Teacher Fired for Not Using Preferred Pronoun!?

1. That picture behind you gave you a great head of hair. 👍😉

2. Preferred pronouns cannot be reconciled with disability rights (language and cognitive disabilities EXIST) and protection from discrimination on the basis of race, creed, and national origin (language – not every language differentiates male and female in pronouns) plus religion. Every time I bring this up, I get attacked or ignored, because I am correct in pointing this out and they know this. No one should ever apologize for speaking their native language. Your desire to be perceived as a frog does not require me to pretend to perceive you as a frog.

3. Mike I'd love to talk about this with you over message I don't agree with anything you said and allot of it was transphobic so I'd like to talk about this with you because I don't want to label you as transphobic until we talk about it

4. TRANSGENDERS ARE SOVEREIGN WTF ok um wow.

5. These transgender folks are getting militant because they feel like they're on the verge of success but they know deep inside that no amount of pretending will ever change them from being one gender to another and thats why they take it out on those that are doing nothing more than innocently using language to mean what it means. Are there any non aggressive non militants transgender folks out here that are tired of being grouped in with these aggressive fascist linguists?

6. I refuse to bend the way I talk or think because of the "social correctness police " I am a 48 year old "MAN" not a pussified new way hippie! This world is becoming way WAY to soft!

7. If I tell you my name is Mike, is it anti intellectual for me to ask you not to call me Bob? The way people identify is not pretend to them, it is a major part of their life. You can think whatever you want, but calling somebody by the pronoun they choose is a matter of respect to that person. As a teacher who serves a diverse student body, it really is not acceptable to disrespect or single out a student based off of personal beliefs. The same would go for you as a law enforcement officer.

   I personally think Islam and Christianity are fictional. Of course, I am allowed to have my opinion, but I would expect to get in trouble at work if I let a religious person know that I think their belief system is wrong. Doing that would be disrespecting that religious person. If you think about it "accurately" Christianity is full of beliefs not based in "science or reality". In fact, if you do some more "accurate" thinking, you should realize that expecting others to respect your faith while not respecting the identity of others makes you a hypocrite.

   The examples you mentioned about identifying as a different age, or as being pregnant would obviously cause issues and allow people to avoid personal accountability. How does identifying as a gender other than your biological gender pose issues like this?

   The hypothetical about the Muslim being forced to eat pork is not equivalent to using the wrong pronoun; choosing what you eat only directly affects you, choosing what you call others affects others.

8. OMG Transgenders are sovereign citizens, LMAO!!!!!!

9. You are either a male or a female. Prove me wrong.

10. In this situation I agree 100% that the teacher deserved to be Fired….. SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

11. It makes sense. We can't all agree on things but why should that take away people's opinions? It shouldn't. The Christian male teacher is allowed his opinion just like the transgenders.

12. Hey Mike The Cop! – Here's a different slant on this particular story….
    First, you said this teacher claimed that because he's a Christian, that somehow his 'faith' prohibits him from referring to a transgender person by the pronoun they prefer, if it isn't their biological gender. So, addressing that aspect first, I'd have to seriously question where in the Bible this prohibition is written. (It's not.) There are some references as to 'one woman, one man' type of thing, but as far as pronouns go… nope, Christianity has no such strictures in scripture. I imagine the school board would probably have pointed this out to this teacher.
    Secondly, as you mentioned at the end of the video, that if this teacher is purposefully being 'intolerant', then he deserved to be fired. Tho, given the unanimous decision by the school board, I would think that this wasn't the only student, nor the only incident where this teacher showed some type of 'scorn' or even bigotry towards LGBTQ or any other difference in a student he simply didn't like or was possibly bigoted against.
    So, I guess I'm saying that if they fired him for a single incident, that would be wrong, especially if there were no malice or 'intent' in his actions….. but, with the small amount of evidence you gave us here, I'm inclined to think this teacher had possibly a pattern of intolerance and should have been let go. And lastly, I personally feel that the whole SJW transgender/how 'I' identify thing has no place in K thru 12 schools, as far as insisting on being treated in all ways as the opposite gender. These are still children, minors, and are interacting with other children/minors. Until they are 18, and are out of the public school system, there is a large degree of 'conformity to reasonable norms' that must be followed. If I had a daughter in school, (grade, junior or senior high) and she came and told me a transgender 'girl' was now being allowed to play in girls sports and was allowed into girls locker rooms and rest rooms…. yes, as open minded as I am, I would indeed have a problem with that. See what I'm saying? So… the whole 'gender identity' thing is a sticky wicket.

13. I completely agree with you!

14. Hi I'm Non-Binary my pronouns are They/Them but if you want you can just call me Andrey. This is in no way a hate comment I just wanted to input on this subject. I do understand this in some ways. Being missgendered is kinda offensive if you know my gender it feels like your agenst that persons identity. But in no way was it fare for that school to fire that man. He offered to use the name witch is perfectly fine for me and any other trans person. He should have never been fired but if he refused to use the child's name or went to old pronouns that's another story. A child should feel safe and supported in a public school community. Just my opinion no way is it a hate comment, have a good day.

15. I hate trans "things" they're not people to me. There's only male and female, no ands, ifs or buts

16. If you live in a place where marijuana is legal, can you smoke marijuana on your time off just like drinking? (when your a cop)

17. I musta been 12 when i last saw Bob Ross. Used to visit my mom on the weekends and it was usually boring, then Bob Ross came on, I was hypnotized. Thought I was the only person who'd use him as a reference.

