Alongside the need for improvement, however, there is also a challenge: how to teach about trans identities without drawing unwanted attention to individual trans students. This is encapsulated in the extract below from one young trans person, Jake:
‘if they started showing pictures of transgender people … I’d feel awkward and embarrassed more so than empowered’
Jake, he/him
To make sense of this tension, I was drawn to Miller and Woodward’s (2012) work on wearing jeans and their argument that people often just want to be ordinary. For the young trans people in my study, their gender identity is a part of who bosnia and herzegovina email list they are, but it is certainly not all they are.
Moving forward
‘I asked myself the question … “What can I do … to make there be a little corner of every classroom where … students can look and feel … happy and supported?”’
Sebastian, teacher