At school everyone understood immediately. Pupils on Instagram expressed support
IVREA A long interview with the newspaper Repubblica. It is the one issued by Andrea Perinetti, 61, a Latin teacher at the Botta classical high school. She told of last September 13, the first day of school in high school where she was behind the desks as a student and where she has been teaching Latin and Greek for 25 years. One day she introduced herself to her students like this: “From today I am Professor Andrea Perinetti”. “All this time – said the teacher to Repubblica – I wore men’s clothes, but it was a pain and now that I started my transition path a couple of years ago I decided to talk about it to everyone and show myself to who I am. I did it especially for young people, who at this stage of their life are looking for their identity, not necessarily gender. They must understand who they are and who they want to become and they deserve sincerity and authenticity on the part of those who have to give them the example ». At school, everyone understood immediately. The same students have spread a message on an Instagram profile to give support to the teacher even outside the school walls to respond to a critical voice that ended up in a paragraph of a weekly: “a transphobic article about this teacher, misrepresenting her by not respecting her feminine pronouns and not respecting her gender identity “.