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Tamera Bryant relays the story of Jerrie Mock and her dream to fly an airplane around the world. In spite of naysayers, including her family, who tried to remind her that girls grow up to be wives and mothers, Jerrie followed her dream and became the first woman to fly an airplane around the world.

In this story, the parents of three children decide not to tell people the gender of the third child in an effort to avoid promoting stereotypes. Instead, they allow the child to be a person rather than a pretty girl who wears pink or a strong boy who wears blue.

In this film, the debates surrounding same-sex marriage are illustrated when a ketchup bottle wants to be with a mustard bottle. Picky, the toothpick dispenser, resists such an idea because it flies in the face of tradition.

Young people speak out against fitting every person into one of two narrowly conceived gender categories.

“You said that you were in the wrong body, that you should be a man.”

“The only way that I could see out of that situation was to take my life.”

“The lights went up, the music went off, and you could hear a pin drop.”

“I was very strict because I was afraid kids would discover I was gay.”

“I just felt I was not living an honest life.”