He was born as a girl and lived as a “tomboy” for his childhood in Paris, Maine, before coming out as gay while he attended Phillips as a student in the 1990s. He transitioned during his senior year and began living as a man in 1995. After going out to Wyoming and being fired from his job as a cook because of being transgender, Meyers worked as a forest ranger and then returned to the East Coast to finish his undergraduate degree at Harvard University. He then settled into a teaching position at the St. George’s School in Rhode Island. Meyers said he soon faced backlash from parents who were apprehensive about having a transgender person teach at the school.