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When students change gender identity, and parents don’t know

By Katie J.M. Baker
New York Times·
15 mins to read

Jessica Bradshaw found out that her 15-year-old identified as transgender at school after she glimpsed a homework assignment with an unfamiliar name scrawled at the top.

When she asked about the name, the teenager acknowledged that, at his request, teachers and administrators at his high school in Southern California had for six months been letting him use the boy’s bathroom and calling him by male pronouns.

Bradshaw was confused: didn’t the school need her permission, or at least need to

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