Fired Intersex Teacher Claims He Was Seen as Transgender (1)

An intersex middle school teacher accused a Florida school district of unlawfully firing him because it viewed him as being transgender.

St. Johns County School District, which knew Shepard Scalf’s gender identity is male and that he was assigned female at birth, gave no reason for axing him just weeks into the 2025-2026 school year, according to Scalf’s discrimination charge filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Intersex people have a range of variations in their physical characteristics that don’t fit typical binary definitions of male or female.

“It became clear to me that being fired had nothing to do ...