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She knew who she was before she could even talk.

Audrey said she was a girl inside and that we were confused because we thought she was a boy.

AUDREY, 5, CALIFORNIA

It took us a long time to trust that this was a good decision.

We had been wrestling with these feelings, and the desire to allow Ayler to be herself from a very early age, beginning at about 18 months.

AYLER, 9, FLORIDA

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

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

She is a little rambunctious child... and she happens
to be transgender.

We noticed that she was so much happier when she had dresses on that we would joke that we should never take them off of her!

ELLIE, 6, WASHINGTON

I think our daughter is elated to be expressing herself as a trans girl.

I have no idea if this how she will always feel, but she claims that's the case. She can't wait for her hair to grow and enter kindergarten as a long-haired girl.

EMMA, 5, EAST BAY

What isn’t special about my child? He’s cool, I mean, really cool.

His gender doesn’t define him, I won’t let it and he won’t let it.

JAKE, 8, ILLINOIS

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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.

JAMES, 8, BAY AREA

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

What certainty we have is that she feels female at this instant in her life.

Given her age, and the fact that she often mixed up the genders of other people when she spoke, we couldn't in those days have certainty that her "true" gender is female.

LEAH, 4, EAST BAY

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

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

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

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

PHOENIX, 7, CALIFORNIA

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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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