In 2017, a public-school teacher in Florida named Amanda Bressack told fifth-grade students that their teacher should be referred to as “Mx.” Bressack — pronounced “Mix” — and that Bressack’s pronouns were “they, them, their instead of he, his, she, hers.”
Some parents objected to teaching ten-year-olds about the concept of transgenderism. Several removed their children from Bressack’s class. “It’s not up to our teachers to teach these kinds of ideas (after all — a boy is a boy and a girl is a girl),” one member of the community wrote on Facebook. The school district then transferred Bressack “from working with children into a classroom with adults,” the Washington Post reported at the time.
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