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Listening to Rowena Cason speak about her 11-year-old, Morgaine, it s clear from the onset that she couldn t be more proud of them. This kid is amazing, she said. They re honestly one of the funniest and most honest people I ve ever met. They just have such an old soul and they re so wise. They have the deepest empathy, too.
Caption Rowena Cason, right, and her child Morgaine say they ve faced a difficult year at the hands of school administrators and bullies over Morgaine being nonbinary. Credit: Rowena Cason
Morgaine came out to their mom several months ago as nonbinary, an umbrella term for genders other than male and female.
Singled out, picked on | Camden County mom removes student from school after child targeted for gender identity
Rowena Cason says her child has been bullied and school staff have refused to use her child s preferred pronouns. Author: David Jones Updated: 11:38 AM EST February 4, 2021
CAMDEN COUNTY, Ga. A pattern of bullying and an alleged bathroom assault against a non-binary middle school student in Camden County has led the child s mother to pull them out of school.
Rowena Cason said her child, 11-year-old Morgaine Blanchard, identifies as non-binary and uses the pronouns they/them. She said Blanchard has faced bullying at school and teachers who refuse to use the pronouns.
Nonbinary Georgia middle schooler struck by classmate in bathroom, mother says
11-year-old attends Camden County Middle School
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Morgaine Blanchard is an 11-year-old who attends Camden County Middle School.
“My child identifies as nonbinary. And as a family, we’ve chosen to allow them to express themselves however they’d like,” Rowena Cason, the child’s mother, told News4Jax.
Cason said school staff has misgendered her child, who identifies using the pronouns “they” and “them.” Cason said not only has staff at the school refused to call Morgaine by the student’s preferred pronouns, but that on Monday, a classmate physically assaulted Morgaine.
Morgaine Blanchard was taken to hospital and had a suspected concussion after the attack at school. (News4Jax)
A non-binary 11-year-old child was taken to hospital with a suspected concussion after they were assaulted by a classmate at a school where teachers refuse to use their correct pronouns.
Morgaine Blanchard, who is non-binary, attends Camden County Middle School in Georgia and spoke to
News4Jax with their mother, Rowena Cason, about the attack.
The 11-year-old said: “It was a bathroom break. I just got finished washing my hands.
“I turned my back to the trash can to put the trash into the trash can, this girl came up and whacked me in the back of the head.”