The Orange County Public Schools system in Florida has announced guidance banning trans students from bathrooms and the use of nicknames.
The Orange County Public Schools system in Florida has announced guidance banning trans students from bathrooms and the use of nicknames.
The sad thing is, my brother has a name like “Benjamin”. My mother is a very mentally ill individual and is extremely militant about her children’s names “I chose your names and you will go by exactly what I named you!” and refused to let him go by “Ben” or let us call him “Ben”. Except, outside of the house he always went by Ben, she just didn’t know it. I always called him Ben when we weren’t home, because it’s what he wanted to be called. So kids like this would have to bring a form home and get their ass kicked by mom for going by a name they aren’t supposed to? Fuck that.
My mom was the exact same way. “If I wanted you to be called that I would have named you that”.
The delicious irony is that she is no contact with some of her children because they ended up legally changing their names (I don’t even know my one sibling’s legal name because they just bailed) and the rest of her kids go by nicknames away from her.