"Do they THINK I can't hear them?" William said. William was transgender. He went from she to he at the beginning.

"By the way I can hear you talking about me. It's not like I'm deaf!" William had shouted in the hallway while walking to third period.

He was in the 7th grade at Johnson Middle School. He had one friend in the 5th grade before he told him he was transgender. About a week later he heard his plan to tell the school and after that he was mad. He ran up to him tackling him to the ground. That day he got suspended for 9 days.

"This isn't the end, is it?" He thought sitting in the principle's office while he's parents were talking.