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How to maintain professional boundaries while being authentic

I'm a teacher and a student asked if I was a boy or a girl and I froze because I don't know how to answer honestly without potentially losing my job.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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An educator confronts the tension between being a role model for authenticity and protecting their livelihood in potentially hostile institutional environments.

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