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Subject: Re: CA Teacher Fired for Refusing to Use Preferred Pronouns; Wins
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Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 22:00:06 -0400
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On Thu, 16 May 2024 09:08:39 -0700
anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

> shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 May 2024 23:08:20 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
> > wrote:
> >  =20
> >> On Thu, 16 May 2024 01:00:19 +0000, BTR1701
> >> <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> >>  =20
> >>> A California school district has settled a lawsuit with a teacher
> >>> who says she was fired over her religious beliefs after she
> >>> refused to use students' preferred pronouns, attorneys say.
> >>>=20
> >>> The Jurupa Unified School District in Riverside County agreed to
> >>> pay $360,000 to Jessica Tapia, her attorneys at Advocates for
> >>> Faith & Freedom said in a May 14 news release.
> >>>=20
> >>> The settlement closes a federal lawsuit Tapia filed last May that
> >>> alleged the district's decision to fire Tapia violated her civil
> >>> and 1st Amendment rights, according to the lawsuit.
> >>>  =20
> >> Was she fired because she refused to use he/her or he/her/god knows
> >> what? =20
> >=20
> > I am an Attack Helicopter and shall henceforth be referred to as
> > such. I can remember when this pronoun discussion first started up
> > many years ago. People deriding it often said they should be
> > referred to as attack helicopters henceforth instead of he or she.
> >  =20
> >> My question is of course designed to see if her "crime" was the
> >> same one that brought Jordan Peterson to prominence or something
> >> else? (Peterson said he'd use he/her as desired but wouldn't use a
> >> made up pronoun) =20
> >  =20
>=20
> But =E2=80=9Cattack helicopter=E2=80=9D isn=E2=80=99t pronouns
>=20

Neither is "xir" but I've seen it in print, used as if it is a real
pronoun.=20

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Rhino