Fairfax, Virginia Schools May Expel Elementary Students For ‘Misgendering’ People

[Kamaji]

Fairfax, Virginia Schools May Expel Elementary Students For ‘Misgendering’ People

In Fairfax County, Virginia, changes set to be approved May 26 would punish ‘malicious misgendering’ at the same level as assault and battery.

BY: LAURA BRYANT HANFORD
MAY 16, 2022

For those who scoff that Florida’s new education law bans “non-existent” gender indoctrination, let the tale of Fairfax County, Virginia serve as a wake-up call.

Fairfax County’s school board has long prided itself on leading the way for the nation in cutting-edge education policy and curriculum. As the tenth-largest district in the nation, it holds disproportionate sway over other school boards.

In 2015, the Fairfax school board blindsided parents with changes to its non-discrimination policy, followed by a sweeping expansion of the sex-ed curriculum and new rules governing student offenses and penalties. This is not an isolated policy. In Wisconsin, three middle-schoolers have been accused of “sexual harassment” for using biologically accurate pronouns to refer to a fellow student.

Fairfax’s proposed changes, set to be approved May 26, have hit a new low. Legally meaningless offenses such as “malicious misgendering” and “outing related to gender identification” would be now punishable by up to “Level 4” sanctions. It’s the last level before penalties for drug dealing, rape, and homicide.

Level 4 is the punishment meted out for assault and battery, drug consumption, theft, and arson. These penalties may be applied even to kindergarteners and include, at their worst, expulsion at the behest of the school board.

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Source:  https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/16/fairfax-virginia-schools-may-expel-elementary-students-for-misgendering-people/

[Kamaji]

How far Fairfax County has fallen since I attended school there.

[Hoodat]

How far Fairfax County has fallen since I attended school there.

Fairfax County once had some of the best public schools in the country.  Not any more.

I remember the thirty-five sweet goodbyes
When you put me on the Wolverine
Up to Annandale
It was still September
When your daddy was quite surprised
To find you with the working girls
In the county jail
I was smoking with the boys upstairs
When I heard about the whole affair
I said oh no
William and Mary won't do

Well I did not think the girl
Could be so cruel
And I'm never going back

To my old school

Becker, Fagan, & Jay

[Kamaji]

Fairfax County once had some of the best public schools in the country.  Not any more.

Yup.  And they are actively trying to destroy what's left, as witness how Thomas Jefferson High School is being dumbed down for racist purposes.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Are "miscellaneous" and "other" available as gender designations?

[mountaineer]

Is this not a lawsuit just waiting to happen?

[Kamaji]

Is this not a lawsuit just waiting to happen?

Yes, over First Amendment rights.

[GtHawk]

Yes, over First Amendment rights.

Seems to me someone already won such a lawsuit over not bowing to the multigender deity.

[Smokin Joe]

"he" "she" and "it".

What more do you need?

[Kamaji]

Seems to me someone already won such a lawsuit over not bowing to the multigender deity.

I believe it was a professor at a college or uni; however, that might play out differently for kids (although I hope not).

[GtHawk]

I believe it was a professor at a college or uni; however, that might play out differently for kids (although I hope not).

I haven't tried to look it up but seems there is commonality, if I recall the professor was disciplined for not using a transgender(mentally ill) students preferred pronoun. The professor refused and won 400k from the University for violating his First Amendment rights. Seems to be that elementary students have the same constitutional right and would be in for a big payday if the school disciplined them for calling a girl a girl or boy a boy. I see no reason why a child or anyone else should be required to join someone in their mental illness.

[Kamaji]

I haven't tried to look it up but seems there is commonality, if I recall the professor was disciplined for not using a transgender(mentally ill) students preferred pronoun. The professor refused and won 400k from the University for violating his First Amendment rights. Seems to be that elementary students have the same constitutional right and would be in for a big payday if the school disciplined them for calling a girl a girl or boy a boy. I see no reason why a child or anyone else should be required to join someone in their mental illness.

I believe the case was that of Prof. Nicholas Meriwether against Shawnee State University in Ohio.  Source:  https://www.thefire.org/ohio-professors-pronoun-use-lawsuit-delivers-first-amendment-victory/

That being said, he was a full professor with full academic freedom, and an adult, all of which may be relevant differentiating facts.  When it comes to minor children, schools have historically been given much greater control over the minor student's exercise of constitutional rights, including freedom of speech.