John has recently moved to a different town with his parents, because they found better jobs. As he hadn’t had the chance to meet people and make friends yet, he decided to find an extracurricular activity to do after school. He searched for lessons or activities available and he found an incredible offer about some ballet classes. On Wednesday, after school, he went to enrol to the lessons. When he entered the class, the girls that were already there were really surprised and staring at him. After he explained that he wanted to attend the lessons, the girls started pointing at him, laughing. The teacher did not react at all and looked really surprised. John ran out of the class, crying.

Laura is running for president of the class. She is really happy that she will have a chance to contribute to the exercise of students’ rights and she has made a plan on what she wants to change. One day, five of her male classmates approached her and said ‘You can’t be the president of our class! You’re a girl! Girls cannot be the leaders!’. Laura was devastated, since she has been trying really hard to find ways in order for all students to be represented by her plan.

Paul is a 17year old boy who has been struggling in order to accept himself for the past few years. He understood that he was into boys two years back, but he has been trying to ‘fix himself’ as he was told. He dated girls, hung out with male classmates and did what other boys his age did. One day, his girlfriend, Sarah, wanted their relationship to go further, but Paul was not into it. Sarah started mocking him and told everyone in their class that he was gay. After one day, the whole school started calling Paul names, telling him that he was a ‘weirdo’ and that this was not normal.