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Targeting Trans Kids, Florida School Board Requires Parental Approval for Nicknames

https:// theintercept.com /2023/08/09/florida-school-board-anti-trans-policy/

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LGBTQ+ @beehaw.org Targeting Trans Kids, Florida School Board Requires Parental Approval for Nicknames

39 comments

That's not how nicknames work

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- Yeah -- I sure could have used "parental sign-off" when kids at school started calling me "dinky".
  
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  I was boner. It was back in the day of BBS' and my handle was lone wolf. So they started calling me loner... Then one day Bill decided "we should just call you boner". I said " oh please don't". I shouldn't have said that.
  
  In the end it wasn't all that bad. I wasn't particularly good looking but when girls heard that, they would ask why they call me that I would just say "it's a long and very stupid story" it made them even more interested in me. LOL
  
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  I heard Dinky Hocker shoots smack.
  
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Make sure everyone calls him Ronald DeSantis until this goes away.

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- Ronald McSantis has a better ring to it
  
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  As a parent, I'll sign off on that.
  
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- Him? Wasn't he recently outted as a drag queen?
  
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  Drag queens are mostly guys, and DeSantis certainly presents male, so "he" is appropriate when he is not performing.
  
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  I think that was Tennessee governor Bill Lee.
  
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- Rhonda Sand-Tits
  
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of course, they dehumanize and degrade these kids further by referring to their names as merely “nicknames” they have to be approved to use, making sure you know that they’re in control and stripping as much dignity as they can from the kids and parents in the process. as always, the cruelty is the point.

why the hell should any school have control over someone’s name? fuck them.

it’s fascism.

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- it’s fascism.
  
  Yes it is. It's sad and scary to be able to say that about one of the two viable parties without being hyperbolic or rhetorical.
  
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  Thanks for sharing that. The introductory paragraphs are so gripping I found myself unable to do anything but read to the end.
  
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- I'm a bit confused. Of course, if the parents are not supportive then them needing to approve the "nickname" is a problem, but if the parent is supportive, isn't this good for parents becuase it give them more control over the school. If the parent approves of the nickname, the school has to recognize it and refer to the child by th name.
  
  I agree it's taking control away from the kids, but is it not giving full control to the parents?
  
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  It's building a literal database of all "non-conforming" children.
  
  Also, parents should not have full control over what their children want to be called.
  
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  Why should a parent have full control over what nickname their kid uses? Any parent who tries to excersize that level of total control over their kid is gonna wind up disowned when their kid hits 18 lol
  
  If that sounds normal to you, you might have had some seriously overbearing parents, hate to break it to you lol
  
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So all the trans kids will just go by their last name

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How are they going to enforce that? We had nicknames for most of our teachers and I don't think any of those had approval.

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- Very selectively.
  
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So...

Any idiot can tell a class clown with supportive parent is going to do a form saying their nickname is Mike Hunt or any other thing Bart Simpson pranked Moe with

And now the teacher/school will either have to pretend they don't see the issue or open themselves up to legal issues.

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- I doubt the Simpsons made a Mike Hunt joke at 6pm
  
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  I'm really getting tired of the poor reading comprehension on Lemmy...
  
  Most of it seems to be coming from users of the same instances tho, and it kind of makes sense why it's those two that have the most.
  
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we must liberate nazi occupied florida

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- Somebody call Wagner. /s
  
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  Instructions unclear, resurrected Sherman.
  
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And they think kids will listen to this why? They're about to be ignored and ridiculed by children en masse

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Yeah, no. Nobody at my kid's high school has called me to rat them out on their name or gender presentation. Thank God. I don't personally police that, my kid is safe, but they want to make the kids with crazy parents unsafe. Nothing good can come of this, but again - I don't think schools are complying, at all.

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My high school buddies Rocky and Pigboy think that is real stupid.

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- Don't forget Squee and Donkey Doug.
  
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  Oh dip!
  
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*"Pudding fingers" enters the chat

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My nickname is Rhonda Santis

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As usual, transphobic bullshit hurts everyone

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No one should be calling a boy who's name is Michael "Mary" or "Ashley" those are girl names, Boys are not girls.

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- On the other hand, I don't care if a child has a preferred nickname.
  
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  Nicknames are different, I couldn't really care less if some friends want to call each-other nicknames (hell we did it back when I was in school) but trying to convince a boy that they're a girl is just wrong.
  
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