How everyone deserves the right to be themselves
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Colleen Yeager |
TEDxPortland
• April 2018
Colleen Yeager delivers the idea with courage and conviction that everyone deserves the right to be themselves. Through her experience as a parent of a trans child she beautifully explains her choice to have a living son rather than a dead daughter. In her words, she was “on a bullet train to boy town.” This Talk was transformative this day receiving a 3-minute standing ovation – challenging us all to be educated on this subject and to be active, empathetic allies.
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