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I'm not trans.
I hate my legal name. I will change it when I'm ready to do the paperwork. Until then, everyone calls me the name I prefer.
I would have been a thorn in this teacher's side. I'm not answering to that name, asshole. I'm not writing it on any documents. I'm allowed to tell you what to call me for whatever reason I want. My mother's best friend, who I was named for, was an abusive fucking cunt to me and every time you say her name I'm reminded of her.
What a douche. Stop policing names. The only names worth policing are the ones that are remarkably dumb.
Probably wouldn't have a problem calling Michael Mike. Would they have a problem calling someone by their birth name if it didn't follow traditional gender norms? (I knew a girl named Michael)
I'm reminded of the story of a woman who found out a co-worker was trans and insisted on calling them by their birth-name in order to "honor their mother" despite being told by supervisors and HR not to.
This same woman was married and got very upset when called by her maiden name.
She did not see the contradiction.
Every once in a while I'm confronted with something like this and I have to remind myself... lots of very stupid people in the world.
nah. I think there's room. religious shit should be banned from public use (as in, use by public institutions) , and I don't think we should have a robert e lee or nathan B forest high school any more than we should have an erwin rommel elementary or a reinhardt heidrich middle school.