How a Texas mom's crusade against a teacher and a library book devastated her transgender teen

[Jilly_in_VA]

High school teacher Em Ramser felt her stomach drop when she noticed an empty seat in her second-period English class one morning in January 2021.

“You know you get that sudden feeling,” she said, “where you know something is really wrong?”

The missing 14-year-old student reminded Ramser of herself when she was that age — unhappy to be at school most days and wrestling with her identity.

At the start of the school year, Ramser had asked every student to fill out a form answering questions about themselves, including how they wanted to be addressed. The absent student, listed as a boy in district records, had asked to be called by female pronouns, and by an alternative name: Ren.

Ramser, 25 at the time, was in her first year at Grapevine High School, in the conservative, sprawling suburbs northwest of Dallas. She had set out to make her classroom the safe space for LGBTQ teens that she wished she’d had while growing up queer in North Carolina. So, she said, she was happy to accommodate Ren’s request.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/transgender-student-texas-grapevine-podcast-rcna118116

This poor kid...and the nasty mom!