BY JENNIFER CABRERA
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sent a letter today to Alachua County Public Schools Superintendent Kamela Patton and the School Board, notifying them that a teacher at Talbot Elementary School is “forcing students and faculty to address her with the prefix ‘Mx.’ instead of ‘Ms.’ or ‘Mrs.’” The letter states that this violates Florida and federal law, in addition to the district’s policy.
In the letter, Uthmeier writes that Mx. “is an ideologically laden term that seeks to make educational professionals and — most damning — children mouth support for nonsense. Its usage is unfit for a Florida educational setting. Florida schools aren’t affirmation labs for confused adults. And public school teachers may not coopt students into their own sexual and biological confusions.”…