speaking of transexuals..................?

Question

a high school near where i live has a teacher coming back this fall as a woman......he was a man..had a sex change this summer
what would you do if this person was your kids teacher? mind you...i live in red neck country so alot of people are flipping out....

Answer 1

I'd be tempted to send her flowers and a note of welcome.

My 11-year old already knows the score regarding different livestyles(sexual preferances/family structures), including those who can't be happy/fulfilled until they're in the right bodies. I think she'd be curious for a while, then bored (we're talkin' about a TEACHER, after all!).

You know, while the variety in lifestyles has been going on since forever, it's only in the past few decades that the subject has 'come out' (eyebrow raise) for inspection, analyzation, and reflection. It's still a noteworthy event, whether it shocks or rocks.

Redneck . . . shiver. Transexual . . . where'd ya' get yer shoes?

I'm straight, open-minded and pretty conservative.

Answer 2

I find it hard to believe that he ended the last school year as a man and the 3 months later came back as a woman to teach. Usually people who are transsexual live life as the gender they are being reassigned to for quite some time before surgery. The spend years on hormones first, they all must be psychologically evaluated before hand to make sure this is what they truly want. Most people transition for years. So what I am saying is that people must have known this was taking place, get over it.

Answer 3

The only way that this will be a problem is if the parents make it one. Most of the kids either will not know or will not care. (Those that do, I suspect, will have been influenced by what their parents say and how they act.)

This teacher must be incredibly dedicated if she is willing to return to the school where people know her past. That dedication should carry some weight. She could have disappeared to another state, but instead chose to return to teach the students that she obviously cares for. That sort of commitment and dedication should be rewarded, not punished.

If your children have questions about this, I would encourage you to stick to the facts and not make moral judgments (either for or against). Above all, encourage them to respect this woman's privacy. I'm sure all she wants to do is keep a low profile and do a job that she clearly loves.

Answer 4

Let my child go to school but explain what Transsexuality actually is. I'd leave personal feelings out of it, especially if those feelings are derogitory or would cause your child to be unduly influenced simply by negitive opinions insted of making up his/her own mind.

What would I do if this was my son's teacher? Nothing but what I just said. I'd teach him the TRUTH not some redneck/backwater hate.
I'd explain that transgendered people are people who feel so strongly that they were born as the wrong gender that they found it necessary to do something about it to correct this problem.
I'd explain that it takes a LOT of courage to do something like this that undoubtedly be misunderstood and even be cause for hating this person by those who don't and can't understand.

I'd explain that BIOLOGY does INDEED make mistakes and sometimes those miskates need to be corrected.
Just like being born with two noses or conjoined twins. It's a mishap of biology and says nothing derogitory about the person.

Personally I believe transgendered people are some of the MOST courageous people on the planet! Right up there with firefighters, police or anyone else who intentionally puts themself in harms way to protect or save others.

Answer 5

People who tend to freak out by these type of issues tend to be people who are in fear... why are they in fear?? because they are not educated and they have no experience with them.. nothing to make their own opinion on... They hear stories ( stereotypes ) see a transsexual portrayed in a extremely negative way on TV and this is the impression that is burned int heir mind... Until they open up enough to enough try and see what the person is like for themselves... A lot of people's opinions change once this happens...

In reality... it is nobodies business she transitioned... I don't think it is fair to her to tell the whole world about it UNLESS people are wanting to stir up BS and cause additional hardships for her...
If she was thought to be a physical threat to the children she would obviously not be going back at all they would have terminated her... this obviously wasn't the case.... very very sad that folks have to force others into even more uncomfortable situations then they are already in just because other people cant deal with their own discomfort or anxiety... Alls I can say is she is one brave brave woman... My hats off to her... it is people like her who help pave the road for easier travel by those who come after... She is a hero...

Answer 6

Personally, I would have no problem accepting her for who she is. She has been through enough hard times dealing with transexualism, and I would offer her all the support I could.

Down there in red-neck country, though, I imagine the fireworks are just beginning.

Answer 7

Its his privates what does that have to do wit him being a good teacher. Listen there are more important things to worry about than a person getting a sex change. WOrry about the school dostricts that dont always run Background checks and let "ordinary" "regular joes" in who are child molestors. Leave the transexual alone and let her teach the class she needs to teach.

Answer 8

Wow! What a bunch of ignorant, bigoted a$$holes we have on this site. Thanks to all the open-minded responses, BTW. For the rest of you: I'm sure this woman has been through enough grief and heartache in her life and she has the (excuse the expression) "balls" to come back and continue to serve in a teaching capacity in such a small-minded community - and you want to burn her at the stake like Joan of Arc? Go back to whatever mudhole you crawled out of! :(

Answer 9

Since it's high school I wouldn't object. The students at that level need to find out that these kinds of people are out there and that they are people too. It will help prepare them for some of the crazt things they may see in college.

Answer 10

the funny thing about rednecks is that more redneck men do stuff with transexuals then do other men, but rednecks badmouth them in public and other men don't as much. Unless they are hitting on my kid and is still a good teacher let it go..