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Ask Matt: Teaching Teachers About Trans Issues

Started by Shana A, October 03, 2011, 09:35:53 AM

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October 03, 2011, 09:35:53 AM
Ask Matt: Teaching Teachers About Trans Issues

October 3, 2011 by Matt Kailey

http://tranifesto.com/2011/10/03/ask-matt-teaching-teachers-about-trans-issues/

A reader writes: "I will be talking and teaching teachers about being transgender and working with them to create a safer school climate and a respectful school climate. This particular school is getting its first trans boarding student. Several teachers have asked about the other students, as in, 'They should be told that the new student is trans' and 'We need to protect the trans student and we need to protect the other students.' How would you respond to this?

"I know it takes time to get used to something unfamiliar. I also believe, even in private high schools, that teachers must leave their baggage at the door, which is hard, but we did it with big areas like religion, racism, etc. How would you help faculty see what they need to do to create not only awareness, but eventually acceptance?"
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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