s definitely the strategy at play. This is how they ensure themselves a poor and compliant workforce.
So, when will the U.S. be sending their National Guard to Florida like they did during the integration of their southern schools?
So is DeSantis going to start going by Ronald now?
He IS a clown. 🤷🏼♀️
Clowns at least make an effort at being entertaining.
Ronald Dion DeSantis, you MUST use his full legal name now.
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More like filled it with acid.
https://www.npr.org/2014/06/13/321380585/remembering-a-civil-rights-swim-in-it-was-a-milestone
Also Florida.
I suspect the changes to race theory pushed through recently in Florida will have this taught as a acid bath was beneficial and great for your complexion…
We call my son and daughter by shortened versions of their first names. Both are in High School in OCPS. Today they brought home the forms for us to sign to allow them to go by those shortened names in school. I was shocked.
Perhaps Ronald DeSantis should be forced to get permission from his family inorder to continue to be called Ron.
I hope all media refer to him as Ronald until this goes away.
Let’s also not forget Rafael “Ted” Cruz, Leslie “Gerald Ford” King and Donald “Don Jr.” Trump, Jr.
The sad thing is, my brother has a name like “Benjamin”. My mother is a very mentally ill individual and is extremely militant about her children’s names “I chose your names and you will go by exactly what I named you!” and refused to let him go by “Ben” or let us call him “Ben”. Except, outside of the house he always went by Ben, she just didn’t know it. I always called him Ben when we weren’t home, because it’s what he wanted to be called. So kids like this would have to bring a form home and get their ass kicked by mom for going by a name they aren’t supposed to? Fuck that.
My mom was the exact same way. “If I wanted you to be called that I would have named you that”.
Did you know that in the worst case sea level scenario due to climate change, all of Florida will be completely underwater? That means that while the world IS headed toward an inhospitable hellscape, at least we have the silver lining of seeing Florida completely eradicated.
You’re not thinking this through. Every Florida man alive will flee to dry land. Florida is a people, not a place.
Did you know that most voters in Florida don’t agree with this shit and that taking glee in the potential eradication of an entire people and their home is exactly the same kind of shit that racists do when they blame all Muslims for terrorism or Hitler and the Nazis did when they targeted a population for their religion (or for simply being related to someone who was a Jew)?
The examples of this “they’re the bad guys” generalism is part of the problem. If you’re really so enlightened, don’t be part of the problem, too, it only alienates more who might be part of solving the problem if they weren’t ostracized over something as stupid as their birthplace or where they choose to live.
I mean they voted for the people that do this stuff. Just by nature of how voting works, a majority of them likely agree.
DeSantis won his last election by the largest margin in a Florida election in over 40 years
If this isn’t what people there want, they’ve got a very strange way of showing it.
“Floridian” is not “a people” in the sense you’re trying to use the word (I mean, really, comparing them to the Jews, lol). If someone wants to stick around while the ocean slowly swallows up the panhandle, that’s their business.
They’ll just leave and ruin everywhere else. At least they’re contained in their shit hole
“Those shithole states.”
-Donald Trump probably
Idk, wouldn’t they spread to other states or maybe most move to the same location and then turn that place into new Florida
That would entail admitting that climate change is real and that GQP mythos was wrong about something. Based on the way we handled covid, I wouldn’t worry about most floridians migrating due to climate change
So basically deny it’s happening until the water is up to their necks, then start talking about the importance of boats while they drown?
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Wait where have I seen this before
New Florida already exists. It’s called Ohio.
Considering the victory Ohioans just had, I don’t know about that.
listen, Florida is more than a set of policy decisions by pudding fingers, Florida is a state of mind.
I assure you, Ohio residents are equally batshit. I live in Erie, PA and deal with them regularly.
How’s that freedom working out for you guys?
Land of the free and home of the brave…
I guess you have to be brave to live there.
Wait, so does that mean if somebody is named Dick, I can’t call them Richard?
