Celebrating with Max
Max Hightower with his parents, Amy and Phillip, accepting The Defender Award The battle for equality continues but trans teen Max Hightower’s high school graduation is reason for all of us to celebrate Friday night, May 31, starting at 7 p.m., some 540 students in crimson robes will walk across the stage set up in Sherman Independent School District’s Bearcat Stadium to receive their diplomas and officially become graduates of Sherman High School or the district’s Jefferson Learning Center.
One of those 540 students will be Max Hightower. Max Hightower is just like any other high school senior about to graduate: Excited and expectant, maybe a little bit nervous.
Looking to the future with enthusiasm, but also maybe a bit nostalgic about the past. Ready to step into a whole new adult world full of challenges and adventures and possibilities.
Ready to make their mark and change the world. But Max Hightower is also unlike most of high school seniors about to graduate.
