Outside of school, his distaste for those who identify as transgender and others in the LGBTQ community isn’t a secret, either. RELATED | Read more Jacksonville-area education news He refused to honor Cesar’s pronouns, telling her if she didn’t like it, to switch classes - which is exactly what she did.
She wrote her incoming teachers to let them know her chosen name and pronouns, since the class roster would say something else.īut her math teacher, Thomas Caggiano, wasn’t having it. The 15-year-old, whose full name we aren’t using to protect her identity, is transgender. Weeks before the start of this school year, Cesar - a sophomore at Sandalwood High School - anxiously emailed all of her new teachers.
