This is going to kill someone. School is often one of the few places kids and teens can come for help outside of parents. If your parents are transphobic, and a teacher finds out and tells them, that child is going to be killed.
this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2025
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We need to do more to protect lgbt kids from abusive parents
An absolute fucking monster that should be punished severely! ALL trans youth suicide should be levied against this judge as “accessory to murder”
The downvote is someone who would kill their kid if they said that they were trans.
Could also just be a misclick. I've done that a few times.
Hope this can be appealed, and what can be done "legally " to remove him from the bench?
Thanks, no-voters. Continuing to bat for the fences with all you accomplished.
Bbbuttt... 'i didn't vote for him...! I'm one of the good guys! (Didn't vote for her, either.) Both suck! Equally!'
Are teachers allowed to keep any secrets about students from their parents?
Wait, am I missing something? This just says they have the right, not any kind of requirement. So basically saying teachers have free speach. This doesn't seem controversial to me. It's a cornerstone of the constitution that the current administration is trying to take away. I would be upset if they were ordered to report it... but I am also against them being ordered not to. The majority of teachers I have met, want the best for the kids. And they would only want to even bring up the subject if they thought the kid needed help in some way, and that the parents could provide. Sure there are exceptions, but tieing the hands of the majority to enable punishment of a minority isn't the answer. In reality, if a teacher tells a parent that thier kid is using different pronouns, and the parent gets very upset, the teacher is a mandatory reporter. So if any reasonable person would think the parent may in some way cause harm, which would include inducing suicide, they have to report it. So they are already incentivized to not say anything, and in many cases could be disciplined if they did. So even though this judge sounds like a jerk, overall, he has the right idea. Teachers shouldn't be censored.
Mandatory reporters means abuse. A kid wanting to be trans without telling their parents does not equal abuse. Of course you're being disingenuous so fundamentalist Christain parents can send their kids to conversion therapy so they can eventually commit suicide and you have zero care about the well being of the child and want to push your conservative Christian bullshit. If you werent you'd realize how low the suicide rates go down when kids are able to openly trans
You should really read up. While it is state dependent, emotional abuse is cover under mandatory reporting in most state.
I get that you're not too bright, didn't read the article, and didn't really read what I wrote, but... acting like nazis and telling teachers what they can and can't say to parents isn't the way to defeat the nazis.