Listen, it's The Bird Show.

You know about it because you live here in Georgia,

and the rest of the world knows about this story also.

I can't change who I am.

Instead of going to school, 16-year-old Jonathan Escobar has been sitting at home.

I want people to know that it's okay to be different, gay or straight.

He says when he enrolled at school, he asked administrators questions about how he could dress.

What if I were to wear a brightly colored way? What if I were to wear heels?

He says the school indicated it wouldn't be a problem, but then it was.

There was a fight in school. Someone said something rude about me, another person defended me.

Escobar recently moved from Miami to Georgia to live with his sister. They didn't want me to dress like this in school. He dropped out of the Georgia High School after only going for four days. This kids had to deal with all of this over the last 72 hours. It's pretty impressive. Hey, Jonathan. Hi, how are you? Good morning. How are you today? I'm a little tired, but I'm doing good. Oh, I bet. So where does this whole story start? You move to Miami from Georgia, and you're living with your sister, right? Yes, correct. For what reason? There's so many lives out there. People edited the interview as if my parents

would accept me. I'm not sure. My parents love me to accept me. The reason why I came to Georgia

was because, you know, Georgia has, the schools are better, and I wanted a better education. Miami,

it's sad to say, but the school sucks. And you chose Georgia. Which is traditionally not really statistically the highest in the country either, but... That was your option to be able to come live with your sister, though, right? I have, well, my family's in Georgia. My sister came here, and she experienced school. She said it's way better than Miami. Mm-hmm. Okay. So it's not like you were running away from anything in Florida.

Like you said, some of the rumors on the internet. No. Your folks weren't supporting you. There were other people saying that the same thing was happening to you in Florida, so you just thought you'd bring it to Georgia. No, no. Miami. I didn't really dress like this so much to Miami. You know, I told it a bit. Around my birthday, I did go all out.

And the principal, all I did is just pull me into the office to see who I was. And I said,

they could be back to class. I guess because Miami, you know, people are more open. And Georgia,

it's just, I mean, very ignorant, narrow-minded people.

So you show up to North Cobb High School on the very first day, and you're probably like a whole bunch of other students that are all excited about getting that first day outfit out, except yours looked like what?

What exactly did you have on?

Actually, I didn't know.

I was going to start my first day.

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