KATY, Texas –A Texas daycare worker is speaking out after she and another worker were allegedly fired for refusing to treat a confused 6-year-old girl as a transgender student.

Madeline Kirksey, a Christian author and former employee at Childrens’ Lighthouse Learning Center, told Breitbart.com two male parents of the child recently requested the school treat her as a boy, call her by a boy’s name, and instruct young students to do the same.

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The school reportedly distributed an online guide “How to Handle Transgender Students,” and required teachers to use its suggestions, which included things like “help defend their dignity,” and to “educate yourself and your students” about transgender issues.

Kirksey, a manager at the school, and another employee who did not want to be identified raised issues with school administrators about talking directly to students about transgender issues, and suggested the topic would be better suited for parents. The two suggested the school inform all parents of the student’s transgender status, and resisted calling the child by a male name for obvious reasons, Fox 26 reports.

“One day, she wanted to be a girl, the next day she wanted to be a boy,” Kirksey told the news site. “The other kids are confused as well, calling her a boy and she would start screaming, ‘I’m not a boy!’”

“It caused a lot of confusion,” she said. “I don’t think we should be talking to other people’s children who are under the age of 18 about being transgender.”

School officials apparently disagree.

The Learning Center terminated Kirksey and the other objecting employee November 2. Kirksey’s termination papers cite a host of reasons including tardiness and absenteeism, poor attitude, insubordination, leaving class out of ratio, failure to perform assignment and disregard for safety.

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The termination also lists the real reason Kirksey was fired: “When requested by parent and management to call a transgender child by the child’s new name, Madeline does not follow instructions.”

“I said, ‘this is what this whole thing (firing) is about?’ So (Kirksey’s supervisor) said, ‘We’ll scratch that off,’ and that’s when she scratched off the line about the transgender child and wrote her initials by it,” Kirksey told Fox 26.

Childrens’ Lighthouse Learning Center officials refused to discuss the issue with the media, as did the child’s male parents. Kirksey said she reported the incident to Child Protective Services.

The issue in Katy comes a week after residents in the City of Houston defeated a ballot measure that would have allowed transgendered people to use bathrooms, showers and locker facilities of the opposite sex.

The proposal’s results – 61 percent against versus 39 percent in favor – shows a lot of locals seem to agree with Kirksey, and many of them sounded off online.

“I agree with the teacher on this one,” Tina Stephens posted to Facebook. “Sorry, but at that age kids don’t even know how to spell their names correctly without help more less know if they are transgender. … This is the parents coaching and helping at this age. Andy by the kid herself going back and forth lets me know even more without a doubt this isn’t the kid’s doing.”

“A six-year-old doesn’t even know what the word transgender means,” Susan Daniels added. “This child should be taken away from her nutty parents. This is child abuse.”