hi everyone, I am a grad student at Western Carolina University. I am pursuing teachers licensure and a Masters of Arts in Teaching. I am currently working on a project to educate current and future teachers about trans issues and gender variant youth. The goal is to educate teachers in order to foster an understanding of these students so that teachers can be more supportive and well informed, therefore better able to understand the unique experiences of trans and gender variant youth. Part of the project will be to include short, personal narratives from trans or gender variant individuals. These can be anywhere from a few sentences to a few pages. I would like to get stories of people's experiences in school, particularly in terms of the experience of being trans or gender variant (there are lots of words that would be approriate here, I'll stick with these two for brevity purposes) Ideally, these personal stories will help teachers understand the unique challenges youth face as well as how they can be more supportive and inclusive. Our text books and classes do not cover this material, so your input is valuable. If you prefer to remain anonymous, that is fine. Some helpful information might be age and state you attended school in, but even that is optional. Please send any ideas or stories to:
aullli@aol.com
I look forward to hearing your insights.
nicole