I've been out to all my friends and immediate family forever now, but had been planning on waiting until I go full time at the end of this year before I went 100% public, especially at work. Well I am currently in school for journalism and our department has a website where they publish the best student papers. Our last paper of the year was an op-ed and at the time, my city was passing gender identity protections. Naturally, that's what I wrote about. When debating whether to make it personal, I figured that I was one of 200+ students in the lowest level class, so the likelihood of it getting published was low. Even if it was picked, it's not like anyone actually goes to that page, so I made it personal. Well, I just got an email that my paper is now on the website. However, since writing it, I started working at a place where there is another journalism major from my school. If anyone goes to that stupid website it is him, and work is the one place I don't want to be outed early. Fingers crossed that he never finds it
