An Indiana School Teacher Says He Was Forced to Resign Over Gender-Bender Student Name

I suspect we’ll hear more and more tales of social justice insanity coming from our nation’s schools.

John Kluge worked as an orchestra teacher with Brownsburg High School. A report released by ABC News on Friday tells why Mr. Kluge was recently forced out of his job, due to the social experimentation sanctioned by the school policy.

Specifically, the policy states that teachers and staff were to call students by their made up names, rather than their actual names, if these students “identify” as transgender.

John Kluge, who taught at the high school for four years, disagreed with the rule and said he instead wanted to refer to the student by their last name.

“I feel the compelled speech of forcing a teacher to take a side on this very highly controversial topic is a violation of our First Amendment rights,” Kluge told ABC affiliate WRTV.

Frankly, referring to one of these poor, confused, attention-starved children by their last name, rather than calling little Bobby “Belinda,” or calling Karen “Kevin.”

Biology doesn’t care about your fantasy life, kids.

Kluge told WRTV the school told him he must either follow the policy, resign or be fired. He said he submitted a conditional resignation later, but later withdrew the resignation before the deadline.

The school is simply saying that he entered his resignation and they accepted it. I imagine they feel that’s much easier than standing up for what is rational and biologically sound. They definitely can’t go with the compromise suggestion that Kluge made.

Now, however, Kluge wants his job back. He likes it. He feels like he should be able to work.

He’s right.

Kluge believed he would be suspended pending termination on May 1, according to WRTV. He called his meeting with the administration “very threatening” and “bullying.”

“I enjoy being the orchestra teacher at Brownsburg,” Kluge wrote in a statement. “It’s unfortunate that the administration is not letting me come back and that they are unwilling to continue a reasonable accommodation that most people consider to be very common sense.”

He went on to ask that the board reconsider his termination.

I doubt that is going to happen. This has become one of those sensitive issues where no one is willing to stand up and say to little Bobby, “You know you’re not a girl, even if you change your name to Belinda, right?”

We are a litigious society.

According to the guidelines of the Brownsburg Community School Corporation, if a student has a note from a doctor and a letter from a parent, that is when they can change their name.

Show me a parent that does that and I’ll show you a weak parent.

“Showing a lack of support for transgender youth is what drives up the suicide rates of transgender youth in Indiana,” Chris Paulsen, executive director of the LGBTQ organization Indiana Youth Group, told WRTV.

No, that’s not it.

Suicide and gender dysphoria have something in common. Both are symptoms of some deeper, emotional upset. Telling someone deeply troubled that they can suddenly “be” something they obviously are not, then offering them cosmetic surgery to give the appearance of change is not helpful.

They know they’re not what they want to be. It’s not what anyone else is saying to them. It’s because they know that no matter what they try, how they dress, what they call themselves, they’ll never be anything other than who and what they were born to be.

So the doctors get rich and the activists get famous, but those in the throes of their dysphoria become more confused.

I wish Mr. Kluge the best. He was more than fair, so let’s hope Brownsburg does the right thing.

I’m not holding my breath.