A bill in Tennessee would permit students to use non-preferred honorifics for trans and nonbinary teachers, allowing names like 'Miss' instead of 'Mr.' The bill's sponsor believes in teaching 'objective truths' related to biological sex. A transgender teacher, Maxwell Jasper Bearden, expressed that their students have no issue using the gender-neutral name 'Teacher B.' Bearden criticized the bill as disrespectful and a distraction from focusing on students' educational needs.
"To confuse a child in the classroom, or an authority to ask a child to call them something they're not, is problematic to me. It's also problematic... to parents in our district."
"My students have never had a problem with that. I have a whole folder of art made by my students that all refer to me as Teacher B. None of my students have ever had a problem with it. It's only ever been the adults."
"Maberry's bill is targeted, and adds another level of disrespect to what it means to serve in this field."
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