“Ms. Sarah,” she started, with a slight lisp. “What’s your favorite part about being transgender?” My favorite part? Growing up, that sentence wouldn’t have made sense to me. Since coming out, I had been so used to hearing questions about survival or hardship, about negativity and hate. We are inundated with messages that being trans is bad, gross, and a burden for ourselves and others. But Lulu’s question turned that negative perspective on its head. It took more than twenty-five years for me to hear that question for the first time.
