Citing few assignments, NJ transgender teacher hailed as role model retiring in frustration

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WAYNE PARRY
7/22/09

The Eagleswood Township School District says McBeth was needed less after it hired a full-time substitute. The Pinelands Regional School District declined to comment.

Transgender teacher retiring in frustration
'All they did was put me in a closet again,' she says of N.J. school districts

Mary Godleski / AP
   
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LITTLE EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. - When word got out that Mr. McBeth, a popular substitute teacher at two southern New Jersey school districts, was about to come back to class as Miss McBeth, it caused an uproar.

The former William McBeth had undergone sex-reassignment surgery and was now Lily McBeth. The schools' 2006 decisions to keep her on as a substitute were hailed around the nation as a model of tolerance and acceptance of transgender Americans.

But the storybook ending never happened: She got only a handful of assignments since then and is resigning in frustration.
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