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Here's what happened:
Since the state sciencetest is happening tommorow we were playing that rather old jeopardy game where you have a television and some buttons, the subjects were mainly physical science
Just to let you know, I'm semi-quiet in class so I don't talk much
Anyways, lets get back to the story:
Since our teacher had strep-throat, we had a substitute
"She" was transgender and was rather aggressive, if you didn't answer within 3 seconds of role-call, she would count you as tardy and she's rather easy to irritate. Our team was at -4400 (don't ask) and we were laughing saying we had a strategy to win, the sub told us to stop talking (multiple times) except I wasn't even talking, when I did it was when I was answering questions. Though I did laugh a lot from the things my teammates were saying (should also note it doesn't take much to make me laugh) then, one of my teammates drops the button and it falls onto the floor (undamaged), she basically gets pissed and doesn't let our team play anymore
One of the guys on our team makes a joke, she proceeds to say, "all of you, stand up and tell everyone what you were saying"., I just said, "we talking about how we could of won the game" she then says, "you know what, all of you split up"
Since the sub was sitting on one of the lab tables, I sit one table behind her and quietly listen to the game
This is where the /title comes in
I scoot my chair about 2 tiles to the left because I was a bit too close to the side-table and wanted some room to rest my feet. Thanks to destiny, my chair makes almost no noise at all and she decides to turn around and say, "are you really going to try and pull that? I'm this close from sending you and pals to the office to let them deal with you." with a "are you loving serious" tone if her voice. I've never got in major trouble with any of my teachers before so I just said, "no ma'am" and she stares at me for about another 3 seconds before turning around.We've had this substitute about 3 times in total this whole year and every time she ends up yelling at one of the guys in my class.
Am I overreacting? I feel like I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and end up almost getting sent to the office for laughing/moving my chair. I just want your opinions on this
no. you seem to be the one who is right in this situation. She may have issues with her commonly being frustrated due to thing that she should inform people on with a tone eager to educate someone in a polite manner, but she sounds like an aggressive transgender person who becomes enraged when someone addresses her as a female. I personally dislike the category of transgender people who get pissed off rather than educate someone, but she shouldn't be upset because she hasn't had the surgery to become a man, so i would address her as "ma'am" as well because (feel free to educate me on this subject, i'm new to it, and please keep in mind, this is my opinion on being transgender.) i don't believe transgender is an actual gender, rather a description of a situation mentally that you would prefer to be the opposite love rather than the one you are currently, but if you have yet to have the surgery, i believe you should still be addressed by that gender.
