Local student is being denied the role for not be assigned male at birth. Now they’ve decided that Oklahoma is too controversial of a play and includes graphic scenes not fit for minors so they’re pulling the whole show. Bunch of asshats at Sherman, TX ISD.
Edit: I will try to answer any comments I can. I do not personally know the student. I can’t really speak for trans folks as I’m just an ally who wants better for this kiddo and all trans people.
Yeah, because it’s not like theater has a longstanding history of having people play characters that are a different sex from the one they were born as or anything…
Shakespeare = typical woke leftist groomer
Dammit, Aristophanes was also a SJW!
There isn’t even an attempt to suggest that there is some form of greater good at play here. They just apologetically do it and make no excuses. This is oppression, plain and simple.
Now they’re acting like it was never about Max and that it was the adult themes in “Oklahoma” . They dropped the gender rule and the play is postponed until January. No promise of Max keeping his role. I’ll be surprised if they aren’t buying time so the original lead can take the part back.
Gatekeeping gender… in theater.
This is advanced bigotry.
Something Sherman ISD has a history of doing. A few years ago they tried to block the creation of a LGBT student group.
I expect no different from Texas at this point.
Same honestly. I’m in a county that 75% of the vote went to The Great Trumpkin. Can barely afford to live here, but can’t afford to move either.
The Great Trumpkin
OK I’m stealing this one xD
Muh liberties!
That’s how this whole damned town government is. It’s a crooked city run by crooked construction company owners, contractors, and other people in the housing market. They put house building before anything else in the town to the point of not enforcing ANY building codes against house builders, burning massive pies of brush in the middle of a heavily populated area for land clearing, and so much more. Their response? Landowners have a right to develop their land. I could go on for hours listing the corruption here, but I digress.
Ah yes, the “ban anything I don’t like” kind of liberty.
disgusting. this policy wouldn’t exist if he didn’t get a lead role. it’s such obvious oppression
clearly we just have a biological advantage in uh theatre how can you blame them /s
yeah people assigned as female are better at acting like a man
/s but not in a transphobic way
tell me you know nothing about the history of theater without telling me
land of the free
Not for that school, they finna pay.
For real. They’ve also been censoring the official school district government Facebook page.
Ooo everybody comment something antagonistic but not threatening so they censor it and get hammered harder for civil rights violations.
