I will never be a cisgender woman, and that’s okay. My womanhood is no less valid than any cisgender woman’s just because I’m trans. My lack of a uterus or vagina, my facial hair growth, my Y chromosome – none of these make me any less woman. Some women have penises, and frankly, it’s time that people get over it.
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“That is the dream; that through our continued visibility, through our adamant refusal to be erased, ignored, swept aside or forgotten, society will be forced to reckon with their feelings about TGNC folx.”
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Hi everybody!! I am VERY excited to announce that THIS Thursday, 2/27 at 5PM, I am going LIVE on Instagram! I am scheduled to speak at the Gender Education and Demystification Symposium (GEMS) in SLC, Utah to address what mental health providers can do to better support transgender clients. I’ll be talking about my childhood,
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Increased understanding and acceptance of marginalized folx may begin with the work of activists, but it most certainly ends with the work of allies — in order for transgender acceptance to advance, allies must listen to and learn about the transgender commmunity.
When You Say that We’re “Asking for Too Much Too Fast” Read More »
I could not be where I am today — personally, professionally, any of it — without the endless support and guidance of my incredible community.
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“People will become educated if they want to be educated. People will become better allies if they want to become better allies. People openly making discriminatory comments or asking me invasive questions are not asking to be educated, nor have they earned my labor.”
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“I’ve had people ask me how I “dealt with it,” but I can honestly say that it has never been something I’ve had to “deal with.” It was a process through which I had to support my sister – period.”
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“Slowly, I began to weave advocacy for my community into my work as a barista, first through offering resources and information to those who needed these and more recently by hosting trans literacy trainings.”
Powerful Lessons I’ve Learned About Trans Advocacy and Education in the Workplace Read More »
“Many people have congratulated me on handling this so well. They say, ‘I don’t know if I could have done it.’ Emphatically, I respond, ‘Yes, you would! If you love your child and want to keep them in your life, you would. It’s that simple, though admittedly not easy.'”
Trans Identity Through a Mother’s Eyes: Learning to Celebrate my Transgender Daughter Read More »
“Though most adults will acknowledge that dating is frustrating and a bit exhausting, there is an additional level of complexity for transgender people that stems from our identity.”
Dating While Trans Feminine: The Troubling, Often Demoralizing Reality Read More »
“I dream of a world in which ‘passing’ is a dead concept and people everywhere are simply allowed to be and to live and feel amazing and beautiful and wonderful just the way that they are. Unfortunately, achieving that on a global scale is a long fight away. But on a much smaller scale, each of us has some amount of power in empowering and validating all of our trans siblings.”
Trans Existence and this Crazy Little Thing Called “Passing” Read More »
“Years of powerful, inspiring, authentic queer people rising up against an oppressive cishetero patriarchy and coming out in spite of overwhelming hatred has brought us here. Let’s do them justice and fight for a better future for the queer folks of tomorrow by continuing to tell our stories.”
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“When other people witness us facing these aggressions in a single fleeting instance, they may interpret our reactions as overreactions. But micro-aggressions rarely occur as isolated incidents. Instead, they occur as frequent and ongoing frustrations and triggers that wear us down over time as we battle to live our everyday lives.”
“You Don’t Look Transgender!” and Other Micro-Aggressions to Avoid Read More »
“Transgender people have to fight like hell, every single day, simply for the right to exist and to be who we are. And if this doesn’t make transgender people just about the most badass people in the world, I don’t know what does.”
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