Ellie Roscher
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I just met Mark.
I listened hard as a teacher, as an adult in his life who was like an important adult.
And one of my...
favorite parts about teaching high school is that I got to be an adult in these kids' lives who wasn't their parent, right?
And so I became one of those adults for Mark.
And when he wasn't getting the support he needed at home, there were other adults in his life, I would say, including the theater director mostly, right?
Who really advocated for him.
He was so patient with me.
I learned so much by being proximate to him.
And he wasn't my only trans student.
He was just my first.
I had other students come out to me in different ways.
You know, I had two beloved students who came out to me on National Coming Out Day.
I love it.
Just to be that type of adult who feels safe enough for that conversation was so special.
And what class were you teaching?
So I was teaching theology.
Oh, my God.
I know.
So I was teaching the like the Jesus that kind of flips tables.