Posted on 09/06/2023 4:52:47 AM PDT by Morgana
ARLINGTON, Tenn. - The mother of a Mid-South transgender teen has filed a complaint with the Department of Education’s Civil Rights division against the Arlington School District.
“I’ve seen these posters since I was really small … and then I see it and it’s my dead name,” said Max Wieland, 17, the teen.
A "dead name" is a term used by members of the LGBTQ+ community who elect to go by their chosen names instead of their given names.
Max said the school displayed his dead name on a public display which listed academic honors.
“So, I was walking down from the cafeteria and I saw the posters and I got super excited so I stopped like with my partner looking for our names and everything and then I see it and it’s my dead name,” he adds.
Max has a 4.52 GPA and scored a 33 on the ACT.
The complaint alleges the district discriminated against Max by not stopping instances of harassment against him. It also alleges the school failed to honor Max’s preferred name and would not let him use the restroom of the sex in which he identifies.
Tennessee law states students are to be called by what is on their birth certificates. This goes for all school records, report cards, student testing and school activities.
Tennessee law states school personnel do not have to use a student’s preferred pronouns, nor can they face civil liability for not doing so.
When it comes to restrooms, Tennessee law mandates schools make reasonable accommodations for students like a single occupancy restroom.
Max’s mother said she is working to get her son’s name changed legally but fears it will not be done by graduation. Max is a senior at Arlington High School.
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You have bigger problems, bucko, than a 'dead name'.
Evil. This is his mother.
Not too long ago these numbers indicated a high level of intellect. Today, they've lost their implied meaning.
We are raising a generation of pussies and we allowed it to happen. They’ll never hold onto the Republic.
“Kid, you don’t have a dead name, you have a dead brain. Get some help”.
It’s Tennessee law lady!!!! Nobody is above the law! Merrick said that!
The “mutha” needs a kick in the ass for giving him his “dead name” in the first place. It is her friggin’ fault junior is screwed up in the head.
It is always the men, dressed as women. Always with the children in the schools and libraries. It is always the transgendered with moms filing a lawsuit. Never dad filing a lawsuit. I am diagnosing Munchausen Syndrome, in the library with a scalpel.
Yes, in effect that’s what her acceptance and endorsement of his chosen identity is. However, I suspect that she, like many other parents, just want some damned peace in the family and have given up their morals to try and placate their way out of the normal angsts and pains in dealing with teenagers full of hormones, wrong headed peer pressure and the government going full-tilt to help them control their parents.
She looks like a girl. Sorry.
“It is always the men, dressed as women. Always with the children in the schools and libraries. It is always the transgendered with moms filing a lawsuit. Never dad filing a lawsuit. I am diagnosing Munchausen Syndrome, in the library with a scalpel.”
This time it’s a girl wanting to be a boy. There has been a rise in that past few years. Mostly girls who can’t handle puberty.
The rest? Yes I agree Munchausen Mommies.
How awful. Someone put his real name on a poster
This is a transgender boy, so “Max” is really a girl pretending to be a boy. Much like the Nashville Covenant school shooter.
Period. End of story.
Max........ please show us your penis
If you bleed, you are not a boy
That’s because she IS a girl.
A girl who’s not making much of an effort to appear male, if you ask me. I wonder what her game is.
Of course there are other reasons why a grown person might not like the name he or she was given at birth. If there was only a way for the parents to determine if the baby would later be happy with the name.
My kids and grandkids were all quite happy with their names. It never dawned on them to want a different name. Well, there was my middle boy who kept asking us why we didn’t name him Brian. He got over though as he got older. Brian?
“You have bigger problems, bucko, than a ‘dead name’.”
There in lies the problem. Life is so easy this person has to invent trauma.
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