• Iheartcheese@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      I mean this is high school. She got on the squad and nobody knew she was trans? Did she just transfer there?

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        15 days ago

        My take was that she joined the squad when presenting male, and then came out later.

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          14 days ago

          I feel like that’s probably the most likely scenario yeah. She might not have even known she was trans when she joined it. Getting closer to the other girls might have been the thing that helped her realize she didn’t want to just be part of the cheer squad she actually wanted to be one of the girls.

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          14 days ago

          Because it’s a fucking school. It’s a kind of tight-knit group even if it’s a lot of people. People would notice some dude disappeared the same day a new girl started.

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            14 days ago

            Lol that is not how it works. You don’t turn into a girl over night one day. You might be confused about what coming out as trans means. It doesn’t mean she transitioned, it just means she told people she is trans. She may have presented as a girl for a long time before that already

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            15 days ago

            Yup. We have a librarian here that’s trans, and the only reason I know is because I have eyes (and they transitioned after getting the job). Oh, and we’re in a pretty conservative area, and I’ve never heard or seen anyone having any issues with her, though I’m sure it happens.

            Oh, and that librarian rocks. We couldn’t find one of our holds, and it turned out it was stuck in their book elevator thing which had broken down that day, and they went out of their way to fish our books out for us. It’s completely unrelated to her gender identity, I just thought that was really cool.