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Chemistry with industrial experience.
I’ve had a mixed experience with teachers at university, whilst there’s no question they’ve been excellent chemists their interpersonal skills as teachers has sometimes been lacking. I’m transgender and although I’m fortunate enough that most people don’t know/can’t tell, it’s cropped up a few times. When I arrived at the university my name was not legally changed and so my “deadname” would appear all over the place, my student ID, the register for labs, on blackboard. My personal tutor in 1st year wouldn’t deadname me but he would regularly misgender me. Talking to him brought an apology but no change so I just kept quiet in his tutorials. When JK Rowling expressed fully her highly transphobic views on line it hurt so much to see a ‘like’ from one of the lecturers at uni. Being trans sucks but if you are good at chemistry and you blend in then it’s less of a problem, but with the rise of transphobia in the UK it’s very scary to just walk down the street. It’s crushing for mental health and when you are dealing with a very heavy degree like chemistry, it makes it worse and on top of that it makes you keep quiet about it.
Ideally, known transphobes to be removed from a position where they can be in contact with students. But that’s not going to happen. I would hope for teachers to educate themselves about trans identities to support their students, but we live in a country where being transphobic and not “believing” we exist is somehow acceptable and “protected” so I don’t know.
It is possible to go the other way and REALLY over do it! A simple progress pride flag in the office is enough.
England
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Female
White British