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<p>That was on purpose!</p>
<p>Given the rest of your comment, I suppose I should clarify that yes, Horace Mann was (theoretically!)* an all-boys’ school when I attended; the first girls who openly identified as such didn’t enter 7th grade until a few years after I graduated. That was an extremely difficult situation for me to be in all those years, given that I was well aware of my gender issues long before I started there – and I sometimes wonder if others may have sensed them as well, as carefully as I tried to hide them, given that epithets such as “girl” were among those I often had thrown at me, both when I was being forced to “run the gauntlet” and otherwise – but it isn’t particularly relevant to this story.</p>
<p>I should also point out that the sexual abuses continued to at least some extent after the school became co-educational, and that some of the victims who’ve come forward are female. There were a very small number of women who were teachers when I was there – maybe two? three? – but certainly not enough to affect the atmosphere in any way.</p>
<p>I know you’re right that Horace Mann wasn’t the only place where this went on, but the only one I’ve heard about where the specifically sexual abuse seems to have happened on anything resembling the same scale, for the same length of time, is Poly Prep.</p>
<p>Donna</p>
<p>*The only other trans woman I know of who went to the school was Renee Richards, who graduated 20 years or so before I did. That we both also went to the same college is, of course, a coincidence, since I don’t think I ever heard of her until I was in law school.</p>