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Avery’s Girl Scout friends knew her as a girl. They did not know she was transgender, although the adult leaders did. At one meeting, another transgender girl whom Avery had met and befriended decided to visit the troop.
Jackson recalled that when it came time for the girls to introduce themselves and tell the group something about themselves, the visiting girl offered up her name and said, “And I’m transgender!”
“I’m thinking, ‘Oh, my gosh,’ ” Jackson said. “And Avery is looking at her. The other girls said, ‘What does that mean?’ She said, ‘Well, when I was born, they thought I was a boy, but I’m really a girl.’
“The other kids said, ‘Oh, that’s cool.’ And then Avery said, ‘I’m transgender, too,’ because she had just seen another transgender girl acknowledged as OK by her friends.”
That moment was monumental, Jackson said.
“I couldn’t breathe. I was just sitting there. I was not prepared for that moment to happen,” she said. “They (the other girls) were so amazing. One girl said, ‘Well, if you were born a boy, shouldn’t you be in Boy Scouts?’
“And the troop leader stepped right in and said: ‘Well, no. They’re girls. So why would they do that?’ The girl was, like, ‘OK, yeah, I guess you’re right.’ ”
