ADHDeanASLApr 14

I was a bit unprofessional today. I asked the host of a meeting to mute the zoom participants, then I addressed the two staff present in-person about their insistence on using a student’s dead name. One staffer used the excuse that the name is in the official paperwork. I called it an excuse and reminded them both that this is a human being. I might not be called back to interpret more of those meetings, but I couldn’t bear keep hearing them treat the student like that.

Bureaucracy is not an excuse for mistreating others.

Show threadWeird SocksApr 14
@adhdeanasl
Remind us all: Which one of these United States do you work in?
Show threadADHDeanASLApr 14
@ohmu I work in a very Deep South state. Two of them, really.
Show threadSusan Vanderplas
@adhdeanasl @ohmu then it's useful, perhaps, to point out that Paul was born Saul, Sarah was born Sarai, and calling people by chosen names is something that even shows up in the Bible. There's no real excuse for not calling someone what they ask you to call them, except that people are human and occasionally screw up in various ways (and they should apologize when that happens). But doing it intentionally is not ok.
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