Transgender Educators: Understanding Marginalization Through an Intersectional Lens Dow Michele

This book argues that despite the greater visibility of transgender people today, their lives as professional teachers and administrators remain enormously difficult. In fact, if their workplace is a safe haven which it rarely is, many transgender educators lead double lives as professionals during the day and marginalized people outside of their workplace. Workplace discrimination against transgender educators continues to run rampant, especially outside of the traditionally liberal enclaves.

As a result, nearly 46% of trans educators remain in the closet, and those that are out must endure more subtle yet determined efforts to isolate them. Even the most liberal communities may provide superficial support while continuing to hold longstanding prejudices as this study demonstrates. The author's research shows that 100% of survey respondents indicated they believed they were fired or