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After being ridiculed in front of my entire teacher education cohort for using my male name, today I stood up for myself by addressing my class. The night before, when everyone else was writing their philosophies of education and e-folio reflections, I was preparing my speech and being plagued by ‘what ifs.’ What if a [...]
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My practicum is over, and I returned to classes at my university on Monday. Our new instructor asked us to wear name tags, so I wrote ‘James’ on mine and put it on my shirt. I got some rude stares and snickers and when we had to introduce ourselves to everyone, people awkwardly laughed at [...]
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End-of-course evaluations are a common practice at any university. They mostly involve responding to a series of questions by shading in a box. I filled out one such form today and the first question asked me to indicate my sex by shading in either the box for male or the box for female. I’ve been [...]
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