That’s horrible! Amazing how backwards people can still be… it’s 2026 for gods’ sake.
My blessing is that I look pretty ordinary in terms of how I dress, but I also don’t hide my stones and amulets. I’m careful what I say to people though so you could say I’m 50% in the closet. Sometimes people who notice them are delighted, sometimes people stare. No-one’s ever confronted me though.
During Covid, we had to come out to work because we had to get a religious deferment from mandatory vaccinations. Kitchens are huge gossip centers so everyone just had to know why we got a deferment. They were mainly wondering about my husband. I have medical issues that got me one but my husband is healthy so eventually they found out plus we have had to ask them to not refer to male witches as warlocks as it’s an insult and my husband complained.