{"id":2362,"date":"2018-04-12T01:41:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T01:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2018-04-12T01:41:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T01:41:17","slug":"trans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/12\/trans\/","title":{"rendered":"trans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part of my job is provide training and support for our web system on campus. \u00a0I\u2019ve taught a lot of people and most of them take to editing the pages pretty easily.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are exceptions, of course. \u00a0Including a very small few that might be unteachable – ironic for a university. <\/span><\/p>\n

Not that they can\u2019t learn – they really<\/em> just don\u2019t want to.<\/span><\/p>\n

But, I\u2019m me, and I don\u2019t give up on them. \u00a0By slow degrees and email after email, I can usually bring them around and get the least amount of work out of them as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of my current projects is a staff member in an academic department that has told me that she literally cries when she has to update a webpage. \u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m pretty sure that\u2019s not literal and I\u2019m also pretty sure she\u2019s hoping that she\u2019ll just be so bad at it that I\u2019ll give up and just do the work for her.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re not there yet, but getting close.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recently, she was having trouble updating a professor\u2019s name on their bio.<\/span><\/p>\n

Really? \u00a0Once you get to the right part of the system – which I\u2019ve shown her, like, a lot – it\u2019s the easiest thing. \u00a0Some days it would take longer to get logged in than do that kind of update – depending on the network.<\/span><\/p>\n

I sighed, then prepared to rewrite the instructions for her again. \u00a0I took a look at the professor\u2019s email that my troublesome editor had forwarded to me and it was utterly lacking in the actual problem. \u00a0It was \u201cwrong\u201d – but no details on what was wrong about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I sighed again, then did some checking. \u00a0The bio in question had a feminine first name, but the professor\u2019s email signature had that same first name – but missing a letter in a way that still worked, but made it more\u2026 ummm\u2026 generic? \u00a0Or at least non-gender specific.<\/span><\/p>\n

They also included (he\/him\/his) after the name.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ah, okay. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I would imagine one of the struggles in being a transgender individual would be in getting other people to get your name right. \u00a0I don\u2019t know that that was the case here, but I figured I could err on the side of compassion and help him directly instead of going back and forth with the reluctant editor. Which, based on prior experience, could have taken literally<\/em> weeks. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, I checked the People Directory – since this would show the legal name as far as the University\/HR was concerned – and made the updates. \u00a0I contacted him directly by email and explained the changes, asked if other changes were needed, and offered to upload a new CV since I saw that was inaccurate as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

He thanked me for my help and sent along a corrected document and a new photo which I uploaded. <\/span><\/p>\n

And that was that.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t really relate to what this professor was going through as transgender. \u00a0I\u2019m a dude and I love being a dude and can\u2019t imagine not being a dude. \u00a0My inherent dudeness is, well, not something I’ve ever questioned.<\/span><\/p>\n

But, it doesn\u2019t mean that I can\u2019t recognize when someone is frustrated and maybe help things go a little more smoothly. Especially when it\u2019s something as fundamental to a person as their name. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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