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The school in Kiel, Wisconsin, charges children for using the wrong pronouns

A school district in Wisconsin has filed complaints of sexual harassment against three high school students for calling a classmate with the wrong pronoun.

The school district in Kiel, a city of 3,600, has accused three eighth-graders at Kiel High School of sexual harassment following an incident in April in which students refused to use “them” to refer to a classmate who changed pronouns the month before. incident, according to reports.

“I received a phone call from the principal who warned me and informed me that I would receive an email accusing me of sexual harassment against my son,” said Rosemary Rabidou, whose 13-year-old son Braden is one of the students accused of sexual harassment.

“I was immediately shocked,” she continued in an interview with FOX 11. “Am I thinking of sexual harassment?” This is rape, this is an inappropriate touch, this is incest. What did my son do? “

Charges of sexual assault have been filed in the school district of Kiel, Wisconsin, a city with a population of 3,600.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Freedom defends the accused students and argues that the abuse of pronouns is not covered by Title IX, the U.S. Department of Education’s charter that protects people from gender discrimination in education.

“Title IX sexual harassment usually covers things like rape, dating violence, paid sexual services – really amazing things,” WILL Deputy Councilor Luke Berg told the network. “There is nothing even close to what is claimed in this case.”