Yeah, I often have those thoughts. Because I am a Queer Of a Certain Age and so I say "queer" and I realize that my students may read this very differently. Though. There's the haircut. So there hasn't been a problem.
(It's fascinating b/c my mum, a Straight Of a Certain Age, spells out the whole 2SLGBTQIA+ acronym out loud and I'm like. I'm bisexual. Can you not?)
The thing is, in a situation like this, a professional organization would ask for context. And discuss it with you directly. Otherwise you can have a pissed off student who makes up a random complaint about you saying something offensive, and you have absolutely no recourse (which is often how it works in K-12, to be fair). So even if they had the best of intentions, which I don't think they did, they handled it atrociously.
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(It's fascinating b/c my mum, a Straight Of a Certain Age, spells out the whole 2SLGBTQIA+ acronym out loud and I'm like. I'm bisexual. Can you not?)
The thing is, in a situation like this, a professional organization would ask for context. And discuss it with you directly. Otherwise you can have a pissed off student who makes up a random complaint about you saying something offensive, and you have absolutely no recourse (which is often how it works in K-12, to be fair). So even if they had the best of intentions, which I don't think they did, they handled it atrociously.