Even from middle school, Lucy found that society didn’t accept her gender.
Lucy is a heterosexual girl. Her peers and teachers at Maine’s Regional School Unit (RSU) 22 pressured her to be transgender or lesbian, she said.
“Straight people like me, I think they get a lot of anxiety, and they can’t find a voice inside of them to speak up,” she said. “And they just are stuck not doing anything.”
In Lucy’s Maine school district, hallways exploded with posters celebrating new gender identities, she said. Some exalt new gender identities over heterosexuality.
“Why use the symbols givin to you … when you can make you’r own!” one poorly-spelled poster read….