Pronouns by gender

A Middle School in Wisconsin has charged three students with sexual harassment for not using the proper pronoun. Another student wanted to be called," they" as opposed to she. Now the parents will have to hire a lawyer and this will probably be thrown out of court but the threat to other parents remains. Worse yet is that this "they" person will be treated differently because many students will not know how to act. Students should be dissuaded from commenting on a persons choice of gender but asking them to change pronouns can be a little too much. When someone asks where she is and she is walking down the hallway should the answer be, There they is. This happens in the German language where gender is not necessarily associated with sex. For example the word street in German is feminine so if the ball rolls out into the street you would say, the ball rolled out into her. In English the grammar rules require pronouns be assigned by gender.