Detention for calling transgender teacher 'sir'

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There is a trans woman teacher at our local school, has retained a full beard but wears a dress. Any pupil calling him sir gets a detention.

It's not my childs' school but a friend's child has had a detention for this. It was a slip up not a deliberate misgendering. They are not normally a trouble maker.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is it the norm now? It was a year 7 pupil btw.
Thanks

Again - you don't know what you are talking about. Students will more often than not say Sir or Miss (and Mum on occasions as documented upthread!). It's quick and easy and is polite.
Why should they completely change how they address their teachers just to pander to a fantasy?

Teacher has left now, but kids got shouted at for correctly sexing them.

My children's school uses Sir and Miss to address teachers.

Kids make mistakes. It's normal. It's not going to help learning if kids are too stressed to learn because they are trying not to get a detention. This disproportionately effects neurodiverse kids.

It's also not a mistake...

I get sir, mum, auntie, names of other teachers around the school.... It's totally normal. This should not be a detention worthy offense. The teacher shouldn't be forcing students to lie for the teacher's benefit.

Surely the sensible solution (yes, yes, I KNOW) to misgendering is re-education, rather than punishment.

I used to be a teacher in prisons. I've been called MANY things, from Miss, to Lady Miss, Teacher, Mum 🙂 , a G (apparently a compliment), and on more than one occasion, Miss Man!

Re-education? Have you heard yourself FFS? A child knows that a man is a man and it is impossible to lie continuously.

It was irony, mate. Sorry it didn't come over very well, I am hungover.

Sorry - I am never sure these days! Hope you feel better soon!

I think reprimand is unlikely following a polite "excuse me" or similar circumlocution - absence of name/title salutation won't even be noticed

Then it's likely you're not up on current events even in social media around such matters.

Also, a parent who runs PSHE Brighton, a campaign group for families worried about sex education in schools, said Year 7s were given punishments 'two years in a row' for misgendering a teacher in the first three days at school.
She said: 'We've had Year 7s who are innocently going 'Yes miss, I'll do that'.
'Bang, they are in what's called a non-detention - like lockdown, something like that where they lock them up after school.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12682079/UK-children-grilled-term-gender-activist-teachers-say-parents-11-year-old-pupils-given-DETENTION-misgendering-staff.html

There's an inbuilt power dynamic in school settings, the absence of name/title salutation would be very noticeable.