At Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School, there is very little diversity. The majority of my community consists of middle to upper-class Caucasian families, and the two towns are notorious for exuberant horse ownership. Thus, my school environment usually tends to be closed off from outside issues, as they have never really had to deal with any. That said, during my sophomore year, awareness for LGBTQ rights quickly became a hot topic of conversation throughout the nation, and individuals in my school seemed frightened to talk about it. Some of my close friends thought that the idea of a person changing their gender was so alien that they refused to even acknowledge the possibility. I decided that this wasn't an environment that I felt comfortable
