“Hey! I need a little advice if that’s okay. So I’m genderfluid and I’ve come out to my parents and most of my main friend group, but I’m not publicly out. I’d really like to be, as soon as possible- but my parents are saying I should wait until next school year, so I’m going to be publicly out next semester. However, I have a teacher that I’d really like to tell but everyone is saying that it would stress her out and I should wait till I tell the public. Do you have any ideas what I should do?”
Personally, I came out to my teachers when I was ready to come out to everyone, because I wanted everyone to be using my name and pronouns, and to have a clear idea of how I wanted to be seen, and why. I emailed my teachers before the semester started explaining my identity and preferred name & pronouns, and that went well because everyone had a clear idea of what proper action to take. Then I emailed my class of students (had a small class at the time) so they knew as well, and I could come into the new semester as a new person with everyone on board.
If you want to confide in this teacher or ask them advice before you come out, I think that’s great, and that interaction could be very rewarding. But I think telling a teacher a “secret” and asking them to keep it indefinitely would probably be stressful. So I think it depends on why you want to talk to the teacher in the first place. :)
Hope this helps!
-Kai
whatgendertoday liked this
halzyan liked this
lady-of-the-ring liked this
axphoenixposts liked this
the-giraffantastic liked this
just-another-internet-hermit reblogged this from lifeoutsidethebinary- just-another-internet-hermit liked this
yo-fuckers liked this
cosmicdetoxilatte liked this
misbehavedmonsta liked this- literate-potato-deactivated2015 submitted this to lifeoutsidethebinary
