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Thirteen and Aizawa stood at the front of the class and there were several of their classmates in the seats. Yaoyorozu sat in the very corner, leaning in on herself and looking shyly at the rest of them. Midoriya sat perched on his seat, in deep conversation with Tsu next to him. Tokoyami sat on the other side of the green-haired teenagers. There was another boy sitting at the back of the class that neither of them recognized, but the redhead assumed that that was their new classmate who was replacing Mineta. Kirishima and Kaminari had just walked in and shared a look with each other before they moved to sit down with their other classmates.
“Sensei, what is this all about?” Yaoyorozu asked, her eyes flitting to the two new people who walked into the room.
“All Might, if you could go get the Big Three that would be useful,” Aizawa grumbled out, waiting until the skeletal man had closed the door behind him to answer the question. “It has come to our attention that we have to do this extra class for you problem children concerning the recent events with the transphobic idiot that I just got the pleasure of expelling.”
“Aizawa, behave,” Thirteen warned.
“I am behaving,” he growled back to the other hero, narrowing his eyes. He turned back to his students, “This is essentially explaining to you that you will get misgendered. This world is full of horrible people. There’s simply no avoiding it. Kirishima, Yaoyorozu, Hitoshi and Midoriya, you’ll all have a fairly good chance of not getting misgendered unless you choose to come out to the public. If you don’t, then everyone will just assume you are male or female once you’ve finished your transition. Like what happened with me,” the tired man leaned on the podium in front of him, his arms still crossed.
“Asui and Tokoyami, unfortunately, if you choose to come out to the public or don’t you will get misgendered as well. Even though society is more accepting and compassionate towards transgender people, they are not so sure how to deal with agender and non-binary people,” Thirteen stated. Before they had a chance to continue, the door swung open and three older students walked in. The first was a girl with long blue hair tied back in pigtails. The second was a black-haired boy who had his hands shoved in his pants. The third had a bright smile on his face and shining blond hair. He had his hands planted firmly on his hips as they all walked to the front of the class.
“Don’t make any noise just yet, Thirteen isn’t done talking,” Aizawa warned, motioning for them to go sit down. The trio obeyed, all taking their seats just behind where the majority of the other students sat.
“As I was saying,” their other teacher continued. “In my personal experience, even if you come out to the public in saying that you are agender or nonbinary and you would prefer if people used they/them pronouns, most people will not do so. It is a sad truth, but I see it happening more and more as more diverse heroes come out and ask the public to treat them as decent human beings.”
“Speaking of which, since you lot are all training to be heroes, it might be even more important than you think to come out as trans to the public. While I personally did not want to do this because that’s just too much attention for me, you can see from heroes like Hawks that it does have a large effect on people,” Aizawa rambled. The longer the makeshift lesson went on the more their teacher seemed to really care for them, like he wanted to make everything better for them.
“Good point, Aizawa,” Thirteen commented. “So you may have a stroke of good luck when and if you do choose to come out to the public, Asui, and Tokoyami, but it isn’t likely.”
Fumikage felt their heart sink down into the bottom of their stomach as they took in that information. It felt almost like a death sentence. They were being informed that they would never be considered to be the gender that they really were, and it felt uncomfortable. It wasn’t going to be an easy pill to swallow, but they had a few years to get used to it before advocating more for non-binary people like them when they finally made their debut as a hero.
“Kaminari, you will get misgendered. Because you identify as genderfluid, there is no way around it. I know it’s going to be hard to deal with, but you will be the role model of all role models if you choose to come out to the public,” Aizawa said, more compassion than the class had ever heard crammed into his voice as he spoke. “Now, I’m going to give the time over to the Big Three so I can go resume my nap,” he said, dragging himself off of the podium and walking out of the classroom.
“I’ll be in the back of the classroom chaperoning,” Thirteen commented as they moved out of the way to allow the three older students to talk.
“Let’s form a circle everybody! It’ll make it easier to talk!” the girl with blue hair said with a wide grin. The students did as they were told, getting up and moving the desks so that they formed a circle. The three older students sat together on top of some of the desks that had been moved while the rest of the students crowded around the rest of the circle.
