Florida Teacher Loses Job Over Trans Student’s Name, But Community Fights Back

On April 8, the board—composed of a conservative firewall including Megan Wright, Gene Trent, John Thomas, Katye Campbell, and Matt Susin—voted unanimously to dismiss Calhoun at the end of her contract in May, ending her decade-long career at Satellite High School. Their stated reason was that Calhoun had called a student by a name different than that on their birth certificate, which violates a 2023 statewide policy requiring written, parental consent before a teacher may do so.

A student’s parent evidently discovered the discrepancy and escalated it to the board. Calhoun’s case marks the first publicly known case of an educator losing their job due to the naming provisions of this law.

Imagine being so not busy that you have the bandwidth to not only find out someone called this person “this” vs. “that”, but then being so pressed that you escalate it to the fucking school board. Because? Reasons.

What if…just imagine with me…what if that parent MINDED THEIR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS?!?!

What a world that would be.