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DapperButch · 11-03-2015, 10:40 PM

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I work with trans teens and adults.

This school year I helped a number of FTM teens and their parents navigate the teens coming out socially at their high schools. So, far, they have not had any problems, even though none of them are currently on hormones. They have been accepted onto male sports teams and have the option to use the male bathrooms.

None of them have chosen the bathroom option, all preferring to use the administrator or nurse bathroom. I am actually glad that they are all comfortable with this option, as I worry that parents will make a ruckus if they knew the teens were using the bathroom of their identified gender, rather than the gender they were assigned at birth.

I would really be concerned if there was a MTF teen in my school district who wanted to use the girl's bathroom. I bet there would be even more push back from parents if a "boy was allowed in the girl's bathroom".

The school district does not have any protocols/policies around trans teens, but they been very supportive.

As a reference point, I live in a mid-atlantic state.

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DapperButch Roadster Guy How Do You Identify?: FTM, Stone Butch Preferred Pronoun?: He Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Northeast Posts: 7,745 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 26,545 Thanked 26,821 Times in 5,772 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	<Gemme's article> I work with trans teens and adults. This school year I helped a number of FTM teens and their parents navigate the teens coming out socially at their high schools. So, far, they have not had any problems, even though none of them are currently on hormones. They have been accepted onto male sports teams and have the option to use the male bathrooms. None of them have chosen the bathroom option, all preferring to use the administrator or nurse bathroom. I am actually glad that they are all comfortable with this option, as I worry that parents will make a ruckus if they knew the teens were using the bathroom of their identified gender, rather than the gender they were assigned at birth. I would really be concerned if there was a MTF teen in my school district who wanted to use the girl's bathroom. I bet there would be even more push back from parents if a "boy was allowed in the girl's bathroom". The school district does not have any protocols/policies around trans teens, but they been very supportive. As a reference point, I live in a mid-atlantic state. __________________ -Dapper Are you educated or indoctrinated?