(light music) - [jenna ortega] the new kids on the block or in your office aren't just millennials anymore.

the freshest faces are those of generation z. - i'm 22 years old and i'm a part of generation z. - i'm a part of gen z. - i am gen z through and through. - i am a proud generation z-er. - we truly are unlike any other that have come before us. (light dramatic music) - i think what defines our generation the most is being able to create your own opportunities through the internet. - we're the tech generation. we were born in the era where, you know, we're eight years old, we have a cell phone, we have an ipad, we're on youtube. - there's a huge stereotype with gen z of, you know, always being on your phones and, like, not looking up from your phones. - i mean, we are probably on our phones all the time, but you know, i think, you know, we're doing stuff. - we're not just sitting on our phone ignoring the world around us. we're sitting on our phone interacting with hundreds of people. (crowd chanting) - we kind of have this drive for social activism, but it's been mixed with this introduction into a new digital age. (crowd chanting) - what makes gen z different is that because of our

social media nativity, we can trigger and provoke international discourse with the click of a button. (rapid popping, chanting continues) - they know so much. they know things that i didn't know until my forties. they are fearless and smart and it's just a potent combination. - my question for you is what do we do next? - older generations have failed us, but what are we going to do in the present to ensure that this cycle does not continue for future generations? - that is gen z. (camera shutter) (pencil scribbling) (pill falling) (paper falling) (phone beeping) (vehicles passing) (music fades) (slow bouncy music) - [jenna ortega] i was born in 2002. it was after the twin towers had fallen and just as the iraq war was about to begin. (cannon shooting) i'm a part of generation z, or as some people call us, zoomers. the oldest of us are running for congress

and the youngest are still in school. our generation was born between 1997 and 2012, and if there's one thing you know about us, it's probably this. - [tv reporter] gen z has never known a world without the internet in their pocket. - [jenna] our parents, who are mostly gen x, don't really understand what we do on our phones. and boomers? well. (beat drop) - okay boomer. (air horn blowing rapidly) - but one thing that i wanna make clear is we're not just posting dance videos. we've started political movements from our bedrooms and created companies and built websites that changed the world, while we are still in high school. we are the most diverse generation ever and 20% of us proudly identifies lgbtq+. we're growing up with legal weed and we're not afraid to smoke it or vape it or make money from it. we're not all rushing to get our driver's licenses because we don't need them. (car driving) some people say we're delaying growing up and i don't know, maybe they're right, but it's not totally our fault.

- [male news reporter] schools closed from coast to coast. the precautionary step for covid-19. - [jenna ortega] the pandemic isolated us during some of our most formative years. we missed out on homecomings and proms, graduations, all kinds of milestones. we attended school through a computer screen, but when we did go to school, we practiced active shooter drills, and too many of us experienced the real thing. the issues that we face as a generation are broad, but we see them as interconnected. we believe the fights for social justice, reproductive rights, and ending gun violence are far from over. and the threat of the climate crisis unites us all. we inherited a deeply polarized world, but we're determined to fix it. we are more connected, more engaged in becoming more politically active than any other generation in american history. and we're just getting started. (orchestral music) - [tv reporter] in 2020, members of generation z voted for the first time in a presidential election.

- [male news anchor] it's the most consequential group of young voters this country has ever seen. - [jenna ortega] almost half of generation z say they don't feel connected to either political party. - my generation, for the most part, identify as not republican and it's not because they wanna be a democrat necessarily, it's because they don't wanna be a republican. - we don't really identify much as republicans, democrats, those are antiquated terms. boomer terms. - i would identify as an anti-fascist. - so, i identify as a conservative. i'm also a vegan. - i identify as a pragmatic progressive. - most of my politics end up leaning left, but i always approach every single issue looking from both sides. - the norm is you check your politics, you check your baggage at the door. and i'm coming into the space and saying no. the personal and political are not separable for me and i think for many. as an american muslim named ziad ahmed, right? like my name, my story, my identity, who i am, the space that i take up has been political since the moment i exited the womb.

(crowd chattering) - [male news anchor] we have news, a seismic shift in american politics. you are looking at the 44th president of the united states. (crowd cheering) - when barack obama was elected, i was eight years old. - i was six. - i was in fourth grade. - i do remember when he was elected, actually. i remember not realizing how significant it was, but just knowing it was like this huge moment. - it felt like i had won, that we had won. that this was my america too. he had a muslim middle name. it felt personal. - that was the first time that i realized that i was black. my whole family came over. we were watching the inauguration. - for my grandmother to see barack obama be elected, it meant that all the racism that she saw growing up was going to be different. that her black grand babies were going to have a different life and that we're going to enter

what everybody thought of a post-racial era of the united states. - [interviewer] and then we didn't. - we didn't. - (chanting) usa! usa! usa! - [tv reporter] donald trump has been elected the next president of the united states. (applause, chanting) usa! usa! - trump's election. that's when a lot of kids became political. that's when i became political. and i will say i did support him in middle school. i was in eighth grade. people made fun of me, even in a conservative town. but something about just the way he spoke normally really appealed to me. - [donald trump] these politicians are all talk, no action, they're never gonna do anything. - boomers think every single young person is, you know, pink hair, pronouns in bio, goes to starbucks every day, you know, votes for bernie sanders. and for the most part it's true, but i do think you're gonna see more conservatives arise. - in 2016, if i could have voted, donald trump was definitely not my first choice, but with him talking about things that are important to me, like securing the border, i was excited that he became president.

- [crowd] build that wall, build that wall, build that wall, build that wall. - [protestor] you shut your mouth, shut your mouth. - donald trump changed the culture because he gave a free pass to all of his supporters, anyone willing to vote for him, that you don't have to be embarrassed about being hateful anymore and it's created a culture that is really violent and really scary. - jews will not replace us! (yelling, fighting) - kids, even if they didn't fully understand what was going on, they were liken something big just happened. you felt like that, like this was a defining moment of our time and i think everything since then has been because the 2016 election, i think black lives matter, you know, all these movements trace their energy to 2016. - it was really a defining period for our generation, for the issues that we think that we should fight for. - i believe that most gun control laws are classist and racist. i believe that... - [jenna ortega] if you really wanna understand my generation, just spend some time on tiktok.

