School page
Note by mod Lee: If you have any resources that you think I should be add, or know any posts/articles about the topics that need links please feel free to tell us!
Using the bathroom:
- The etiquette for using the women’s / men’s room
- Getting used to using the women’s bathroom
- Using the men’s room when you have your period
- On using the acessible single-stall bathrooms for students with disabilities
- Tip: You can sometimes use the nurse’s bathroom if you don’t have gender neutral ones, and you can ask to use the staff bathrooms but they may say no
- Tip: Use the bathroom when nobody else is there during class
- Tip: You may be legally able to use the bathroom that aligns with your gender identity and not your axab, but it depends on which state you live in
- Looking for a guide to getting gender neutral bathrooms
Gym class:
- It’s not safe to wear a binder to gym class
- If you’ve been injured from binding and have gym class
- Getting sports bras to wear instead of a binder
- Changing from a binder to a sports bra
- Coping with dysphoria from being in the wrong locker room
- Looking for tips for transfeminine people in the boy’s locker room
LGBT clubs at school:
- Our #school clubs tag has more names for GSAs
- Going to GSA without your parents knowing
- How to start a GSA video
- How to start a GSA text (printable version)
- You are legally allowed to start a GSA at a public school
- An open letter to give school administrator when starting GSA and another one and another one
- Example GSA mission statements
- GLSEN’s GSA resources
- GSA Network’s resources
- Making your GSA trans inclusive
Legal:
- How to report discrimination
- Know your rights: Transgender rights at school (printable version)
- Know your rights 1-7
- What you can do under a Trump presidency
- Tip: What you can do when your parents don’t support you depends on the school district, but you can informally ask your teachers to use your name/pronouns even if you can’t change it in the school system.
Gendered uniforms/dress codes:
- Just go to school wearing the uniform you want if you have a choice in buying it
- It’s illegal for a public school to enforce gendered dress codes in the US
- In the UK it depends on the school but it’s worth asking
- Having to wear the girl’s uniform when you aren’t one
- When the uniforms are gendered
Bullying and harassment:
- Show your administrator an open letter to schools about addressing anti-lgbt bullying if they won’t respond when you tell them you’ve been bullied and show them another one too
- Your state’s laws and policies on bullying
- Reporting cyberbullying
- If you’re worried about being bullied/are being bullied
Prom and school dances:
- Know your prom rights
- Coping with dysphoria when you have to wear a dress
- If your parents won’t let you wear what you want
- Gender neutral prom wear
- Feminine prom wear
- Prom options for masculine people
School field trips and sleep-aways:
- Being in the boy’s room when you have to take your binder off at night
- Looking for info on coping with being in the wrong group
Sports teams and music classes:
- Band uniforms
- Developing Policies for Transgender Students on High School Teams
- Don’t bind when playing a wind instrument or singing
Teacher interactions:
- Name and Pronouns letter to teachers
- Another name and pronouns letter to teachers
- Coming out when teachers knew you last year
- Coming out to teachers example letter
- Telling teachers your name/pronouns
- Correcting teachers who call you the wrong name or pronouns
- If your teacher makes transphobic jokes
- Cut out the guidance counselor or other middleman and talk to your teacher about your names and pronouns yourself if guidance is unhelpful
- Coming out to teachers in high school
- Coming out to course instructors
Being out at school but closeted at home
- Legally, school staff shouldn’t intentionally out you (but they may accidentally do so)
- The risk of being outed and trying to prevent that
- Trying to stay closeted at home and out at school
- Feeling connected to the school community
How do I come out at middle/high school?
- How to come out in high school
- Coming out to your grade
- Changing your name in the school system
- Dealing with public sign in sheets
Other:
What about being trans in college?
- Coming out during a college interview
- Chosen name on common application
- Mail from common app when you’re closeted
- Looking for an accepting college
- Consider College Options Carefully as a Transgender Student
- FAQ about transgender students at colleges and universities
- LGBT students and online learning
- Do they do roll call?
- Being trans in college
- Coming out to a roommate
- Being placed in the wrong gendered dorm
- Co-ed housing
- LGBT centers
- Using chosen name at school but being closeted at home
- If you don’t know who your teachers are to email them about your name
- LGBT friendly sororities and fraternities
- Scholarships for trans students
- Women’s colleges
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