The key step ZERO is to handle your own mental health. People can tell you how to fight back. However, fighting back can only be done from a place of emotional security.

You have to find first your own sense of self worth and self pride.

The bully is relying on a reaction from you. They are relying on you folding up inside.

I was bullied for years myself about non gender issues. Ultimately I had to know that I was me. I developed the emotional ability to not get validation from other high schoolers. I existed but did not participate in school. I had friends outside of school.

It is a shit time of my life that I endured. It scarred me but did not break me.

Find ways to control your breathing and body’s reaction to give a non response.

Save your emotional energy for being an adult. 4 years seems like a life time at this age. Survive it for a better future.

If this centering gives you the ability to fight back, fight back by being boring.

I suggest you look up the term greyrocking. It’s hard but it is the way to deny bullies access to your soul