Allie Beth Stuckey

Did your parents know that you were assaulted?

Wow.

Another aspect of your story that I've heard time and again is that the affirmation, which you weren't necessarily expecting or asking for at the time from teachers, starting to ask things like, you know, what can we call you?

What are your pronouns?

That I'm sure probably started conditioning you to think, wow, this is kind of making me feel cared for and seen and special.

And maybe this is the direction you want to go paired with kind of the already established

thought that you had previously before any of this had happened that, Oh, these people who are transitioning, they're able to find themselves and make themselves whole.

Well, now you're in this broken place and you have people saying, Hey, if you want this new identity, we will give you a new identity.

And that was probably really enticing in the moment.

And when you told your parents when you were 17 that you were going to identify as a boy, how did they respond?

Yeah.

Wow.

So that was when you were 17.

You talked about even running away at times.

Tell me about the actual transition starting to really be as much as you could try a man.

Wow.

So you were just 18 years old, and I'm guessing that your boyfriend was supportive of all of this.

At this point, you had a lot of friends who identified as LGBTQ as well, and I'm sure they were all encouraging you in this direction.

Okay, y'all, there is a very short list of universities that I would recommend to you, but Hillsdale is on that list.

They are awesome.