Martyr Time: Florida Teacher Loses Her Job Over Using a Student's 'Preferred' Gender Name

<![CDATA[In middle school, I had a classmate who wanted to change his name. Everybody knew him by his first name, but he insisted that everyone start calling him by his middle name. After about three weeks of teachers and classmates forgetting which name to call him, one teacher finally asked him, “Why are you trying to use a different name from what your parents wanted to call you?” He didn’t have an answer, and he stopped insisting on everyone using his middle name.]]>