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This transgender student was deadnamed in class, and his mom wants school boards to do more
CBC News ^ | 12/29/20 | Bobby Hristova

Posted on 10/30/2020 6:06:30 AM PDT by mkleesma

Caspian Richard had only a moment to react when he was faced with a worst-case scenario during his first class back in school.

The 13-year-old student who transitioned earlier this year was taking part in virtual schooling at Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) when he heard a familiar name. But it wasn't Caspian. It was his legal name. His "dead name."

His heart raced and butterflies filled his stomach.

"It was a nervous feeling," Caspian said in a phone interview on Wednesday. "I was really worried about it."

It's unclear if the other student meant to use the wrong name. The school's new technology was showing some students his legal name and other students his actual name.

In that moment, he looked to his mom, Hannah Pynckel. She was at his side in their Upper Stoney Creek home.

"I said, 'Ignore it, laugh at it, pretend it doesn't exist ... if you [don't] want to be outed, just play it off,'" she told him.

Caspian improvised. So did his teacher. Together, they smoothed it over.

Still, Caspian has been thinking about it since.

"There's always kids coming in and out of the class and I'm worried it'll happen again."

With HWDSB's massive reorganization underway, there's a good chance his class and teacher could switch.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: freakdeadnamed; snowflake
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To: mkleesma

My sister has a granddaughter doing this. She has been threaten by the parents to remove her from their lives.

I told to keep her to keep speaking the truth, “God created a beautiful young woman.” Someday the truth will get through, but not if we don’t say it OFTEN.


41 posted on 10/30/2020 6:27:06 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: drSteve78
> More importantly, how does it pee?

And in which lavatory? Assuming it's a biological female, standing at a urinal may pose a challenge, although there are modern portable funnels sold for this purpose...

42 posted on 10/30/2020 6:28:45 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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To: Sirius Lee
No 13 year old in the history of mankind has ever faced such drama.

This is definitely a First World problem.

43 posted on 10/30/2020 6:29:08 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (We flattened the heck out of that curve, didnÂ’t we?)
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To: Fresh Wind

Very true. Did I miss a mention of a dad?


44 posted on 10/30/2020 6:32:07 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Mr. K

the teachers and the culture and the media makes the decisions.


45 posted on 10/30/2020 6:34:33 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Betty Jane
Where will she change for gym class?

It's trying to get a court order to require the other "girls" to be on the same soom meeting where it changes clothes.

46 posted on 10/30/2020 6:37:31 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: mkleesma

Something tells me there is no father in the picture.


47 posted on 10/30/2020 6:38:56 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: mkleesma
"This transgender student was deadnamed in class..."

Neidermeyer? DEAD NAME!!!

48 posted on 10/30/2020 6:44:18 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: Betty Jane

The child’s life-long sexual identity problem all started with the mother. Who allows/encourages a 12 year-old to “transition” their sex? and no doubt her evil influence started working on the child years earlier.


49 posted on 10/30/2020 6:45:31 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: mkleesma
DeadName understands...


50 posted on 10/30/2020 6:45:37 AM PDT by moovova (Not a tagline.)
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To: oldasrocks

YES! Just think how many people really belong in institutions.
safer for them. Safer for us.


51 posted on 10/30/2020 6:46:30 AM PDT by ronniesgal (Q. why did the chicken cross the road? A. It's Trumps fault and you're a racist!)
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To: mkleesma

Then he went to the bathroom to change his sanitary pad. Or something. He is a girl.

What parent would allow their child to “transition” to a different gender before the age of 13?


52 posted on 10/30/2020 6:47:53 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: beancounter13

I am so sorry for what you have experienced.


53 posted on 10/30/2020 6:49:04 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: mkleesma
I had to click to see what deadnamed was. I would say anytime in the future that somebody is deadnamed, we need to be barfalerted.
54 posted on 10/30/2020 6:53:40 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: mkleesma

The other side sure is good at coining new words.


55 posted on 10/30/2020 6:55:19 AM PDT by j.havenfarm ( Beginning my 20th year on FR! 2,500+ replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: mkleesma

All this craziness reminds me of the old PBS show, I Claudius, where Claudius is talking with his completely crazy nephew, Caligula.
Caligula has become Emperor and he walks up to Claudius asking him if he notices something different about him.

Claudius looks at him and he seems no different than his normal crazy self but he knows if he says the wrong thing he will be executed.
He stammers around not knowing what to say and finally comes up with saying , Oh you’ve become a God.


56 posted on 10/30/2020 6:57:38 AM PDT by VicVanleeuwenhoek
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To: mkleesma
My wife thanks God this crap was not around when she was a child. She was a Tomboy and given the chance at 8, she would rather have been a boy. Who the hell allows children to make a completely life altering decision like this so lightly???? Disgusting.
57 posted on 10/30/2020 6:58:02 AM PDT by Londo Molari
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To: mkleesma

What about her dead uterys?


58 posted on 10/30/2020 6:58:03 AM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: mkleesma

When i was a kid the teacher called me by my penis’s name ...and i couldn’t stop thinking about it for days...


59 posted on 10/30/2020 7:04:49 AM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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To: mkleesma

A 13 year old “transitioning” is a euphemism for child abuse.


60 posted on 10/30/2020 7:07:07 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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