- these elections are super consequential. - i'm gonna talk real quick about third party voting. - okay, the question is, do y'all support critical race theory? - generation z is already much more progressive than previous... - when i think about what is the movement, that's really governing gen z's push to change the world. i think it is really this idea of intersectional solidarity, this idea that we are interconnected, that we do not live in silos because of the digital era, we have been acutely aware of that since we were young. we did not divorce ourselves in the same way that perhaps my parents did. and that's something felt so far away. but because of social media (people talking, chanting) it always felt closer. we were connected to people who lived entirely different lives and we could see it in real time. so when i go to the the polls, and you better believe that i go to the polls, i'm not just thinking about the people on my street. (people chanting) - i remember seeing the video of george floyd being murdered and witnessing that filled me with an anger that i've never felt before. and you know that next day i went out to the first non-violent protest that i saw on instagram.

it gave me this passion to continue going out and advocating for the very change that we were advocating for that exact day. off of the energy of the movement, i said f-it and jumped into a race to run for city council, not even really knowing the scope of what the entire city council did, but having a vision, and values, and heart for change. good afternoon everyone. my name is chi osse. i'm the council member... - [jenna ortega] in 2021, chi became the first gen z-er elected to the new york city council. and a year later in florida, maxwell frost became the first member of my generation to be elected to congress. - i think gen z is questioning what it means to be qualified and we should. the covers have been pulled back , we realize that people don't know what they're doing. they have let us down time and time again. and so we are asking why not me? - what you're gonna have from gen z are a bunch of activists, hopefully entering the political scene, fixing things on a local level. and i think when you have a generation entering politics from that perspective,

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- [jenna ortega] hi, my name is jenna ortega and i'm seven years old. right now, i'm gonna show you my dramatic monologue. (dramatic piano music) mom? are you awake? yep. that's me. my mom shot this video and put it on facebook for our friends and they loved it. (keyboard typing, beeping) - somehow, it eventually made its way to a casting agent and the rest is history. (people speaking) (dramatic music) like many gen z-ers, you could say that my career was also launched online. - the speed at which fame is happening is faster than ever. anybody can walk across the internet and step on a landmine and go viral. - before, there were gatekeepers who sort of decided who the next, you know, superstars were. and what's really exciting about generation z,

they really have the power. - welcome back to my channel. - what's up youtube? - hey everyone, it's jojo! welcome back to... - anybody can now become an entertainer from their living room. you kind of let the people decide. so it's almost like democratized television. - television is just not really a thing anymore. it's kind of irrelevant. now, you can get internet fame and make it a career. (yelling) (gentle music) - it's the new, like, rockstar. being a a youtuber, being a tiktoker, you just need to have like a personality, and a camera. or honestly, just a camera sometimes. - [jenna ortega] for jacob pace, his start didn't even require a camera. when he was 14, he started a record label. he signed his first artist in ninth grade. - i looked up a record label agreement to sign a song online and i just used that template to sign him. - [jenna ortega] then came the big offer, to be head of marketing at a music company. - i told them i just need to finish up school and then i can come to la.

and he thought that i was like in college. and so when i showed up at the airport and he came to come pick me up, he was like, how old are you again? i was like 16. i was talking to these execs and they were telling me about their programming and you know, mtv, and i never really knew what mtv was. i've just like heard the name. (cheering and talking) - [male news anchor] jessica simpson fans outside - and i was like, oh this is pretty cool. like i could imagine there being like a newer version of something like this for gen z, and i came up with this idea of like making a content brand on tiktok. - [jenna ortega] with light house, jacob built gen z's version of mtv. short videos with millions of young people watching. (bright music) (rapid clicking) - [jacob pace] we became kind of this like pioneer of, you know, gen z content. - [jenna ortega] it's not just the entertainment industry that's been completely transformed by the internet. our generation is finding its voice online and it's being heard all the way to the white house. - so i started on tiktok in january of 2021. i made my first video ever on mlk day and it was about

the whitewashing of mlk's legacy that happens on this holiday every single year. the only quotes from him that you'll see in the mainstream or on social media are the ones that are super positive. i sort of blew up from there. so many opportunities have come from tiktok. i was featured in the new york times, i was even invited to the white house as one of 30 tiktokers who had to discuss the ukraine crisis when russia first invaded ukraine. - millions of people are turning to tiktok to understand what's happening in ukraine. it's why the white house invited 30 of the platform's biggest stars to a virtual briefing. joining us now are two creators who attended that meeting, jules terpak and kahlil greene. good morning. - i'm not gonna lie, i thought the white house ukraine briefing, like the concept of it, was a little wild. i was like, okay, okay, i get it. this is smart for them to do so because tiktok is a huge media platform now. you could have never had a video that has gotten reach before on tiktok and overnight one video could get a million views. the brain can't register how many people that is

and all you're seeing on your screen is a number. - hi youtube, it's me, alex 1, 3, 3, 2, and my bud. - i've been posting onto the internet since i was 11. i was posting singing videos actually to start off. and i'd heard of justin bieber getting popular and i just felt like i could do that somehow. (singing) in the beginning, no one really was interested in it and so i started just posting comedy videos with my friends. (water splashes) it wasn't until i was 18 and kicked out of my house and homeless that i was like, it's either do this and go full-time and get out of this rut that i'm in, or stay homeless. all right guys, that's it for today's vlog. if you enjoyed go ahead and like and comment, don't forget to subscribe. at the time i was getting like 50,000 to a 100,000 views. the occasional, you know, once a month, i got a million views which was mind boggling. - [alex's friend] juice them up. (clamps clicking) - but the goal was always music. i just felt like i needed to prove myself and get people interested in me before i could do music. - [alex's friend] day in the life of alex warren. - day the life boy. i was 19 at the time in my,

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26 people killed, many of them kindergartners. - [jenna ortega] in 2012, america watched in horror. after 20 children were murdered in sandy hook, connecticut. - beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. as a country, we have been through this too many times. - [female tv reporter] virginia tech university, 31 people are dead, it is the... - high school freshman opens fire in a school cafeteria - the nation once again, faces a mass shooting on a high school campus. - [jenna ortega] after every shooting, we saw the same pattern. outrage. - this only happens in this country. - [jenna ortega] followed by thoughts and prayers. - certainly our thoughts and prayers go to the victims, the families. - [jenna ortega] followed by... - it is not the time to politicize this tragedy. - [jenna ortega] nothing. - just taking guns away from everybody is not gonna solve the issue. (police siren blaring) - [jenna ortega] but after one school shooting, in particular, the students refused to be part of the same pattern. it took place on valentine's day, 2018 and it defined our generation. (serious music)

(helicopter blades chopping) - [female news reporter] we have breaking news. and bear with us 'cause we don't have much information at this time, but there are reports of a school shooting in parkland, florida. - [male news anchor] the latest death toll is 17 in the mass shooting. the shooter was armed with an ar-15 assault rifle and several magazines. (gun shots) (students screaming) - oh my god! oh my god! - when i was in class and the shooting started happening, i started interviewing people. (whispering) right now we're in a school, an active shooter. it's not a drill. i started asking students how they felt about gun violence in america. - if you looked around this closet and saw everyone just hiding together, you would know that this shouldn't be happening anymore, and that no amount of money should make it more easily accessible to get guns. - i asked them how they felt about the nra so that their voices would hopefully carry on and congress would actually have to listen to us if we were, frankly, dead on our classroom floors. (helicopter blades)

