Transgender rights for me in school?

[xxchriscsxx]

Okay so I have a wig, it took some time to find one. I got my friends to start calling me Hannah and use the terms she or ze and refer to me as a girl. And I got everyone I know to accept my gender-queer lifestyle. The next thing is getting my school to know I'm gender-queer. I would like the school to not refer to me as a he and start calling me Hannah instead of Chris. But I'm not sure how to go about this. I'm also expecting myself to be a little embarrassed to even tell them I'm transgendered. But just so I won't be humiliated if I do have to fight to have them refer to me using different gender pronouns and a different name and then find out in the end that they are within their legal right to refuse am I within my rights as a transgendered individual to have them treat me as if I'm of the opposite gender? My mom is also worried that if I wear my wig to school that they're going to punish me for it, will they punish me considering that I'm transgendered? I'm so confused, there's so many laws that give and take away transgender rights. Will it also help my case if I get a note from my psychiatrist or my therapist. I heard this is what some transgender people carry around with them in their wallets just in case they have to go to the hospital or get in trouble with the law so they're treated like they're their opposite sex to avoid making things uncomfortable for them. Because if it will I'll be able to get that letter in a matter of hours if I contact my therapist or psychiatrist by e-mail.

[Ann Onymous]

In this day and age, many districts have their policies on their website.  In the old days, students got a handbook at the beginning of the year that addressed policies on any number of matters, to include dress codes. 

You need to know what YOUR district covers...no place else is relevant to the discussion.  Also relevant will be how strongly your parents will go to bat for you against the district... 

As to what transgender people carry, I have no idea.  Even with a letter, there is no guarantee that it will be recognized by any entity.  As a transsexual, I never carried anything in the way of a letter...although that was also back in a pre-9/11 world.  Hell, it was a pre-Clinton world...