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Sometimes Quinn Tolzin, 14, has to wait half an hour to use the restroom at school.

The eighth-grade student said because there aren't restrooms for gender nonconforming students, she must go to the nurse's office.

Alex Yindrick, a gender queer high school senior, said they have no place to change clothes for gym class, either. They also resort to the nurse's office, where it's sometimes necessary to wait behind students being checked out for injuries or illness.

Tolzin helped organize a rally Sunday afternoon outside the Nebraska State Capitol to support transgender youth and adults in the Lincoln area. She and several others spoke about issues the transgender community faces, including school policies, bullying and violence.

Tolzin said she hopes to see changes in schools so that students who are in the process of transitioning are more easily able to change their names and gender pronouns on school records.

Alek Duncan, who also spoke at the rally, said not being able to have their gender identity and name on records alienates transgender students. Duncan, 17, said when there are substitute teachers, he's sometimes outed during attendance by teachers who don't believe him because his name doesn't match his outward gender identity.