Transgender as an 11-Year-Old Middle School Student: ‘I. Am. A. Boy. That’s it.’
In a world that sorts kids by male or female, being a transgender middle school student is still difficult
By Petula Dvorak
Sometimes, the surprise M or F gender sorting moments can be scariest.
It happened in a Virginia middle school last month.
During one of the Stafford County school’s active shooter drills — something we’ve now come to say as casually as “It was pizza day at school, mom!” — administrators freaked out because the question of M or F stumped them when it came to their 14-year-old transgender student.
Born an M, but living as an F, the teen was locked out and left alone in the hallway while everyone else huddled for safety in the M and F locker rooms because the adults didn’t know what to do.
This is today’s American madness, adults deciding that rather than have a transgender child hiding — not dressing or peeing — among biological females during a drill, it was better to just act out a human sacrifice and leave her to the imaginary massacre.
Horrifying.
A standardized test. That’s what provided the scary sorting moment for Tyler.
