MEREDITH HERTZLER: I do not think that LGBTQ rights are being adequately protected in Virginia right now.

I think that we were on the right path up until about two years ago when we had some administration changes.

KOLIA SADEJHI: I get a sense that people who live in areas that are less urban have to keep it under wraps and pretend that they're not LGBTQ because not doing that would close all kinds of doors to them.

STEPHANIE FLORIE: Even though I'm cis-hetero, I have literally no skin in the game, I feel that everybody deserves the right to be loved for who they are, the way they are, without having to mask or change who they are to get that love.

CHLOE: One thing about gender identity that I think a lot of people don't understand is it's not really a choice for some people on how they identify.

It's just how they are, how they're born.

LISA HARRAH: I wish that more people understood that gender identity and biological sex are not the same thing.

And I did not know a lot about that until I became the parent of a transgender adult child.