Florida just found a new battlefield in the culture war over a prefix. A Gainesville elementary school teacher was placed on administrative leave for asking to be called “Mx.” instead of “Ms.” or “Mrs.”
“Not every hill is worth dying on.”
Heck, I didn’t even know there was something called an Mx, and the hell do you pronounce it?
I looked it up, and it says the term is pronounced as “mix,” and has been around since the ‘70s, but apparently, it just met its Florida Man moment.
According to Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, this “violates state law,” specifically House Bill 1069, signed by Governor Ron DeSantis in 2023. That law bans teachers from using pronouns or titles that don’t match their sex assigned at birth because in Florida’s education system, “sex is immutable” and identity is, well… optional.
Uthmeier didn’t hold back, calling “Mx.” a “made-up ideological label” that “interferes with parents’ religious upbringing.” He’s now urging Alachua County schools to drop it immediately.
The teacher, who works at Talbot Elementary, has been suspended pending investigation.
So yeah, welcome to 2025, where you are stupid enough to call yourself “Mx” infront of kids and get yourself suspended. We’ve officially hit the part of the timeline where grammar is political.
Look, I do not know any trans people, and I’m sorry if I cannot relate, but why do people care about stupid pronouns?
I mean, I often use the same thing on my girlfriend, my mom, my male friend, and even my grandma. None of them cares about what pronoun I use, they just see what I meant and what it made them feel.
Also, asking kids to call her Mx?
My ass is 25 years old, and I didn’t even know what that was until I Googled it. Some people say this is a virus and all these LGBT people are sick in their heads, but I do not know what they go through each day, but even so, rubbing it on kids in schools, or a male calling himself female pronouns and entering into the ladies’ bathroom is wrong.
THE WHY: IDENTITY
3.5 stars for this story because yeah, adults can debate pronouns on podcasts all day, but when it trickles down to kids in a classroom, it is not cool.
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