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We met Nick and talked with him about LGBTQ+ issues. I didn't know that people who have LGBTQ+ identities use their own pronouns, because we don't have to use our pronouns in Japanese. They have a lot of problems depending on countries, for example in Japan we have school uniform and girls must wear skirt and boys must wear pant. What should people who have LGBTQ+ identities do??? I thought we should consider the LGBTQ+ issues more and more.

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Native American were forced to move west because of the law "Indian Remove Act" But many of them died by desease because of this implemented moving. Although the leaders of them didn't accept this law, it was administered forcibly.

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It was my first experience to talk with peole who have LGBTQ+ identities about those issues. They told us the fact that they are sometimes treated badly. One student said someone who have that identity were punched by strangers because he was weird for him. It was really terrible. I thought I want support them and we should know more abou LGBTQ+ issues for students.

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From the 1300s through 1600, native American nations were rich with diverse cultures and languages, much like Europe.
Columbus and his ship visited the Americas. He believed he had reached India and wrongly called the native peoples "Indians" They tended to ignore the vast diversity of the peoples. A lot of native peoples were taken their land, and forced onto their reservations. It means they ignored the many cultural difference between their peoples.
There were many kinds of languages for each native tribes, so it is difficult for one tribe to talk with other tribes. And different nations had very different customs.
It is important for us to recognize such a great diversity to understand Native Americans.

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Lucy Convington was tribal rights activist. She helped change the course of American history.

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Lucy Covington, a long-time tribal rights activist and Colville Tribal Council member, helped change the course of American Indian history through her courageous and selfless style of leadership in the face of great odds.

Covington was one of many tribal peoples who worked in the 1950s and 1960s to bring an end to "termination" - an ill-conceived federal policy designed to wrest control of land and natural resources from tribal ownership, by terminating tribal status. Lucy worked with members of her own and other tribes to help preserve tribal sovereignty and self-determination for not only the Colville but for tribe across the country. Covington's actions and success contributed toward reversing the United States government's effort to extinguish its responsibilities to American Indian tribes.

After the termination struggle, Covington worked to protect tribal rights and resources, develop tribal services, govern the reservation for the benefit of tribe members, and promote inter-tribal cooperation. Not only was she an example of Native American self-determination in action, but she was also a founder of the movement itself, and her efforts engendered a shift of U.S. policy from termination to independence and autonomy. Covington died in 1982, at age 71.

It is the intention of Eastern Washington University to honor the legacy of Lucy Covington through the development of the four following areas supporting future leaders, creating a confluence of culture and causes, development of a Lucy Covington archives, and finally a Lucy Covington Center.

Supporting Future Leaders: To honor Lucy Covington's place in history by working to educate the next generation of Native American leaders:

To provide financial support and scholarships to EWU Native American students

To create a summer program that brings Native American middle school and high school students to campus to engage in academic classes and university activities and to develop skills needed in an increasingly complex political environment for Pacific Northwest and Native American communities

To support internships for Native students at EWU in tribal government and related organizations

To encourage Native women to assume leadership positions

Creating a Confluence of Cultures and Causes: To provide a community of scholars and tribal leaders:

Bringing together national speakers, scholars, academics, traditional practitioners and Native leaders to share their experiences, wisdom, research and indigenous knowledge

Creating programming that promotes understanding across cultures and political boundaries to address challenges and opportunities

Archival Project:

Creation of archival both virtual and actual storage facility for historic documents pertaining to the work of Lucy Covington. Materials donated will be used for research and continued education about the importance of protecting sovereignty and self-determination.

Collection of first-person narrative voices about the termination era from elders who were mentored and fought with Lucy Covington to preserve tribal sovereignty.

Providing a Gathering Place at EWU: To create building on the EWU Cheney campus to house the Lucy Covington Center:

Providing a gathering place for Native students, faculty and communities for shared events, celebrations, lectures, symposia, cultural exchange and lifelong learning

Providing offices, classrooms and community space. Possible exhibit space for historic documents/materials donated for research and public educational purposes

The hope is that the building will be built overlooking the Prairie Restoration Project

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Lucy Covington, a long-time tribal rights activist and Colville Tribal Council member, helped change the course of American Indian history through her courageous and selfless style of leadership in the face of great odds.

