The guidance states that parents of trans students may authorise teachers to refer to their child by their chosen name, but that teachers would not be obligated to use their correct pronouns.

They just directly admit that this has nothing to do with parent choice. Even if parents chose, it's still a firm "no, we will not abide."

Parents only have the "choice" to comply with the authoritarian rules.

Ok. As far as I recall, highschool students love following idiotic rules and will definitely abide and not use nicknames.

Banning school children from using nicknames is the most petty overreach of the "culture wars" I've yet seen.

It would be funny if it weren't for the fact it will likely cause hurt and harm to a vulnerable minority.

Florida is straight up cesspool of nut jobs. These poor teenagers need to graduate and get the fuck out of Florida. Or, convince their parents to move somewhere reasonable where they won't be thinking about suicide everyday.

Under the guidance, published Monday (7 August), teachers at schools in Orange County must use pronouns and titles that correspond to their “biological sex” at birth, and parents must fill out a form to let teachers know of any deviation from their child’s legal name, even if this is a simple nickname.

It means a student named Robert would need permission to go by Rob.

The point of protesting, usually, is to inconvenience people who would not otherwise be inconvenienced by some sort of discrimination. But dang if Florida isn't doing all the inconveniencing for us! Can't wait for a pissed off mom who has to fill out a form for her child's nickname they've used all throughout school.

I hate this. There's nothing I can do about it personally but it makes me deeply upset.

Good fucking luck getting kids to stop calling each other by random nicknames and shit.

Or does this only apply to teachers, thus making it basically approved child abuse?

Florida is a shithole of hatred and bigotry. If we're still building that border wall we should build it across the Florida border.

Can the sane states defederate from Florida?

@stopthatgirl7

Some high schooler is going to be like, "fine. Call me John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" at all times, unabridged.

This is the dumbest timeline

Lead by example Ronald!