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A gift one of my students gave me for teacher appreciation week 🖤🏳️‍🌈

[braydbunch]

My latest blog post (link in bio). First of all, thank you all for the amazing authentic love and support. It has not gone unnoticed. However, I will stop focusing on my divorce and will start refocusing on my true mission. To make the world a better place for the trans community. I received a letter in the mail yesterday which seems to confirm that after nearly a year since I filed a claim with "an external human rights agency", my employer is finally being investigated. Without going into detail, I have been through so much over the last few years while transitioning on the job. Many people assume it was easy for me to get to where I am, but truthfully I have been through hell, much of which was solely due to my gender expression/identity. Laws were broken, things covered up and now it all may finally come to light. The scariest part is that I am afraid things will get ugly, as they often do for whistleblowers, and as it did for me in the past. However, if I have to become a Martyr for the community, so be it. I have done no wrong, only tried to live and work freely as my authentic self. I was nearly forced out of the job, over multiple school years. However, as the great Octavia E. Butler once said, “In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.” Some of those who I crossed paths with on my journey, tried to burn me alive. They didn't succeed and they thought they could get away with it. I have risen from the ashes and I won't stop until the world changes for my trans brothers and sisters. Please keep following my story. I really love each and everyone one of you, my personal Brady Bunch. You help keep me going in a world where I once felt all alone. #transisbeautiful #girlslikeus #braydbunch #cisallies #cisisbeautiful #justiceforall #transrightsarehumanrights #protecttranskids #protecttransteachers #transteacher (at New York, New York)