A public university in Ohio will pay $400,000 in damages and attorney fees after punishing a professor for declining a male student's demand to be referred to as a female.
Nick Meriwether, a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University, responded to a male student's question during a January 2018 political philosophy class by saying "Yes, sir."
When the class ended, the student identified to the professor as transgender, and demanded to be referred to as a woman in the future, along with "feminine titles and pronouns," according to the Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented the professor in court.
Doing so, Meriwether maintained, would have violated his convictions as a Christian.
Meriwether didn't agree to the student's request, and court documents state that the student became belligerent and told the professor that he would be fired.
The student filed a complaint with the university, launching an investigation which eventually determined that Meriwether "effectively created a hostile environment" for the student because he would not use the preferred pronouns.
Meriwether did offer to call the student by any name requested, but the student did not accept the offer. READ MORE...
If I was a young lad growing up in the USA, I would not be able to refer to my parents as mom and dad or mother and father because those pronouns are gender specific and according to our COUNTER CULTURE culture, those pronouns are no longer appropriate... At 73 years of age, I find this approach to referencing to parents rather absurd to say the least. Using the term parents, folks, guardians, or whatever eliminates the intimacy between parents and their children. Boys and girls are inappropriate as well and we should no longer distinguish between females and males... but, the fact remains that they are different and will always be different... especially physically.
AND... since they are physically different, males and females wear different clothes... and, those clothes in particular is going to differentiate between the two genders. However, there are a few males who want to be females and exercise that desire by taking female steroids to create breasts or have surgery for implants. This is their choice... but, once they have these breasts, can these males now use the female restrooms in public?
What if, a male who wants to be a female, also wants to play female sports... does his male body give him the advantage over his female teammates? And if the courts says YES... he can do this... what then are the rights for the females who have been put at a disadvantage?
DO YOU THINK IT IS FAIR FOR A TRANSGENERED MALE TO COMPETE IN HIGH SCHOOL TRACK AND FIELD EVENTS WITH OTHER NON TRANGENDERED FEMALES?
Personally...
I do not think that it is fair for the competition to take place between a transgendered male and heterosexual female...
BUT...
I am not a LIBERAL DEMOCRAT... who thinks that this situation is not only fair but normal...
I am NOT AGAINST transgendered people... and if they want to live the way they want to live, then that is their business not mine... and, if they want to compete mentally, well... that is fine as well... but, it is not fine for them to compete physically as males and females have two different kinds of bodies, including those males who are taking female hormones....
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS want to level the playing field when it comes to transgendered people.... but, how would they feel if their daughter lost out on a scholarship to college because of a transgendered male in a physical competition...
I believe they would raise HOLY HELL even if they were not religious.
