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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

The administration brought it up with him, and he would not budge.[/quote]

School has been in session 1-2 weeks in Texas.  This is so much drama that I strain to believe it. Even if it's true though, you don't know why he "didn't budge" and the idea that the teacher is getting his bearings with the names of over 100 kids is pretty reasonable. It's also a bit reactionary to reach out to the administration and get action taken in the very first week of school.  [/quote]

Quite a pretzel you are twisting into to defend a bigot. Then again your snide comment about Lord Fontleroy suggests you  are defending your own bigotry.

Go a head and be man enough to admit you despise trans people. Have the courage of your convictions and don’t be a wuss afraid to state them. [/quote]

I'm not a man. I'm putting myself in the shoes of the teacher and trying to determine the motivation, taking into account the fact that Texas has only been in session for 1-2 weeks.

Now the OP says that this actually happened last year, which makes the initial post even more suspect.

Maybe Texas's law is bad, I don't know enough about it, but this is probably not a real scenario. [/quote]

Why did you mock the child by calling them Little Lord Fontleroy? Out of pure nastiness that’s why. You are not a good person. [/quote]

Because the kid sounds extremely over dramatic!  They’ve never faced any actual hardship and being referred to by a name they dislike led to psychiatric hospitalization.  Sorry, it’s a bit much.  NP who didn’t call them Fontleroy but thinks this is incredibly lame.[/quote]

Another mean person who is emotionally clueless about how emotional teens can be. And a teacher who bullies/mocks them by refusing to call them their preferred name is nasty as all get out. Why are people so unkind? These are probably the same people who proudly call themselves "pro-life".  My @ss. It takes more energy to be mean than kind.[/quote]

Pp.  I’m not actually unkind, but this child doesn’t exist.  And I’m a pro-choice radical feminist.[/quote]
Yeah, sure, miss radical pro-choice radical feminist. you are radically beieveable. Radically![/quote]

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