Listen Up! Youth Media Network

"If I was going to survive, something was going to have to change...and it wasn't going to be me."

What does it mean to talk back? The videos I watched were about teenagers and sexuality. One of the prominent videos walked the viewer through the life of a teen named Matty, who questioned the sex of which he was born, and the appropriate gender expression that sex dictated (male; masculine). He was identified by his grandmother as being "feminine' since at least four years old. He stated that he has always felt different, rather, isolated, from those around him. The gender he was supposed to be did not match the gender he feels comfortable expressing, and e wants viewers to know that this is OK. Today, he appears comfortable expressing himself and urges others to accept all people as unique individuals rather then categorize, stereotype, and outcast those that are different from yourself.

Matty's Video- "The Walk Through Closet"