- 17 people are confirmed dead, at least the 12th. 12th. school shooting this year here at february 14th. - my sister was 14 years old at the time and lost four friends that day and i didn't know what to do with myself. the only thing that i could think to do was knowing that these things have a two week news cycle. i started talking to journalists and saying like, 'hey, i was a student there; talk to me.' - david hogg is joining us now from broward county. - i don't want this just to be something that people forget. the american public must take action if we're going to prevent the next shooting because at the end of the day we all bleed the same american blood. - i was so shocked at how media savvy they were and i remember saying like is this one going to be different and are these kids gonna be different? - we're children, you guys, like, are the adults. you need to take some action and play a role. - david hogg was the first person in the history of mass murder to be more famous than his shooter

and that was in under 24 hours. and by saturday, emma gonzalez was twice as famous as david. - we are not to be bought by the nra. there's no other way to put it at this point. you're either funding the killers or you are standing with the children. i get asked by a member of the school board like, 'hey, can you do this speech at this rally that we're having in fort lauderdale?' - okay, now i want to introduce emma gonzalez. (applause, cheering) - showed up and i was writing my speech the morning of, i was just screaming into the void. i had no idea that cnn was gonna be filming. the people in the government who were voted into power are lying to us and us kids seem to be the only ones who notice and are prepared to call bs. that us kids don't know what we're talking about, that we're too young to understand how the government works, we call bs! (applause, cheering) - their fury over the inaction was not just palpable

but it was in your face. 'and the adults, we need to start like kicking your ass and tell you do something!' and it just happened like overnight, boom, right after that and i don't know generationally, that we had seen anything that fast. (upbeat music) - [jenna ortega] just days after the shooting, the parkland students marched on the florida state capitol demanding action. three weeks later, florida passed its first new gun law, in 30 years. - to the students at marjory stoneman douglas high school, you made your voices heard. - it did feel really good to feel like we were actually doing something to address this for once. to change the laws. - we have stared down the barrel of an ar-15 ourselves. - [crowd] stop gun violence! - we were pissed off young people and there is nothing more that angry teenagers like to do than what they're told that they can't. and that's exactly what we did. - [news anchor] young americans took to the streets today in numbers likely not seen since the vietnam war. - we wanted to do a march in dc. we thought that we could get a couple dozen,

maybe a hundred people up there and all of a sudden we had a couple thousand and then ten thousand sign up then a hundred thousand. - [news reporter] an estimated 800,000 people descended on our nation's capitol for the march for our lives rally. - it was a crazy, crazy day. there was so much going on, so much media. there were so many people, nobody over the age of 18 spoke that day. that was a very conscious decision because this was an event hosted by and for young people. - hi. (crowd cheering) (naomi laughs) - my name is naomi and i'm 11 years old. (crowd cheering) - when i was 11 years old, i gave a speech at the march for our lives. me and my friend carter led a walkout at our elementary school on the 14th. our walkout was a little bit different. we were outside for 17 minutes for the 17 people shot and killed in parkland and another minute for courtland harrington, who was a black girl who was shot and killed in her school in alabama. that ended up getting quite a lot of attention.

george clooney called me and asked me to speak at the march for our lives. my friends and i might still be 11, and we might still be in elementary school but we know, we know life isn't equal for everyone, and we know what is right and wrong. (crowd cheering) we also know that we stand in the shadow of the capitol and we know that we have seven short years until we, too, have the right to vote. (crowd cheering) - freaking 11 years old and she's already more articulate than i'm ever going to be in this interview. emma's speech 'we call bs' was, obviously, extraordinary. and so then, on the march for our lives, everybody is wondering, including me, like what's emma gonna do? (crowd cheering) (breathing, crowd murmuring) (breathing, crowd murmuring)

- that was the moment for me when gen z was born. gen z was saying 'we will be heard. you will pause and listen to what we have to say even if what we have to say is a demonstration with silence.' (timer beeping) - since the time that i came out here, it has been 6 minutes and 20 seconds. the shooter has ceased shooting, and will soon abandon his rifle, blend in with the students as they escape, and walk free for an hour before arrest. fight for your lives before it's someone else's job. (applause, cheering) - it's clear that these kids just understood activism and they understood how to write a speech and they understood how to galvanize the public. - this is what democracy looks like! - i met a 15 year old the other day who got involved in

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- [male news anchor] i'm just getting word that we are going (♪♪) to get a decision on marriage equality and we're gonna go to our ari melber right now. - speaking of you from the steps of supreme court, we have read from the bench there is a right to marriage equality. i repeat there is a right to marriage equality read just from the bench now. - when it happened, i just like burst into tears 'cause like all of a sudden this whole world of possibility opened up for me. - i broke down, i wept. i thought this is phenomenal and so many people i know rushed quickly to get married. (bright music) - [female narrator] we have breaking news from the supreme court. it is a landmark decision for the lgbtq community. the justices ruling that it is illegal for workers to be dismissed from a job based on sexual orientation and gender identity. - it felt as though the majority of the american people were okay with gay culture and with people being a part of the public square who were not straight or cisgender. - i am running for president of the united states.

(crowd cheering) (violin music) - [jenna ortega] from politics to pop culture. america seemed to enter a new era of acceptance. - i wanna say thank you to the gay agenda. let's go gay agenda. - because of the incredible advances that we've made in lgbtq equality, we saw this drastic increase in gen z folks coming out as lgbtq because they feel safe coming out. previous generations have been conditioned to believe that it's shameful to be lgbtq. gen z doesn't have that shame. (orchestral music) - i identify as bi and my pronouns are she/her. - i'm non-binary and i'm trans. i use they/them pronouns. - pansexual, you love everybody. that's what i am. i'm pan. - i am a queer, gay, cis, black man. - trans, or transgender, means basically that you do not identify with the gender that you are assigned at birth. non-binary means that you do not identify with

either gender within the binary, the male-female binary. i know that i look like a girl and i know that i sound like a girl. all of those things don't make me a girl because i don't identify with that identity - many people find that their identity doesn't fall within a label and that the way that they feel and the way that they think doesn't really fit into a specific structure and so the perfect solution for that is the word queer. you don't have to know what you are to be queer, you just have to know what you aren't. - whoo! happy pride! - [jenna ortega] if it feels like more people have come out as lgbtq+ today, it's because they have. 1 in 5 gen z-ers say they are something other than heterosexual and 1 in 20 identify as transgender or non-binary. the question the older generations wanna know is, why? - i know there are some who are looking at the rates of say, transgender identity in gen z or the rates of queerness and asking, is this a fad? is this tiktok?

and i just have to say, are you kidding me? nobody is signing up for an identity as a fad. we simply live in a time now where younger and younger people can step out of those closets. - i identify as both non-binary. - i was very sheltered my whole life and i fully believed that sexuality was a choice because i was raised religious and that was what i was told until i found this community online of other people and i realized, oh, i'm just bisexual. like that's just, that's just the conversation that people have. young people have found this really strong sense of unity in being able to relate to each other even though we're in different parts of the country. - so, i'm currently using she/they pronouns because i feel like it represents the duality of what i'm currently experiencing. - as soon as people realize that they don't need to identify with this like little factor in their lives, it's just not who they are. why would they stay with that label of she, her, he, him, girl, boy?

