#nonbinary teacher

[juicyparsons]

More pics of yesterday’s fit!! 🦋📚🌈🌻🤎

[itgetsbetter]

That bond between English teachers and queer students tho 😌

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[rollerskate2theface]

Getting closer and closer to my degree as an educator while also being genderqueer is quite a time

[iibislintu]

Someone stole my classroom’s handmade cross-stitch Pride flag. One reacts accordingly.

[trombonesorceress]

one of my students today walked up to me like “hey mx. j” and held up their ipad that just had the nonbinary flag next to an image of wario’s color pallet and yes hello I've called to report a hate crime

[jerk-nephilim-bitch]

If you are non binary or agender, what do you tell the kids to call You? (ei. Mr/Ms/Mrs but for non binary/agender)

[juicyparsons]

“Who’s the fat kid talking to?

Patrick!! That’s the teacher!!!”

Happy New School Year Everyone!!

This is my 11th year of teaching and I wanna make it my best yet, fingers crossed!!

I’m ready to learn more, grow more, and show up bigger and better than ever for my students and school community!!

I’m nervous, and I’m excited to see what this new school year will bring, I have a good feeling though 🎒🌍🌈🤎

[gqteach]

I guess I'm lucky I survived two years without any actual open opposition from a parent, but it still hurts like a bitch.

I'm don't think hurt is exactly the right word, but there's definitely pain involved. Frustration, too. Some anxiety, though I'm not completely sure about what; I just smiled and nodded and "yes ma'am"-ed, so it's not like I expect her to complain to my boss.

I'm trying to write about it for Therapeutic Purposes:tm: but it's not. quite coming right. Even reporting the cut and dried events is hard for some reason.

The whole thing started with her shouting down a flight of stairs at me asking if I was "Miss Marie," which made me blue screen because that's my grandmother's name even if no one calls her that. "The Robotics Coach," she clarified.

"Miss Marie" is not, in fact, my co-coach's name, but that's fine.

She then proceeded to lay into me because of the fact her son hasn't been able to attend Robotics and therefore has been going to E-Sports instead, with the subtle implication that she disapproves of how much he's playing video games and also that it's lowkey my fault. He tried to attend Robotics on a couple Thursdays. We do not, in fact, meet on Thursdays. But it should be all fixed up now.

Then she asked me who I was. I introduced myself as Ro, or Teacher Ro if they prefer, the other coach, and she looked at me kind of odd. She asked, "So no pronouns?" and I said, "They/Them."

"As long as that's not what you're teaching my son. We're a Christian household, you know."

Ah. Cool. I'm not gonna trans your kid, lady. Super cool of you to bring religion into it, we love poking at my Christianity-related trauma. I guess part of the anxiety is that if the kid is trans, I'm going to get blamed and that's when the complaints are going to come in. And I'm just super sick of the narrative that we're pushing things on children when from her own admission, she's the one telling him what he can and can't be.

I will give her the credit that she said, "I taught him to respect people's pronouns and identities, it's just not for us" or something to that effect, and corrected her son twice when he called me Miss Ro.

(I do feel better after venting about it, once I got it out.)

Maybe this is the new normal? Slightly Begrudging Trans Tolerance? And if it is, maybe it's not so bad, even if it doesn't feel good. But it's leaps and bounds ahead of where we used to be, in terms of society.

(10/23/2023)