Maura Barrett and Matt Lavietes

 Last August, shortly before Milo, 16, started his high school junior year, North Carolina enacted a law that would restrict how gender identity and sexual orientation are taught and addressed in public schools.  For the transgender teen, that meant that in this past school year, his Latin teacher no longer asked students for their preferred names and pronouns. “It would have been more dangerous to do that than to not,” said Milo, who asked that his last name not be published because of safety concerns. Conservative lawmakers who pushed for the law — the first section of which is titled […]