- this video's gonna be for people who don't understand. they/them pronouns or are confused. - nowadays we have this use of 'they' as what linguists call a referential singular pronoun. for english, gender neutrality comes with they and it always has. 'tell each student that they can bring their paper in late if they want to.' all of us master saying, 'mary and i had a lemonade.' when all of us really deep down wanna say 'mary and me had a lemonade.' we all master it. we can master the new they too. - so i have two kids and both of them identify as part of the lgbtq community. in fifth grade, my younger child came out as non-binary, just as part of like a, you know, normal discussion. for their sixth grade graduation they decided to wear a suit jacket and a long dress. i was really nervous about how that would be received

and then they gave a speech about their struggles with gender questioning and how much they'd grown and my kid showed up with so much strength and poise and was the guide for me of like, have some faith that they can handle it, just have their back. thankfully they're in a community that that was really well received, but um, i'm kind of freaked out, i feel like we're living in a society where people are really mean and angry and we've got legislation out there that shows that like people are out to get my children. sitting here as an advocate on their behalf, i also worry for their safety. i worry about sitting here and having somebody have a target, literally, not just metaphorically, out for my children. (intense music)

- [speaker] we're going to see this trend continue. the attack on our community is not over. - did you guys call the cops? - it's something that we're all very aware of and very scared of. i just have to keep leaning on my support system and trying to keep my head low and focus on the fight, but, it is scary. - it's hard to focus and be motivated when you hear about bigotry, but when it's thrown directly in your face, you don't have a choice but to fight back against it. we're not going to stand for the bigotry that's being perpetuated in this country and we're not going anywhere anytime soon.

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women who were already in their career, who were really taking on and being at the forefront of, "me too". - we are here, we will not go away. - but we were consuming that. - [news anchor] stories flooded social media and painted a picture- - we were seeing it, it was being normalized around us as young people and so, i do think we see that translating into our classrooms and onto our campuses. (protestors shouting) - my generation is extremely outspoken about sexual assault. - the, "me too", movement has definitely had a tremendous impact on my generation because it has opened up a space for people to feel safe to come forward. (intense music) - "me too", didn't start the movement to end sexual violence, this is a decades old movement. - [jenna ortega] there is no, "me too", without tarana burke. she spent years working with victims of sexual assault.

- what helped them break through was knowing that i had the same experience that they did. my, "me too", was the thing that opened doors for them. once i did that, it sort of changed everything. (solemn music) - a friend of mine who was a fan of tarana burke's work took a screenshot of something that tarana burke had posted on facebook and it said something like, "if every woman talked about the sexual violence she had faced by saying, "me too", we could be more comfortable talking about it out in the open". and i sent it to alyssa milano. - and she said, "i saw this on facebook, i don't know if you want to do something with it, but i think you might be the right person to sort of tweet this out". i was like, "whatever, okay, i'm going to do it, 'cause i just don't know how else to change the narrative". in the original tweet, there wasn't even a hashtag in it. - all of us went to sleep and we woke up the next morning to, "me too", trending.

- [news anchor] the hashtag, "me too", is taking over social media, as a- - [charlotte] tens of thousands, which quickly became millions of posts talking about their own stories of sexual violence. - my phone starts buzzing and i see that, "me too", is going viral. - it became a cultural moment so quickly. - joining me now is alyssa milano and tarana burke. welcome to both of you. thanks for coming on. - i think, "me too", was just the echoes of all the voices and all of the survivors who just said, "you know what, never again, we're not going to be silent anymore". - [tv reporter] one time, u.s. gymnastics physician larry nasser, admitted to several counts of first degree sex assault. his disgrace can never be felt as deeply as the emotional pain suffered by the 156 young women who bravely shared with the court their harrowing stories of abuse at his hands. some of those who came forward as victims were medal winning olympians. - when simone biles came forward with her story as a survivor, i saw myself in her

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- we need change! - [crowd] we need change! - we need to be heard! - [crowd] we need change! - they'll take what we are saying and what we are trying to do in our movement as the standard and they'll build on that standard. - we have a long way to go in terms of destigmatizing the narrative around rape and sexual assault in this country and around the world and what that looks like for different groups of people. but the, "me too", movement has definitely had a tremendous impact on my generation and we have been able to use it and progress it through social media and organizing on the front lines and behind the scenes. liberty mutual customized my car insurance so i saved hundreds. with the money i saved i thought i'd get a wax figure of myself. oh! right in the temporal lobe! beat it, punks! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪

only- we're here todayneed. to announce charges in the largest college admissions scamrty ♪ ever prosecuted by the department of justice. (intense music) - [news anchor] felicity huffman and lori loughlin are among at least 50 people charged in a nationwide cheating scheme to get students into elite universities in what the fbi code named, "operation varsity blues".

- the existence of a scheme to cheat the system did not surprise me. just how sophisticated the scheme was, that was a surprise. - [tv reporter] prosecutors describe parents submitting a photo of someone other than their child as part of a ruse to say their child was athletic. - why would a coach use one of their recruiting spots for somebody who's not going to help the team? the answer was, if they're getting paid tens of thousands of dollars for it. - [reporter] wealthy parents paid about 25 million dollars in total. - it's really hard to think that college admissions is all about meritocracy. "varsity blues", shattered that idea that people get into school just because they're really bright and motivated. (intense music) - this morning, actress lori loughlin is waking up in prison. - [reporter] loughlin reported to a federal prison in california on friday where she's serving a two month sentence for her role in the college admission scandal. - a lot of us laughed about it at first because they got caught, but then after that sort of laughter happened,

a lot of us turned angry. so i wrote an op-ed about, "operation varsity blues", in the la times shortly after it happened. the punchline of that op-ed was that there's a myth around the meritocracy to get into college and it's largely about wealth and status. - people act like getting into college is a lot easier than it is, it's extremely difficult. in high school i was a huge overachiever, i was valedictorian, president of a service club, brass club captain, march drum corps, boy scout, i was a boy scout. sorry, that's so random. - i have a 4.65 gpa and i got a 1550 on my sats the first try. i took over 11 ap classes. - i'm a published author, i'm on the board of directors for a national nonprofit. - i was in four executive boards, i was the vice president of my choir, i was on two different theater boards. - i travel the country as an activist. - i applied to five ivys and that included

yale, harvard, brown, cornell and university of pennsylvania. i also applied to uc berkeley, usc, all of those were a rejection. - i applied to ucla, sociology and music and i applied to usc's music program and i got rejected from all three, all three of them. so college is exceptionally difficult to get into. - my experience in the nineties, it was more about a well-rounded student. once schools were looking for a well-rounded class, it became more about specialized students, so they needed not just the cello player but the cello player who's performed at carnegie hall. not just the kid who participated in the robotics club but who started their own robotics club and offered it to underprivileged children. so much has changed, i think particularly in the last 20 years. starting in like, the late nineties, two thousands, these certain schools, not just the ivy league, but the top 30 to 40 took on almost like global brands.

- hi. molly, amy, what's shaking? - i want to make the transition of next year's student government as seamless as possible, so that when i'm up in new haven- - yale. you can just say yale. please. - so everyone wants these schools, at the same time, the, "common app", was introduced, which made it so easy to apply to college. when i applied to schools, i had to laboriously type up each application, every school had a different essay. now you can sit down at your computer, basically fill out one application, hit send, and it goes to 20 or so schools. - [jenna ortega] what this means is that applications have skyrocketed from around four and a half million to 11 and a half million, in just under 20 years. - so you have this incredible amount of applications coming in, very targeted at these specific schools and therefore the acceptance rates have gotten down to these single digits. - in 1990, the university of pennsylvania took 42% of applicants, its acceptance rate was 42%. and most of the ivy leagues, even back then, were up in near 20% acceptance rates and today, all single digits.

