{"id":82108,"date":"2022-05-17T10:31:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T15:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82108"},"modified":"2022-05-17T10:31:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T15:31:26","slug":"bridge-over-the-river-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82108","title":{"rendered":"Bridge over the River Why??"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While American power abroad slowly erodes, it’s good to know<\/a> our society is girding its loins to fight the true enemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three students at a Wisconsin middle school are facing allegations of sexual harassment under Title IX after they repeatedly refused to use “they\/them” pronouns when addressing a fellow student.

Attorneys for the Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty demanded that the Kiel Area School District stop the Title IX investigation into the three male students at Kiel Middle School.

“The complaint against these boys, and the District\u2019s ongoing investigation, are wholly inappropriate and should be immediately dismissed,” the institute wrote in a letter to administrators. “The mere use of biologically correct pronouns not only does not constitute sexual harassment under Title IX or the District\u2019s own policy, it is also speech protected by the First Amendment.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The letter from the WILL is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We represent the families of three eighth grade boys (and the boys themselves) who the District recently charged with sexual harassment under Title IX for \u201cmispronouning.\u201d The District\u2019s position appears to be that using what the District calls \u201cincorrect pronouns\u201d \u201cafter being informed that a student\u2019s preferred pronouns were \u2018they\/them\u2019\u2019\u2019 automatically constitutes punishable sexual harassment under Title IX.

The complaint against these boys, and the District\u2019s ongoing investigation, are wholly inappropriate and should be immediately dismissed. The mere use of biologically correct pronouns not only does not constitute sexual harassment under Title IX or the District\u2019s own policy, it is also speech protected by the First Amendment. 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\u2019 records.

\u201cMispronouning\u201d 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. And none of the \u201cother conduct\u201d described in the statement from the music teacher (which the families of the boys eventually received with the Title IX complaint) comes remotely close to sexual harassment. The statement even acknowledges that the whole class \u201cexpressed frustration with remembering pronouns.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It’s hard to have a society when half the country wants to take a chainsaw to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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