Posted on 06/05/2023 12:53:53 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Transgender youth: 'Forced outing' bills make schools unsafe.
TULSA, Okla. -- Al Stone-Gebhardt worked hard in school to make sure he graduates in May, and he spent hundreds of dollars on commencement regalia, but he is fully prepared not to participate in the ceremony.
The 17-year-old, who is transgender, said he feared his high school, Tulsa Union, might use his deadname — the name he was given at birth but no longer uses — on his diploma and during the ceremony instead of his legally changed name. He has had teachers call him by his birth name, sometimes inadvertently, and said he finds the experience traumatizing.
“Being deadnamed just immediately makes you feel belittled, weak and insignificant,” Stone-Gebhardt said. “I didn’t want to be in the classroom. I didn’t trust the teacher.”
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If this person legally changed their name and notified the school district, then the diploma should have the new name. The fact that teachers know and still sometimes use its original name hints that the name change was either not legal, or it was not provided to the school district.
The disctrict MUST use the legally recorded name in its files, whichever name it is. Even for someone named “Alouicious”, as an example. (Call me Al)
Future Bud Light Marketing Manager after fully indoctrinated at the college of her/his/they/them choice.
Schools are already unsafe, but for different reasons.
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