AP: Transgender teacher in NJ retiring in frustration

[Heidi]

So much for the "model of tolerance and acceptance" thing. :(

You _are_ a person of worth, no matter what they say, Miss McBeth.
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Transgender teacher in NJ retiring in frustration
By WAYNE PARRY (AP) – 6 hours ago

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.

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"When I got the news from the school board that I would be retained, I was thrilled," she said. "I thought, `They consider me a person of worth, and that I could still be a valuable asset.' But it didn't happen."

Before her transition from male to female in 2005, McBeth said she averaged 15 to 18 assignments a year as a substitute teacher for elementary students in the Eagleswood school district, and an additional 16 to 20 a year in the Pinelands Regional School District, teaching high school students.

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Afterward, she said, she only got two assignments per year at both districts.

"All they did was put me in a closet again," she said

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