Teachers & Trans Students Clash Over Whose Rights Come First

Teachers & Trans Students Clash Over Whose Rights Come First

Aidyn Sucec remembers how much better he felt toward the end of eighth grade when, after years of struggling with his identity, he told his family he was transgender. It was the spring of 2017, and Aidyn's anxiety and depression began to lift as people embraced the teenager as “him.”

“My family and friends began to recognize me as who I am,” Aidyn, who's now 16, said in court documents.

Before Aidyn, who was designated female at birth, started at Brownsburg High School in Brownsburg, Indiana that fall, his mother, Laura Sucec, worked with school officials to make sure his new name and gender would be logged into Brownsburg's database. She wanted to be sure teachers knew him as Aidyn and didn't use his former name—his “dead name”—when addressing him.

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