Elizabeth Warren: It Gets Better

U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has released an “It Gets Better” video, drawing upon her experience as a schoolteacher to reassure LGBT youth who may be getting bullied that their lives will improve when they get older.

“I’m Elizabeth Warren, and you may be wondering what I have to say to you,” she says in the video, which debuted on Wednesday. “After all, I haven’t lived your life. But when I graduated from college, I was a schoolteacher, and I watched what happens in hallways, on sidewalks, out in the schoolyard. I watched kids who pushed, who bullied. I saw how much pain some kids could inflict on other kids.”

Warren tells struggling young people who may need help to call the Trevor Project, a national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services for LGBT youth.

“Because here’s what you’ll find,” she says. “There are a lot of different people out there in this world, and a lot of people who celebrate those differences. That’s what makes us strong. That’s what makes us exciting. So, hang in there. It gets better.”