From my first story in Teen Vogue:

Thanks to Texas’s version of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay" bill, teachers at some public schools are under pressure to deadname their students. Under #Texas Senate Bill 12 (SB 12), which was signed into law this summer, some schools are forcing transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming students to go by their legal names, rather than by their correct chosen names.

“It’s been really degrading because it’s so targeted,” said James, a transmasculine high school senior in San Antonio’s North East Independent School District (NEISD). “This can’t be interpreted…as anything else but an attack directly on trans kids.” (Teen Vogue is using pseudonyms for many of the students, teachers, and others interviewed for this article to protect them from possible harassment and/or retaliation for speaking with the press.)

James and other trans students in his school are struggling with the district's implementation of the law. An email from his high school’s principal sent home to families just before the first day of classes read, “We cannot accommodate requests from students or parents for names that suggest a different biological sex.”

Read more: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/texas-schools-forced-to-deadname-trans-students

#SanAntonio #politics #trans #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA+ #education #students #news #USpol #DEI

This finding that some ant queens can lay eggs of another species is astonishing. Biology is far stranger than we can possibly imagine.

#Ants #Science #Evolution

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02807-0