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, meaning I lost a lot of friends along the way. As my friends became fewer, I felt really lonely at times, but that hardship taught me something: I have become very resilient. Being resilient means being able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions.
As a kid, I always knew that I was a girl and I used to pray to God to let me wake up one. Even though I had those feelings, I never knew how to verbally express what I was going though. Then, at a gymnastics competition, one of my teammates came out to us as a transgender girl. I texted her and we talked for a while and I knew who I was after I was done talking to her — not only that, but I finally had the language to express it. I am a girl, and I have always been.
My mom and I made a deal that I would return to the school for one quarter and if I still didn’t like it then I could switch schools. When school started, the bullying got so bad that I started calling my mom every day to come to pick me up from school. I left school at the end of the quarter and I started homeschooling, which was fun at first, but I was isolated from my friends.
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