'Dead to me': Alberta transgender teen takes action after being deadnamed in yearbook
CTV
He was graduating from high school this summer, ready for life's next chapter, when he opened his yearbook to see that he and other transgender students at Foothills Composite High School in Okotoks, Alta., had been deadnamed.
He was graduating from high school this summer, ready for life’s next chapter, when he opened his yearbook to see that he and other transgender students at Foothills Composite High School in Okotoks, Alta., had been deadnamed.
“It was just a nightmare," the 18-year-old said in an interview.
"I wrote a letter (to our principal) and I said, 'This isn't OK, and this needs to be fixed.'
“Being called by my first name, even by accident, is just weird. It reminded me of the past, and those memories are not always good to look back on."