- the pressure to get into these top institutions is extremely high, you can't pause, you can't take a break, 'cause you will not catch one. it feels like a competition, with not only the people around you, but people on social media. - oh my god! i got accepted! - i got in! - it was a lot of tension between students, 'cause a lot of people wanted to go to the same schools and there's so much pressure for us to get into so many schools and to get into the best schools. - i had a lot of people tell me that i needed to go to harvard or yale or princeton if i wanted to make any kind of difference in this country. that's not true. i've done a lot of really great things in my career so far, i've met countless politicians, i've done countless speaking events. i go to community college. my tuition for the year was $2,400. - [jenna ortega] and as we know, four year colleges cost a lot more than that. we've grown up watching people our age building careers on social media and making a killing and they don't need college degrees,

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- i welcome you to your prom, we're going to get started- - i had no senior year. i stayed virtual the entirety of my senior year and the last half of my junior year. - covid for sure, definitely without question is the generation defining event for gen z and we can't overstate that. (sirens wailing) it introduced mortality, it created distancing when they normally would come together. and so at a very formative time, gen z was really crushed by this. and what do you see? depression through the roof, anxiety through the roof, suicides among young people, just awful. and now we have a mental health crisis with gen z. (solemn music) - breaking tonight, the cdc is mobilizing teams right now at three major u.s. airports in an urgent effort to head off a newly identified deadly virus from china. - [jenna ortega] months before the coronavirus locked down this country, avi schiffmann, a high school junior,

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i didn't know how to do a certain thing, i just went on google and searched it up. - wait, who the (censored) are you? i'm looking for avi schiffmann. - i'm afraid that's me. - how old are you? - [jenna ortega] avi's pandemic tracker became one of the most popular coronavirus websites in the world. it won him several awards, including the webby person of the year, presented, virtually of course, by dr. fauci himself. - it is my great privilege to honor avi schiffmann as the 2020 webby person of the year. - [jenna ortega] avi's site helped track the spread of covid around the globe. and in real time, we all saw that the coronavirus was not going away. - [tv news anchor] a lot of folks are experiencing just their first 24 hours of life under lockdown. - [jenna ortega] when the world shut down and our isolation stretched from weeks to months to school years, the grief we felt was real. - having to sit in my bedroom at my desk or on my bed and look at people's, like, names through zoom, it was a very shaping experience for me.

it was a very hard time. - i've had an anxiety disorder since i was seven, and i've been on medication for that for a very long time. sophomore year is definitely where it got the worst it's ever been. i had to end up seeking partial hospitalization for two months, right before covid hit. after my hospitalization, it definitely helped to take some time away from school because of covid. however, it also fueled my own isolation. instead of being self-isolating, i was forced to be isolated from everyone i loved. it was something that took a larger toll than i thought. - i knew people that were having family members suffering from covid in the midst of their finals and all of these things. i knew a lot of people that had it bad. - everybody knows somebody that's gotten seriously ill with covid and many people know people who've died. so not only is it the fear for the safety of yourself

and your loved ones, but it's the complete disruption of a time of your life. (uplifting music) (cheering) (upbeat music) - i graduated in a pandemic from college. i became an adult... in a pandemic. like, where am i supposed to go next? (shouting) - [jenna ortega] for those of us who graduated high school and college in 2020 and 2021, life was put on hold. - but what's interesting is that the pandemic really continued trends that were already there. overall, it's almost like gen z was in dress rehearsal for the pandemic. they already knew how to communicate with people online, rather than face-to-face. they were already growing up more slowly. - this idea of arrested development may somewhat be unique to this generation

that are putting off developmental milestones that we would expect. it's taking them longer to get their first jobs, first relationships, even learning to drive. and while those things may seem sort of trivial, they're really important in terms of developing autonomy. - it's very different from say, gen x, who prided themselves on being independent. - while our parents had no idea where we were most of the time, we were learning some pretty significant life lessons. we had built some sense of instinct by this age. i'm deeply worried that my daughter is not going to be ready to be out in the real world. - what has happened over the last 30 years is as big of a transformation culturally, socially, and technologically as has happened in any single generation over any period of time, as far as i can tell. we oftentimes simplify that to social media, because it's the thing that young people use,

but it's not the overall driver. social media is a subset of something much larger and that much larger is a shift in the pace of life that has been driven by technology, but it is not exclusively technology. - to live right now is to be overwhelmed, because there is a constant stream of information and tasks and possibilities, and that is overwhelming. and because of the pandemic, you gave a lot of really anxious young people, who are already anxious and already mad at the world and already mad at themselves and already feeling inadequate and already feeling insecure, a lot of time to think about those feelings. - i think a lot of generations before have shut up about mental illness and issues that they have had. now there's a lot more language and comfort in speaking about the issues that you are dealing with. - a lot of these conversations concerning mental health have become really destigmatized, because young people are

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- this is a tragedy. you know, if i had a son, he'd look like trayvon. - [foreperson] we the jury find george zimmerman not guilty. - oh no! - no! - nation-wide protest! nation-wide protest! - i am- - trayvon! - i am- - trayvon! - i am - don't touch me (censored). - (indistinct) - do not touch me. (censored). (indistinct shouting) - [officer] put your hand behind your back. - [eric] i can't breathe. (indistinct) i can't breathe. - [tv news anchor] 43 year old eric garner died in police custody thursday after officers put him in a choke hold. that's a tactic prohibited by the nypd. - [protestors] i can't breathe! i can't breathe! - the police! - there was growing outrage tonight after an unarmed african american teenager was shot and killed by police in the st. louis suburb of ferguson. (protestors shouting) (loud banging) - [officer] you must disperse immediately. - this ain't free!

we're not free! - [news anchor 9] the, "black lives matter", movement has been gaining a lot of traction following that shooting death of michael brown. so where does, "black lives matter", go from here? - [protestors] black lives matter! black lives matter! black lives matter! - when trayvon martin was killed, i was 12 years old. it was kind of like a, more of a wake up moment of, okay, and you're a black kid, you live by a lot of white people, so now you have to act differently, right? - he looked like someone i could have gone to school with, right? he looked like somebody that could have been my cousin. - i saw myself in trayvon martin, i saw my five younger brothers, i saw every black person that i love in him, and it forced me to come face to face with what it means to be young and black in america. i knew that i had to do something, so i committed myself to the, "black lives matter", movement at 13 years old.

