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Old May 19, 2014, 05:41 PM
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Originally Posted by zobothehobo View Post
After one semester of being out to my teachers and not my classes, I decided to start each year with publicly stating my pronouns and gender during the "introduction exercises" part of the first or second day of class. Hardly anyone actually uses them... and teachers are worse than students. This past semester that just ended was the first full semester in which my classes were aware of my pronouns. And I had two teachers who would constantly refer to me in feminine pronouns. Every time I would correct them and stop class to ask if they would re-state their statements with the correct pronouns, I felt myself losing respect from the rest of the class... it was really hard.
you are so much more brave than I am! That's so great that you can stop them like that. It's so good that you confront them with it, even if they don't listen.

And yeah, the teachers are way worse than the students. They act like they don't have the time for you, and it's so rude. That said, it's still wonderful and astounding that you can interrupt them and ask them to restate themselves and use your correct pronouns.
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