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Trans kid tips

When a sub teacher calls your birth name out, just say they wrote the wrong name into the system in freshman year and haven’t changed it yet. This happened to a cis friend of mine. In fact, tell all the regular teachers that as well if you aren’t comfortable being outed to them.

Okay, I love how this is 

1. Really practical and helpful for trans kids
2. Also technically a 100% true thing to say, like no lying needed, this is just a short version of the truth

My (cis) brother had the wrong name on the attendance sheets for at least 10 years in elementary and high school because he goes by his middle name, and they only changed his name in the system in 11th or 12th grade, so like, mistakes like that are super common.

Campanies run into this, too. We have more than a few people at my workplace that go by a completely different first name than their legal name, but HR has to put them into the system with their legal name. Since I’m in the IT department, and used to own the provisioning system, it became common practice for us to change nnames if the person asked us, or if they had a preferred name. While their account ID would still be derived from their legal name (for reasons I can’t really go into in a public place like this), we’d at least make sure that the display name and email address were ones they werehappy with.

Just don’t get me started when two people have the same first and last name, but different middle initals (and who dispise each other…)