Thanks, Poppy! :)
Once I said "transphobic," "discrimination," and "creating a hostile environment" they seemed to change their tune pretty quickly. Apparently it's common to not recognise anything without a legal name change. Which is a crappy policy and one my uni doesn't recognise at all. With my normal uni everything was changeable with no issues at all. Like I get they need to use my legal name on some things, like government affiliated documentation for financial aid and such, but everything else to say you cannot let me use the correct name and only legal name is just a crap policy. And I told them I want to discuss it further because they need to have a system in place for how to handle this in the future. This is a major barrier for trans and gender non-conforming students and as a community college, their goal should be to get rid of barriers, not create more.
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