Even if it’s not overt, it would be clear to everyone in a classroom if the only transgender student in that class were the only one not being addressed using pronouns by the teacher, something that would normalize their own rejection of their classmate’s gender identity.
Even if it’s not overt, it would be clear to everyone in a classroom if the only transgender student in that class were the only one not being addressed using pronouns by the teacher, something that would normalize their own rejection of their classmate’s gender identity.
They’re literally degendering and dehumanizing them as a punishment.
“You don’t want to be the gender we demand? Fine. No gender for you.”