- [jenna ortega] in may 2020, months into our covid quarantine, another police killing of an unarmed black man was captured on video. - in minneapolis tonight, tensions are high as four police officers have been fired after a man was pinned to the ground and died. the incident was caught on camera. - [george floyd] i can't breathe! please, you're knee in my neck. i can't breathe! - [officer] bro get up and get in the car... - [jenna ortega] 17 year old darnella frazier, who was standing across the street, filmed the murder of george floyd on her iphone. - bro! - he black. they don't care. - [crowd member 1] (indistinct) years old, bro. - [crowd member 2] if it ain't they people, they don't care. - george floyd is murdered, but we don't know about his murder until the next day when the video goes public and goes instantly viral. - [tv news anchor] george floyd's arrest can be seen on a 10 minute video. - [tv news reporter] video posted to facebook by a bystander, now at tens of thousands of views. - of course that video has sparked outrage nationwide. - if he had shot george floyd,

i don't know that people would even have the same reaction. it was watching a man die. the agony of those last nine minutes of george floyd crying out for his dead mother, that's what got to people. - it was such a visceral feeling that i felt, and that was ultimately what moved me to really find ways to get involved in my community. - right after we saw that video, we were like, yep, we're going to protest here in provo, in the least diverse city in the united states, we're going to fight. - well we are the change, we- (indistinct shouting) - what do we want? - justice! - when do we want it? - now! - what do we want? - [jenna ortega] in the days following george floyd's death protests erupted across america and around the world. - people are mad, people are hot. they've been cooped up because of covid. and they're expressing themselves. - what do we want? - justice! - when do we want it? - now! - you couldn't have paid me to believe that

millions of people around the world would mobilize for black lives. like i never thought that i'd see this in my lifetime, as a black organizer, because, prior to the summer of 2020, it was hard to get even 30 people out to a, "black lives matter", protest. and so, summer 2020 was inspiring. but at the same time, there were days where it was scary. - violent protests raged for a second straight night, following the death of george floyd. (loud banging) - during this period, it really did feel like martial law. people in green uniforms and helmets with military style vehicles. it's like, uh oh, this is really serious. (fire crackling) - seeing everything burn down around me did not feel real. i remember just looking around and i'm like, this is really america. - [jenna ortega] we felt it everywhere. the, "black lives matter", movement spread from corporate america to the entertainment industry.

the abc sitcom, "blackish", focused an entire episode on blm. - hashtags up and listen up. there is a protest downtown and we're going. you can't just post on social media or expect companies to be responsible. we got to show up. - that episode kind of did wake me up. and so i went to a protest downtown with my mom and my sister. i really felt like the power in the crowd and the power of uniting as one to create change and i was like, "wow, so this is what people are talking about, this feeling". (protestors shouting) - [tv news anchor] tonight, after days of anger, pain, and protest, an arrest connected to the death of george floyd, fired minneapolis officer derek chauvin is now charged with third degree murder and manslaughter. - that prosecution is now in the hands of minnesota's attorney general, keith ellison. - quite honestly, history wasn't on our side. i remember when the rodney king verdict came back.

we all just knew that was going to be a conviction. it wasn't. no charges in the eric garner matter, no charges in the sandra bland matter. there were just so many cases. - [court officer] all rise for the jury. - i did not know whether we were going to win the case, but i knew we should win the case. - [foreperson] we the jury, in the above entitled matter, as to count one, find the defendant guilty. we the jury, in the above entitled matter, as to count two, find the defendant guilty. (cheering) - guilty, guilty, guilty! - a lot of people saw it as a long awaited win. - if not for that video, there's no case. there would've been nothing. if not for the video, we're not talking about george floyd's death at all. - {citizen] you're on him, bro, move! - [tv news anchor] on the afternoon of may 25th, 2020, darnella frazier made a quick decision that would change the course of history. she took out her phone, she started recording what became the murder of a man in the street, the man we now know as george floyd.

today, darnella frazier was recognized with a special citation from the board that awards the pulitzer prize. - what we celebrate in darnella frazier is the fact that, it's a hell of a way to think about empowering young people to recognize that they can make a difference, that they're not powerless. - derek chauvin became like the sacrificial lamb in a way. he deserved what he got, don't get me wrong, but it's like, "okay, we'll give you him, there you go. happy?" no, not happy. people are still dying. - it could be any one of us, any given day. and that's the cruelty of it, right? there's no pattern, there's no correlation, other than the fact that we are all african americans. we had a kind of period of a sense of more peace around racial questions, or at least for young people, they thought we had that. (chuckles) and so then for them it was kind of real ripping away of a sort of veil of innocence to see the police beatings and police brutality. - that's one of the most polarizing parts

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- how often do you get high? - every day. multiple times a day. - i do smoke almost every day, if not most days. - i smoke all day, every day. - for gen z, we are so chill about drugs (laughing) and like the way that like the sixties, were chill about drugs. we are really bringing that back. - cheers. (inhaling) (exhaling) (inhaling) (coughing) (inhaling) - i am a functional stoner. my job is in cannabis so i have to, you know, if i was a vineyard owner, i'm going to be drinking my wine every day. - i'm here doing this whole interview. i feel like i'm crushing it. i'm really stoned right now. (laughing) (upbeat music) - [jenna ortega] in 2012, colorado became the first state to legalize recreational marijuana. it was a turning point in america's somewhat suss relationship with weed. since then a lot of other states

have passed similar laws. it's never been easier in america to get stoned legally. - cannabis dispensaries, well they're popping up almost everywhere. - there you go. - [jenna ortega] for baby boomers, weed was part of the counterculture, (upbeat music) - [jenna ortega] but the old stoner stigma no longer exists. legalization changed everything and our generation's own opportunity. - i go to ucla. i am a economic student. i am also studying statistics and i would like to go into some form of accounting or business in cannabis. there are a lot of different avenues that you can get into cannabis. i have been working as a budtender for about three-and-a-half weeks now. it's a great way to get into the industry because it is what everyone sees. all the consumers see right away is gonna be the products on the shelves and the budtender selling it to you. - as soon as i turned 18, i joined the cannabis workforce as a budtender at my local dispensary.

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this is it for today. i have already surpassed making a million dollars this year. i won't lie, this is a lot. whoo! i was a college dropout and everything about my life 150% changed the day that cannabis came into my life. from my happiness level, to my confidence to my purpose in life. i bought a freaking house last year and it's just like, it's amazing how it grew. - [jenna ortega] and experts say it will continue to grow. a lot. the american cannabis industry is likely to be a $100 billion industry by 2030. - it's important to get our heads around the so-called green rush, cause it's real. - business has been booming since recreational marijuana use was legalized. - there are so many new businesses that are popping up and innovative parts and aspects of the cannabis business that are emerging. before 2018, you had students that were getting weed from their dorm mate, or from a sketchy person that would

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and what i mean by that is that in every generation someone will stand up to oppose freedom of speech. reliably. - nationwide, more states are challenging or banning certain books in schools and universities. - [jenna ortega] in the past decade, we've seen a culture war sweep the nation, from speech, to books, to education. - what in the world is going on here? - this is actually just an extension of the culture wars. - y'all should be arrested - [jenna ortega] school boards and teachers are under fire. from the left and the right. - we are at a point where on each side people see the ideas of the other side as existentially threatening. - debates, dialogue. that doesn't happen anymore. it's sort of like, you know, either you agree with us and you're on the good side or you don't and i worry about that. - [protestors] these racist teachers have got to go! hey hey! ho ho! - the anti-free-speech movement that you see on the right and on the left is a formula for a culture war that gets scary fast. (dramatic music)

