students report feeling unsafe at school. Almost 40 percent of them have been physically harassed, and almost 20% have been assaulted. Like many queer youth, I retreated to the closet in my town, before moving across the country to go to The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1991.
In 2017, the personal become political, as the Trump administration began an onslaught of anti-transgender and LGBTQIA+ students subjected to discrimination are at higher risk for depression. (
Yet most of those states still allow children to marry. Lets end this shameful practice, state by state.