48. Week of 12-25

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Mental Health

I'm actually doing really well. I would love to say I did this on my own but I can't. I have an amazing support system of friends, family, and medication. We love m e d s. Anyways other than that I think I will be discontinuing this part of my blog as I've grown a great deal. It may be sad to see this chapter of my life pass but I'm glad I no longer report how miserable I am every week.

Current Event - Ohio teacher told principal using students’ preferred pronouns violated her religion. She was forced to resign, lawsuit says

So this is an interesting story and tbh really funny. This teacher did not want to respect students pronouns. Because of this she was subsequently forced to resign. Her lawyers argue that she wasn't given the option to switch classes, because of this her lawyers argue that it was unfair to force her to resign. Thats a brief summary and to be honest I don't know which side I'm on. On one hand they should've given her more options due to the fact that her religous beliefs state she should use someone's original name. But obviously she is transphobic for not respecting someone elses pronouns1 and prefered name. She obviously didn't want to change which is why I respect the decision to force her to resign. Even if she was put into another classroom she would've eventually caused problems with other students. This is a really tough situation that the school administrators were put in but in the end I personally think they made the right decision to force her to resign. It really sucks that she had to resign due to her religous beliefs but I think it was the best thing for the community.

Song of the Week

This may look really stupid bc of the name of the artist but tbh their song is a banger. I'm going to keep exploring their music and see what I find!

  1. Pronouns are words that refer to either the people talking (like you or I) or someone or something that is being talked about (like she, they, and this). Gender pronouns (like he or them) specifically refer to people that you are talking about. ↩