"I was born on October 19, 2006, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. When I was three I got to go to daycare where I found dress-up clothes. I got to dress up as a pretty pink princess with a tiara and fancy shoes.
I started young-5 kindergarten and there I told kids that I liked “girl things”. In 1st grade Spanish class, the teacher asked us to line up with girls/chicas on one side and boys/chicos on the other. I stood in the middle of the class because I didn’t know which side to go to because I was a “tomgirl”. The teacher said I could be a chica/chico.
In third grade, there was a girl who was mean to me because I liked girl things. She made me feel bad and a lot of my friends were afraid of her, so they quit being my friend.
The summer between 4th and 5th grade, I was watching an Undertale video and they called the protagonist genderless. After learning what that meant, I realized that that was what I was too. I also started using they/them pronouns. On the first day of school, I wore a custom t-shirt that had he crossed out, she crossed out and they to show my pronouns. I got to tell the class that I was genderless and to call me Ev instead of Evan."
-Ev
I started young-5 kindergarten and there I told kids that I liked “girl things”. In 1st grade Spanish class, the teacher asked us to line up with girls/chicas on one side and boys/chicos on the other. I stood in the middle of the class because I didn’t know which side to go to because I was a “tomgirl”. The teacher said I could be a chica/chico.
In third grade, there was a girl who was mean to me because I liked girl things. She made me feel bad and a lot of my friends were afraid of her, so they quit being my friend.
The summer between 4th and 5th grade, I was watching an Undertale video and they called the protagonist genderless. After learning what that meant, I realized that that was what I was too. I also started using they/them pronouns. On the first day of school, I wore a custom t-shirt that had he crossed out, she crossed out and they to show my pronouns. I got to tell the class that I was genderless and to call me Ev instead of Evan."
-Ev