#not to be like so sheltered ik all the trans ppl who follow me are like this is literally just a tuesday afternoon but there are not many
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i think one of the girls in my graphics class may be trans NOT to assume anyones gender ever but like she is very clearly like obviously presenting as very feminine like almost anyone would assume she is a girl like i would say she "passes" or whatever as a girl yk? but my prof was talking to me and was pointing out stuff abt her work as an example and kept saying he and him and i didnt even realize until later what was going on like i thought maybe he was talking abt someone else or smth or that maybe I had assumed her pronouns wrong and he knew from canvas or smth bc i never had even considered that she was maybe trans and then later she talked in front of the class abt her project and it wasnt until i heard her voice that was a little lower i was like oh my god the professor was like. straight up purposefully misgendering her i think. like it could not have been an innocent mistake clearly she is presenting as a girl and looks like a girl. and he was misgendering her TO ME and i didnt even realize and just acted like it was normal and she was sitting nearby probably overhearing the whole thing....
#i feel so bad i thought that teacher was cool too.... i want to give him the benefit of the doubt bc hes older and didnt SEEM to mean#anything by it like he seems nice enough to her? besides just using clearly the wrong pronouns? but like it seems so obvious that she is#a girl like ik that sometimes older ppl will have trouble w correcting it in their head and its not second nature for them to use pronouns#that may not align w their first impression of a person but like. anyones first impression of her would be that she is a girl. i also#checked on canvas and she has her pronouns listed as she/her so like... confirmed she isn't going by he/him. anyway i just feel unsure like#idk what i would have even done in that situation if i had realized like idk if its my place to correct him and make a big deal out of it i#she would prefer it to not be and ik trans women are probably used to getting misgendered like all the time i just have never been in a#situation where someone is irl getting misgendered like. purposefully. possibly? idk#not to be like so sheltered ik all the trans ppl who follow me are like this is literally just a tuesday afternoon but there are not many#trans ppl (at least not out) where i live and so i don't see this kind of thing irl i guess im just a little shocked... and i mostly feel#bad especially that it was like. right in front of her
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