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Mid-South transgender boy says his school refuses to acknowledge preferred name
Fox 13 ^ | September 6, 2023 | Daniel Wilkerson

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at fox13memphis.com ...


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: arth; childabuse; children; education; tennessee; trans
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I someone suspect Tennessee is done with transgenders.
1 posted on 09/06/2023 4:52:47 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana
"...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..."

You have bigger problems, bucko, than a 'dead name'.

2 posted on 09/06/2023 4:56:47 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: Morgana
"...Max’s mother said she is working to get her son’s name changed legally but fears it will not be done by graduation..."

Evil. This is his mother.

3 posted on 09/06/2023 4:58:08 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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Max has a 4.52 GPA and scored a 33 on the ACT

Not too long ago these numbers indicated a high level of intellect. Today, they've lost their implied meaning.

4 posted on 09/06/2023 4:58:34 AM PDT by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: Morgana

We are raising a generation of pussies and we allowed it to happen. They’ll never hold onto the Republic.


5 posted on 09/06/2023 5:00:47 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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To: Morgana

“Kid, you don’t have a dead name, you have a dead brain. Get some help”.


6 posted on 09/06/2023 5:00:59 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Das dicke Ende kommt noc!)
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To: Morgana

It’s Tennessee law lady!!!! Nobody is above the law! Merrick said that!


7 posted on 09/06/2023 5:05:01 AM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: rlmorel

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.


8 posted on 09/06/2023 5:14:06 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I don't know what the hell it is but you can bet in America, it's "racist" and needs to be cancelled)
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To: Morgana

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.


9 posted on 09/06/2023 5:16:18 AM PDT by healy61 (.)
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To: rlmorel

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.


10 posted on 09/06/2023 5:19:49 AM PDT by Gaffer ( )
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To: Morgana

She looks like a girl. Sorry.


11 posted on 09/06/2023 5:25:07 AM PDT by struggle
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“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.


12 posted on 09/06/2023 5:27:27 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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How awful. Someone put his real name on a poster


13 posted on 09/06/2023 5:28:46 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: healy61

This is a transgender boy, so “Max” is really a girl pretending to be a boy. Much like the Nashville Covenant school shooter.


14 posted on 09/06/2023 5:29:43 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Morgana
'So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.'

Period. End of story.

15 posted on 09/06/2023 5:33:24 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: Morgana

Max........ please show us your penis

If you bleed, you are not a boy


16 posted on 09/06/2023 5:34:10 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: struggle

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.


17 posted on 09/06/2023 5:35:48 AM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: FlingWingFlyer
When her little girl was born, her mother could not have known that her baby would someday want to pretend to be a boy, so naturally she gave her a girl's name. The "dead name" is the name given at birth.

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.

18 posted on 09/06/2023 5:56:29 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

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?


19 posted on 09/06/2023 6:01:50 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I don't know what the hell it is but you can bet in America, it's "racist" and needs to be cancelled)
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“You have bigger problems, bucko, than a ‘dead name’.”

There in lies the problem. Life is so easy this person has to invent trauma.


20 posted on 09/06/2023 6:09:01 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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