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Joyful Jonny Apr 15

I was a bit unprofessional today. I asked the host of a meeting to mute the zoom participants, then I addressed the two staff present in-person about their insistence on using a student’s dead name. One staffer used the excuse that the name is in the official paperwork. I called it an excuse and reminded them both that this is a human being. I might not be called back to interpret more of those meetings, but I couldn’t bear keep hearing them treat the student like that.

Bureaucracy is not an excuse for mistreating others.

ADHDeanASL Apr 14

This is moving fast for a Mastodon post, so please friends, allow me to say this: PROTECT TRANS KIDS!

the gripe ibis Apr 15

@adhdeanasl didn't see the post above, so this one is going even further

Paris Lord 巴黎 Apr 17

@adhdeanasl you’re a good one. Thanks for standing up for trans kids 🫶🏻

Hates Decaf Apr 14

@adhdeanasl I’m so proud of you! KICK THAT BEE’S NEST!

Daniel Lakeland Apr 14

How is that unprofessional? You did well! Protecting students from bureaucracy is important work.

ADHDeanASL Apr 14

@dlakelan Interpreters aren’t supposed to interject personal comments into work situations. But when I see someone being disrespected, I can’t help it.

xssfox (crossy)Apr 14

@adhdeanasl @dlakelan seems like a professional way of handling it tbh

Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫Apr 15

@xssfox @adhdeanasl @dlakelan
Letting workplace bullying slide would have been unprofessional IMO.

Jordi (Spherical Jackass)Apr 15

@adhdeanasl @dlakelan

It's funny how being humane could be seen as being unprofessional in so many different fields.

Kraftwerk-Das Model Collapse Apr 15

@Jorsh @adhdeanasl @dlakelan it really gives you pause, doesn't it? "just doing my job" is precisely what most regular ass Nazis did, so they were being "professional" but deeply inhumane

SecondUniverse (she/her/they)Apr 15

@adhdeanasl @dlakelan It is always professional to object to discriminatory practices.

Raku.Anarchy Apr 18

@SecondUniverse @adhdeanasl @dlakelan agree. If no one objects, how do patterns change?

Ezra Freelove Apr 14

@dlakelan @adhdeanasl an access office provides services to students a bureaucracy would normally make impossible.

@adhdeanasl Thank you for saying something!

Chris Alemany Apr 14

@adhdeanasl bravo!! 🙌

Great job!

Jody Hughes Apr 14

@adhdeanasl Thank you.

Weird Socks Apr 14

@adhdeanasl
Remind us all: Which one of these United States do you work in?

ADHDeanASL Apr 14

@ohmu I work in a very Deep South state. Two of them, really.

Weird Socks Apr 14

@adhdeanasl
Got it.
What you did would have been challenging anywhere, I suspect.
Thank you for sticking up for somebody.
I hope the repercussions are minor.

Susan Vanderplas Apr 15

@adhdeanasl @ohmu then it's useful, perhaps, to point out that Paul was born Saul, Sarah was born Sarai, and calling people by chosen names is something that even shows up in the Bible. There's no real excuse for not calling someone what they ask you to call them, except that people are human and occasionally screw up in various ways (and they should apologize when that happens). But doing it intentionally is not ok.

Nix Needs a New Handle Apr 14

@adhdeanasl good humaning!

Good work, you big ol legend you.

trachelipus Apr 14

@adhdeanasl You know for sure if the kid's birth name was Richard or Robert, they'd have no problem following the kid's wish to be called Rick or Bob or even Racer. It's just if the kid wants to be called Olivia that it's suddenly an issue.

Verđandi K Soldusty Apr 14

@adhdeanasl
Nicely done, thanks for being such an awesome human being.
Hate people with that attitude. Need to sort their attitude & their paperwork out, both are clearly out of date.

@adhdeanasl Thank you for doing the right thing.

*|FNAME|*Apr 14

@adhdeanasl
Professional badass!

eestileib (she/hers)Apr 14

🏳️‍⚧️🩷🫰🏻

Thank you Dean!

