Sorry for lots of under the cut posts lately but like
a while back in my school there was a big fight between the vice principal and the students because they took the door off the gender neutral bathroom (which was usually locked and keys were given to specific students who asked for them). They took the door off because people were stealing the keys and getting in there to do shitty things like harass the bathroom goers/do drugs/other nasty stuff.
But the thing is this stuff didn’t stop- it only got worse after they took the door off, and we tried to explain to them that we needed the door and i remember the vice principal saying ‘well you can just use the normal bathroom to change your tampons or fix your underwear or whatever’
like it just hit me then that she had 0 clue on why we even had a gender neutral bathroom. It did not click for her that this harassment was happening to the people using this bathroom, and it only worsened when the locked door was taken off.
It was put back on because someone threatened to complain to their parents but like. This is the woman who’s told me on multiple occasions that she’d be the voice for us if adults didn’t listen, yet she doesn’t listen herself and barely understands much about the LGBT community, throwing around buzzwords like ‘acceptance’ and shit to make it sound like she knows.
I know she’s accepting. I know she’s probably trying her best but like. She’s not listening and its scary.I’ve already been called names after coming out of that bathroom before, and that’s even scarier.
idk. I’m upset. I’m almost scaring myself back into the closet but I’m way too deep for that to happen now. I’m tougher than i used to be, I’ve already dealt with my own mom trying to call me tranny and ‘shuncle’ (which she still thinks is ok) so I’ll tough it out, I’m just kind of scared for the lower grades who can’t. idk.
