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For every educator trying to find the words to explain why policies requiring us to out trans students are unacceptable:
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Look man, my depression is already bad enough.
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Never in the US.
Trump is destroying American principles. Free Estefany Rodríguez now.
That's the worst!! How could you not resent it??
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You're looking at the future of the GOP. Sooner or later these young Nazi Republicans will aspire to high office, climbing their way up through the ranks and replacing the old Republican leadership. At some point Americans are going to have to stop treating the GOP as a normal political party.
Thread, I was hesitant with this opening but Evan explains well, while my 1st answer to why a kid wouldn't tell their parents is "bc they think it isn't safe & don't you dare out them in case they're right", it can also be wanting to 'try before you buy'. Being a teen means experimenting w/identity
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You're not wrong, though starting in the middle of a book you have the whole thing of is still weird. Totally fine - ppl should do what they want - but weird to actively prefer it to, for example, reading a few pages in the middle, liking the vibe, and starting from the beginning.
The gullible and hateful pseudo feminists who helped propel this cause share significant responsibility for the erosion of our actual rights that has, again, OBVIOUSLY resulted from anti-trans propaganda and policy
4 frame comic. a street journalist is interviewing a tall light brown man with a pink scarf and a tshirt of the band Angine de Poitrine. off-frame, the journalist asks : sir! are you worried about homophobic parents who might want to trans their child rather than have an effeminate son? the man replies : wait wait wait wait wait. are you implying that some homophobes might not also be raging transphobes? Never heard of that. trans kids are currently being hunted down, outlawed, marginalized from social life, singled out in their own schools, and you're asking me about some hypothetical parent who might pressure a child into being trans so they might what? fit in better? transitioning as a child in- volves years of determination. every adult in their life is likely to cast doubt on who they are. if they are lucky and have supportive parents, their families are often ostracized by their community. the idea that someone sees the hardships a family with a trans child goes through and thinks "they must have forced it on them" makes me physically ill.
Wait wait wait wait wait
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I have a very supportive family and transitioned as an adult. I still tried out new names with close friends before sharing it with everyone.
So many misconceptions get created by people treating transition as a single irrevocable choice rather than a constant progress
Yes - or the opposite. Imagine there WAS a typo, you tell the teacher honestly "I'm really a boy, and I go by Scott" and you're called Roberta and sorted with the girls all day until the teacher checks with your parents.
Also, and I know this is beside the point, kids going by names other than what’s on the roster printout is super common! My first name is Robert, but I’ve always gone by middle name of Scott. Do teachers have to call me Robert or Bob or whatever until confirming with a parent that I’m really Scott?
Children exploring gender and identity might not be ready to discuss these things with parents first. A trust-based family dynamic means that's alright.
"I'm always there for you about anything, we can talk when you're ready. I get it." is trust extended without demand, room to try things out.
Outing them to parents also runs the risk of a parent maybe overeager to show their support rushing things.
Just let kids do harmless things the way they feel works best for them, ffs.
Also true for non-teens! I came out to a few friends to build up to coming out to family. I didn’t even go immediately to my vocally supportive sister. It’s a huge step!
Parents of trans kids who came out to their peers first and think it's because they did something wrong.
Different families are different. Many kids do come out to their parents before anyone else, especially if they're very young or don't have supportive peer relationships.
But I don't want parents to think they're doing something wrong if their kid came out at school first.
This is more true in families that respond negatively. A kid who doubles down and INSISTS they're binary trans and want to medically transition is not going to want to come back and say "oh, maybe I'm nonbinary, maybe I don't want testosterone."
Even to themselves they won't want to admit that.
By stopping kids from engaging in this sort of rehearsing and experimenting with identity BEFORE they tell they're parents, you're expecting them to know for sure before they try out something and see how it feels for them.
And if it doesn't feel right, they'll be reluctant to admit that.
When parents are already predisposed to view things as a phase (dismissively) kids really do want to know for sure before asking
Asking your friends or even your teachers to call you by a different name and pronoun has lower stakes. Worst case scenario, you're leaving all those people behind forever in a few years. Not so with family.
Teens aren't stupid. They know this.
Coming out to your parents as trans, even very supportive parents, is a major life announcement. You are saying that this is who you are and will be for the rest of your life. (That may or may not be true, but that's how it feels to a teenager.)
People think that teens don't care what their family thinks as much as their peers, but that's not true at all. Teens understand that family is forever and important, which is why it's so emotionally fraught to separate and individuate.
Peer relations are where low stakes experimentation happens.
This is true, but also, I think what people don't understand is how informing on kids who are trying out a nickname and a pronoun raises the stakes in way that could drive the inappropriate transitions and regret, the thing we're supposed to be so scared of.
Let me explain.