18. I am waiting for people to understand that They/Them is confrontational and thus people should use the more inclusive Us/We. 🙂 Honestly, people just need to get over it. Everyone wears their emotions on their sleeve these days. I get called Sir and Ma'am all the time and I don't complain about it, I just go with it, because I'm not 7 years old.

19. I identify as Bill gates. Give me all his money

20. Yeah well keep voting for the liberal socialist progressive left wing idiot's. And soon they will replace all teachers with transvestite perverts. Just like they already are in libraries, doing story time dressed in their pervert costumes. Good God give me the strength to stay calm. This is beyond disturbing, and time has come for change. We as a society cannot continue this way. If there need be lines drawn, then so be it. And BTW, you can call me what you will. Because you'd call me that anyway regardless. Besides I'm immune to it. And don't even care. I actually appreciate being called whayever, since it only confirms that my insult was affective. Enough is Enough. Something needs to be drone e about these progressive libtards.

21. You know what's sad? The progressive left is actually much closer to the European right of decades ago. You know who those European right wingers evolved into? Democratic Socialists, or as the acronym read in German, the NAZI party. That's right, the progressive left is a mirror of the Nazis. Research the ideologies and tactics of the party, pre-inception to post-WWII. It's unnerving; I'll go as far as to say horrifying. You know the number of millenials in the U.S. who don't know what the holocaust is? Two-thirds. 1.3 million millenials had no knowledge of the holocaust. The HOLOCAUST?! And those stats are from 1 year ago as reported by WAPO and others. Surely it's even higher today. When words lose meaning…when science is ignored…when history is forgotten or relegated to an "irrelevant" status, totalitarianism fills the gap. Even our founding fathers said they hoped their great experiment would last 150 years. We've gone beyond that but are deteriorating quickly. We're not a democracy precisely because strict democracies lead to totalitarianism. Why? Because the principle of democracy is "majority rules". When the majority decides to hate people with other perspectives, they agree to eliminate the opposing views…and ultimately the people who hold them. The United States of America is a constitutional republic, NOT a democracy. But the left wants a strict democracy to ensure THEIR majority rules. Permanently. The issue discussed in this video is a prime example. Opposing views are being silenced. Humanity's "Lord of the Flies" default is beginning to seize power. I hate acknowledging it, but it's true: America is crumbling. And I genuinely believe it will not survive. I give us another 50 years, 75 tops. It breaks my heart. I'm actually glad that I won't be here to see it. But I thank God every day that I live in this nation at this time. At least I'll remember the best about her as I approach the end of my life. Stay safe out there, everyone.

22. It has nothing to do with bias or bigotry.
    Those are the go to things to silence any criticism or disagreement or simple conversation.

23. If you feel pregnant you are pregnant.

24. Jordan Peterson, up north, went right out there to protest against being 'forced' to use a particular language.
    Those against him said he was being dishonest and that legislation would not be used like that.
    Well, here we are. People being fired for such things.
    Absurdity is having it's day, let's hope it will dissipate soon.

25. I am a table, please refer to me as furniture. The world is crazy! It's ridiculous that they would fire a good teacher for such nonsense. Watch the movie "Idiocracy" (2006) it's where the future is headed.

26. If I told people I identified as a woman, the lefties would agree. If I said I was Napoleon I'd be put in a loony bin. Sick of these people trying to force their opinions on the rest of us. The silly men.

27. You are so right!! Love your video's brotha! 👍👍👍

28. The guy was fired, becuase he refused. There is a different between sex and gender.
    Transgender isn't pretending.
    Transgender is when ones gender doesn't align with their sex.
    Transfemale = Mentally female, physically male, and vice versa.

    People who pretend to be female are drag queen, and drag kind for females who dress as male.

    Transgender has always been around, just not recognised like now.

    Kindergarden Cop was referring to a person's sex, not gender.
    I hope that makes sense.

    BTW, there is nothing to support that people can identify as a June Bug, and anything other than gender.

    There is science to back up that Transgender is real, just like ones sexual orientation. It's not black and white, what we once thought.

29. I don't blame the guy a bit! That's the biggest load of shit and that school should be ashamed. All they're doing in virtue signaling! I'm not calling anyone anything that they don't actually deserve. There are TWO genders how in the world these people can't figure this out is beyond me….MORONS!!

30. Mike I understand that you have a different opinion than me and I respect that but some of the things you said in this video were really rude and you have no idea what the pain is like of hating your body because it is the opposite gender’s body.

31. Have to agree with you

32. I'm not disagreeing with anything but I believe if you are born with a vagina you are a woman whether you like or not and if you are born with a penis you are a man whether you like it or not…people are getting beyond stupid

33. Love the tree-fro

34. I don't disagree with you but yikes, there are a LOT of slippery-slope fallacies in this

35. you rely a whole lot on it being "scientifically accurate" as you should, so I feel like you should look into the hormonal and physiological differences between transgender people and their natural gender. Just because some of their biology is retaining their original gender much of their physiology is not. There is a large amount of scientific backing to transgender people. weather or not transitioning solves anything, or really much of anything else you can debate all you'd like but saying it isn't there scientifically is empirically wrong.

36. When you willing to chat with real tracegender people let me know. I have a few friends which can open your eyes to their way of thinkingThey opened my eyes to some fact I did not know

37. I respect you a whole lot more after this vid

38. sounds like the french revolution is coming back… or the chinese cultural revolution- both had the same end results…

39. Agreed Mike. My opinion of it has always been do whatever the hell you want. It's a free country. Just don't force me to be involved in it. I don't force you to be involved in my life. Like, FFS just do your own thing and mind your business…..

40. If I was an American I would vote for you into any politics you would run for.

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