Professionalism takes a back seat to human dignity.

Dr Neenah Estrella-Luna Apr 14

@adhdeanasl This is an issue that comes up in mediation training. What do you do when one of the parties is engaged in clearly discriminatory or abusive behavior? Some mediators interpret their ethical obligations as staying neutral and not intervening. I encourage my mentees that impartiality does not require neutrality in the face of oppressive or abusive behaviors. We have a social obligation to protect those who are marginalized or vulnerable.

@adhdeanasl Thank you. <3

ZenHeathen 🇨🇦Apr 14

@adhdeanasl Yes! Dean FTW! (Damn it! I got the smallest image I could find! Is that stupidly giant for everyone else too? Sorry.)

@ZenHeathen Appropriately sized, I would say, considering the size of the thanks.

@adhdeanasl If I were there, I would shake your hand and buy you a beer, Sir!

Darth Osler Apr 14

@kimlockhartga @adhdeanasl being a professional is doing the right thing even when it's hard to do

Like why I'm in the sin bin at work right now.

😁

Alison Meeks Apr 14

@adhdeanasl Well done you! Well done indeed.

Ludwig Vielfrass Apr 14

@adhdeanasl If professionalism requires de-personing people, then fuck professionalism.

You're the best kind of professional!

Hotter, even more cross Bunny Apr 14

Well, I'd like to thank you for doing that. If you can't stand up for what's right people will keep getting knocked down.

Evelyn Octavia Apr 14

@adhdeanasl good job!

Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe Apr 14

@adhdeanasl This is how to do it. Well done, you.

Thankful Machine Apr 14

@adhdeanasl Unprofessional my ass! The world needs more protectors like you. Thank you.

ghosts in the silicon ▒Apr 14

@adhdeanasl thank you for putting your standing with the client on the line to take a stand for someone vulnerable!

ADHDeanASL Apr 14

@0 This student has multiple vulnerabilities, and the staff KNOW THIS and they KNOW BETTER. I’d just had enough. Sigh.

ennenine Apr 14

@adhdeanasl thank you! That's a pretty lame excuse. I doubt they address other students by their full legal name as well and instead employ nicknames and other shortened versions. Either way, this is still the right thing to do. Bravo!

@adhdeanasl I think that was very professional. And human.

Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸Apr 14

@adhdeanasl
Doesn't sound the slightest bit unprofessional to me. Indeed, the staff members deadnaming the student were the unprofessional ones.

ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)Apr 14

@adhdeanasl Fuck yes.

Glowing Cat of the Nuclear Wastelands Apr 14

@adhdeanasl I wish more people would be unprofessional like this. Especially since "it's the name on their official paperwork" is such a common excuse from people who should know better, and is especially fucked up since many think they mean no harm.

Em & future cats 🇺🇦🐈🏳️‍🌈Apr 14

@adhdeanasl I think that is completely professional of you 🩷 and don’t let anyone else tell you otherwise!!!😾😹

Vickie Gray 🍁Apr 14

@adhdeanasl well done.

3Jane Tessier Ashpool Apr 14

@adhdeanasl you’re a good egg

ADHDeanASL Apr 15

@3janeTA I just try to not contribute to others’ harm

@adhdeanasl
I'll chime in with my two cents.
That is the best kind of professional:
Identify standards of behavior and call out folks who aren't living up to them.

manchicken Apr 14

@adhdeanasl I’m proud of you. Thank you for advocating for students, though I do think professional conduct allows for real-time accountability scenarios like this one.

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@adhdeanasl I think addressing someone being actively hateful is a good reason to interrupt a meeting.
It was the right thing to do

Gnorzaps Apr 15

@adhdeanasl thank you

@adhdeanasl As an educator, you were beyond professional. You were courageous. Thank you for leading by example.

@adhdeanasl I wanted to slap a former colleague every time he would deadname a student. Asshat goes by his middle name!