Nicole Maines first made news here in Maine as a middle schooler regarding her gender identity and toilet rooms — a case that went all the way to the Maine Supreme Court:
It is the first time any court in the nation has ruled it is unlawful to force a transgender child to use the school bathroom designated for the sex he or she was born with rather than the one with which the child identifies, according to the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders of Boston, which represented the girl and her family.
“This sends a message to my children that you can believe in the system,” Wayne Maines, the father of Nicole Maines, the girl at the center of the case, said Thursday afternoon in a conference call.
Now Nicole, a recent high school graduate, has given a TED Talk on what it’s like to be transgender, and I think you will find her talk as enlightening as it is entertaining: