I'm wondering if I should, as well as how I can, socially transition in a public Texas high school. I'm a transguy, sophomore, everyone knows me as "she" from last year, and I have no idea how people will react to me being trans. I have heard some transphobic talk ("You know there's a surgery for that") before, but not often, that or I never noticed it. My parents are accepting and I have a gender therapist. I pass pretty much 100% of the time when I present as male. So do I have to talk to the counselors to have people be okay with me using the men's or nurse's restroom and use my proper name/pronouns? For concert band, could I wear the tux instead of the dress? Are people legally obligated to use my name/pronouns? How do I go about getting people to use them?
Being forced to be female last year was difficult and got me angry and depressed. Now that I've lived full-time for 8 days at a church trip (I'm Unitarian Universalist), I've seen what I'm living without and I don't want to go back. I can't go back. One of the adults there said that *my real name* is much happier than *my birth name* and that melted my heart in its truthfulness. When I present as female or people address me as female, I start feeling hopeless and depressed. I want to be happy. But how will people react?
