I graduated from Bay Shore High School in 2011. Even though I graduated a year early, my time there felt like a long battle as I tried to get teachers and students to call me by the right name and pronouns. For the most part, my schools faculty was very confused about my transgender (female to male) identity. They had never experienced a transgender student before, and I was the first trans person to ever come out in my school. After coming out in 9th grade via the Larry King Live show, I was told that I wasnt allowed to use the girls bathroom and I wasnt allowed to use the boys bathroom either. This made things especially hard for me because the school day was so long, and well, everyone has to go to the bathroom.