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What I know : In the past, there were a lot of tribes, and they spoke different language and had different culture. They were relly divese. They respected the nature, and the land.
In 1492 Columbus first visited the America. European explorer

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1)We have 4 years universtiy and high school.
2)Bullying and physical punishment from teachers are one of problems.
3)Some sports require short hair.

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It was golden opportunity to visit Spokane Indian reservation. First, I was so surprised at the great nature of reservation. And we saw big dam. A long time ago there was a river, so native American caught salmons for their food. After finishing making dam, it got more difficult to get food.
We saw some sign of sun on the rock. It was interesting.
We learned how to hunt animals and fish, and we could touch the stones they used. And we listen to their own unique language.

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I never had such an awesome experience before in my whole entire life!!! It was so fun!! We don't have such a nice event in Japan. I thought it's a very nice event, because they can wear the beautiful dress which they like freely regardless of gender, and we enjoyed dancing and singing a song, even though we didn't know each other well.

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We watched a movie named "Queer-Eye".
Kan is gay man. He felt uncomfortable in Japan, although he is from Japan. He felt  more confortable in Canada than inJapan. But he said that when he is in Canada someone say to him "I don't like Asian." and when he is in Japan someone also say to him "gay is weird." He was suffering from those discrimination and prejudice. He said when he was spoken ill of him, he feel that the all things he built fall away in a flash. The most impressive phrase is "Be yourself." Kan tried to "be yourself" in Japan with 5 gay men. It was really interesting story.

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Queer Eye: We're In Japan! | Official Trailer | Netflix

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Intersectionality means a lot of different kinds of identity, for example, race, gender, sex, disability, and sexual orientation and so on.
[My thought]
I have never heard of it before inJapan. It was really impressive for me. I think this way of thinking of students is really important for us. Students have their own identity and background  which is different from others. If teachers didn't notice one aspect of one student, can they support their studying appropriately?? Can they give consideration to student's feeling??
The answer is "No".

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1) Some students transfer degree.
2)There are a lot of community college where students can study 2 years. It's easy to enter for students compareratively. School fees is cheaper than American universitys.
3)American students of pubric school don't have school uniforms.
4)It is less strict than Japanese school.
5)bullying is one of the most biggest problem in Amrica.

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I have seen the way of learning Japanese as the second language for the first time. It was so fresh for me.
1) ている。、ています。
We joined a class. That class was about Japanese grammar "ている、ています". It is so difficult I thought. The teacher used a song to learn the inflection of Japanese word, it is similar to the way of learning English for us. The teacher try to teach them with powerpoint slides. I thought students can understand easily, because the slides were very simple and there are a lot of picture so easy to see!!
It was really fun!
2) Bento side dishes
It was so interesting to learn Japanese with the Japanese word of bento's side dishes. We talked with EWU students about the difference between Japanese lunch style and American ones. I got alot of new things! for example, in America "lunchables" is famous and popular because they are really easy to make.

These classes were also the chances to make new friends and talk!! We got wonderful friends in this class. I'm so glad to see them!! They all are kind and wonderful people.

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Feb. 19 Workshop LGBTQ+ and class observation  

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Feb. 19 Workshop LGBTQ+ and class observation  

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We had a chance to talk with some students who have LGBTQ+ identities. They told us their stories. They all felt more uncomfortable than straight people. They have their own different suffering. I had not realized that airports are uncomfortable place for them, but I understood after I got their stories.
They were wondering who they are. I can't imagine how stressful. I asked Alex "How can teachers help students who have LGBTQ+ identities?" Teachers and students are on very different positions, but he said that it is important for teachers to listen to them on same ground. And Kenny said that the first thing we can do is asking and thinking that question always.
Afternoon we observed the LGBTQ+ studies. Students decided theme from books, articles, movies, TV programs and so on. We listen to their programs. It was so interesting. And I was so surprised at the way of class disccussion. Students raised their hand and stated their opinion freely. We don't have that type of classes. It was so fresh for me.

