The battle over an Oakland kindergartner’s pronouns started when the 5-year-old told teacher Mirella Ramirez she was misgendering him because, the student said, he was no longer a girl, but rather a boy. The student, according to Ramirez, wanted her to use male pronouns, a demand backed by the child’s parents as well as district policy. But the Melrose Leadership Academy teacher, citing her Catholic faith, refused.