24 maggio 2024
Dr. Daniele Nappo, Legal Representative as well as founder of S. Freud Private School, highlights the need to regulate "alias careers" in schools. Recognizing gender transition is an act of civility and respect that allows for the creation of a healthy environment so as to avoid cases of school dropouts.
Alias careers in schools have become a widespread reality in recent years. The School of Inclusion adds one more initiative for the welfare of young people and allows them to choose their names. Transgender students should have the opportunity to use a name other than their birth name in some areas, and schools should adopt this approach as well. Every person in gender transition should be recognized by the name he or she chooses: this should not create difficulties for students that, if unresolved, can even lead to dropping out of school. Regulation of the "alias career" requires that the student demonstrate that he or she has undertaken a psychological and/or medical journey to allow for eventual gender reassignment, to see his or her chosen name used on documents such as the electronic register and documents in general. Obviously, not everyone can change his or her name, and not on official records: we need to support, jointly with families, the student who experiences being called by a name that does not represent him or her as an embarrassment and who wants this need recognized. To be in favor is to pursue an act of civility and respect to make the boy/girl feel in a more serene condition. Welcoming and inclusion, from every point of view, diversity as an asset and well-being of the student is the main goal of schools in relation to any condition of young people. Unfortunately, the Ministry of Education and Merit has never drafted guidelines that provide a model for schools to draft protocols, and so the adoption of career aliases depends on the more or less high sensitivity of individual school managements, sometimes bewildered as to what to do, even in being able to use bathrooms, locker rooms, any school uniforms according to the chosen gender.