Saturday 14 May 2022 12:07 AM Wisconsin school district files Title IX complaint against 3 middle school ... trends now
A young teenager at a school in Wisconsin has been accused of sexual harassment after he refused to use the specific pronouns demanded by a fellow classmate.
Bradon Rabidoux, 13, who attends Kiel Middle School is one of three eighth grade schoolboys who are now the subject of an investigation after they chose not to use 'they/them' when speaking to another pupil at the school.
Things appear to have escalated quickly with the school district now filing a Title IX complaint against the students, accusing them of sexual harassment for using the 'incorrect' pronouns.
Bradon's mother, Rosemary said that the district had taken things too far by filing such a complaint.
Rosemary Rabidoux's 13-year-old son has been accused of sexual assault for incorrectly using a pronoun as stipulated by a fellow student
'(The investigating principal) said he's being allegedly charged with sexual harassment for not using proper pronouns. I thought it wasn't real! I thought this has got to be a gag, a joke — one has nothing to do with the other,' Rabidoux said to ABC4.
One of the alleged incidents that Braden and two others were involved in occurred last month.
'I immediately went into shock! I'm thinking, sexual harassment? That's rape, that's inappropriate touching, that's incest,' Rabidoux added. 'What has my son done?'
'She had been screaming at one of Braden's friends to use proper pronouns, calling him a profanity, and this friend is very soft-spoken, and kind of just sunk down into his chair,' Rabidoux explained.
Three Kiel Middle School students are being investigated for what the school has termed 'sexual assault' in connection to the incident
'Braden finally came up, defending him, saying 'He doesn't have to use proper pronouns, it's his constitutional right to not use, you can't make him say things.''
Asked whether Rabidoux and her son were anti LGBTQ, Rosemary quickly rose the defense of her family.
'Not
