(upbeat pop music)
- You're born in the wrong body,
but have the right brain,
and you know who you are.
We are at Rainbow Camp.
It is a camp where anybody is welcome.
It's very amazing
to be with people
that are also transgender.
- Crack.
- Yes!
- Coconut, coconut, coconut, crack.
- [Boy] Okay, I'm done.
(yells)
- The idea was that it
would be a summer day camp,
in which gender-diverse
youth could come together,
have fun, and feel a sense
of gender identity pride
and resilience, and feel safe
and belonging in a community.
We have a great opportunity to help them
to think about what would they do,
how do they see themselves?
So, we give them the opportunity
to define who they are and
how they wanna be seen.
(children yelling)
- That was so fun.
- To be in this space,
where there are lots and lots of kids,
is actually really unique
'cause most of the times,
they're in experiences
where they're the only
child who's transgender.
- Huge fifth graders who are saying,
who are gossiping about me,
calling me it, like I'm a thing,
but I'm not really an object.
I'm a human.
I'm not even close to an it
'cause I have a brain, I have a heart,
and I have feelings.
- James has a lot of anxiety
going into social situations,
and when it's a camp-related
or a play group-related event,
the anxiety is significantly less.
- When you do get bullied
and then you know that,
oh, I go to this camp,
where people have a lot
of experiences like I do.
The camp has definitely
helped me in life experience
and being less shy about who I am.
Oh, no, you can't.
- Oh.
(children yelling)
