During that dark stretch, he spent his days in an outpatient psychiatric facility, where therapists embraced music therapy. His billowing depression landed him in the hospital after an attempt to die by suicide.
In the midst of a pandemic and a national uprising, Teeth Logsdon-Wallace was kept awake at night last summer by the constant sounds of helicopters and sirens.įor the 13-year-old from Minneapolis who lives close to where George Floyd was murdered in May 2020, the pandemic-induced isolation and social unrest amplifed his transgender dysphoria, emotional distress that occurs when someone’s gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth.