Or what’s in a name?
There has been a lot of talk of using our preferred names and now there is a law suit against using our preferred names.
If the school allows Robert be called “Bob” or like my nephew use their middle name instead of their legal then it should be okay for trans use their preferred name.
When I went to grad school I went up to the professors at the beginning of the semester and asked the professors to use my preferred name and they did but submitted my grades under my legal name.
So the real problem is not calling students by their preferred name but calling trans students by their preferred name.
There has been a lot of talk of using our preferred names and now there is a law suit against using our preferred names.
Lawsuit: School using transgender children's chosen name is unconstitutionalIn another article...
WBAY
By Todd Richmond, Associated Press
February 17, 2020
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The parents allege that the school district's policy of allowing children to change their names according to the sex they identify without informing parents or changing the children's names in school records violates the Wisconsin Constitution's due process clause and religious freedom guarantees.
Conservative law firm plans to sue Madison schools over gender identity guidanceThis is just another attempt to hide bigotry behind religion.
Cap Times
By Scott Girard
February 1, 2020
The Madison Metropolitan School District has not made changes to its guidance supporting transgender and non-binary students despite a Jan. 31 deadline to avoid a threatened lawsuit from a conservative advocacy organization.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty wrote a letter on Dec. 17, 2019, stating that it was "prepared to file a complaint in court" if the district did not "remove these problematic policies and commit to retraining its teachers and staff accordingly."
WILL deputy counsel Luke Berg told the Cap Times Friday the group would file a lawsuit, though he would not say when it would be filed.
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In a letter to the organization sent Friday, district interim general counsel Sherry Terrell-Webb wrote that the guidance, created in April 2018, is "a manner of working with and being sensitive to our community members who identify as transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive youth."
If the school allows Robert be called “Bob” or like my nephew use their middle name instead of their legal then it should be okay for trans use their preferred name.
When I went to grad school I went up to the professors at the beginning of the semester and asked the professors to use my preferred name and they did but submitted my grades under my legal name.
So the real problem is not calling students by their preferred name but calling trans students by their preferred name.
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