A year ago, GLSEN Greater Wichita received an email from a middle-school social worker. The school’s leadership team expressed interest in learning how to support two transgender students who were beginning to live as their authentic selves. The administration made it clear that providing support for all students and their...
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I’m Non-Binary, and “Trans-Accessible” Restrooms Should Include Me, Too
Photo by Wunmi Onibudo After realizing I was transgender, I began to see what cisgender people (people who identify with their sex assigned at birth) were taking for granted: clothes, driver’s licenses, state IDs, healthcare, a validated identity, and sometimes even their homes and loved ones, in addition to the...
4 Toxic Messages I Learned About Gender (and 4 to Teach Instead)
Photo by Wunmi Onibudo Young people are often denied the opportunity to explore gender for themselves and instead are told about gender by the adults around them. Especially for non-binary students like me (students who don’t identify as either male or female), having the ability to explore our gender –...