[sff_writer_dan]

Originally Posted by PBR420

I didn't know nicknames are illegal too jeez wtf. fair point on the pronoun thing but there should be some loopholes... i'm just spit ballin here ya'll so don't take me too seriously lol.

It's not "nicknames are illegal" it's "in the name of being anti-trans, they've said you can't call a kid a preferred name unless it matches the one in the school's documents" and in their haste to stop you calling a trans guy a boy's name, they didn't bother realizing that technically 'nicknames' are also a preferred name that isn't the one in the school documents.

That's not intentional on their part, they're happy for Richards to be Rick and Jennifers to be Jenny, but they are so bad at their jobs, that to stop somebody whose legal name is Richard from being Jennifer, they've screwed it up.