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Sauce. >> when you look at these pictures, do you see elena or do you see chandler? >> thats a good question. i see elena, but i see them as they get older, becoming chandler. >> youre so good with the pronouns. its so hard for me. youre so effortless. how has this process changed who you are? >> its helped me to let people be who they are. i think thats what makes people happy is them being able to express and be who they are. i think if youre pretending to be somebody else youre not going to b...

Learn about gender and in turn, its changing the way an entire generation sees itself, including chandler. >> chandler here. when i first came out as a-gender. i felt alone, so i made my video, what is a gender, i talk about what this means to me and what my experiences are. very quickly that video started growing and growing and growing. >> what does that feel like to know there are so many other people who felt the way you feel? >> felt really validating knowing that its okay to feel this way....

People will think im a girl. >> part internet diary, part confessional. >> there were aspects of me that were feminine, aspects of me that were masculine. >> over time, elena channeled documented a journey of self-discovery. in a video viewed almost a million times, elena emerged with a new name and a new identity. >> i identify as a-gender. i use no pronouns. i have no gender. i am genderless. in fact, not everyone has a gender. >> elena became chandler and declared they are a gender, which mea...

>> and a key part of that is having someone to grow with. >> its our new home. >> when you two met, was it instant? >> we liked each other a lot, but the timing wasnt right. but a few years later we reconnected. and when we had our first kiss, it really did feel like fireworks. >> when chandler and zander first met, they both identified as girls. since then everything has changed. chandler identifies as agender. he identifies as flux. >> i joked about how i was a lesbian. and im dating a guy and...

Lately. i cant wear dresses because people are going to think im a girl. >> part internet diary, part confessional. >> i had a feeling there was aspects of me that were not femme min, not masculine. >> it was a journey of self-discovery, and in a video viewed almost a million times, she emerged with a new name and a new identity. >> i identify as a-gender. i use they/them pronouns. i have no gender. i am genderless. in fact, not everyone has a gender. >> so she became chandler and declared that ...

I would sit in his lap and fall asleep on him. i felt like i had done the worst possible thing by coming out. >> can he call you chandler? >> hes at the point where -- >> has he ever called you chandler? >> no. it hurts knowing that he cares so much about me but hes also so quick to -- to take that away. >> is there anything in particular that you really want him to understand? >> what matters the most to me is its not me disliking myself, so much that im becoming someone else, its me loving mys...

>> how exactly have the hormones changed you? >> i can see some changes like my voice dropping and my jaw line right here, that was another thing i wanted to be more permanent. >> do you want to grow facial hair? >> im not -- >> it seems like a pain to me. >> i dont know how i feel about it. i can just shave. the end goal is i want people to refer to me with gender neutral language, have a blend of both. >> its the next step, gender neutral pronouns to reflect a genderless identity. >> hi, im ol...

S. >> yes, i did. >> chandler, born elena, grew up in a traditional southern family. like many little girls, she had a special bond with her dad. >> this is elena. shes drawing her house. lets see it! great job. >> we would go like to the grocery store and the kid that always holds his hand, i would just hold onto his fingers because i was so tiny. >> elena drew a picture of her house. >> this self-described daddys girl soon began to realize maybe she wasnt a girl at all. >> that as a kid i felt...

Male hormone, testosterone. for young people under the age of 18, do they need parental consent for testosterone? >> yeah, it has permanent effects. its required that at least one parent does consent. >> those permanent effects include male traits like more facial and body hair and a deeper voice. but chandler isnt trying to become a boy. instead, the hope is to find a neutral point somewhere in the middle of masculine and feminine. chandler, you are agender so why do you need testosterone? >> m...

Not in school right now. recently, i came out to my father and he took it well. my mother, on the other hand, blamed it on my father, saying that it was because i was close with him or i wanted him to like me more. >> im riley, 19. >> have you ever dressed this way in front of your parents? >> oh, no, no. because its like, they see you a certain way and then youre changing how they see you. i really, i dont want to deal with that at all. >> for kids like these, coming out to parents is often a t...