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[quote=Anonymous]I work in a school. There’s one student in 8th grade who I talk to a bit more than the others. I suspect this child, who was born female, identifies as male. For example, I’ve seen doodles where the student writes and draws about trans rights, writes down pronouns he/they, and writes down male names (especially one name that I suspect student has chosen as their name for when they come out as male).

The other day this student was telling me that they have two first names. It totally went over my head (thank you sleep deprivation!) and in retrospect, I think they were hinting that they’d like to go by the male name without outright saying it.

Is there a way I can sensitively bring this up with student? I was thinking of just saying “the other day, when you mentioned having two names, I think I misunderstood. Would you like me to call you by a different name?” and if the answer is yes, also ask “what pronouns would you like me to use?”

My school isn’t super supportive of LBGTQ+ students (a few staff members were concerned over the “trans rights” doodles, afraid a younger kid might see them) and I know this students parents would not be supportive of them coming out. So if that’s what is going on, I’d love to be the person who is in their corner. But I also don’t want to make an assumption and possibly offend the student. [/quote]

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