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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems petty, but without any context about why the teacher refuses to use the new name, we are left to speculate. Even in the most extreme scenario, that the teacher is doing to register disapproval of the trans identified kid, it's not clear that the teacher is doing anything wrong by using the legal name on the roster.

More likely... the teacher just doesn't give a crap about a teenager feeling like the other gender, or being some alternate status of non-gender.  Most likely, the teacher has over 100 students per day, and the school year just started, and he doesn't remember that Larlo wants to be called Casey. He's probably just reading off a roster. And the other nicknames are probably easy to remember because they somehow relate to the actual name. I'm not a huge apologist for teachers. But this seems like a case of your friends picking a fight with someone who is working their ass off and doesn't have time to validate the choices of Little Lord Fontleroy, who is apparently picking apart every interaction and making a capital case. [/quote]

This is really reaching to sympathize with a petty tyrant of a teacher. As an immigrant kid who went by an English name with absolutely no relation to my legal foreign name and knew many others who did the same (think Xing -> Jenny type), not a single teacher over the course of a decade had a problem with it, either in principle or in practice. Most of them, I didn’t even have to correct once, because there was a “preferred name” slot on public school intake forms even back in the 90s. This teacher is 100% doing it to flex their power over the student.[/quote]

I doubt all your teachers remembered every kids name in the first week. At an absolute maximum, it has been 2 weeks and the issue has already been escalated to senior management. It could be that he's hiding his KKK hood in his closet. Or it could be that he's not good with names, he has brain fog, he's getting older, he is preoccupied with issues in his own life, etc. Be honest about which is the most like likely scenario- that this teacher is struggling to keep up, or that he's a total jerk. [/quote]

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