Transgender Students Learn To Navigate School Halls

The first time I learned that gender could be fluid was in sex ed in the ninth grade. I remember the teacher mumbling under her breath that some people don’t identify their gender with the biological sex they were born with.

At the time it didn’t faze me because I’d never known anyone who’d talked about it or felt that way. But now, three years later, I have a 16-year-old classmate who’s transgender. His name is Jace McDonald.

“That is the name I have chosen,” Jace says. “It’s what my parents would have named me if I was born biologically male.”