In sharing their personal experience as a nonbinary trans individual with autism, they emphasized the distinction between gender identity and biological sex. They discussed the freedom to choose one's transition path and highlighted the beauty ...

Ideally, parents show queer kids (and any children) unconditional love and create and respect boundaries… even if they come out via text! Navigating adolescence as a queer kid, with its crushes and other challenges, can be handled with support ...

Being trans doesn't solely define a person, and they wish for others to understand that being trans doesn't restrict as much as one might think. When there are restrictions, there is a struggle with body image and comfort, particularly in relat...

A conversation between friends, the two of them touch on the little or no support in their families, both having the “blessing” of being given holy water to heal them from their queerness. One camper explains that even after being diagnosed wit...

As a straight ally and an older brother to a trans sister, he keeps coming back to camp because he wants to keep being supportive of the LGBTQIA+ community.  Joining his supportive family, he didn’t believe he would ever really be active i...

Going from a familiar community of friends and family to a conservative college is nerve racking. Finding those queer relationships at college, rather than self-isolating, is going to be important. Seeing open questions on the college applicati...

As a queer person in a dissociative identity disorder (DID) system, they highlight the challenges of navigating the diverse identities within their collective psyche. Mentioning that people in these systems are gender-neutral due to the presenc...

After her mother watched her queer child move from an unsupportive school to a very supportive queer theatre community, coming out as trans (even in an unplanned setting) was much less awkward for parent and child than could have been expected....

From an early age, she knew her little sister was feminine. In their suburban Texas community, she and her family knew of resources for families of gay and lesbian children, but not resources for families of trans children.  From th...

CW: sexual abuse, dehumanizationStruggling at an early age in the classroom because of ADHD and Autism and the labels that come with it, he always had a love/hate relationship with school. Because he excels at learning, he began homescho...

This religious queer person shares their unique experience of being queer without religious trauma. Despite facing challenges related to their identity, they found acceptance within the Episcopal Church, where they can express themselves and bu...

At first being diagnosed with ADHD, he quickly became frustrated by the medical community who wouldn’t truly listen to their additional physical and emotional issues because they’re a minor, being given advice that didn’t fit and leading to not...

Knowing that being trans was much harder for previous generations, and while not being the first queer person at their school, there were still a lot of societal gender roles to navigate. Even though their school knew how to incorporate a trans...

During her week of PMDD, she shares what it’s like to have the mood swings and sensory sensitivities of PMDD with the inability to focus of ADHD. Living within the struggles of not wanting to “clean her room but wanting to come back to a clean ...

In kin•dom campfire chats, we asked camp participants to think of a question that they wish someone would ask them about their life journey. With a friend and in their own words, the campers tell their stories of struggle, love, support, and a ...

In kin•dom campfire chats, we asked camp participants to think of a question that they wish someone would ask them about their life journey. With a friend and in their own words, the campers tell their stories of struggle, love, support, and a ...

In kin•dom campfire chats, we asked camp participants to think of a question that they wish someone would ask them about their life journey. With a friend and in their own words, the campers tell their stories of struggle, love, support, and a ...

In kin•dom campfire chats, we asked camp participants to think of a question that they wish someone would ask them about their life journey. With a friend and in their own words, the campers tell their stories of struggle, love, support, and a ...

In kin•dom campfire chats, we asked camp participants to think of a question that they wish someone would ask them about their life journey. With a friend and in their own words, the campers tell their stories of struggle, love, support, and a ...

In kin•dom campfire chats, we asked camp participants to think of a question that they wish someone would ask them about their life journey. With a friend and in their own words, the campers tell their stories of struggle, love, support, and a ...

In kin•dom campfire chats, we asked camp participants to think of a question that they wish someone would ask them about their life journey. With a friend and in their own words, the campers tell their stories of struggle, love, support, and a ...

In kin•dom campfire chats, we asked camp participants to think of a question that they wish someone would ask them about their life journey. With a friend and in their own words, the campers tell their stories of struggle, love, support, and a ...

In kin•dom campfire chats, we asked camp participants to think of a question that they wish someone would ask them about their life journey. With a friend and in their own words, the campers tell their stories of struggle, love, support, and a ...

In kin•dom campfire chats, we asked camp participants to think of a question that they wish someone would ask them about their life journey. With a friend and in their own words, the campers tell their stories of struggle, love, support, and a ...

In kin•dom campfire chats, we asked camp participants to think of a question that they wish someone would ask them about their life journey. With a friend and in their own words, the campers tell their stories of struggle, love, support, and a ...