Blog Post 1
Recently, one of my teachers misgendered my transgender classmate, despite knowing that he is trans. We were with one other student, who identifies as a girl, and my teacher said “all right girls” when referring to the three of us. My classmate and I looked at each other with skeptical expressions on our faces and when my teacher referred to us as girls for a second time, he corrected her. Regardless of whether it was intentional or unintentional, it was just so appalling because my classmate has made it clear that he is trans and the teacher has had him as a student for a while now. In fact, the day before this happened, my classmate had to speak out on his instagram account because of similar misgendering incidents and people using the wrong pronouns for him. I started to realize this happens at Uni more than I thought it would, and it honestly surprised me that people in the Uni community are still so ignorant. After...