I think that the district is well within its authority to tell the teacher ...'If you can't figure out that you're really a man -- you've got the DNA, the genetic sequence for being a man -- you can't be a teacher'. I think a serious gender identity confusion like this would rule this man out as a good teacher, regardless of his other capabilities."
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If it doesn't affect his teaching abilities, then it doesn't matter, does it? What you look like has no relation to whether or not you are skilled at conveying concepts to people in order for them to learn.
When I think back to my schooling, and I think through my excellent teachers and my dreadful ones, sexuality never really came into things. (Apart from my biology teacher who had the most magnificent rack, and my senior art teacher who was an absolute babe in the Helena Bonham Carter, Bill and Ted's Excellent adventure sense)
Yes, why not eliminate someone from performing a needed, essential function, regardless of qualifications and experience.
So, you admit that DNA evidence is valid? If the genes responsible for homosexuality are identified, you would accept that evidence?
I could picture something like this actually affecting his teaching abilities, if only because the students probably won't be very mature about it if they find out. That's more a sad commentary on the state of our society than it is on the teacher himself, but it still may be the case, unfortunately.
Actually, all the students interviewed on radio news spots had a pretty much "Yeah, whatever" attitude about it.
I wonder what this idiot would have thought of the History professor I used to have, who occasionally came to class in a kilt?
So, let´s imagine this scenario. If I undergo surgical operation because I don´t feel well with my aspect, am I less qualified as a teacher?, or if I convert to another religion, or change degree?
The teacher is a male-to-female transsexual, therefore she should be addressed and referred to with female pronouns. Women for America - are revulsed by anything they perceive as threatening the safe cocoon of the gender binary. "Bah gawd, men 'r men an' wimmen 'r wimmen an' yew gotta tell 'em apart!"
I would not say that the teacher is "confused" about her gender identity. She knows what she is and altered her body accordingly. Knight does not bother to explain how this would "rule (her ) out as a good teacher."
Actually, all the students interviewed on radio news spots had a pretty much "Yeah, whatever" attitude about it.
Then it shouldn't be an issue. (It shouldn't be anyway in a perfect world, but if the kids won't pay attention to him because of that, it could be a problem.)
His head would spin around if he heard about total testosterone resistance, where the individual has male DNA but a female body.
@mister spak:
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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