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We went to the cisino in Spokane. There have been the relationship between native American culture and gambling like casino. Firstly native American hesitated to start casino business because they are not match their culture. But they decide to do it to improve their situation and position. It was a big decision. Now the profits of casino business are used to their education, invesring, and improving their social institusion and so on.
I had never been to casino in Japan, because children can't enter  almost of the Japanese casino. But in American casino Children can enter. Iwas surprised at the fact.

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Tapping Tribal Roots - How Kalispel Tribal member Phil Haugen inspires change - Northwest Travel Magazine

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BY ALLEN COX Photos courtesy of Northern Quest Casino Resort The plot of every compelling success story includes struggles against incredible adversity and a tenacious drive to fight for what you believe in with an eye on the prize, even if nobody else can see it.

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iI had got to know what feminist is for the first time. they said they sometimes go outside and do activities like making a speech, passing out leaflets, but sometimes some people yell in front of their face, throw away the many leaflets into garbage can. I though they are amazing and execellent to continue to do activisms even in such a condition. I want to cheer for them. They are wonderful!!!

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Like any "ism," feminism is rich with jargon, which can lead deeply personal conversations to turn unnecessarily dense. While some terms are entrenched, others are contemporary additions to an evolving lexicon. To help you break through, here are definitions for everything from "feminism" and "misogyny" to "bropropriated" and "feminazi."

The basics

Feminism: Belief in and desire for equality between the sexes. As Merriam-Webster noted last month: "the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities." It encompasses social, political and economic equality. Of course, a lot of people tweak the definition to make it their own. Feminist activist bell hooks calls it "a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression."

Patriarchy: A hierarchical-structured society in which men hold more power.

Sexism: The idea that women are inferior to men.

Misogyny: Hatred of women.

Misandry: Hatred of men.

A little deeper

Hostile sexism: The one most people think about. Openly insulting, objectifying and degrading women.

Benevolent sexism: Less obvious. Kind of seems like a compliment, even though it's rooted in men's feelings of superiority. It's when men say women are worthy of their protection (off the sinking boat first) or that they're more nurturing than men (therefore should raise children). It's restrictive.

Internalized sexism: When the belief in women's inferiority becomes part of one's own worldview and self-concept.

Misogynoir: Misogyny directed toward black women.

LGBTQ: The acronym for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer." Some people also use the Q to stand for "questioning," meaning people who are figuring out their sexual or gender identity. You may also see LGBTQIA. I stands for intersex and A for asexual/aromantic/agender.

Cisgender: A term used to describe a person whose gender identity aligns with the sex assigned to them at birth.

Transgender: A person whose gender identity differs from the cultural expectations of the sex they were assigned at birth.

Transphobia: Prejudice toward trans people.

Transmisogyny: A blend of transphobia and misogyny, which manifests as discrimination against "trans women and trans and gender non-conforming people on the feminine end of the gender spectrum."

TERF: The acronym for "trans exclusionary radical feminists," referring to feminists who are transphobic.

SWERF: Stands for "sex worker exclusionary radical feminists," referring to feminists who say prostitution oppresses women.

Gender fluidity: Not identifying with a single, fixed gender.

Non-binary: An umbrella term for people who don't identify as female/male or woman/man.

Women of color: Women who aren't white.

Title IX: Protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance.

Victim-blaming: When the victim of a crime or harmful act is held fully or partially responsible for it. If you hear someone questioning what a victim could have done to prevent a crime, that's victim-blaming, and it makes it harder for people to come forward and report abuse. Groups working to eradicate abuse and sexual assault are clear: No woman is guilty for violence committed by a man.

Trigger: Something that forces you to relive a trauma.

Trigger warning: A statement that someone is about to experience challenging material that could potentially be disturbing (graphic, racially-insensitive, sexually explicit, etc.). The practice is controversial on college campuses.

Yes means yes: A paradigm shift in the way we look at rape, moving beyond "no means no" toward the idea that consent must be explicit.

Male gaze: A way of looking at the world through a masculine lens that views women as sexual objects.

Privilege: The idea that some people in society are advantaged over others.

Sex positive: An attitude that views sexual expression and sexual pleasure, if it's healthy and consensual, as a good thing.

On the Internet

Bropropriating: Stealing an idea from a woman and putting it into the world as your own.

