Kids protest LGBT culture in school: ‘My pronouns are USA!’
Briana Oser
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The children at Marshall Simonds Middle School in Burlington, Massachusetts protested their school’s “Pride Day” by wearing red, white, and blue and chanting the meme “My pronouns are USA!”
The meme comes from a Daily Mail TikTok compilation mocking conservatives for making fun of pronouns with jokes such as “My pronouns are USA!” and “My pronouns are kiss my a**!”
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Gen Z took the Daily Mail’s politically driven video and made it into a silly meme. Now, Gen Z is using it to protest Pride.
At Marshall Simonds, middle schoolers were asked to wear rainbows for “Pride Spirit Day.” They responded by tearing down Pride posters and stickers and wearing the colors of the American flag. According to a letter from the Burlington public school district, students intimidated their LGBT peers by chanting the popular meme.
School Superintendent Eric Conti addressed the incident in a letter: “I recognize that discussions and celebrations of individual identity are complex and impacted by individual values, religions, and cultural norms, the result of which may include expressions of racism, anti-religious hate, ableism, and in this case homophobia.”
In sum, if your beliefs and understandings of the world do not align with the religion of Pride, you are homophobic. Conti mentioned “discussions,” but it does not seem like there was a discussion when the school announced Pride Day.
LGBT students are free to express themselves however they want. They can wear rainbows and dress up as the opposite sex. They can meet in clubs and discuss their experiences.
However, when educators put so much effort into making one group feel comfortable, they neglect the voices of other students.
In an interview with the local news outlet WCVB, one mother said that her daughter felt coerced into participating in the school’s Pride Day. She said, “She just didn’t want to wear that to school. It’s not that she wanted to hurt anybody’s feelings … ”
She also mentioned that the school had hung up LGBT messages, some of which were openly exclusive of straight students. One quote by Tennessee Williams read, “What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.”
The children’s choice to chant a popular meme, and the school administration’s handling of the situation, widens the generational divide between Gen Z and liberal adults.
Kids are tired of their educators pushing Pride. It contradicts the moralities they grew up with and betrays the reality they understand. The school administration is choosing to remain disconnected. It refuses to respond to their pleas, and it refuses to empathize.
Those who support LGBT argue that when we choose not to refer to somebody with his or her “preferred pronouns,” we are invalidating the reality of that person. When we do not show blatant support for the movement, we allegedly are invalidating and isolating a suffering minority.
Holding a “Pride Day” and centering curriculum around LGBT texts against the desires of other students suggests that maybe that minority is not so small, and not so oppressed.
What about the realities of religious students whose beliefs cannot accept gay marriage or transgenderism?
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What about students whose “realities” are actually grounded in, yes, reality?
Maybe, in a world of subjective realities, it would be prudent to return to the real one.
Briana Oser is a summer 2023 Washington Examiner fellow.