Silent Invader

LGBTQWTFO, in a whisper, not a roar, invades.

But first, a note.  If you read your Substack handle in my posts, please accept it as a “Thank you” for provoking more thought and consideration on my part, or at the very least, informing me of an failing to communicate what I intended.

Now, on to the matter at hand.

I was unable to provide a precise count of males and females, masked and unmasked in one of my two coed classes as I have at least two in that class whose gender I do not know.  One has a name that I have only experienced as being a male name but they wear eye make up and earrings but have a boy’s haircut.  They are always masked, so I have not seen their face below the eyes.  To say this student is slight of build is an understatement.  Though the students are second year vocational students, this student is roughly the girth of my 10 year old.  Either a thin female or an extremely thin, possibly prematurle birthed male.  The other is of healthier build but with the clothes they wear, hair cut and jewelry and masked face, I cannot tell which of the two genders they are.  Here again,their name is not helpful.

This in and of itself, is not all that unusual.  Students at my other vocational schools often cross dress, well boys do.  There are tomboys but not true cross dressers among the females I have taught.  I have had quite a few males dressing as females in the past, complete with earrings, female hair styles and grooming, though obvious make up has been more rare.  I have seen plenty of young men here wearing high heels of the styles women do, but in men’s sizes, but none in any of my classes.  I have two male students repeating my class this year for failing last year who wear earrings this year, they did not last year.  What makes the situation at the other school unusual is that for the first time in my close to ten years at the school, the student list is not color coded for gender.  They have made a decision to not inform the teachers of the genders of their students but have not communicated this nor their reasoning for no longer doing so to the faculty.

While it is possible this was just an oversight and not an indicator of anything, given the other indicators I have written about in the past, I am inclined to think that this was an intentional change and that at least one of my current students is the one of those who is the reason for the change.  Could be wrong, but I don’t think so.