- it's a phenomenon you've probably heard of and you may even have fallen victim to: cancel culture. - cancel culture. - cancel culture. - we're not letting them cancel culture us at all. - cancel culture is the number one issue for the country to address today. - cancel culture should be like learning and accountability. but what it's become is i am calling for like a universal boycott basically of this person and i'm very glad that there's finally a system of accountability. however, when it comes to like twitter and cancel culture like that, oh it's a mess. (upbeat music) - [jenna ortega] like my entire generation, i've grown up with social media and i know that what i put online can have consequences. what's scary, is that people's lives can be destroyed by a single post. - we're growing up with lifelong digital footprints. people are posting so often online. there's bound to be something crazy within those hours of content. - there is so much power nowadays over the words racist and sexist and transphobic.

the second that word is tossed around, even if it isn't merited, your life could be over. - [jenna ortega] high school students have had their college admissions rescinded because of their social media posts. posts that were sometimes made years ago. - [tv reporter] a virginia high school student posted a video of a white classmate using a racial slur when she was a freshman in high school. the backlash from the video forced grove to withdraw her admission to the university of tennessee. - people were put into a box of this one post that they put out and people then neglect everything else they've done in their life. - back in the day, people would just. get banned from ever entering the village again. so we're kind of just continuing down the same path. - so everyone now is walking on eggshells and they don't know what to say anymore. like we don't know what's politically correct. what's not. it can definitely be overwhelming at times. - [jenna ortega] when my generation arrived on college campuses, cancel culture moved from the internet to the classroom. - starting in 2013, a certain kind of kid

using a certain kind of social justice language would basically shout down anything anybody said that was against a certain kind of gospel, which would leave most of the class cowering. - there was just a nasty environment where essentially if you're perceived to be stepping out of line or have the wrong opinion on something that it's just as this you know swarm goes after you. - no. fuck you, george. we don't want to hear a god-damn thing you have to say. - [jenna ortega] these videos of students confronting their professors became part of the story, fueling the fire that was burning on campus. - [crowd] get. out. get. out. get. out. get out. - the campus protests in the 1960s were, don't treat me like a child. we're adults. some of us are going off to vietnam. - we're human beings! (cheering and applause) - it was very much about autonomy. the protests that we've seen over the last 10-15 years have been largely, we want universities to do more, oftentimes, unfortunately, to crack down on speech, to punish individual professors,

to punish individual publications. - and now i want your job to be taken from you. i don't want you to have this job. i am disgusted knowing that you work at yale university where i will get my degree. - i'd never seen a tenured professor get fired for what they said, prior to about 10 years ago. and now i know of almost three dozen. (dramatic music) - as gen z arrived on campus, that's right when students started to request or even demand trigger warnings. - they're called trigger warnings on college campuses. that cue the students that something controversial, potentially uncomfortable or upsetting is about to be brought up in class or by a guest speaker. - students feel this entitlement to safety, this entitlement to not experiencing discomfort and it's to their own detriment because... the world is full of discomfort. we have to teach people that being challenged

and being presented with material that you disagree with is not a bad thing. - throughout my time at yale there's been content with trigger or content warnings. i think one of the best examples of a time where i needed it was during an african american history class where they're about to show a picture of a lynching. i don't think it harms anyone to have a content warning before rated-r movies. there's parental guides about violence and sex and nudity. it's a very similar concept, just for the case of people who come from communities where there's been so much violence in the past. - for those who who say, "kids today are just too fragile." what would you say to that? - sorry. (laughs) - (laughs) - (sighs) - what 50 years ago i would've been too soft if i said that we should have equal rights and that women should be allowed in yale, because they weren't until 1960s. so i think these people are holding onto ideas that are, frankly, antiquated and that their idea

of too soft is, for a lot of other people, progress. - i don't think they're too fragile, but i think that they're allowed to think that they're too fragile. and that's a problem. but i don't think that the other extreme, which is really what boomers and older had to deal with, which is just like, suck it up. put some spit on that wound and fucking walk it off. like i don't know that that worked either. so i think that there is a happy medium between everybody needs to live in a very safe bubble and everybody needs to sort of fend for the wild with a knife and a cloth over their loins. - honestly, i feel like cancel culture is a good thing in certain ways. it's like, harvey weinstein was doing terrible things like he needs to not be able to work in the industry ever again and do those sorts of things. but i feel like it's definitely gotten to the point where it's overdone. - it doesn't always have to be about these very minute interpersonal politics.

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- you're emboldening the aggressors of the lgbtq community and you're saying you get to be homophobic because it's legal. - it's as frightening a time for lgbtq people that i think i've seen in my lifetime. and i say this as someone who lived through the aids crisis. that was about a government doing nothing, ignoring the problem. this is government actively going after kids. (dramatic music) - i am the parent of two children. we live in texas and my older child is transgender. he had been telling me since the age of two that he was a boy, like almost as soon as he could put a sentence together. and so just shy of his seventh birthday, i sat down with him and i said, you know, i feel like i haven't really been listening to you. are you a boy? do you want me to start calling you my son? do you want to use a different name?

and he is like, yeah. yes. he was so relieved to finally be seen and also almost embarrassed, like he was asking too much, like to be seen by his own mother for his authentic self was almost too much to ask. so max socially transitioned in first grade. we told the people who needed to know and we moved on. basically his name and his pronouns changed and then he got like a zillion percent happier. so it's like we're just going to move on with our life. - [jenna ortega] in 2016, less than a year after max's transition, the anti-trans backlash exploded in america. in texas, attorney general ken paxton announced that he was suing the obama administration. so amber briggle responded by inviting him to dinner. - here's an opportunity. come have dinner with us. - i interviewed a family today, they have a transgender son, they'd like you to come to dinner and meet their family. your reaction? - i'm happy to do that.

- so he came. we grilled out and they brought over a dessert. truly they were lovely and before they left we were like, hey, before you go, next time a piece of legislation comes to you, we want you to think about our son and how that would affect him. - republican texas attorney general, ken paxton issued a legal opinion that said gender-affirming procedures and treatments, when performed on children, can legally constitute child abuse. - i thought i was gonna fall out of my chair out of shock. like, i couldn't breathe. they've been trying to erase trans kids, and destroy our family for as long as my son has been transgender. he comes out in 2015, 2016. then it's bathroom bills and it's religious refusal bills and it's sports bills, then it's medical ban bills. - [jenna ortega] but it wasn't just texas. almost two dozen states pass laws targeting lgbtq+ kids. - florida's legislature is one step closer to passing a

controversial bill that would restrict any talk of sexual orientation and gender identity in classrooms. critics call it the 'don't say gay' bill. they say... - the first person i ever came out to was a teacher. the people underestimate how incredibly difficult and scary it can be to come out to family first. when you eliminate the ability for other students to speak to teachers and to seek support from school, what you're going to have is so many people who, like me, no longer feel safe or comfortable with their identity. and on the other side you're going to have straight students look at their lgbtq students and say, oh well, it's literally illegal for me to talk about you. so you must be broken. you must be wrong. and that's exactly what this legislation is supposed to do. - [crowd] say gay. please say gay. please say gay. - if you are out protesting this bill, you are by definition putting yourself in favor of injecting sexual instruction to five-, six-, and seven-year-old kids. - this is a movement from our governor to put a target on the lgbtq community. so, i went to the florida senate and i spoke

at the senate appropriations committee. my name is zander. i'm a student. i'm an activist. i'm a brother and a son. i'm a queer man and all of me is threatened by this legislation. - [jenna ortega] despite zander's protest, governor desantis signed the bill into law in march, 2022. - [desantis] and today we will sign hb 1-5-5-7, the parents' rights and education bill. and this bill... - [jenna ortega] zander sued the state of florida. he was one of the youngest public plaintiffs in the federal case against governor desantis. as high school class president, zander would give a graduation speech, but his principal warned him that, if he mentioned his activism, they would cut his mic. so instead, zander talked about this. (crowd laughing) (sporadic applause)

