North Carolina will list transgender students’ preferred names in their school records

metroweekly.com:

The News & Observer. LGBTQ advocates had lobbied for the change, saying that PowerSchool’s original design listed students by their legal name and assigned sex at birth, and thus potentially placed transgender students at risk of being “outed” when they couldn’t change their profile to reflect their preferred names and pronouns.

The problem initially emerged last year when public school students were engaging in remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with PowerSchool making their legal name and assigned sex at birth visible to other virtual learners.In response, the Campaign for Southern Equality, an LGBTQ rights organization, sent a letter — signed by more than 300 educators, administrators, school counselors and social workers,.