While I live outwardly as male now and use a male name, my transcript has my female name on it. This has come up several times during my life specifically when moving classes around etc. I have to explain myself to the administrators.
I am going back to school for my teaching certification this next spring. My concern is that my past will catch up with me. I live in a pretty conservative area - do you think there is a real risk I will not get hired when the school administrators look at my past and find out my other name?
This matters a lot to me and is a real fear because I really want to teach, but I must give up my current job to get the 12 weeks of student teaching done next fall. You might say I'm "going all in," so after the student teaching is over, I must get a teaching job. I am really concerned that someone will go digging in my past and the school, even if they hire me, will let me go because some kid's parent is worried about a transgendered person teaching their child.
Is there any defense against this? Should I be concerned?
