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Doodley

(9,048 posts)
Fri Mar 24, 2023, 10:37 AM Mar 2023

Transgender youth face despicable GOP 'Forced outing' bills that make schools unsafe.



TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Al Stone-Gebhardt worked hard in school to make sure he graduates in May, and he spent hundreds of dollars on commencement regalia, but he is fully prepared not to participate in the ceremony.

The 17-year-old, who is transgender, said he fears his high school, Tulsa Union, might use his deadname — the name he was given at birth but no longer uses — on his diploma and during the ceremony instead of his legally changed name. He has had teachers call him by his birth name, sometimes inadvertently, and said he finds the experience traumatizing.

“Being deadnamed just immediately makes you feel belittled, weak and insignificant,” Stone-Gebhardt said. “I didn’t want to be in the classroom. I didn’t trust the teacher.”

As hundreds of bills nationwide take aim at nearly every facet of transgender existence, from health care to athletics to bathroom access, trans kids and their families say certain proposals could eliminate one of the last remaining safe havens to explore their identities: K-12 public schools.

Several “ parental rights ” proposals, which aim to give parents greater control over their children's education, would formally allow or require schools to deadname trans students or out them to their parents without consent. While some parents and teachers argue they have a right to know, others warn it could jeopardize the mental health and physical safety of gender-nonconforming children and place educators in the crosshairs.


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Transgender youth face despicable GOP 'Forced outing' bills that make schools unsafe. (Original Post) Doodley Mar 2023 OP
The American Nation will see internal refugees fleeing States where their lives are in danger sanatanadharma Mar 2023 #1
Very true. Any groups of people who can be used as a trigger to scare bigoted Republicans into Doodley Mar 2023 #2

sanatanadharma

(3,689 posts)
1. The American Nation will see internal refugees fleeing States where their lives are in danger
Fri Mar 24, 2023, 10:48 AM
Mar 2023

Poor and homeless, families will show up at blue-State-houses seeking refuge, shelter, from American-genocide.

The metathesis of the regressive cancer of conservatives has been surprisingly fast recently.
Citizen sepsis may have reached the fatal point.

Doodley

(9,048 posts)
2. Very true. Any groups of people who can be used as a trigger to scare bigoted Republicans into
Fri Mar 24, 2023, 11:02 AM
Mar 2023

going out to vote is used. This tells us how far we have fallen as a nation.

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