“When I transitioned, I felt like I had climbed out of a wet suit I had been wearing my entire life. Imagine that magnificent rush, the tactile sensations, as though your body had just woken up. But I also felt like this new person couldn’t go home, and I began to dismantle all my connections to Montana. At the time I didn’t know how thoroughly all of this saddened me, and to compensate for that, I started to turn my hometown into a place that I didn’t really need to go back to.”
