""In the first week of school, when I was kind of trying to convince my teachers to call me Ethan, I was like, 'Hey, look, it's still on my ID,' said Brignac, who did not want The Texas Tribune to publish his birth name because it causes him discomfort. 'Then one of my teachers this year said, 'Okay, they're gonna fix that soon.''"
""It was definitely a big change having my deadname kind of sprawled everywhere,' Brignac said, referring to a derogatory practice of calling a trans person by their birth name. 'It was like, wow, okay, that wasn't just a social media post I saw, this is real life.'"
"A Wylie spokesperson said the move was "to ensure full compliance with state law, including Senate Bill 12.""
Ethan Brignac, a transgender senior at Wylie East High School, used the name Ethan since seventh grade and his father requested school records reflect that name. Teachers used Ethan on emails, rosters and IDs until administrators replaced his ID with his birth name three weeks into his senior year. The reverted ID and some teachers using his legal name have outed him to peers and revived prior distress. A Wylie spokesperson said the change was to comply with state law, including Senate Bill 12. SB 12, effective Sept. 1, bars public school employees from socially transitioning students and allows guardians to report such actions to the school board.
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