When word got out that Mr. McBeth, a popular substitute teacher in two southern New Jersey school districts, was about to come back to class as Miss McBeth, it caused an uproar.
The former William McBeth had undergone sex reassignment surgery and was now Lily McBeth. The schools’ 2006 decision to keep her on as a substitute were hailed around the nation as a model of tolerance and acceptance of transgender Americans.
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