Sunday 20 November 2022 06:32 PM Rhode Island school district committee member slammed as 'extreme' for saying ... trends now
A Rhode Island school official is being slammed for creating a 'hostile' and 'paranoid school environment' after she said that using the wrong pronoun for children is an act of violence.
Jennifer Lima, an elected member of the North Kingstown School Committee, is facing backlash after pushing for woke policies in the school district.
The elected school official faced an unsuccessful recall effort in 2021 after some people accused her of 'openly seeking to indoctrinate students with divisive race and gender theories as well as anti-police propaganda,' according to Go Local Province News.
Now, Lima is being targeted after she posted on Facebook on November 12 that called misgendering an act of violence.
'I recognize that some may find the use of the word violence in this post extreme,' Lima wrote. 'Violence is defined by the World Health Organization as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment or deprivation."
'Any act of violence in our schools which creates an unsafe environment (physically or emotionally by or for any member of the school community) needs to be dealt with accordingly.'
Jennifer Lima, a North Kingstown School Committee member, is under fire after posting that misgendering children was an act of violence
Lima posted on Facebook about a week ago and cited the World Health Organization's definition of violence - which is the use of physical force for harm
Lima, who is a Democrat, won her seat on the school committee in 2020. She won 677 votes, the most out of any other elected official in North Kingstown.
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