Mansplain (verb) mansplainy (adjective): When a man explains something to a woman in a condescending way when he either 1) doesn't know anything about it or 2) knows far less than the woman he is talking to. Sorry, if you already knew that.

Manterrupting: When a man interrupts a woman, especially excessively. Examples: During the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards when Kanye West grabbed the mic from Taylor Swift, who had just won an award and was trying her best to accept it, to let everyone know "Imma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time." Or, during September's presidential debate when Donald Trump interrupted Hillary Clinton 22 times in the first 26 minutes. Or when Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell interrupted Elizabeth Warren's recitation of Coretta Scott King's 1986 letter against Jeff Sessions, but allowed Bernie Sanders to read it the next day.

Manspreading: When men take up excess space by sitting with their legs far apart. This is such an actual thing that in 2014 New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority launched a campaign to get guys to close their legs to make more room on the subway.

Woke: Rooted in black activist culture, it means you're educated and aware, especially about injustice. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Ca., has told young people to "stay woke." If you're thinking about it in the context of women's rights, look at the #SayHerName campaign, which works to raise awareness for black women who are victims of police brutality.

Woke misogynist: Nona Willis Aronowitz paints an all-too-familiar picture of the guy who acts like he's all about gender equality, but then turns around and demeans, degrades and harasses women. His misogyny may not always be overt, but it's there. He's a feminist poser.

Emosogynist: Zach Braff in Garden State, according to Jezebel. He's emotional, full of angst and seems like a feminist, but what he really wants is a real-life manic pixie dream girl to manipulate and eventually discard after he finds himself.

Whimpster: Lloyd Dobler in Say Anything... A white, wimpy, emo guy who uses his male insecurity to prey on women who want to nurture.

Feminazi: A derogatory term for a radical feminist.

Types of feminism

Intersectional feminism: If feminism is advocating for women's rights and equality between the sexes, intersectional feminism is the understanding of how women's overlapping identities - including race, class, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation and disability status - impact the way they experience oppression and discrimination.

Transfeminism: Defined as "a movement by and for trans women who view their liberation to be intrinsically linked to the liberation of all women and beyond." It's a form of feminism that includes all self-identified women, regardless of assigned sex, and challenges cisgender privilege. A central tenet is that individuals have the right to define who they are.

Women of color feminism: A form of feminism that seeks to clarify and combat the unique struggles women of color face. It's a feminism that struggles against intersecting forms of oppression.

Womanism: A social and ecological change perspective that emerged out of Africana women's culture and women of color around the world.

Empowerment feminism: Beyoncé's Formation comes on at the club, and you and your friends hit the dance floor hard. Empowerment feminism puts the emphasis on "feeling," though some feminists would argue feeling amazing is not a great gauge of how society is actually supporting your self-expression and flourishing. Sheryl Sandberg's perpetually controversial Lean In, which focuses on how women can make changes to achieve greater success in the workplace, is another example of empowerment feminism.

Commodity feminism: A variety of feminism that co-opts the movement's ideals for profit. Ivanka Trump has been accused of peddling this brand of feminism, using her #WomenWhoWork campaign to sell her eponymous lifestyle brand.

Equity feminism (conservative feminism): Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, is a champion of what she calls " equity feminism." In her view, "equity feminism" is focused on legal equality between men and women, while "gender feminism" focuses on disempowering women by portraying them as perpetual victims of the patriarchy. In the words of President Trump's advisor Kellyanne Conway: "I look at myself as a product of my choices, not a victim of my circumstances, and that's really to me what conservative feminism, if you will, is all about."

Waves of feminism

*Some feminist scholars are moving away from "waves" since it can give the appearance that feminists aren't always actively fighting inequality. But if you see them, here's generally what they're referring to:

First wave feminism: Kicked off with the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention to discuss the "social, civil, and religious condition of woman" and continued into the early twentieth century. It culminated in 1920 with the passage of the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote, though some states made it difficult for women of color to exercise this right until well into the 1960s.

Second wave feminism: Began in the 1960s and bloomed in the 1970s with a push for greater equality. Think Gloria Steinem, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, Betty Friedan. It was marked by huge gains for women in legal and structural equality.

