Parents annoyed as pronouns law requires Indiana schools to report all nickname requests

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indystar.com

Just in case you thought this was only a Florida problem.

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A new Indiana law that requires parents to be notified of students' name changes, including nicknames, has caused confusion and annoyance among some parents, while others are angry about the risk it places on transgender students.

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Pretty sure that's the point...

Oh it's definitely the point, but the consequences go way beyond that because the idiots who wanted to be cruel to trans kids didn't actually think anything through.

When cruelty is the point, bonus cruelty isn't a dissuasive argument.

I don't think there's additional cruelty. You can't really compare the danger outing trans kids to the annoyance of requiring to report every mundane nickname a kid requests.

All I'm saying is that they don't care about collateral damage.

It's not a comparison, rather it's a further illustration that it's all about controlling what EVERYONE can or can't do. If anything, if I was a kid in this state, I'd be requesting a new nickname every week, every day, even.

Exactly. "Oh, this impacts kids who want to express some individuality rather than take the ABSOLUTE NAME that their PARENTS ASSIGNED THEM? Good."

They don't want kids going to school and broadening their horizons, they don't classrooms to be places where a kid can ask to be called "DJ" because they're really into hip hop, they want classrooms to be centers of indoctrination to create good little workers. A law that makes the public school experience worse is a win for them.