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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I 100% believe this story. I'm in Florida and this state followed suit. It's now in statute that a teacher can only use a nickname or any other name for a kid if a parent fills out a specific form (I guess, oddly, in this case it might have helped.) In the guidance from the school, it reads that, "for example, if your child's name is Robert and they wish to go by Rob." Which of course is utter BS and no teacher on this planet is going to ask for a form to call a kid Rob instead of Robert. There's all kinds of new rules for schools and teachers, and it's 100% directed at trans kids. It's so sick, the hatred dripping from every word of the text. But we're just two days into school and teachers are ignoring it, according to my daughter.[/quote]

Is this what that rule is about? I live in Florida too and don't understand why we need the form for a nickname. The law is about students enrolled in school under a name that's different from their legal name. This is about the enrollment name vs. the legal name. I don't see anything in this law regarding nicknames.

So my child's legal name is John Doe. I enroll him as John Doe. He prefers to be called Jack. No problem.

My child's legal name is John Doe. I enroll him as Jack Doe. Now we need the form.

To me, it looks like someone is misinterpreting the law to require the form in the first scenario.
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That's of course what that new rule is about. There is no way that any teacher, principal or superintendent gave two craps about nicknames, until they realized that they could phrase in some way for it to seem like it was nondiscriminatory and applied equally across the board but stick it to the transgender kids. So they craft this dumb rule that says if Judith wants to be referred to as Judy, parents need to fill out a form. It's utter BS.

The rule also states "for our transgender students" that Robert can be called Roberta if a parent fills out the form, but that no teacher or staff member is allowed to refer to Roberta as she or her. So they're saying that even if a parent says yes, call my child Roberta, the school will still refer to Roberta as he/him. Parental Freedom and Rights my a$$. They are hateful liars, all of them.[/quote]

Schools face lawsuits all the time and many schools have been sued for socially transitioning students without parental knowledge or consent. How do you propose the schools protect themselves from litigation without paperwork documenting parental consent? [/quote]

Fine. Then let Roberta, with the proper paperwork, be referred to as she/her. But they don't and won't because what you're describing isn't really the issue. It's a red herring.[/quote]

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