I’d argue no personal experience should be the basis for any safety procedure.
Safety procedures should be based on… what keeps people safe. Personal experience shouldn’t enter into it.
Say you need to evacuate a building. The evacuation plan should be based on building population, the number of exits, etc. etc. There are established policies for coming up with an evacuation plan to ensure they are safe and consistent.
I’m going to circle back around, there was an investigation launched. They don’t launch those investigations without evidence. And the boys were suspended, which means that the school board, with their experience dealing with bullies found that this was a situation where a trans boy was being bullied by his peers. The school used it’s experience to determine the answer question you posed. And suspended the bullies.
In your comment that I initially replied to, you pushed the idea that these kids truly believe that this is a girl. I think it’s far more likely that they know he’s trans, and view him as a freak. Calling him a girl wasn’t there perception. It was the language they chose to bully someone they see as different.
And incidents like this are why suicide rates are high in the trans population.
Then it’s fortunate that your personal experience doesn’t dictate school safety procedures :)
I agree, but let’s analyze this a bit further… Who’s personal experience should dictate school safety procedures?
Edit : They did not want to discuss. They instead wanted to use a small grammatical mistake to avoid any discussion at all.
I’d argue no personal experience should be the basis for any safety procedure.
Safety procedures should be based on… what keeps people safe. Personal experience shouldn’t enter into it.
Say you need to evacuate a building. The evacuation plan should be based on building population, the number of exits, etc. etc. There are established policies for coming up with an evacuation plan to ensure they are safe and consistent.
https://www.osha.gov/etools/evacuation-plans-procedures/eap/elements
Not “personal experience”.
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I’m going to circle back around, there was an investigation launched. They don’t launch those investigations without evidence. And the boys were suspended, which means that the school board, with their experience dealing with bullies found that this was a situation where a trans boy was being bullied by his peers. The school used it’s experience to determine the answer question you posed. And suspended the bullies.
In your comment that I initially replied to, you pushed the idea that these kids truly believe that this is a girl. I think it’s far more likely that they know he’s trans, and view him as a freak. Calling him a girl wasn’t there perception. It was the language they chose to bully someone they see as different.
And incidents like this are why suicide rates are high in the trans population.
Not relevant to this thread. Since you’re here though…