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I’m starting a new job at a school in a very red county and I said that I’d be out at work (I haven’t told anyone at the school yet I’m genderfluid) but honestly with the way things...Are™ in the world I’m thinking of staying in the closet at work.
Kiel, Wisconsin - Kiel Middle School has received five bomb threats between Monday, May 23rd and Tuesday, May 31st. According to the Kiel police department, these threats made, “direct reference to [an] ongoing Title IX investigation being conducted by the Kiel Area School District.”
That Title IX investigation is in reference to, “Three eighth-grade boys [who] are accused of refusing to use a student’s chosen pronouns.” Nick Bohr, a reporter for WISN 12 News, shared that the student whose pronouns were not respected uses they/them pronouns. According to Lora Zimmer, a Title IX attorney, “Discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, based on gender identity, is prohibited under federal law – that schools are obligated to take action. It’s not a choice on their part whether to allow discrimination of this type to happen. They’re required to take action.”
TL;DR - A Wisconsin middle school was investigating three students for gender based discrimination when they wouldn’t use the correct pronouns for a classmate. That school district has now received 5 bomb threats protesting the investigation.
Respecting someone’s pronouns is the minimum amount of respect we as human beings afford each other. When your response to, “not respecting someone’s pronouns is discrimination,” is FIVE BOMB THREATS you are a horrible person. Full stop.
Update: On June 1st, the Kiel Police Department announced that they, “received a threat that if the Kiel Area School District does not drop the Title IX investigation by Friday, June 3, 2022, multiple locations in the City of Kiel will be targeted.” Those locations include all Kiel Schools (public and private), the police department, all stores, the wastewater treatment plant, and more.
Am I wrong in thinking this could be categorized as domestic terrorism? Over pronouns & following the law on gender based discrimination?
Realizing just how risk you are as a an out trans person when you used to think of yourself as cis is a real shock. Not to be a downer but just, stay safe.
Content note for violent transphobia:
"Dedrek Finley, the trans man who recently filed an anti-discrimination civil lawsuit against actor Rosario Dawson, has publicly spoken out against his former employer. In Finley’s first interview since his October 19 filing, which alleged that Dawson and members of her family knowingly misgendendered, deadnamed, and even physically assaulted him, the handyman told Out that he hopes his actions might embolden other trans folks to take legal measures against abusive employers."
TERFs are lethal and JK Rowling is part of the problem #BlackTransLivesMatter #sayhername (at Hogwarts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBWPGNAFnWb/?igshid=z3ewv0ssr5t3
An oldie from last year
Nia Nal: (beats the shit out of someone who is violent towards trans people.) Me:
You are going to prison for a long time. And when you’re out, I will be watching you. And if you ever make a move against anyone in my community again, I will give you a nightmare you will never wake up from.
It was just one bad person. You can tell yourself that, Nia, like I did. But I should’ve known better. I’m a trans woman of color. I know what we’re up against.
