I come from a fairly conservative community, and I wasn’t sure that I’d be accepted for who I am. Because of this anxiety, I did not ask permission to use the boys’ restroom. After that seven-week period, the school board held a meeting — a public conversation about my genitals and restroom usage — without notifying me first. I sat while my school board voted to banish me to retrofitted broom closets or the nurse’s restroom. My school board had invalidated me in perhaps the most humiliating way possible.

Source: New York Times March 07, 2017 20:37 UTC