Canada: High school student suspended, arrested for saying only 2 genders

[recuter]

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-catholic-high-school-student-suspended-then-arrested-for-saying-there-are-only-two-genders

[_rm]

Fake headline, he wasn't arrested for saying that.

Article details: he was suspended for saying that, would be allowed to return if he recanted, then went back to school anyway without recanting, the school was Catholic but publicly funded, he was arrested for trespassing for returning without permission.

I'm not commenting at all on the political aspects, but fake headlines are inappropriate at HN.

[runsWphotons → _rm]

This does not seem to make it less outrageous to me.

[catchnear4321 → runsWphotons]

Calling the headline misleading isn’t calling the situation fine.

Misleading headlines can derail opportunities to have a conversation about the actual cause of outrage, especially when reading a headline may be all that some do.

A misleading headline can lead to excessive outrage, which may make any efforts at discourse impossible.

[bitlax → catchnear4321]

Calling it fake is misleading. This is the kind of Wikipedian pedantry that actually serves to stifle necessary discussions.

[nostromo123]

From "we only want to be accepted as we are" to "you'll be arrested if you disagree with us" within a decade...scary!

Now downvote me and tell me how he deserves it because he is engaged in hate speech or whatever, you'll just prove my point.

[Hyption → nostromo123]

Read the article.

He uses the old names from two transgender students on purpose.

He is a bully.

Of course there are two primary gender in biological context and it doesn't make a lot of sense to subcategories them.

And I also don't want to be cancelled because someone thinks it's not okay to write transwoman when it makes sense.

It's a valid sentence to say 'i don't want to date transgender woman'.

And it also makes sense to separate woman rights from transwoman rights.

[denton-scratch → Hyption]

> Read the article.

> He uses the old names from two transgender students on purpose.

Read the article.

"Alexander told National Post that he’s never dead named another student, meaning using their original name before transitioning."

[JEDI-HACKER]

What a load of ear wax, the kid shouldn't have been treated like a criminal. There is only 2 genders.