A Florida couple argued that school officials violated their rights by honoring their child’s request for a different name and pronouns without first informing them.

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[–] 60 points 4 months ago (5 children)

If your love for your child is conditional. You are a bad parent.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Lots of parents think their children are dolls they can mold into something they think "perfect" to show off to other people, or want them to be clones of themselves they can control. Those people deserve to have them taken away or losing contact with them forever.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Funny how in red states only the conservatives get parental rights not those who are pro-trans.

    Parent says it’s okay to use the proper name and pronouns.

    Florida School Districts: Waaaaaah, why don’t you hate children like we do! We want your express approval to bully your child!

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  • [–] 58 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    The parents sued, calling it a “secret gender transition plan” and arguing the school violated their constitutional rights by withholding information about their child’s gender identity.

    These parents are bad. If they were reasonable people their child would feel comfortable talking to them.

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  • [–] 34 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    If a parent needs a state and courts to enforce their parenting, those aren't good parents.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    i don't know, there is a whole world out there with an interest to manipulate, exploit, and abuse children (and people generally). a few parents can only do so much to protect their children from that. they need support from a larger community.

    of course parents in this case are horrible and abusive and not fighting some actual big evil, and states are a pretty bad replacement for actual community support.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    If you're the kind of parent that will sue all the way to the supreme court in an attempt to control your child, your the kind of parent your child won't be able to turn to for support.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago

    Schools should be able to provide hormone blockers to trans kids without telling abusive parents with the referral from the school councillor. They’re already administer vaccines on school grounds.

    PaREnTS RighTS is just cover for transphobia.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    Little tangent: I read the headline as ‘rejected’ instead of ‘respected’ got mad, read the article and was yelling ‘that’s the opposite of what you said!’ Then I read the commends and was all ????? So I re-read the headline and noticed my mistake..

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    That kid is going to leave the house as soon as possible

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