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No. This is explicitly to discriminate against trans students.
Is it necessary for parents to have to submit written permission for a child to go by a nickname?
I was browsing Reddit when I saw a post made by a Florida teacher who said their county is making students get written permission from parents to be called by a nickname. This is crazy to me. I found a news article which gives the gist:
So Madison canāt go by Maddie and Nicholas canāt go by Nick. Is this what conservatives mean when they say they donāt want the government in their business? Now kids canāt go by a preferred nickname? Thoughts?
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Can you imagine, as a teacher, having to worry about trivial stuff like this when you have much more important things to do likeā¦teach?
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But I donāt want to legally change my name. I go by my middle name (Lucille) because itās easier for people to say. I donāt want to loose my first name. Just because I donāt use my first name doesnāt mean I donāt like it and want to change it.
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šÆ Thatās exactly what itās about.
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Iāve heard both, my sister and mom, talk to COās while in prison. They called my mom by her preferred name, which is her middle name. She hates her first name. Even all her letters come to me with her preferred name.
This BS has nothing to do with professionalism. It has everything to do with targeting queer students and their families.
Of course this came out of Florida. This is for the anti trans people. This will get children hurt. The reason they donāt tell mommy and daddy things like this is because mommy and daddy arenāt accepting people and they KNOW that. Because no one would ever have an issue with a person named Jacob wanting to be called jake. This is for Ashley that wants to be called Steve. This is disgusting. Maybe parents should be good parents and they wonāt have to worry about this.
Letās not pretend this is for the everyday Richard trying to be called Dick. This is for the families of queer students, itās the continued efforts from the extreme right that is Florida, to make the lives of LGTBQIA* youth and their families less safe. This is not about family or keeping the involvement with family in a school environment. Itās about outing queer youth, well really, itās about keeping them in the closet and trying to eradicate their āwokeā existence.
I remember all my school life I was only called by my full name, as it is in my passport. Not my nickname. Granted if my mom called me by my full name would make me think I did something wrong lol, but in school everyone was called by their full name, no nicknames. Starting from elementary school, to university. I donāt see anything wrong with that.
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Nobody was ever called by their full name in schoolā¦ thatās weird af. Youāre telling me they called you by first and last name at all times? Come on now. I know people who have been called by their nicknames their entire livesā¦ so much so that no one even knows their real name. This is Florida being homophobic and doing whatever they can to hurt the trans community.
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