Published 6 May 2021 at 16.22
Domestic. A teacher in Järna refused to agree to a parent's demand to call a student “hen”. Then she was fired, reports Världen Idag.
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In February, the teacher was informed that she had been fired from Solvikskolan in Järna.
She tells Världen Idag that one of the parents “pushed pretty hard” for her to call a student for “hen”. However, the teacher did not want to agree to this in view of the development today with children who are made to believe that they were born in the wrong sex and have to undergo irreversible hormone treatments.
– Children can play that they are someone other than who they are, but this is not a game. It is serious for the parents and it is a serious development in society. I do not want to be involved and affirm it or have something like that on my conscience, says the teacher to Världen Idag.
The child himself had never expressed any demands to be called “hen”, but the initiative came from the parent. <./p>
As a compromise, the teacher suggested that she use the student's name instead of a pronoun, but the parent refused. The board therefore did not accept the compromise either.
According to the teacher, the board referred to an example of discrimination stated on the Discrimination Ombudsman on the authority's website: “A teacher uses an unwanted pronoun in relation to a student.”
< Solvikskolan states that it works "according to the pedagogical approach of anthroposophical spiritual science, Waldorf pedagogy". The school principal Peter Friemann does not want to comment on the individual case but writes in an email to Världen Idag like this about the school's line: In a case where a teacher refuses to use the pronoun that the student himself prefers, it is not an option to instead only use the student's name, as this would also constitute a form of special treatment compared to how other students are treated by the teacher. Especially if the student is aware that the teacher is doing it to "avoid" using the pronoun that the student wants, he writes and believes that such an approach is discriminatory. "