{"id":125747,"date":"2022-05-14T14:15:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T18:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=125747"},"modified":"2022-05-14T13:37:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T17:37:47","slug":"125747","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=125747","title":{"rendered":"“Wrong pronouns” leads to sexual harassment complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What started with a student getting angry at another for using wrong pronouns has resulted in an investigation. The students that used the “wrong pronouns” are accused of “sexual harassment”. However, attorneys retained to defend the children argued that using the wrong pronouns did not constitute “sexual harassment”.<\/p>\n

From the Post Millennial:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

“I received a phone call from the principal over at the elementary school, forewarning me; letting me know that I was going to be receiving an email with sexual harassment allegations against my son,” Rosemary Rabidoux, one of the parents of the students being accused, told Fox 11.<\/p>\n

“I immediately went into shock! I’m thinking, sexual harassment? That’s rape, that’s inappropriate touching, that’s incest,” Rabidoux added. “What has my son done?”
\nBraden, Rabidoux’s 13-year-old son, is one of the three Kiel Middle School students accused of sexual harassment, an accusation that she disputes.<\/p>\n

“(The investigating principal) said he’s being allegedly charged with sexual harassment for not using proper pronouns,” said Rabidoux. “I thought it wasn’t real! I thought this has got to be a gag, a joke — one has nothing to do with the other.”<\/p>\n

In a letter from Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty attorneys, who are defending the accused students, called the Title IX complaint “inappropriate,” and urged the case to be “immediately dismissed.”<\/p>\n

“The mere use of biologically correct pronouns not only does not constitute sexual harassment under Title IX or the District’s own policy, it is also speech protected by the First Amendment,” the May 12 letter to the school superintendent, counselor, and principal read.<\/p>\n

“The District has also violated Title IX procedures and its own policy in its handling of the complaint. The District should promptly end the investigation, dismiss the complaints, and remove them from each of the boys’ records,” the letter added.<\/p>\n

The attorneys said that Title IX “certainly does not cover 2 using biologically correct pronouns simply because the District characterizes it as ‘mispronouning,’ which is the sole allegation in the one-page Title IX complaint.”<\/p>\n

“‘Mispronouning’ is also not sexual harassment under Title IX because gender identity is not included within the definition of sex within Title IX. In fact, the Department of Education is currently attempting to amend Title IX to add it,” the letter added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Post Millennial has the article here<\/a>. The attorneys responded to the school district with this letter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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