History will not be kind to Florida
Now, Vary has filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which could prompt a legal challenge of the โDonโt Say Gayโ lawโs expansion.
Does this have any chance of doing anything? Iโm very surprised at their boldness to document exactly why they were firing them - do they think they can withstand the legal challenge or are they just stupid? (itโs always hard to guess with homophobes)
Title VII of the Civil Rights Acts prohibits discrimination based on sex in matters of employment. They can dictate what teachers teach, but this should be a slam dunk under federal law.
The argument is going to be that it prohibits discrimination based on sex and not gender
Is Mx. pronounced โMix?โ
Guess this is why I like college. I just call everybody Professor and not risking strange looks or offending anybody.
The article states that the teacher in question asked if they could go by professor, to which the principal said was in violation of the same law. Which means in Florida you cannot call a teacher professor, as it is gender neutral.
Funnily enough, I think this depends on country. Iโm in Australia and Iโve heard lecturers ask the class not to call them Professor since that is a title within the University (Iโm guessing something similar to Captain in an Army). I think most couldnโt care less, but Iโve had 1 or 2 ask in the first class not to use that title. So you canโt win.
Iโm all for gender-inclusive language and try to use it as much as possible (ie โmail personโ instead of โmail manโ and using โtheyโ instead of defaulting to โheโ when gender is unknown). But God am I tired of replacing everything with an X, haha.
Iโd just call them โteacher [last name]โ like how college professors tend to go by โprofessor [last name]โ and call it a day.
Latinx is hated by the majority of Hispanic people because itโs unpronounceable in Spanish, so you can drop that one.
(Am Hispanic ftr, despise the term)
Ok but itโs not a Spanish term. Do they also complain about all the other English words that exist?
Not that I support latinx, but thatโs a pretty lame excuse to be against it
A nonbinary person of Hispanic origins I watch on YouTube uses โLatineโ
Iโm a nonbinary teacher. My students just call me by my last name with no honorific most of the time
Yes, it makes nonbinary people sound like rappers and Iโm here for it
(Plus every NB person I know has a name like โblueโ or โsockโ, which makes it especially fun)
If this does not violate some anti-discrimination laws that you are doing law wrong. I am fairly certain this would not be legal in my country.
