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Trans men and women reflect on what high school was like for them in a world where 90% of trans students are harassed because of their sexual orientation. All it takes to stop a bully is one person standing up, and a little kindness. We're trying to make school a safe place for everyone, especially kids experimenting with gender-fluidity.

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00:06being a teen can suck you are not wrong it's even harder if you're not a girly girl or a
00:11jock or
00:12pretty much anything that anyone else considers weird and puberty so imagine knowing your boy
00:18when everyone else tells you that you're a girl or knowing you're neither or a bit of both 90
00:24percent of trans students were harassed because of their sexual orientation or expression in school
00:30a third of them report hearing negative remarks from school staff but it doesn't have to be that
00:35way often all it takes to stop a bully is one person standing up sometimes all it takes to save
00:42a life is a little bit of kindness we're not just trying to make school a safe place for trans
00:47kids
00:48but for all kids because we all have gender or do we gender fluid genderqueer gender non-conforming
00:56it's not just trans people that are targeted for it not to mention some boys wear dresses and plenty
01:01of girls like action figures kids don't have hang-up about gender the way adults do school
01:07should be a place to learn grow change and even experiment and here's a radical idea that could
01:14change everything listen to young people they usually know exactly who they are and what they need yeah
01:23and isn't that kind of amazing yeah amazing
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