i think it’s just about trusting your fellow partners and, importantly, your manager. i’m nonbinary but chose to use she/her pronouns in the work environment because i use she/they in my normal life. i definitely trust my coworkers enough to ask to use exclusively they/them if i wanted to, though! if it feels safe, start with the coworkers you trust most and go from there. at my store, we’re all pretty close and i know news travels fast, so make sure you’re ready for everyone to know if you’re store is like that, too. i hope they’re all supportive and understanding! good luck!

what i’ll say is that i started working at starbucks about a month ago. i’ve had many jobs, but this is the very first time i’ve had trans or non-binary coworkers. they like to wear pride buttons and buttons with their pronouns on their aprons — personally, i love it, because it prevented any awkward situation of my meeting and misgendering any of them, and it also prevents them having to explain their pronouns to everyone. this isn’t an answer to your actual question, i know, but is something i wanted to share. my store is so massively supportive and loving and i have yet to see any issues at all regarding gender identity. wishing you the best, my love ❤️

If you're very anxious about it, honestly you can probably talk to your SM and have them and the shifts be like "by the way x is trans and goes by y now, and uses these pronouns now." If theyre good trans allys they shouldnt have a problem with it. Its definitely super tiring having to come out to everyone individually. Other things to do in to get a pronoun pin, change your name tag, and just bring it up casually to partners. Ask them to tell other partners as it comes up. Congrays I wish u the best

I personally am cisgender but my fiancé is a trans woman who came out during her time at Starbucks also! She’s more of the shy/quiet type and decided to tell her manager first and asked for suggestions on how to tell the rest of the team. I don’t know where you’re located, but she had another trans girl who worked with her at the store so that made it a bit easier for her. Highly recommend tho reaching out to people you’re close with and your manager and having them give you like a force field of support to give you that comfort zone and not let anybody say anything (hopefully they are all decent human beings tho). I feel like another thing is being okay with working with everyone on the change! It’s difficult for everyone to pick it up right away so just being a bit patient (not too patient tho) so that they can all start using the correct pronouns and referring to you by your actual name not your dead name! That helped my fiancé a LOT because she understood it was a change and needed some adjustment time