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[quote=Anonymous]We have family visiting this week from Tx who relayed this story about a family friend who is a trans male high school student.  The school district is supportive and helpful.  But one teacher refuses to call him by his chosen name.  Not an out-there nickname, a traditional name that happens to be gender-neutral. Mind you, he calls other kids by preferred nicknames.

But for this child he uses his birth name.  Every day while taking attendance.  This boy refuses to answer to this name, and so every day in addition to being publicly shamed in front of his classmates, he is marked absent, in a class where he is visibly present and otherwise participating.  This has continued to the point where he is officially a truant in the system.  The teacher refuses to mark him present unless he responds to his birth name, and he says he can't be compelled to use his chosen name.

I'm sure this will get resolved somehow, and we are hoping it doesn't draw attention to the family because the governor has stated he will go after parents of trans kids for child abuse.

But surely anyone can see this is not about parental rights.  This is not about freedom or religious liberty.  This is about being too mean spirited to use a gender-neutral nickname. Breaks my heart.[/quote]

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