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This year has been tough, but I learned just how resilient I am.
In this op-ed, 14-year-old Rillei* explains that as a Black trans teen, resilience is her superpower during a hard year.
My name is Rillei, and I have had a really hard year. I am a 14-year-old Black transgender girl and I switched schools twice because of bullying, meaning I lost a lot of friends along the way. As my friends became fewer, I felt really lonely at times, but that hardship taught me something: I have become very resilient. Being resilient means being able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions.

That is why I am writing this. I want to tell trans teens all over the world that we all have had to go through incredibly hard things at young ages, but we are resilient and we can get through this together.
As a kid, I always knew that I was a girl and I used to pray to God to let me wake up one. Even though I had those feelings, I never knew how to verbally express what I was going though. Then, at a gymnastics competition, one of my teammates came out to us as a transgender girl. I texted her and we talked for a while and I knew who I was after I was done talking to her — not only that, but I finally had the language to express it. I am a girl, and I have always been. 
My resilience started in the sixth grade when I was bullied a lot. My classmates would stop me in the hallway and point and laugh at me. People would say awful things to me and call me nasty names. I knew what they were saying was not true, but it made me hate my body and my face. I ended the sixth grade hoping I would never go back to that school ever again. I spent the whole summer begging my parents to let me go to school somewhere else.
My mom and I made a deal that I would return to the school for one quarter and if I still didn’t like it then I could switch schools. When school started, the bullying got so bad that I started calling my mom every day to come to pick me up from school. I left school at the end of the quarter and I started homeschooling, which was fun at first, but I was isolated from my friends.
After winter break, I started at a new school that I was nervous about, but it also offered me a fresh start: I could be private about being trans at this school. On my first day, everybody stared at me when I got on the bus. Then I got a surprise text from Gigi Gorgeous saying, “Hi gorgeous, this is Gigi! Good luck on your first day of school!!!” My mom got her to text me and it made me feel a whole lot better. I always watched Gigi Gorgeous and her videos because she is pretty, sweet, and brave. Seeing videos of her has shown me that trans women can be successful and get through the tough times if we are resilient.
At the new school, I quickly started making new friends. One day at lunch, we were goofing off and one of the boys said to me, “At least people don’t think I am transgender.” My heart started racing and I kept thinking that someone found out I was transgender. Later that day I asked him who said that about me. “Who told you that, it’s not true,” I said. He told me that one of my classmate’s parents, who knew me before I transitioned, was telling all the students that I was trans. Only a month into a new school and now my right to be private was taken from me. The “rumor” luckily blew over and I started making lots of friends, but a couple months later, I ended up having to leave the school. I was back to being alone and feeling isolated.
I wanted to keep searching for an accepting school and for people in my community who would support me with open arms. I was homeschooling when eighth grade started, but then I decided to try going to a local middle school. I started at the school on January 2nd, 2020 and I started to make new friends. I played on the field hockey team and did not feel isolated. Spring lacrosse was about to start and I was excited to get to hang out with my lacrosse friends. My mom and my sister and I were planning on going to California or New York for LGBTQ Pride month events. Plus, I got accepted to the high school that I wanted to go to.
Then came COVID-19. Spring lacrosse was cancelled, we couldn’t go to the Pride events, and I am going to school in my home again. I know staying home is saving lives but I am becoming sad and bored. And over the past few weeks, as I watch as people around the country and the world march against racism and police brutality, I’ve added scared to that list. Even after things open again, I am scared that Black trans girls like me are going to be even more afraid and that we will not receive the safety and support that we deserve.
But even so, when the country opens again, I still want to go to future Pride events and to start my new high school in the fall. I am used to challenges and I am getting good at meeting them because I am resilient.
*The author's name has been changed for privacy.
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by Madeleine Roberts • September 6, 2019
HRC is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Bailey Reeves, a Black transgender teen fatally shot in Baltimore over Labor Day weekend.
HRC is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Bailey Reeves, a Black transgender teen fatally shot in Baltimore over Labor Day weekend. 
Reeves, 17, was found late on September 2 after being shot multiple times, according to reports. She was taken to a nearby hospital, where she died of her injuries. Reeves is the 17th known transgender person killed this year, a majority of whom were Black transgender women.
A vigil is being held on Sept. 6 at 6 p.m. in Baltimore to celebrate her life. 
Reeves’ death comes in the midst of a recent rise in violence in Baltimore and as a national spotlight is focused on the ongoing epidemic of gun violence in the U.S. Just one week ago, a shooting rampage near Odessa and Midland, Texas, left seven people dead and at least 22 injured. 
Of the known transgender people killed this year, 11 have died from gun violence. Of the more than 140 known victims of anti-transgender violence from 2013 to present, approximately two-thirds of those killed were victims of gun violence.
Anti-transgender stigma is exacerbated by callous or disrespectful treatment too often seen from media, law enforcement and our highest elected officials. In the pursuit of greater accuracy and respect, HRC offers guidelines for journalists and others who report on transgender people.
In November of 2018, ahead of Transgender Day of Remembrance, HRC Foundation released “A National Epidemic: Fatal Anti-Transgender Violence in America in 2018,” a heartbreaking report honoring the trans people killed and detailing the contributing and motivating factors that lead to this tragic violence. 
These victims are not numbers -- they were people with hopes and dreams, love and laughter. 
There are currently very few explicit legal protections for transgender or gender-expansive people. Despite marginal gains in state and local policies that support and affirm transgender people, recent years have been marked by anti-LGBTQ attacks at all levels of government.
We must demand better from our elected officials and reject harmful anti-transgender legislation appearing at the local, state and federal levels because it is clear that fatal violence disproportionately affects transgender women of color. The intersections of racism, transphobia, sexism, biphobia and homophobia conspire to deprive them of necessities to live and thrive.
HRC will continue to hold the Trump administration and all elected officials who fuel the flames of hate accountable at the ballot box.
This epidemic of violence that disproportionately targets transgender people of color -- particularly Black transgender women -- must cease.
For more information about HRC’s transgender justice work, visit hrc.org/Transgender.
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