EDITOR'S NOTE: The subject of this story identifies as agender, so we are using "they, their, them," although male pronouns were used in many of the on-camera interviews and other reports. The agender California teen who was severely burned in an alleged hate crime last month is speaking out about the experience for the first time after being released from the hospital in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. Eighteen-year-old Sasha Fleischman, who was hospitalized for three weeks after suffering second and third-degree burns, told CBS San Francisco they plans to return to his high school on Dec. 2. As for 16-year-old suspect Richard Thomas' claim that he set the victim's skirt on fire merely...
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