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Almost as soon as I came out as trans, there was a spike in online harassment more vicious than anything I'd experienced before. It turns out there are many people who spend a good portion of their spare time making life as miserable as possible for trans people.

Just being gender non-conforming opens you to trouble from strangers. And violence.

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

I've had death threats, if you can imagine.

For all of the incredible messages I've received about how my visibility is helping people, those people who I follow on social media still receive daily death threats and the most derogatory, inhumane vitriol.

No matter how much makeup I wore, people just kept saying "Yes, sir! Would you like tea with that, sir?" "Yes, I would like tea. Why don't you put it on my breasts?" "Certainly. Tea for this man's breasts! Anything else, sir?"

I think everyone at school experiences some form of bullying. With kids at school, it can be anything - it can be your shoes or the wrong bag or anything. If you are big like I am, you are always going to be a target. So I decided at school to make myself an even bigger target, if you like: to make myself as big as I could be.

I have been hit from all sides, and I'm only human. They have ended up talking about the way I look, and it hurts. I have a family, and they suffer, too. It has gone over the limit, and I am tired of it. I have a wife and child, too, and I am not prepared to go on putting up with it English journalists.

I was very fortunate and didn't personally encounter any bullies in school, however bullies exist in many ways in life.

There will always be someone being picked on at school, and it's not going to go away.

Bullying is a national epidemic.

I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police.

As anyone who follows me on Twitter will know, I'm fairly robust in my views on there. I get next to nothing in the way of trolling. Most women I know who regularly come close to expressing an opinion get trolled constantly. This is a men-on-women issue. Guys are pretty much doing it to the girls.

There were websites erected to figure out how to kill Alanis. I just do not need to see this; it's not good for anybody.

Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker.

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'

People tend to think that because I'm a performer and I don't go to a regular high school that I haven't personally been affected by bullies. But it's actually quite the contrary.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

It's really important that people know about it and the issue in schools because it happens every day to people and it really hurts when people get bullied.

I have a problem with bullying.

American life will not be transfomed by bullying.

I certainly witnessed bullying as a teen in both a small and a big school setting. I feel like it is a universal topic.

It's actually one of the hardest things for trans people, is to go to the bathroom.

It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.