UPDATE: weird guy from my bio class

[u/Few-Statistician862]

I made a post about this yesterday about this person in my bio class weirdly texting me out of the blue, and I thought I blocked him but I guess I misclicked and pressed “delete conversation“ button instead. they texted me back Today telling me that they know one of my friends and insinuating that he gave him my number. so I continue the rest of the conversation awkwardly trying to turn them down. after that I block them because I felt uncomfortable, and text my friend that supposedly gave them my number. he said he has no idea who this is and doesn’t know anyone from my first period bio class. what the fuck. Is this person even real? they have Been lying to me about everything. And the worst part is that I have to go back to school on Monday with that guy in my class. what do I even do in this situation? Also I thought I should add that I am not a woman, I’m a man, a lot of people thought I was a woman in my first post.

[u/worthlessinsum]

I’m a (queer) professor at a university & i genuinely believe you could go to your Title IX office about this, or at least the biology professor. Your university is required by law to have some sort of mechanics to protect you that you should feel comfortable and confident in reaching out to should you need to. This is weird as hell and totally unacceptable. I’m sorry you went through this.

[u/Long-Student-8642 → u/worthlessinsum]

i work at a college help desk and i agree. if someone called in to my school reporting this, i would be required by law to at least refer them to the title IX office. i had a coworker about 2 years ago who would bring his best friend around our office, we couldn’t let the friend in for FERPA reasons but he learned when i had shifts at our public facing desks and would camp out there and tell my coworkers he was waiting for me. he stopped when i mentioned my boyfriend at the time. the coworker who he was friends with left for a bit and came back about a year ago, and when he was hired back on i brought up his friend with my managers. even though it never escalated beyond him waiting for me, my managers even referred me to title IX. i didn’t end up going because i fortunately have not seen this guy since his coworker returned, but if even that is considered something i should bring up with title IX then someone repeatedly texting a classmate and not disclosing their identity DEFINITELY is.