Students banned from using nicknames under new anti-trans Florida schools guidance
Students banned from using nicknames under new anti-trans Florida schools guidance
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.
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As an outsider (and someone with this name situation), I'm morbidly curious about what happens when a kid has a name that's the opposite gender as them, either because it's a gender neutral name in their culture, or because their parents just named them like that? Because I have a sneaking suspicion they're suddenly going to be fine with 'unapproved nicknames' when their alternative is calling a boy Vyvian or a girl Terrance
A boy named Sue.
Michael was becoming a common girl's name when I was a kid.
Their own former president Gerald Ford was born Leslie King. Leslie is usually a girl's name, isn't it?
Not so much back then.
Uh... Leslie Caron, Leslie Stahl, Lesley Gore, Lesley Ann Warren...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_(name)
That article has a long list of men named Leslie.