I'm Warren, I'm 23, I live in Sydney. I identify as just a trans person. I go by he or they or whatever, just not 
she. I grew up in Darwin and I have lots of really positive childhood memories.

When I was in high school I came out as a bisexual when I was like 13 or 14 and
I remember my first girl crush, I just remember not really knowing what it all meant but being drawn to her 
but I also had lots of boy crushes so that was really confusing.

I hadn't really hidden my queerness, but I didn't really talk about it.

15/16 when I went to the new school I decided that I was just going to be upfront about it. I just started
presenting in a more masculine way and I like cut my hair and kind of mohawk and I was a baby dyke for ages and that was
pretty cool. When I came out to mum, I had no fears. It was the Monday morning, I was going to school I was like 'mom I'm going
to school now' and she was like 'okay' and

I was like 'oh by the way I'm a lesbian' she's like 'oh okay yeah cool well good, good talk'.
My dad walked into my room when I was 17 crying over a girl, he just knew I was gay and I'd been frightened to tell him
and there was no reason to be cause he just loved me, and that's really really nice yeah. 

So there's no way you can tell how your parents are gonna react but at the end of the day you know these people
are there to care for you and love you and that's what family's about but you're the one who chooses your own path

Regardless of where you are in life, people can think to themselves circular thoughts. You know get anywhere
talking to you so I think exposing yourself to lots of different colours and lots of different
beautiful things in life are really important because the world isn't the same everywhere.

I've never never feared coming out to Helen because I knew that she was just always there for me.
It's really nice to have a friendship with someone who also feels that love for you. It's really important to know
that there are there are options for everybody, that's why being different is so special. You don't have to identify
the way people expect you to and it's okay if you don't feel like one or the other, it's alright to be somewhere in
the middle and know that there are actually people around that feel the same way as you do.

People are still gonna love you and you shouldn't feel like you have to hide. Come to acceptance around

yourself because you're the only person you have to live with forever and the sooner you come to loving yourself the
easier the world's going to be.