Started off great with first period. Asked my teacher to call me Jay instead of "Jackie" went well...then second period came which I knew would be fine since I'd had it before and my teacher knew I had some kinda of gender disorder....my knowledge of that was wrong. My teacher had wrote on the board for boys to sit on one side and girls on the other. By law I'm a girl so I had to sit on that side...I couldnt sit in the middle cause there was certain rows for girls and certain rows for guys. All rows had the exact number of desks for each gender to fit in...so now room to sit somehow in the middle.

Someone kept telling me I was on the wrong side.
A lot of people kept staring.
My eyes were watering so bad.
I know a lotta people would be like...that's a good thing, you were passing...but that just told everyone that I was a girl...then on top of that we were talkin about differences between girls and guys.
Guys had to think of how girls were different and girls had to think of how guys were different...which meant I had to do that.
We had to stay on the side we were on so I had to work with girls.
I felt so awkward and uncomfortable.
I dropped a few tears.
It sucked.
I hope tomorrow is better.

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Yeap - it would suck. Next time ask the girls which one of them are Tom-Boys and started to talk about the sliding scale between the genders. That would really confuse the issue  .


Alice

Ouch, I'm sorry you had to go through that.  I know I would absolutely hate it if I were forced to sit with the boys. Now that I think about it, I AM sitting with all the guys at work (only 2 women on the floor including me and about 40-50 guys).  Seriously though, it's awful to be outed in a big way like that.  I'm sorry you had to experience that.  Hopefully things will change soon.

Melissa

Ugh, that's terrible! Why on earth did your teacher have you arranged that way?

We were gonna be discussing the differences between genders.

I would have just sat with the guys. When I was in school, I did it anyway. The only problem that really arose was in gym, where girls counted as two points a shot and guys counted as one, haha. But they couldn't really do anything.

That hurts, Jack. What a way to start out.

Although, it doesn't matter what you are "legally". You could have sat on the guys side. Maybe you could have a talk with your teacher and say you identify as male and you'd appreciate some warning next time she does an exercise like that so you and she can discuss where you sit.

There's no law against identifying as male (unless you live in the United Arab Emirates), so don't get hung up on that F on your drivers licence. If someone questions, you just say you're trans and haven't met the requirements to get your documentation changed.

Dennis

The only problem with sitting with the guys would be that they know me from middle school and so they know me as a girl and I would have gotten made fun of so bad if I sat over there.

Transgender and transsexual and all those catagories should be taught in school or something so people know that they exsist.

It should, but so long as we have right wing christians running things... (Or atleast makeing allot more noise than everyone else)  things will never change for the better Im sorry to say....
Just think, in 100 years or less, your going to be reading about people like us and our fight for equality and nondiscrimination in the history books