Malachi Fedunak

During one critique, for a project that I chose to talk about my experience as a trans person, specifically a trans male experience, I was misgendered over and over by my peers, completely glossing over my project’s point, and not giving it the same amount of attention other projects were given. In that same critique, one student’s work was about feminism and that piece recieved much more positive reviews and was paid much more attention to. I felt disrespected, ignored, and like I didn’t matter. As awful as that event was, it isn’t the first time it has happened to me. Through my college career I have continually been misgendered, deadnamed, and over ignored by faculty and peers at the university, the worst treatment often coming from professors who were supposed to aid and support me during my college journey, but they left me feeling anything but. That’s what I wish, that trans students were given the same respect that were given to cisgender peers.