Yep, I noticed that too. It seems that public schools everywhere, even in small town or rural America, are infested with liberalism.
More than likely, they were sued or forced to do this.
Rhinelander has a total population of less than 8,000. What are the statistical odds of having a true “misgendered” youth vs. those of having a budding little pervert?
After the Army, in 1962 I went to NYC as an IBM mechanic, on the old 80-column punched card machines. I discovered that dating, divorcing and general looseness and screwing around was less among the many people I met up there than back here in Hayseed, Pennsyltucky. I chalked it up to gullible locals seeing too many movies, and trying to emulate the crap Hollyweird dished out as being kool.