"Teach your children well..."-----𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐔𝐒𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐒 𝐒𝐄𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐃 𝐀 𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐂 𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐑𝐄𝐅𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐀 𝐁𝐎𝐘

Joseph and Arlene Kutzko are devout Catholics in Massachusetts who did the one thing their state apparently couldn’t forgive: they refused to call their teenage daughter a boy. - M.A. Rothman@MichaelARothman

• 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳-𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮 𝘨𝘰𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘦, Joseph Kutzko said, describing the fight to save his daughter from a government that decided it knew better than her own parents. 

The nightmare started with a school counselor. 

The Kutzkos say a staffer at Algonquin Regional High School began 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐬 for their daughter at school, while quietly referring to her by her real identity in messages sent home...