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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)
  1. Come up with a cruel and annoying rule to harass a very small number of trans people.
  2. Oh no, it turns out it actually effects a much larger number of cis people who also [use nicknames/don't fall into neat gender norms/etc].
  3. Just keep annoying everyone forever and feel righteous for doing so.
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I imagine it’s going to be selectively enforced is the thing. As things worsen, only particular types of school employees will stick around, and I doubt they’ll be as gung-ho about harassing more “acceptable” types of people.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

That's true, cis kids will likely get away with just using nicknames as usual, especially if they're just shortening their given names.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

how small government of that Republican

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

suing a teacher for calling my son maximus 'max' (he's chill with it)

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

meemaw "YOU WILL REFER TO MINE CHILD BY DIVINELY-GRACED TITLE AND THAT ALONE, WENCH"

sawdust "mom, please stop, it's fi–"

meemaw "YOU SHALL NOT DISRESPECT MY CHILD WITH THINE ABBREVIATION"

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Obviously this is because he hates trans people but this is going to have splash damage on cis kids who like engage in fun stuff like going by a nickname in school. So Meatball Ron needs a permission slip from his parents too.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So Meatball Ron needs a permission slip from his parents too.

He would if he was a kid too. His legal name is Ronald.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

What a tool.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i have a feeling kids like TJ and Joey aren't going to have this rule enforced on them, but trans-sad will

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I heard elsewhere on Lemmy someone signing a permission slip for letting Benjamin be called Ben. Might just be a school doing malicious compliance in regards to the law though.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

School bullies who graduated 30 years ago are seeking new victims

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

>advocates for personal freedom, freedom of speech, American Freedom^TM^ etc

>allows the most restrictive & discriminative laws on his swamp filled land

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Ah but you see, children are the property of their parents and have no rights.

Unlike actual property that has more rights than most humans.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So what if I have a trans daughter named something like, idk, Joseph Robinette and she chooses to go by her legal middle name?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Give kids multiple boy & girl middle names just to be safe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Communism Will Win Johanson, which of the given names will the teachers use?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Kids these days will be tricking their parents into signing off on xXPussy_Killa69Xx the same way I tricked them into signing my permission slips

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

How did you know my old Yahoo Chat screen name?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

This is the action of a kids movie villain

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

What if other people give you a nickname? Do I need parental permission if I want to call you Meatball Ron? Or do you need to ask your parents?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Ron DeSatan

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

>reactionaries ban nicknames in order to force trans kids to get deadnamed

>reactionaries then ignore that this policy was their own doing and ask "has Big Woke gone too far and banned nicknames????"

debord-tired

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

There were five kids in my grade who had the same first name. Nicknames were basically mandatory otherwise it got confusing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

God, what a fucking lame-ass.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't this unconstitutional?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Obviously but it'll take several weeks to years to finish writing the strongly worded letters.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

somehow conservatives managed to fool the world into thinking they don't want to control every facet of people's lives and ron does not stand for dishonesty

he's the only principled candidate

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

The thing is, kids will randomly have nicknames for all sorts of non trans related reasons. The most common reason is that there's two kids with the same name in the same class.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This vaguely relates to something I learned the other day: traditional Madagascan names are all mononyms (as in no first name, middle name, surname, it's just one singular name) and can be extremely long like Andrianampoinimerina. Wonder how much accidental filibustering roll call would be for a class of Madagascan exchange students. Someone gets it wrong and is legally mandated to try again, lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It is an example of an extreme restriction of free speech and control that is more totalitarian than propaganda about AES. Of course it is discriminatory against various language principles. In that sense it is a continuity with the want to control of elites, be they feudal or capitalist, and it is also a continuity to genocidal colonialist expansions and forced "assimilation" of people.