Non-Binary Teacher Says She Read Book About Pronouns and Gender Identity, and Then Two Students, Including a First Grader, Came out as Trans

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TEACHER: "I've been wanting to do content around this day, which is really important to me as my first year as I'm out as a non binary teacher. But it's hard, it's hard to think how to talk about it and how to make it pithy and catchy and I -- I sent what felt like a pretty vulnerable email out to my colleagues, suggesting a whole bunch of resources for each division and offering to come into their classes. And I'm so grateful to the three allies or accomplices who invited me into their class today to read. I just read they, she, he, me, free to be to a grade one class. And I just read this book to a grade one class and one of the students came out as trans. Staff knew she was trans and we talked to her parents last night about me coming in, and they've given it the go ahead, and it was such beautiful proof that kids of any age are absolutely capable of accepting anything that they are taught with love. Because her class didn't bat an eyelid. Didn't bat an eyelid at me not being a man woman both or neither. Didn't bat an eyelid at her having been born a boy and were able to make all kinds of beautiful personal connections. So please, no matter what age your kids are, or what age you teach, it is so important that you teach them that trans people are valuable.”