Karen Adell Scot, California Teacher, Comes Out As Transgender

[suzifrommd]

Karen Adell Scot, California Teacher, Comes Out As Transgender

The Huffington Post
Posted: 03/21/2014 3:54 pm EDT

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/21/karen-adell-scot-transgender-teacher-_n_5008586.html

A California teacher, who previously presented as a man, will return to school after spring break as a woman.

The Fresno Bee is reporting that the Yosemite High School teacher, formally known as Gary Sconce, will be known to students and staff as Karen Adell Scot after April 22.

Scot's announcement has received a mixed response from parents, students and other community members.

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"Some parents are pulling their kids out of classes and things like that and some of the staff is uncomfortable, which I don't understand because if you work with someone that long, they're not a different person, they're the same person just a different gender now," Natalie Choin told KFSN.

[suzifrommd]

Holy smokes, there but for the grace go I.

When I came out at my school last summer, a reporter tried to write a story on me but the school system pulled strings and got it killed.

At the time I said I didn't think it would national news - it's happened so many times before.

Was I wrong! Fox News, New York Daily news, and NBC all picked up this story, which is as run-of-the-mill a transition story as I've ever heard.

I'm shuddering at how close that came to being me. It could have been my name splashed across national headlines.

How is it that in 2014, a transgender person transitioning on the job is national news? Our community has done such a terrible job educating people about who we are and how we live that no one has a clue that this is commonplace.

[Ms Grace]

Sadly it happened in the UK last year, the poor woman was literally hounded to death by a couple of raving loony media outlets all because she dared to transition at work with her school's blessing - she ended up taking her own life.