Exeter High School, in New Hampshire, has a written policy on “transgender and gender nonconforming students” that says they have the right to be addressed by their preferred name and pronoun – regardless of their biological sex. Last fall, a student in a Spanish class at the school announced to the class that she was “nonbinary” and preferred to be addressed by the pronoun “they.” One of her classmates, a young man on the football team, spoke up and said that he believed there are only two genders – male and female.
On the bus ride home, the young man and one of his friends were discussing the incident, and the discussion was overheard by another young lady who chimed in claiming there are more than two genders. Her take was that there are only two sexes, but there are many possible genders.
This young lady wanted to continue the discussion, so she somehow obtained the football player’s cell phone number and began texting him about the subject. After a few exchanges, he became annoyed with her and, rather rudely, told her to leave him alone.
The next day, the young man was pulled out of his science class by the vice principal and his football coach who then confronted him with the text messages and chastised him for “not respecting pronouns.” (Click here to continue reading.)