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Third-wave feminism: Beginning in the 1990s, it looked to make feminism more inclusive, intersectional and to allow women to define what being a feminist means to them personally. Also, Buffy.
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A feminist glossary because we didn't all major in gender studies

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Feb. 18 reading with English language learners

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Feb. 18 reading with English language learners

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We had a class about English education with Gina. We learned reading with English learners especially. I got to know what about pre-, during-, post-reading for the first time. She said that top-down and bottom-up support is really important. We learned these things. It was really fresh for me.

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We went to the Mac musuem. It was so nice. The facilities were full of realism.
There was a really big earthquake in Pompeii and then the volcano called Mt.Vesuvius started to erupt actively. So volcanic fell like snow. And 2000 people deid because of pyroclastic flows from the eruption.
We saw the shape of people who died in these disaster. It was so shocking for me.

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The gender unicorn shows us a lot of identities about gender.
[gender identity and expression]
Gender Identity : It depends on their mind, for example if someone thinks that I am a man, his gender identity is male even though his body is like female.
Gender Expression : It depends on their acting regardless odf gender identity, for example feminine, masculine and sometimes others.
[intersex]
Intersex people are born with several variations in sex characteristics. And sometimes they have the both function male and female. Caster Semenya who is  a track and field player is the example of intersex people for us.
She is a intersex person and great runner, but she can't run in some competition including the Olympics. Because The amount of teststorone she has beyond the standard value. So she cannot perform in Tokyo Olympic in 2020 unless she get surgery. It's not equal.

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The topic was the slave trade with Africa (African Holocaust)
African people were treated as the slaves a long time ago. I thought they didn't have rights, and they were not treated as human. It is so terrible. And african people were sometime discriminated by white people. It is guilty I think. And It is so important for us to learn these things for not repeating the same mistake.

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Firstly I decided to come here because I wanted to improve my English skills better, and especially I wanted to know new perspective. I thought "Don't be shy" is really important for us to learn languages, because if you be shy, you lose opporyinities to talk with people.
This is my first visitting Aemrica, so all things were inspiring for me. I learned American culture including Native American issues and LGBTQ+ issues a lot. They were so fresh things for me. I learned domething new from them. And I got golden opportunities which I can't experience usually. It was really nice. I think my perspective got broader than ever, and I can make use of these wonder ful experiences when I study to be an English teacher. The most important things I learned is not having prejudice and considering how people feel whenever I do something. There many people who have different culture, background, race, identity, way of thinking and so on. The key of peace is having open-minded I thought.
And I met a lot of new friends and teachers in the EWU. They are my treasure. I got to know how fun to talk with other people. Although we were total strangers for them, they kindly helped us do many things. I am really happy to meet them.
I really appriciate all people related us.

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His name is Matthew. He has transgender identity, so he has female body but his mind is male.
He was wondering who he is when he was child. he was really confused his gender identity.
But mom helps him realize his gender. she told him "you are my son. you are a boy."
After realizing he felt the world got the color. He started living his life instead of surviving it.

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by matthew lewellyn

Hi. My name is Matthew Lewellyn. I'm 15 and I'm from Saugerties, New York.

So when I was about 12 I think - I think - I was still really confused. I, well going in the seventh grade, when I turned 12, I was - I had no clue who I was. I wanted to think that I did but I really didn't. I had come out as a lesbian earlier that year. I was in what people call the rainbow phase where, you know, you're kind of out about proud about, like, everything and you don't shut up about it.

I ended up meeting on one of my friends who actually introduced me to the world of gender identities. They're pretty much like my brother now. But I essentially didn't know that like there's anything other than male or female. Like I knew trans people existed but I didn't think that was something to be in my universe.

As time went on I was like, Okay, I'm definitely not 100 percent girl. This just isn't a thing. Because I learned about, like, besides male, female, transmale, transfemale, there is, like, a whole spectrum of other things and I was blown away. So I sort of swam around in like the field of identities for awhile. I was genderfluid for awhile. I was XYZ. I was a demi-girl for awhile, which like you feel a part of you is non-binary, part of you is female. And then I came out as non-binary, which I came out as to my mother.

