The Orange County Public Schools system in Florida has announced guidance banning trans students from bathrooms and the use of nicknames.

  • Cyder@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    We call my son and daughter by shortened versions of their first names. Both are in High School in OCPS. Today they brought home the forms for us to sign to allow them to go by those shortened names in school. I was shocked.

    Perhaps Ronald DeSantis should be forced to get permission from his family inorder to continue to be called Ron.

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      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.

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          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.

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      1 year ago

      Let’s also not forget Rafael “Ted” Cruz, Leslie “Gerald Ford” King and Donald “Don Jr.” Trump, Jr.