“Since we don’t really know all of you, why don’t we do introductions?” the blond boy suggested.
“Sounds like a good idea to me! So name, preferred pronouns, and what you identify as gender-wise,” the blue-haired girl chirped. “I’ll go first! My name is Hadou Nejirie, my preferred pronouns are she/her and I am MtF trans,” she grinned brightly. She pointed to the person next to her, gesturing for him to go next.
“I’m Toogata Mirio, he/him and I am FtM trans,” the blond answered, placing his hand on his hips confidently. He looked to the boy next to him, seeing that he was shrunk down on himself and quivering a bit. “I’ll introduce them since they’re anti-social. This is Amajiki Tamaki, they use they/them pronouns. They identify as nonbinary,” he reached over, threading their fingers together soothingly.
“Great, now let’s get everyone else introduced!” Hadou clapped her hands in front of her with a bright smile. She pointed to Kirishima, “You first!”
“I’m Kirishima Eijirou, he/him pronouns and I am FtM trans,” he nodded. It was kind of relieving for the bird-headed teenager to see their other classmates feeling just as nervous to come out again as they were.
“Just keep going in a circle,” Hadou urged, pointing to Kaminari.
“My name is Kaminari Denki. I’m genderfluid, so my pronouns change and today they are they/them,” they nodded, fidgeting around nervously.
“Tokoyami Fumikage, they/them and nonbinary,” Fumikage spoke up, looking away from the rest of the class. There was a buzzing just beneath their skin as Dark Shadow began to be alerted to possible danger, but they were now able to control their Quirk a lot better and shoved it down.
The new student was sat by them. He sat up and cleared his throat, looking incredibly awkward, “Shinsou Hitoshi, FtM trans, preferred pronouns are they/him.”
“Asui Tsuyu, call me Tsu. I’m agender and my pronouns are they/them,” they croaked, placing a finger on their lips.
“I am Midoriya Izuku, male pronouns and I am FtM transgender,” Midoriya grinned, bouncing up and down to get rid of excess energy.
“My name is Yaoyorozu Momo, and I am MtF transgender. I use female pronouns exclusively,” Yaoyorozu spoke up, her voice wavering for the first time ever.
“Great! It’s so nice to meet all of you!” Hadou grinned widely and she clapped her hands in front of her. “We should divide and conquer, you guys! Amajiki, you can talk to Tsu and Tokoyami. I’ll talk with Kaminari and Yaoyorozu and Mirio, you can talk with Midoriya, Shinsou, and Kirishima!”
“What are we supposed to talk to them about?” Tamaki asked, looking over to their two friends.
“Coming out to their class, ways to deal with misgendering, stuff like that!” Hadou replied and she jumped off the desk, gesturing for Yaoyorozu and Kaminari to go over to her. Fumikage glanced over at Tsu as the two of them got up and walked over to the shy student to continue their bit of the lesson
“Um, I guess I should talk about some of the things that Nejirie and Thirteen talked about,” the third year student nudged the desk next to them with their toe, refusing to make eye contact. “Have either of you come out officially?”
“We did, actually,” Tsu nodded. “Fumikage came out and then I came out right after them to the rest of the class.”
“But you’re not out to the public?” they asked, eyes darting up and then back down.
“No, neither of us have even had high-profile internships or work studies,” Fumikage answered for them both that time.
The older student nodded. “Coming out to the general public is the hardest. You’re going to get a lot of stupid questions about what’s in your pants, and how you can really have no gender or not be part of the binary. The quickest way to get over them is to not answer them, or to say that you’re uncomfortable and move on. My work-studies hero generally makes reporters go away when they start asking me questions like that, but they still do it anyway so you have to learn how to deal with them yourself,” Tamaki explained.
The lesson continued, giving both of the students about as much information as they could handle about what it would be like for them as heroes that weren’t part of the gender binary. Despite a lot of the information being given in a very pragmatic and cynical lighting, it was still invigorating to learn that Fumikage had their work cut out for them. The idea of being able to be a hero that would be a role model not only for kids that had Quirks like his, mutation and ‘villain’-esque alike, but for non-binary kids made him want to graduate even more.