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Students of Yosemite High School School teacher Gary Sconce will notice something different about him after spring break. Yosemite Unified School District Superintendent James Sargent wrote to parents of children at the California high school, telling them that from April 22 onward, Sconce will be known as Ms. Karen Adell Scot.

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Scot, 56, has since undergone hormone replacement therapy and no longer feels trapped.

It’s like getting out of dark solitary confinement in prison where you never saw the light,’

‘You can’t believe that you actually are free … People say it’s like a mental illness but it’s not … It’s being your authentic self after being a fake you.’

‘I knew I was a girl from my first self-aware thoughts and I tried desperately each morning to wake up each morning as a female small child and it never worked.’

We asked the Madd Hatta Morning audience if they would let their child attended Ms. Scot’s class. Here are a few of the responses.

Andrei wants acceptance.

Rahlo on how this will impact little boys.

Dee Dee on who need to stand up.

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