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For as long as I can remember I always knew I was a girl.

I was just very feminine, not because I tried to be, but because it was just natural.

AZAJ, 17, OAKLAND

It honestly now feels like I am just being myself.

I only completely figured out my gender a few months ago. In fact, I’d still say I haven’t 100% ever fully figured it out.

BLAKE, 13, NORTHERN MARYLAND

I started dressing and looking the complete way I wanted to.

It was kind of like a weight being released from my soul and it gave me the invincible feeling and outlook.

CHANEL, 18, QUEENS

I think I was about 6 or 7 when I first understood that my gender mattered.

I remember going shopping with my mom and my sister in our local toy store for barbies and trying to make it as obvious as possible that we weren't buying the dolls for ourselves

CHLOE, 20, CORK

Colette has identified as a girl since she was 2, old enough to talk.

As a younger child – and even now to a degree – she just took it in stride that her body was one way and her gender identity was another.

COLETTE, 12, BERKELEY

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For as long as I can remember, I have always felt like a boy.

It just took me some time to fully understand my feelings, express myself, and put my feelings into words.

ELI, 13, BERGEN

It is very helpful to know that we’re just normal people.

I started questioning my gender when I came to elementary school.

FINLEY, 19, COLOGNE

I realized my gender at the age of 6 and from then on was forever wanting to act differently.

I was wanting to wear girls' clothes makeup and high heels and didn't know how to tell anyone as I was so young.

HAELEY, 14, LIVERPOOL

Other people’s ignorance
is not an excuse to mistreat the transgender community.

Around 2.5yrs old, the twins were both starting to talk more and had begun identifying/ separating themselves and other people out by their gender.

JAY, 5, LUTON

You shouldn't think anything different about people who are trans or CIS.

They're both people. They are still human beings.

JAYDEN, 6, QUEENS

Living as myself makes me feel FREE!

What people get wrong are my Pronouns and gender. I have faced verbal bullying, bathroom issues, and an overwhelming number of questions.

KB, 12, BROOKLYN

It took me a long time to find the words to express it,

but I realized in elementary school that I was different from the other girls my age.

KYLA, 18, FRANKFURT

I want people to know that nobody can tell me what to like.

From a very young age, Leo expressed who he was. Around the time he turned one.

LEO, 5, BROOKLYN

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My child is special, not because he is a transgender boy,

but because of his profound empathy, bravery, and emotional wisdom.

NATHAN, 19, DUBLIN

Nicole will be who she is and as a parent I’m just along for the ride.

At age two and a half, I recognized that Nicole, who has an identical twin Hannah, had a preference for toys and clothes traditionally thought of as boy toys and clothes.

NICOLE, 8, CALIFORNIA

It's just people who are
in the wrong body.
It shouldn't be a big deal.

He must have been a little over 3 when he approached me saying, “Mom I know what’s wrong with me!” Alarmed, I asked “What’s wrong what hurts?” He said, “God made a mistake, he put me in the wrong body.”

NOAH, 8, QUEENS

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I tried to force myself to be girly and fit in.

They're both people. They are still human beings.

OLLIE, 18, LIVERPOOL

I'm the only transgender girl in my whole school. I'm the only one. That makes me special.

PHOENIX, 7, CALIFORNIA

It wasn’t instantly like a switch.

But the feeling that I had to finally have a word to describe myself was incredible.

RILEY ALEXIS, 20, LAKE CONSTANCE

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What I'd like people to know is that we are just like everyone else!

It was at 2 half years when he could form sentences that Sean told us that he was a boy.

SEAN, 5, BROOKLYN

At a basic level, we all want the same thing, which is to be accepted not in spite of who we are, but because of who we are.

STELLA, ANNAPOLIS

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I was very happy finally living as a boy, and I felt right.

I felt free, and I felt like me for a change.

ZAK, 12, ISLE OF WIGHT

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