Maura Barrett is a correspondent for NBC News.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Last August, shortly before Milo, 16, started his high school junior year, North Carolina enacted a law that would restrict how gender identity and sexual orientation are taught and addressed in public schools. For the transgender teen, that meant that in this past school year, his Latin teacher no longer asked students for their preferred names and pronouns.
” Milo and Noah, who say they have supportive parents, are worried about LGBTQ students in the state who don’t. “I have multiple friends who, if their parents found out that they were trans in any way, whether it was like forcibly outing them or if they came out to their parents, they would probably get kicked out of their house,” Milo said, adding that in those cases schools previously would have been one of the few safe spaces available to them.
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