From the ACLU, this is at Liberty. I'm Kendall Seasmeyer, your host.

As the legislatures across the country enact anti-LGBQ bills, one group has taken center stage

in our national conversation.

Trans Youth. Of the 491 anti-LGBQ bills that we are tracking in this legislative session,

118 of them are bills seeking to restrict or ban gender-affirming care for trans kids.

In the midst of all of this, we are losing sight of the big picture.

Trans-kids are simply kids.

And they'd like everyone else to just let them be that.

They don't want to have to grow up fast or be thrust into the spotlight. They want to manage

their cheer team, build robots in their bedrooms, and go to homecoming with their friends.

So today, we're passing them the mic, because, well, the adults are talking too much, and we all need to sit down and listen.

Dylan is 17 and lives in Arkansas.

Despite having a tough time at school over the last few years, he has found a meaningful support network that has led him to even

want to become an educator. School just got out. We were on day two of summer, which I'm very

excited about. School has been rough for me. I don't necessarily enjoy it. I used to. You know, as I've gotten older,

of course, you know, school gets harder and more challenging. When I came out, I was in, I was

starting my eighth grade year. And so that was just, it's been the past three years and living, you know, how I,

how I present in school, which has been interesting to see how, you know, everybody deals with

that on their own. But I'll be going into my senior year and I'm really excited to get out of high school and see what other opportunities I have besides that.

I want to go into education because I've had some teachers who have made such a huge impact on my life and showed me that who I am is okay

and kind of been like a safe place for me and I want nothing more than to be that for somebody else

because I feel like there's not enough of that and so as much as I you know don't like the school

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