Coming Out at Work/School

[FinnBear]

So I'm starting T and I won't be able to hide the fact that I'm trans at work. One place I work part-time and that's at a piercing studio which is pretty accepting and smack in the middle of a heavy GLBTTTQQ area. The other place I work which is my "real job" is for an ambulance service. I'm worried because medical fields in general tend to be very transphobic in my experience. I feel like I can't just "get another job" though because I've worked hard to be in the medical field and I love it. I have no idea how to come out at work though some people already know. To make matters worse Georgia is a right to work state and thus I can be fired at any time for any reason what so ever. So I'm definitely looking for tips on how to come out there. As a side note I'd also like to be out at my college but I never really talk to anyone so that's not a big deal but I hate when teachers call me by my birth name so I'm wondering if there is a way to go around that since I haven't legally change my name yet. Thanks in advance.

[spacial]

You are right that medical types tend to be rather intolerant of problems. It seems to be a universal trait, probably due to them having to deal with so many, in a professional manner, it becomes a bit wearing when doing so, personally.

Can you simply not tell them? Just carry on, take your T?

Granted, you'll change over time, but that will be gradual.

The only difficulity I can see with this approach is them accepting you as a male. If you can live with them, accepting you as you are, while gadually changing into what you need to be, by the time it all becomes so obvious, your self confidnce should be pretty good, not to mention the economy. Also your social situation there will be more scure, so you may even swing it.

What do you think?

[Jeh]

As for school, I go to university and I've not legally changed my name yet but I asked all my teachers to call me by the male name I've picked, explaining to them that I was transgendered. They were very obliging. It did end up making me come out to a few more classmates though, since the teachers started calling me by a male name so my classmates wondered what was up.