Transgender Teacher Steps Out To Students

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Transgender Teacher Steps Out To Students

http://www.courant.com/education/hc-teacher-transgender-0521-20160522-story.html

Courant/By Kathleen MeganContact Reporter  05/22/2016

AVON — Last month, Dusty Rader had a conversation with his Avon High School students that never would have happened a few years ago.

"He told them that he is transgender.

His disclosure came up in the context of a school-wide discussion on tolerance and bullying and talk about a North Carolina law that bans people from using bathrooms that do not correspond with the sex on their birth certificate.

"That's someone who decided they don't like transgender people and for whatever reason is going to bully them legally," Rader recalls telling his students about the North Carolina law. "And that specifically relates to me because I'm transgender.""