I think I knew deep down I was really a male. I was really a boy. I'd said that I was a boy in the mirror before. Like, I said I was every identity in the book in the mirror before because you know I wanted to figure out who I was and I figured saying things out loud is one of the best ways to become sure of that. I would stand and look in the mirror and I would tell myself I am female, I am non-binary, I am a boy. I'd say all these different things trying to see what stuck. And I said I was a boy and that really just kind of... it stuck to the wall. So I knew that that was who I was but I shoved it deep down in, like, the biggest pits of denial I had within me, because I just I figured if identified as non-binary my parents wouldn't be losing a daughter. But it was still just close enough for me to still feel comfortable in who I was.

Fast-forward a few months identifying as non-binary for about half a year, in June of - about 2 years ago, I got my own - 3 years ago, sorry - I got a drum set for the first time. My mom had either friend or relative - I don't remember - who was giving away this electronic drum set they'd never opened for $200, which is very cheap. So my mom was like, I'm gonna get you this thing and I just was kind of freaking out. It wasn't a birthday thing. It wasn't a Christmas thing. This was just because my mom wanted to feed the fire that I had for music.

I came home to see this big black electronic drum set - I don't have a real drum set - all set up and I learned my first song in a day. The same person who introduced me to the world of gender identity introduced me to 21 Pilots, which - the best band of all time. Anyone can fight me on that. And they have this drummer, Josh Dunn, and he had mental health experiences that were very similar to mine in regards to anxiety. And I just - I saw this guy and I said I want to be that. Once I picked up the drums, it gave me this feeling like, I am Josh Dunn . And it just allowed me to keep pushing forward and then that gradually inspired like a love for music that expanded beyond the world of drums.

And then as time went on, like, I - this is a actually week later - I learned - I was on learning my third song and I was playing the drums with my shirt off. I was just beating the crap out of this drumset, pouring out all my emotion, because regardless of how identified dysphoria was always a part of my life that loomed over me. So as I was beating crap out of this drumset with my shirt off, my mother walked in. Granted it was like 1AM, I was supposed to be asleep. But I was playing the drums.

She was just like, "You're gonna wake up your little brother." So then she kind of looked at me, not in a bad way, but she just looked at me sort of con- not confused. She was, like, sure of what was going on but something changed in the way she was looking at me. And when she walked out of the room, I had already put away my drum stuff and I had crawled into bed.

We talked over text for a little while and she told me that I was her son. And I was really confused because I'm like, "No, I'm non-binary. What's up with that?"

And she was like, "No, you're like - this tells me that you are a boy. You're my son." And I was like sort of still was saying, ha ha no I'm non-binary because I didn't want to have to face all that was going to come after. But apparently to her, the energy I was exuding was like so purely male that she just kind of knew. So later that night during the conversation, maybe like an hour in I kind of con- didn't concede but sort of accepted. I was like, Yeah, Mom, you're right. That's... that's fair. She kind of passed the torch of certainty onto me, being like, Here, you can know who you are now. And then it kind of - everything sort of took that small shift and was in place - like it was the last piece that I needed to that specific puzzle of my life.

I think I was so filled with emotions that I sort of numbed myself. And then I sort of went to sleep and I woke up the next day, it was like the world had color. Everything was kind of more real and it was out there and, you know, I could sort of see things and I saw myself in the mirror as who I was. And it was just I started living my life instead of surviving it.

And immediately the next day, I posted on my Snapchat, I was like, Hey, so my mom figure some stuff out. And yeah then I've been out ever since then. I came out to my dad shortly after that. But I've just had I've been so lucky to have the life that I do.

When I look in the mirror now, besides just wondering if my hair looks good, I right now, I just kind of see not who I am but I see the potential of the person that I could become. And that's one of the biggest most important things to me because I used to think - I used to not be able to picture myself waking up the next day. But now I can picture myself living through the years and getting a job in becoming a writer and playing music for a band and doing all these great things and it's really just being able to see who you could be rather than who you are at the moment.

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"I Started Living My Life Instead Of Surviving It." Mom Helps Trans Son Realize His Gender Identity.

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by matthew lewellyn Hi. My name is Matthew Lewellyn. I'm 15 and I'm from Saugerties, New York. So when I was about 12 I think - I think - I was still really confused. I, well going in the seventh grade, when I turned 12, I was - I had no clue who I was.