Hyperlinks related to Gender in Schooling
Hyperlinks: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/tennessee-governor-signs-drag-show-restrictions-into-law
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/after-school-shooting-some-trans-tennesseans-face-backlash-2023-03-31/
Both of these articles indicate real world issues revolving around the LGBT+ community. The Rhode Island guidance for nonbinary and transgender students and the video that teaches about respecting pronouns are positive examples of how to advocate for these groups of people. Honestly, it is refreshing to see these pieces of media considering the amount of controversy in the news regarding these groups of people. One of the articles I linked has information about the current anti-drag laws that are being enacted in some southern states. This hit the news at the beginning of March, and sadly, we ended the month with another school shooting. As soon as I saw the early articles leaking information on the shooting, there was discussion about how the shooter identified as transgender. I had a feeling that the far-right would immediately name this to be a transgender issue. I began to see articles on my feed titled 'Transgender Shoots Christian School." We have already seen southern policy makers pushing anti-LGBT legislation with the argument of 'needing to protect their children.' Rhetoric began about how transgender people are mass shooters, and other outlandish statements such as this spread. Tennessee residents who identify as transgender are being targeted when attending church since the event (the Reuters article goes into more detail). Personally, I do not care in any way how a person wants to identify. I am thankful that I live in a state where I do not have to worry about these issues as much and be scared for drag queens, transgender people, or gender nonconforming people. Unfortunately, I was not surprised at the backlash these groups got after the Nashville shooting, which says a lot about our state of the world. I was also not surprised that politicians once again disregarded the brutally murdered students and teachers to talk about how LGBT education is 'dangerous for kids.' What I really want to know is how they could possibly believe that an AR-15 in a school is less damaging than they/them pronouns.
I think it is really important that you brought up certain states in which these people are currently being attacked by laws
ReplyDeleteWhile it is important to notice our progression, we should also equally acknowledge and be aware of the injustices still happening in our school system and environment because it can easily influence people to continue old viewpoints and regress our society.
ReplyDeleteI like how you implemented a trans flag.
ReplyDeleteI like how you connected the topic to current news, such as with the recent school shooting and how the murderer identified being more of conservation than some other, more urgent matters.
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