The voice of Ace, a 15-year-old transgender Vermonter, broadcasted through a large speaker to a room of about 40 people gathered to listen to a group rarely heard from: trans youth.
“In middle school I would be scared to go to school every day. I would be worried something was going to happen to me,” Ace said.
In the first episode of a new podcast started by other high schoolers, Ace described being targeted in school and bullied for being transgender and disabled. “I really just wish people understood that it’s not like something that you could just brush off, it’s not something you could just ignore because it really is unsafe,” they said.