Alliance groups.

Aim for accepting environment

"It is our responsiblity to create learning and working environments where all students individuals feel accepted and respected," he said in an email statement.

"The establishment of GSAs in our high schools is one way that the school demonstrates to students, parents and staff that all students will be accepted and supported in reaching their full potential."

Twins June and James Vickers couldn't be told apart just 5 years ago, but they've both changed since then. 2:30 The Vickers twins have always been close. As kids, they played hockey together, listened to music and shared a bond that made them inseparable.

Sometimes James noticed that his sibling was not as interested as he was in chopping wood or playing guns and that he preferred activities boys tendednot to care about.

I felt like they wouldn't come to accept me as their daughter. … There was a genuine fear that my parents would reject me. - June Vickers

James wasn't surprised when his grandmother Marsha shared his twin's secret, although she used the term homosexual in the telling. At that point, no one in the family, including the twins, knew the word transgender.

"She just asked me: if one of my loved ones was homosexual would I still love them?" James recalled.

"She said she needed to tell someone because she was worried for June."

June had already developed anorexia, which she now believes was rooted in her being transgender, a term she learned after she started seeing a psychiatrist in Moncton about the eating disorder.

"I wasn't eating because I