It's against someone's religion to address a student with their preferred name? There are a lot of people who go by names that are a bit androgynous, feminine or masculine, given or adopted as preferred name. Pronouns are easy to work around when preference is in question - but easy to go out of ones way to use a non-preferred one if known. Seems cruelty is in that teacher's religion, more than compassion and grace.

Zey better reevaluate zeir position on this.

I know I will get flack for this, and I agree that gays rights and such matter, and I am a supporter of such, but personally this whole pronoun thing seems a bit overwrought. In fact, at times I think people carry it to such an extreme that it becomes PC run amok. I say just have the teachers call the kids by their first name, whatever it is on their student info, and leave it at that. I guess I never cared what teachers called me by as long as it wasn't some insult or made up name, but then again I am hetero and cis, as they say nowadays. I think it's way more important for schools to focus on dealing with the bullying that happens between kids, of which I experienced my share. I wish they had been trying to deal with that back in my day.

Arse.

Seems fucking religion gets a pass again!