This TED Talk features advocate for LGBTQ youth LB Hanna's recorded live at TEDxUF 2017.

So the other morning, I went to the grocery store, and an employee greeted me with a good morning, sir.

Can I help you with anything? I said, no thanks. I'm good. Person smiled, and we went our separate ways. I grabbed

Cheerios, and I left the grocery store, and I went through the drive-thew of a local coffee shop.

And after I placed my order, the voice on the other end said, thank you, ma'am, drive right around.

Now, in the span of less than an hour, I was understood both as a sir and as a ma'am. But for me, neither of these people are wrong, but they're also not completely right.

This cute little human is my almost two-year-old Elliot.

Yeah, all right.

And over the past two years, this kid has forced me to rethink the world

and how I participate in it.

I identify as transgender and as a parent, and that makes me a transparent.

As you can see, I took the years, this year's theme and went super literal,

like any good dad joke should.

So more specifically, I identify as genderqueer,

and now there are lots of ways to experience being genderqueer,

but for me, that means I don't really identify as a man or a woman.

I feel in between and sometimes outside of this gender binary.

And being outside of this gender binary

means that sometimes I get surred and maimmed

in the span of less than an hour

when I'm out doing everyday things like getting Cheerios.

But this in-between land is where I'm most comfortable.

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