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I am a high school senior at Red Lion Area High School in Pennsylvania. As a student who happens to be transgender, my life isn鈥檛 all that different from other students in my class, except that I came out the summer before my junior year and have been going by my male name ever since. I try hard to make good grades, work at a part 鈥搕ime job, and have a wonderfully supportive family and an awesome girlfriend. My high school, like any other, has a senior prom. Our prom always has a king and a queen, and every senior gets a spot on the ballot for royalty. This year was my turn to get a chance at king like every other boy in my class.

I took all the proper steps to secure my name on the list where it belongs: the boys鈥� ballot. But on the day voting started, without warning, I found that I wasn鈥檛 on the boys鈥� ballot 鈥� instead, my old female name was listed under candidates for prom queen. It was the most humiliating and hurtful thing that has ever happened to me at school. Soon after, I learned that my school鈥檚 principal had stepped in and changed it because he was 鈥渦ncomfortable鈥� with me being listed as a boy. What鈥檚 more, when my girlfriend complained about this on Facebook, the principal threatened to not let her go to prom with me unless she took down her statements calling him out for discrimination.

With the help of the 老澳门开奖结果, we got the school to back down from that threat, and even though there wasn鈥檛 enough time to correct the ballots, my girlfriend and I still had a great time with our friends at prom a couple of weekends ago. But that doesn鈥檛 make up for the humiliation I experienced, and doesn鈥檛 mean that other transgender students at Red Lion won鈥檛 be treated just as disrespectfully in the future. I鈥檝e asked for a public apology and for new policies to protect future students from gender identity discrimination at my school. And for our graduation, which is coming up on June 7, I鈥檝e asked to be allowed to wear the boys鈥� cap and gown and for my male name to be read aloud when I cross the stage to pick up my diploma.

The school has agreed to let me wear the boys鈥� cap and gown, but won鈥檛 budge on anything else. They refuse to promise to do anything to help other kids like me, as if pretending I鈥檓 the only transgender student they鈥檒l ever have at their school will make it so. They refuse to apologize to me, even though they know the principal鈥檚 actions were mean-spirited and hurtful. And they insist on reading my female name at graduation, even though I鈥檓 working on getting my name legally changed and most people have been calling me Issak for almost two years now. Reading my male name at graduation wouldn鈥檛 hurt anyone, but they KNOW that reading my female name only serves to hurt me more. Obviously, it鈥檚 more important to them to push around an 18-year-old than it is to make the school a safe space for its students. The students at Red Lion Area High School deserve better treatment and better adult role models than this.

While it鈥檚 too late for me to have a chance at Prom King, it鈥檚 not too late to show my school that the way it has treated me is unacceptable. My friends and I are asking supporters to sign this petition, which we鈥檙e going to present to the school board at its meeting this Thursday. ALL schools should try to be safe, welcoming spaces for all of their students. And my school should be no different.

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