Opinions clash over transgender bathroom policy at school board meeting

"Want to know what's happening to my son now?" asks Terri Neely, the mother of a young transgender boy in Grass Lake.

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No one’s probably going to read this but this is just a different perspective if anyone wants to hear it. When I was a kid, I identified as a boy. But I don’t think I even realized it at the time, I knew I was born girl but everything I did and was felt like I was one of the boys. I dressed like them I played my trucks with them at one point in grade 2 I cut all my hair off( my parents were very mad about it). There was one time, in grade school where I asked my teacher if could use the washroom and she said yes. I went and stood outside of the washroom having a panic attack. I knew I was supposed to go into the girls washroom as I was born female but was scared I would frighten someone because I looked like a boy. I wanted to go into the boys washroom but felt like someone I knew might see me there and laugh at me. I stood outside e washroom for 5 minutes staring at the boy girl labels. And when I couldn’t hold my bladder any longer I ran into the girls washroom. I ran into a stall and struggled to get the lock. I peed my pants that day. I then went to my teacher who was upset that I was gone so long. Then she was embarrassed for me. Not embarrassed because I peed my pants but because I was too old for that. I never used a public washroom again. There has never been a safe space for trans people to exist. All that we want is just a little inclusion. Nobody chooses to feel this way it’s a much harder life to live and there should be a healthy discussion about people who don’t quite fit into just boy or girl. Thank you for anyone who took the time to read this.