A Tennessee mom allowed her teenage daughter to change her birth name, Dixie, after kids at school mocked her for it — and accused her of “racism” and supporting the Civil War-era South.
“She gets made fun of for it,” Danielle Remp, 35, wrote on TikTok — explaining why she let her 16-year-old to scrap her given name. “I said yes, no questions asked!”
Danielle Remp, 35, said it was a no-brainer to allow her teenager to change her name. @barefooted_beauty89 / TikTok
Dixie, who now goes by Skye, said she was constantly bullied and taunted about the name between classes.
“They call me things like ‘Dixie Dust,’ or ‘Dixie Normous,’” the high school student told Today.com .“They just give it all sorts of crude meanings, and they’ll call me that in the hallway.”
She said her dad named he

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