- zander, first off, i just wanna say i am incredibly impressed with what you're trying to do. - being the face of the movement was never really the intention. it has been incredibly detrimental to me personally. i had a pastor say i was pushing perversion in schools and i was called, "the director of woke" and it's violent and it's scary and i had to be escorted out of the boardroom cause there are people outside waiting for me. - i think a lot of the people who have these bigoted views, where they're vilifying young people in the lgbtq+ community are honestly just afraid. i think that's the root of a lot of the hatred and discrimination we're seeing. - [protestor] you have no testosterone! - real political power doesn't lie in politics. it never has. it lies in culture.

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when amy coney barrett was confirmed, saying that exactly this was on the way. but that doesn't mean that it hurts any less. - [crowd] my choice! - it is gonna be young people who lead us forward because they're the ones who are going to experience this. - fight for abortion rights rise up! - gen z has to fight for this. they have to give everything they have because it's about abortion, but it's about something bigger. it's about body autonomy. - [crowd] no justice! - [renee] so for the current generation, this is gonna be the fight of their lives. - [crowd] no justice! no peace! no justice! no peace! (flag flapping) - [newscaster] this morning, texas taking center stage in the debate over abortion rights. governor greg abbott signing a bill wednesday, banning abortions in most cases where a fetal heartbeat is detected, potentially as early as six weeks into pregnancy, before many women, even know they're pregnant. - [jenna ortega] a week-and-a-half after the so-called heartbeat bill became law in texas, 18-year-old, paxton smith, gave the valedictorian speech at our high school's graduation in dallas.

- initially i was actually planning on giving a speech about media and content and then, when texas passed this abortion ban, i felt like i had to do something about it. under light of recent events, it feels wrong to talk about anything but what is currently affecting me and millions of other women in this state. six weeks. that's all women get. i hope that you can feel how gut-wrenching that is. i hope you can feel how dehumanizing it is to have the autonomy over your own body taken away from you. the school does have to approve the valedictorian speech. and, for that reason, i sent in the old speech because i was worried that, if they knew that i was going to talk about that, that they were going to cut off the microphones. and i cannot give up this platform to promote complacency and peace, when there was a war on my body and a war on my rights.

a war on the rights of your mothers, a war on the rights of your sisters, a war on the rights of your daughters. we cannot stay silent. (cheering and booing) - hillary clinton tweets it and suddenly i'm on cnn. - is there activism in your future? is there a political future for you as well? - potentially. after the speech going viral, i received a book deal. i joined the board of directors for the women's reproductive rights assistance project. i'm here on behalf... so this is something that has just become an everyday part of my life. do it for every young girl who comes after us. every young person who comes after us. - [jenna ortega] before roe v. wade was overturned, other young women like paxton spoke out for reproductive justice. deja fox was only 16 when she publicly challenged her then senator, jeff lake, after he voted against planned parenthood funding.

(crowd cheering) - that ended up going viral the next day. i woke up and millions of people had seen it. it catapulted me to the front. i was spending time on capitol hill lobbying. the washington post called me the new face of planned parenthood. my life had changed overnight. (dramatic music) - anyone who has been paying attention saw the overturn of roe coming. - i knew it was coming, but it still felt unreal. like my heart dropped to my stomach. it was still a nauseating feeling. (crowd talking and chanting) - [jenna ortega] but not everyone in gen z saw the end of roe as a tragedy. - i just broke down in tears. (laughing)

i made it on the front of the washington post and just this raw emotion of like finally, i mean everything that we've been fighting for, it's finally recognized. - it is misogyny. it is disrespect to tell a woman that she needs to have the right to kill her child to be equal to men. (cheering) - a lot of people, you know, assume that i would be liberal or pro-choice, but i'm just anti-violence, you know? and so i'm anti-violence from womb to tomb. the poisoning killing... the main way that i sort of started to get a following on tiktok was doing these tiktok lives. how are you guys doing tonight? basically i will go live and just say, i'm anti-abortion. let's talk. there are a few times where, you know, it's gotten pretty (laughs) a little rowdy in there. - [caller] you're not logically consistent. - okay. well that, that's your opinion. so i don't believe. abortion is, it's killing people. and i don't believe in killing people under any...

- [jenna ortega] this issue, like everything else for gen z, is debated, daily, on social media. - roe v. wade was overturned this morning by the supreme court and already the republican rats are crawling out of the woodwork. - [jenna ortega] 19-year-old activist, olivia julianna, was targeted by republican congressman, matt gaetz. - why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions? (crowd cheering) nobody wants to impregnate you, if you look like a thumb. - [jenna ortega] olivia punched back online and raised more than 2 million dollars. for abortion access funds through the organization, gen z for change. - i'm extremely excited that i've been able to use my platform to do something that will genuinely make a tangible difference in people's lives. - [protesters] we must fight back. no fight. no freedom. (voices shouting) - i feel like it's going to take roe v. wade getting overturned for people to really start caring. cause for me, what led me into activism,

was literally the passage of the abortion ban. i only cared after the right was gone. and i think it's going to hit a lot of people the same way. - i think one of the aspects of this, particularly as a young person, as a gen z-er that feels so unfair, is that we had no say in it. i didn't get to vote in the 2016 election. these supreme court justices that made this decision were not appointed by people that i voted for. - it's like people fought so hard to implement roe versus wade and to ensure that birthing bodies and our rights and women's rights are protected and our reproductive rights are protected. and now it seems as though like all of those things are being stripped away one by one, and make no mistake, they're not going to stop at roe versus wade. this is just the beginning. and this is something that my generation, another thing that my generation has to take on.

(protesters shouting) - [jenna ortega] the youngest gen z-ers won't turn 18 until 2030. so it's impossible to know what else and who else will shape our generation. - i don't know if gen z is going to end up being so impressive or so cringe, but no matter what, i'm taking it one day at a time. - [protester] unite! - [jenna ortega] what we do know is that careers can be launched and movements can rise at the speed of social media. we grew up with the entire world at our fingertips, documenting every moment, discovering ourselves together online. we believe in speaking truth to power. and our megaphone isn't always the kind you shout into. - that was organized by planned parenthood. - i do worry about this world that we're inheriting, but i'm optimistic because of who we are. - i don't think that we are easily deterred and i don't think that the other generations

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