Kelly Jenkins earned her license to teach middle school science earlier this year, but decided not to apply to teach her own classroom in part because she’s wary of the outcome of Ballot Question No. 3.“If this law gets repealed and I go somewhere with my students, I’m concerned I could be discriminated against in front of them,” she explained.Jenkins, a teacher’s assistant at Wellesley Middle School, is a transgender woman.
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