Last month, Simon Price graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. But his last semester in school turned into an ugly scene after he was assigned a project for a class called “Songwriting and Social Change.” The project was to put together a public event about a social issue the student felt passionate about. White other students did projects about homelessness and eating disorders, Price decided he would talk about his own experience living as a trans person for 3 years before detransitioning.
In middle school, my peers targeted me with homophobic bullying. They called me slurs, threatened me, and made me afraid and uncomfortable in my own body. At 13, I told my parents that I was bisexual. A year later, I declared that I was a girl. I demanded — with the support of my therapist and pediatrician — access to cross-sex hormones…
At 17, I…
