School can be tough for gender-fluid kids, but they got this!
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00:00My pronouns are he, she, them.
00:02I use she, they, them.
00:04I also use the pronouns they, them.
00:06It's really, really tough.
00:14We live in a world where gender is perceived as binary.
00:18A lot of society revolves around this.
00:21Bathrooms, forms, clothing, toys.
00:30I use they, them and also just Z.
00:32My name is Zim.
00:34So if you just use Z instead of a pronoun,
00:36it's more personalized and less fitting into a binary.
00:43About a week before school started,
00:45I sent an email to my counselor.
00:47And I told my counselor that
00:49I'm going to go by the name Charlie now.
00:51But what my counselor was able to do
00:53was get a nickname inserted in my name.
00:56It's like a nickname that shows up on roll sheets.
01:01If you're a parent, you must become an advocate for your child.
01:04You must go to the school, you must work with the school
01:07to open up an inviting, safe curriculum
01:13and set of policies for children of all genders.
01:26And it's kind of weird, you know,
01:28when we have to educate the folks
01:30who are supposed to educate us.