Transgender Slurs Pros And Cons

In Cindy Boren’s article titled “When football players join in to mock transgender people, Kansas high school students protest with a sit-in,” Cindy reports on Kansas students who protested transgender slurs used in an app known as GroupMe. “More than one hundred students… cuts classes and held a sit-in” protesting transgender slurs and “football player… who could play”, after being part of such conversation. The sit-in was led by the Total Equality Alliance, when students, like sophomore Elliot Bradley felt-led to believe that “LHS is valuing their player over their minority students. (Boren).” The sit-in was considered a peaceful protest by Julie Boyle, the schools district director of communication, who explained that “when the facts about these issues are gathered, the administration will take action as [seen] appropriate… in accordance with Board policy of the student handbook(Boren).” This was confirmed by senior Rollin Love who explained such sit-in “was purposed …show more content…
From lecture privilege was defined as “unearned benefits or unearned advantages which particular groups in society possess because of their social location.” Because of their social location these football players were able to use slurs of the transgender students in the group chat and have yet to have a consequence. Even with the handbook violation, of “unsportsmanlike conduct.” The athletes are already seen as role models and as such have unearned benefits and without punishment the football players have an unfair advantage over the transgender students in high school. Phrases such as “if a [slur for transgender person] hits you, is it still hitting a woman or no?” or “gender listed on a person’s birth certificate should determine a person’s identity(Boren)” are seen by most of society as wrong and harmful, and as such a wrongdoing to such