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Targeting Trans Kids, Florida School Board Requires Parental Approval for Nicknames
(theintercept.com)
That's not how nicknames work
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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Yeah -- I sure could have used "parental sign-off" when kids at school started calling me "dinky".
I was boner. It was back in the day of BBS' and my handle was lone wolf. So they started calling me loner... Then one day Bill decided "we should just call you boner". I said " oh please don't". I shouldn't have said that.
In the end it wasn't all that bad. I wasn't particularly good looking but when girls heard that, they would ask why they call me that I would just say "it's a long and very stupid story" it made them even more interested in me. LOL
"Everything worked out in the end"
I heard Dinky Hocker shoots smack.
Make sure everyone calls him Ronald DeSantis until this goes away.
Ronald McSantis has a better ring to it
As a parent, I'll sign off on that.
Him? Wasn't he recently outted as a drag queen?
Drag queens are mostly guys, and DeSantis certainly presents male, so "he" is appropriate when he is not performing.
I think that was Tennessee governor Bill Lee.
George Santos is who I am thinking of, why are there so many of them in this closet!
of course, they dehumanize and degrade these kids further by referring to their names as merely “nicknames” they have to be approved to use, making sure you know that they’re in control and stripping as much dignity as they can from the kids and parents in the process. as always, the cruelty is the point.
why the hell should any school have control over someone’s name? fuck them.
it’s fascism.
it’s fascism.
Yes it is. It's sad and scary to be able to say that about one of the two viable parties without being hyperbolic or rhetorical.
Thanks for sharing that. The introductory paragraphs are so gripping I found myself unable to do anything but read to the end.
I'm a bit confused. Of course, if the parents are not supportive then them needing to approve the "nickname" is a problem, but if the parent is supportive, isn't this good for parents becuase it give them more control over the school. If the parent approves of the nickname, the school has to recognize it and refer to the child by th name.
I agree it's taking control away from the kids, but is it not giving full control to the parents?
It's building a literal database of all "non-conforming" children.
Also, parents should not have full control over what their children want to be called.
Why should a parent have full control over what nickname their kid uses? Any parent who tries to excersize that level of total control over their kid is gonna wind up disowned when their kid hits 18 lol
If that sounds normal to you, you might have had some seriously overbearing parents, hate to break it to you lol
So all the trans kids will just go by their last name
How are they going to enforce that? We had nicknames for most of our teachers and I don't think any of those had approval.
Very selectively.
we must liberate nazi occupied florida
Somebody call Wagner. /s
Instructions unclear, resurrected Sherman.
Fuck, somebody tell Savannah, Georgia. This is gonna be messy.
So...
Any idiot can tell a class clown with supportive parent is going to do a form saying their nickname is Mike Hunt or any other thing Bart Simpson pranked Moe with
And now the teacher/school will either have to pretend they don't see the issue or open themselves up to legal issues.
I doubt the Simpsons made a Mike Hunt joke at 6pm
Yeah, no. Nobody at my kid's high school has called me to rat them out on their name or gender presentation. Thank God. I don't personally police that, my kid is safe, but they want to make the kids with crazy parents unsafe. Nothing good can come of this, but again - I don't think schools are complying, at all.
And they think kids will listen to this why? They're about to be ignored and ridiculed by children en masse
My high school buddies Rocky and Pigboy think that is real stupid.
Don't forget Squee and Donkey Doug.
Oh dip!
*"Pudding fingers" enters the chat
My nickname is Rhonda Santis 
As usual, transphobic bullshit hurts everyone